| Table | DVDSuki Software Inc |
| Website https://www.macxdvd.com/ |
ABOUT DVDSuki Software Inc.
Company information of DVDSuki Software Inc. is limited on the internet. We did find it was established in 2009, and its founder is called Alex. Well Alex certainly did a good job creating Mac DVDRipper Pro. The name is nearly the same as MacX DVDRipper Pro, but they are two different companies.
Back in 2009, Alex, founder of DVDSuki Software, was travelling through Europe. An experienced Mac developer, he started thinking about video processing software. During his trip he grew convinced that he could build a much simpler way to save a DVD on a Mac than existed at the time, and he got to work. By the end of his European holiday, Mac DVDRipper Pro 1 had been released.
MAC DVDRIPPER PRO
MAC DVDRipper Pro has been around for many years and is a real DVD Ripper tool intended for ripping a whole DVD or just main movies etcetera. The interface is I think the easiest of all DVD rippers. This is also because it doesn’t provide many or any further ripping or output choices.
This is your real WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get ) ripper. No frills just rip a DVD in 64-bit M4V format using H.264 video codec.
WHAT IS H.264
H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC) is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based video compression standard. As of 2014 it is one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content.[1]It supports resolutions up to 4096×2304, including 4K UHD.[2]
The intent of the H.264/AVC project was to create a standard capable of providing good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than previous standards (i.e., half or less the bit rate of MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2), without increasing the complexity of design so much that it would be impractical or excessively expensive to implement. An additional goal was to provide enough flexibility to allow the standard to be applied to a wide variety of applications on a wide variety of networks and systems, including low and high bit rates, low and high resolution video, broadcast, DVD storage, RTP/IP packet networks, and ITU-T multimedia telephony systems. The H.264 standard can be viewed as a “family of standards” composed of a number of different profiles. A specific decoder decodes at least one, but not necessarily all profiles. The decoder specification describes which profiles can be decoded. H.264 is typically used for lossy compression, although it is also possible to create truly lossless-coded regions within lossy-coded pictures or to support rare use cases for which the entire encoding is lossless.
FEATURES
Backup your DVDs
– DVDs can get scratched, broken, or lost. Create a DVD archive with MDRP.
Cut the Crud
– Rip just the movie. Ignore the trailers and ads.
Export to iTunes
– Our high quality M4V files can be dropped right into iTunes.
Soft Subtitles
– Subtitles can now be turned on and off using our next generation OCR engine!
Burn main-movie-only rips
– Make a backup of the main movie on a blank DVD, skipping the commercials
No BlueRay DVD’s
– BluRay’s and I guess the latest Disney DVD’s format are not supported !!
HOW DOES IT PERFORM
As mentioned earlier Mac DVDRipper Pro is a basic ripping application. You will not find any different output formats as the integrated M4V format. This application is most suitable for those only interested in a plain ripping tool. No movie Trim or Crop settings. Chapter choices is present, and presented by numbers but it doesn’t show the chapter name or content, so making choices needs to be done with the integrated Player which works well.
Choosing chapters is made into a visual concept that works really well.
Somehow I am unable to capture the movie screen playing, either with Capto or Camtasia or Mac’s Screendump. So the example below is (in realtime ) showing exactly the movie chapter playing. If you want to proceed just hit the next-button as shown in this example.
MDRP is not supporting Blu-Rays according to their website. It is wise to contact the developer if you need MDRP for ripping the latest DVD formats like Disney DVD. So MDRP is defenitly not as versatile as MacX DVDRipper Pro.
Mac DVDRipper Pro does have the best subtitles ripping of all. Font is clear nicely merged into the movie.
However it needs another third party application to change the M4V output file, for use on more systems ( Windows ) or hardware needing different movie-format !! The M4V format is mainly a strictly Apple / Mac format.
RIP-TIME MDRP vs MACX DVDRIPPER PRO
M4V FORMAT
The M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may optionally be protected by DRM copy protection.
Apple uses M4V to encode video files in its iTunes Store. Unauthorized reproduction of M4V files may be prevented using Apple’s FairPlay copy protection. A FairPlay-protected M4V file can only be played on a computer authorized (using iTunes) with the account that was used to purchase the video. [1] In QuickTime, M4V videos using FairPlay DRM are identified as “AVC0 Media”.
VERDICT
So I have come up with some minor points for MDRP ( Mac DVDRipper Pro), but is it not good? If I would just want to use Mac’s and its M4V for a full ( or chapter ) DVD Rip, I would choose Mac DVDRipper Pro. Why you may ask? Because its the easiest ripper in this format and produces great output files with merged subtitles. Ripping speed is 100% slower then MacX DVDRipper Pro however, and its use is limited to just DVD format. Blu-Rays etc are not supported and this is where I feel MDRP is missing out compared to the competition. Blu-Ray is standard DVD format nowadays, so we need an application doing it all. Shame really as I feel MDRP is outstanding in use, video and subtitles quality.
$ 24.95
Yes, not worth the money. A couple of years ago a bought the package with lifetime updates. 11 months later they wanted more money stating the changed the release version and I had the old one.
This advertising is misleading. You should post this: what will actually happen is that at some point you will insert a dvd will get you a blurb saying it will cost $78 to download another ripper to compete the task. If you try to rip the dvd without it, your computer will freeze, you will have to restart, and when you do restart, your computer will run at half speed until you clean out every application that was running and restart again. So don’t buy this application unless you are prepared to spend another $78 to use it.
Strange, to say the least. I guess you do not at some point, but start straight with an inserted dvd. Free versions will have limitations, but paid version do the job easy and simple, well it does on out tested Mac’s. I wonder what popup appears to make you need to buy another application? Which application would finish your rip ? Never heard or saw this behaviour. You could contact the developer and discuss. Still we wonder which extra application would be needed ! They only sell 1 application (https://www.macdvdripperpro.com) and nothing else.
I had an older version of MacX and it really wasn’t working. The software got the correct track maybe 50% of the time and you had to guess, sometimes on as many as 20 tracks before you got an ample rip. Tried the 5-free version of Mac DVDRipper (without the X) and it was great. Stick in a disc and let it rip. Takes about 30 minutes for a standard movie and the end quality is excellent. We don’t have a dedicated DVD player anymore so it’s a great way to rip movies onto our computer and stream to the TVs.
I did notice there aren’t as many outputs as MacX but just not interested in all the whistles and bells if it just means taking longer to figure out the rip.