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Nah, don't do Mac. Wouldn't have a clue about Mac compatible software. Apple sux. Maybe try DVDFab?? You couldn't pay me enough to use a Windows machine and I grew up with 4 PCs in my household and starting using a 286 in the 80s. Oddly enough it's only the small-scale, kind of hacked together comm...

Do you have a different drive you can try? Since it is a DVD, just about any drive will work, even an old Apple SuperDrive if you've got one collecting dust in a closet. I wonder since it is a manufacture on demand disc if it has DVD encryption at all? In my experience MOD DVDs have more anti-copyi...

Although MakeMKV can rip DVD discs, it is not the best software for doing so. There are plenty of other software applications that are better at ripping DVD discs. MakeMKV is the best when it comes to BD/UHD ripping though!! Do you have any suggestions for which other programs I should look at (for...

The disc itself may be bad. Try cleaning it and see if that helps. They can suffer disc rot after about 10 years. Also, there has been an issue with DVD's from Warner Bros in the news lately. That was my first thought as well, but the disc plays just fine in the default macOS DVD player, VLC, and H...

Thanks, that clears things up regarding manual mode, but unfortunately I can't get past the initial scanning disc portion to even get the choice of using manual mode. It just keeps trying to scan the disc and never goes to the next step of actually selecting the content. The drive just keeps spinni...

Thanks, that clears things up regarding manual mode, but unfortunately I can't get past the initial scanning disc portion to even get the choice of using manual mode. It just keeps trying to scan the disc and never goes to the next step of actually selecting the content. The drive just keeps spinnin...

I've ripped hundreds of DVDs with MakeMKV and I've seldom had any issues that weren't caused by the disc itself, but this case is seemingly MakeMKV being unable to read a DVD-R that was manufactured to order (MOD) with an old National Geographic episode. This isn't the first DVD-R from the same publ...

There is no way that works for everyone, my answer is: it depends. For example, for the DVDs that I care about the most, or that are rare or at risk of being out of catalog, or TV series, I make the ISO of the entire DVD. For the others, however, copying with MakeMKV is enough. For Blurays, however...

I store the extracted .mkv files. In my view, it is the content that is important not the disc structure. I also transcode for regular use. I find that saving the extracted .mkv files makes it easy to re-transcode as necessary. In my experience it is the creation of the extracted .mkv files (& ...

Do you have gobs of unused space that needs filling? Then doing ISOs is a good way to fill it. Not so much? Then preserving the original media is probably a better choice. I only have about 80TB of storage, so I don't store the ripped MKV files longer than it takes to encode them to storage, then p...

This is a general question as I'm relatively new to storing large amounts of digital media. Is it better to store backups of ripped DVDs as disc image files (.iso/.cdr) or to store the original extracted .mkv files produced by MakeMKV? I always make encoded x264/x265 copies for regular use and store...