![]() ![]() UPDATE: Seems that MacWorld have updated their same article and now we can get the updated libdvdcss.2. It may or may not remain alive as a project, but it’s worth having a look: UPDATE: Just found out that user pmetzger got the source code for Fairmount and released a tweaked version. Open the inserted DVD via HandBrake and wait until it reads all titles and chapters, then just select what you want to convert. In effect, what you need is the installation of the file libdvdcss.2.dylib in /usr/lib/ on your Mac system and you won’t be getting these error messages on HandBrake anymore: Select language and position of subtitle or caption and then hit 'Apply to All' or 'Done'. Click 'Add' button to build in the downloaded SRT subtitle or open/closed caption just as shown in the picture. When prompted by HandBrake, simply install the necessary CSS library in your system, re-launch HandBrake and you’re good to go. Choose the 'Subtitle' button, select the 'Enable Subtitle' and check 'Extra' below it. In my case, a Western Digital WDTV Live player. ![]() But according to this older article in MacWorld, we can still read and convert encrypted DVDs to MKVs for use with our favourite digital media players. However, this “third-party” software is no longer available nor updated, as “Fairmount” has been acquired by DVDSuki Software and has been merged into “Mac DVDRipper Pro”. ![]() “Fairmount” for Mac, by Metakine) something I’ve never experimented with until now. What I didn’t know until recently is that HandBrake was counting on third-party software to directly read CSS-encrypted DVDs (e.g. Simple in its GUI yet powerful, HandBrake has been a companion for many of us and I am very happy that its development is still on-going. Hooray for the media playback method: digital files! Long live the Matroska format!Īn excellent tool that I’ve been using since my first Intel-based OS X days, HandBrake is the solution to digital files creation and of course, MKVs are the only way to go nowadays. I knew this day would come, as it has come for all other friends of mine who became fathers: create back-ups of your original kids-content DVDs, as their constant playback is not only difficult to manage but damaging to the discs themselves. ![]()
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