[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

MakeMKV ($50, 30-day free trial) has a simple little name, and there’s no big trick to transcoding a video from one container format to another. If that were all this utility did, it would be ...

Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper is a great piece of comprehensive and full-featured Blu-ray conversion software that supports ripping the latest Blu-ray movies very well and supports a wide range of export ...

Reader Derrick Crandall has one chunk of media that he’d like to turn into more. He writes: I have a concert recording on a Blu-ray disc. I’d like to use my Mac to extract the audio from it so I can ...

OK, so it will technically rip them, but at around 0.5x, which is unacceptable. I'm not really sure what information would be relevant to helping me with this issue, but I'll post a bunch of info here ...

Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You’d like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know ...