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How to convert DVD's with Handbrake
Mar 13, 2025
A tutorial on how to convert any DVD or video file into a playable format for iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Macs.
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hi everyone this is a tutorial on how to
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use handbrake now what handbrake is is a
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fairly simple DVD ripping tool as well
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as a video converter now it may look
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complex at first but it is a fairly
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simple application once you know how to
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use it and that's what I'm going to show
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you how to do today now it can convert
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any pretty much any video for your iOS
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devices so your iPod Touch uh your iPad
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you know your classics iPhone iPad and
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even the new Apple TV and it also can
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convert DVDs so you can play those on
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your iOS device or a computer so to
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download handbreak you're going need to
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go to handbreak dfr and you'll see this
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page here and from there you go to the
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download page which is right here and
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you download your version so you have
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the options to download Intel 64-bit or
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Intel 32-bit and I'll get into that in a
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second this works on Leopard and snow
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leop so a lot of users are supported uh
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but it doesn't work for power PC Max so
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you're also going to need VLC if you
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want to be able to rip DVDs and VLC is a
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media player and you can download VLC
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from video.org
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svlc now once you go to that page you
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are going to select your version here uh
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32-bit or 64-bit now if you're confused
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I want 32 and 64 for bit is it's not as
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confusing as it sounds if you don't know
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which version to install you can find
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some documentation on the handbrake
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website that will help you with that
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it's not that confusing once you look at
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it uh the 64-bit version does run about
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10% faster uh that's the benefit of it
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but if you're not sure it's safest just
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to go with a 32-bit version as it should
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work on
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everything so you're going to need to
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install VLC and you're going need to
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make sure that's in your applications
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folder
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you don't need to have VLC open in order
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to use this so it's not a a huge thing
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it just can sit in your applications
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folder so handbrake once you open it
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it's pretty simple I do have the 64-bit
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version not that it really matters but
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what's going to happen is you're going
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to see this drop down menu come up wait
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when you start and it's going to give
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you a selection you can look anywhere on
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your computer to find media in this case
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I'm just going to show you a DVD I have
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a copy of Gilligan isent in here so
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you're going to select that and what
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it's going to do is it's going to scan
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the source now this can take maybe a
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minute or two so just be patient and
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it'll finish
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up first I'd like to just show you
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around the handbrake gooey uh the
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graphical user interface on the right
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hand side here you have this little
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presets pan that comes up and it gives
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you all different presets for different
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devices so iPads iPhones the iPhone 4
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which would be r a display optimized I'm
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guessing iPad and and then your Apple TV
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uh you don't really have to worry about
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this if you just want to convert a
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normal file the normal setting should do
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it good enough so up here you see the
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chapters and you can select what
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chapters you want to encode and this
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tells you where it's going to put the
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file and it just normally puts it right
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to your desktop you can select other
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locations now you can convert this to an
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mp4 or MKV file safest to stay with MP4
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if you want playback on your iOS devices
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you can also choose between web
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optimized iPod 5G support and large file
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size you can choose between two
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different video codecs and if you don't
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know really which one to choose you can
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just leave it on h264 it doesn't really
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matter I find that encoding it with eg 4
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Works a little bit faster but it's not
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something you really need to work worry
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about and you can also choose your frame
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rates you can leave that alone too
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there's a quality slider here and if you
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want the highest quality video I would
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suggest putting it all the way up you
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can also choose your rate and Target
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size megabytes uh those aren't really
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something you really need to play with
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either and down here it just tells you
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what your picture size sources and the
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output and resolution so it's 720 x 480
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and output is 720 x
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480 and up here you can add things to
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your queue to encode while you're
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encoding other things and this just
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shows you what's in the queue and
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there's nothing in there right now so
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before I start this I just want to warn
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you about copyrights um there are
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copyright right on a lot of DVDs copy
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protection now circumventing this is
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illegal so you're going to really need
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to watch out if your DVD has copy
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protection it's not something you're
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going to want to uh rip in order to
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abide by laws and also it is legal to
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make a personal copy of a DVD for your
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own home use but going around the copy
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protection is not legal so this is
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something you want to handle with
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caution I'm going to hit start but I'm
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not going to actually finish encoding
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the DV
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I'm only going to show you what happens
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when you start it cuz I really want to
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abide by copyright laws so it says
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encoding here and it does in one pass
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you can choose two pass right here and
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it tells you how long it's going to take
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now it says this is going to take 3
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hours and 22 minutes to complete it's
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actually going down quite fast but so
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this is going to take a while it's not
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even you know 15% through it so you know
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go do something else while this is
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working because it will take a while now
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I'm just going to hit stop cuz I don't
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really want to do this
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now um but I will show you uh converted
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a different video that I have the
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actually the first part of this video so
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you can see what actually happens so
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I'll show you that
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now so right here I have the first part
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of the video that you just watched and I
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am going to show you how to convert that
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now hi everyone this is a tutorial on
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how to use handbrake now what handbrake
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is so you can kind of see the uh video
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there and it's you know know fairly good
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quality and I have the source already
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selected and that is the movie on the
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desktop now I'm going to leave pretty
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much everything alone all I'm going to
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do is Slide the quality slider all the
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way up now I forgot to mention these
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tabs right here these audio subtitles
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Advanced and chapters tabs now these are
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tabs that unless you're a pro user you
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really don't have to worry about they're
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nothing too complex or they're pretty
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complex so you probably don't want to
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use them unless you really feel like you
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need too they're somewhat confusing and
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you generally won't need to use them so
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I'm just going to hit start and this is
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about a 6-minute video so it's going
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to encode it right now and this is going
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to take about 23 minutes it's saying so
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I will come back when it's done and I'll
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show you the
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quality so I finished encoding the file
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and it exports in a m4v file format
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instead of the mov it was in now I'm
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just going to compare the quality to
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show you that this does do a very good
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job so here's the
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original hi everyone this is a tutorial
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on how to use handbrake now what
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handbrake is is a fairly simple and is
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The Ripping
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tool hi everyone this is a tutorial on
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how to use handbrake now what handbrake
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is so it is pretty much virtually
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impossible to tell the difference uh the
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one that I just encoded is a little bit
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a smaller file size and that has
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something to do with the settings I used
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but and the formatted export in but this
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is a easy and handy way to convert any
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files you want uh into a playable format
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for your iPad or iPhone even the Apple
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TV and it ALS is a very easy way to rip
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DVDs if you want to do that so that's
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about all for this I hope you found this
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tutorial useful and uh thank you for
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watching
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