Expert’s Rating
Pros
Cons
Our Verdict
RipIt ’s strength remain its simplicity and power to pull just about any disc you bewilder at it .
Since our last followup , The Little App Factory has added a beta contraction feature , 64 - second livelihood for Snow Leopard , and Growl support ; has made the program more adept at dealing with “ difficult ” discs ; and made RipIt ’s countercurrent more compatible with apps such as HandBrake ( ) , DVD2OneX , and Roxio ’s Toast 10 Titanium ( ) . Except for the compaction lineament , there ’s no reading in the user interface that anything has transfer — insert a magnetic disc , click Rip , wait , and you ’re done .
The latest version of RipIt carry a Compress push that includes a small “ beta ” banner , indicating that work on this characteristic remain to be done . Within RipIt ’s Compress preference you choose the format for ripping your film . Your choices are High Quality MP4 , Apple TV , iPhone / Touch , XBox360 , and PS3 . When you dawn the Compress button , RipIt rip the discs main characteristic ( or , in the suit of a TV demonstrate disc , the disk ’s episodes ) .
The compression feature allows RipIt to extract main features and episodes and convert them to other formats.
The compaction feature film allows RipIt to extract main features and episode and commute them to other formats .
The beta label is appropriate . With RipIt 1.4 , I was unable to habituate the compression feature with Pixar’sWall - E. However , when it failed I was instigate to air a report of the failure to The Little App Factory . The company strives to obtain discs that do n’t operate so they can update the program to work with such disc . Perhaps the proof of the usefulness of the reporting feature is that using RipIt 1.4.3 , I was able to successfully ripWall - E’smain feature with the concretion alternative .
Although it ’s courteous that RipIt now lets you pull main features and episode and pack together them in one step , it ’s a very slow cognitive process . Using the Apple TV preset , it took the course of study just over 57 mo to rip and compressWall - Eon my quad - core 2.66GHz Mac Pro . In comparison , HandBrake did the same line of work in about 32 minutes . I also try the concretion feature with the first disc ofSix Feet Under , time of year 1 . HandBrake rip and win over the three instalment in 53 minutes . RipIt took more than twice that long—1 time of day and 56 minutes . The ensue video look great , but no better than the HandBrake rip .
Take compression out of the testing and RipIt performs well . The split of the entireWall - Edisc guide 28 minute and 3 second . TheSix Feet Underdisc was ripped in 26 minutes and 20 seconds .
RipIt ’s strength remain its simplicity and ability to rip just about any disc you throw at it . The densification feature , once finalized and faster , will be welcome .
