Nowadays, tablets, mobile phones, or media players will be the best choices to enjoy movies when you are out or at home. In case that you may have spent a lot of money on your DVD library and wanna rip your DVD library a digital format and bring it onto these mobile devices with you into the future, here lists Top 5 Paid or Free DVD Ripper to accomplish this task. 
What are the Top 5 Paid or Free Listed DVD Rippers in 2015-2016?
According to industrial surveys, online response, user feedbacks and ownership recently, DVDAid, Handbrake, Free DVDAid, Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate, MakeMKV are top 5 high-rating DVD Rippers. We will introduce a more powerful ripping tool as the alternative software for your perusal.
Top DVD Ripper #1: Pavtube DVDAid
Price: $35 
Pavtube DVDAid is a fast, effective, and fairly user-friendly DVD Ripping tool which has flawless compatibility to all Windows OS, including the latest Windows 8.1. Overall, it is professionl and powerful in ripping any DVD (including TV Series such as Yes Minister, West Wing, All Creatures Great and Small as well as general family movies and music DVDs.) to various video and audio format for watching on mobile devices anytime and anywhere. This up-to-date DVD ripper software supports the latest devices like iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note 4. And it has picked and built in the best settings based on your destination device. Mac version is DVDAid for Mac.
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Top DVD Ripper #2: Handbrake
Price: 0 
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It supports any DVD or Bluray-like source which is NOT copy-protected as input. (It is apparent that removal of copy protection is not supported.) It outputs MKV and MP4 videos with H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 codecs and has preset profiles optimized for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone and Apple TV. To download different HandBrake versions for different OS, please visit here. Mac version is also available.
Top DVD Ripper #3: Pavtube Free DVDAid
Price: 0 
Pavtube Free DVDAid may be the most excellent but totally free DVD ripping software available to convert DVD disc, DVD VIDEO_TS folder, and DVD IFO/ISO to video and audio formats like AVI, MKV, MOV, M4A, AAC, etc. for multiple use. However, if you want rip DVD to more format like MP4, or make copy of your DVDs, you need to turn to the paid version: DVDAid. In addition, it also has a free Mac version Free DVDAid for Mac.
Top DVD Ripper #4: Pavtube Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate
Price: 0 
It’s a pity that the powerful Pavtube Free DVDAid doesn’t support video encoding, so just take at this third party tool- Pavtube Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate, which has the ability to remove DVD protection and convert videos for enjoying. With it, you can achieve all your multimedia demands and even personalize your DVD and video with its built-in editor in one place. No mac version.
Top DVD Ripper #5: MakeMKV
Price: 0 
MakeMKV is a combination of both freeware and shareware. The functionality to rip DVD discs is free and will always stay free. However, the features of Blu-ray decryption and processing are only free for 30 days. After the 30-day trial, you may have to pay USD $50 to purchase a registration key to continue using its function of converting and streaming Blu-ray discs. It cannot rip DVDs with the latest copy restrictions protected. The latest version of MakeMKV can be downloaded here. Mac version is also available.
Top DVD Rippers Alternative
These Top 5 Paid or Free DVD Rippers, by any means, is a nice choice for DVD ripping on Win/Mac. Can we expect a more considerable DVD Ripping tool? Well, YES. The release of Pavtube ByteCopy lets us see the alternative to these top DVD Rippers- it has all the features they have and does even more with less steps. 
Overview: Pavtube ByteCopy is an easy-to-use tool to backup files from Blu-ray discs and standard DVDs to MKV container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitles included. More than lossless output, it is possible to recode BD/DVD into MP4/MOV/AVI with multi-tracks. As a BD/DVD ripping tool, it also provides hundreds of preset output formats for you to convert the BD/DVD movies to compatible format for iPad, iPad Air, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Galaxy Tab S, Kindle Fire HDX, Surface Pro 3, WDTV, etc. In a word, it’s an all-in-one Blu-ray and DVD ripper and converter to save. Give it a try and you will be in love with it.
How to Use Pavtube ByteCopy?
Here we just take convert DVD with the alternative of the best 5 DVD rippers, Pavtube ByteCopy, as an example:
- Step 1: Download, install and start up the Pavtube ByteCopy, insert your DVD in computer DVD-ROM, and click DVD Disc button to load movie;
- Step 2: Scroll up and down on Output Profile Category and select any output format you desire. To get multiple audio channels, pls choose the multi-track format.
- Step 3: Make personal settings and change the destination of saving the file or remove unwanted audio tracks and subtitles from saved multi-track file.
- Step 4: Just hit Convert button to rip or backup your DVD videos.
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