One of our first reviews on Smoking Apples was about Ripit. We also had Jason Allum on the sets with us, giving some insights on how things work. A whole four months later, the Indy Hall Labs team (yes, the guys behind Multiplex) has released a 1.2 update.
In the email that Jason sent me, he sums it up in a single line,
This update kicks some serious ass.
If that wasn’t descriptive enough for you, here’s the lowdown. They’ve overhauled the internals to produce far fewer errors (they’ve tested over 50,000 discs with 99.99% success rate), produce better ripped images, and you don’t have to worry about the region code issue anymore. This is what I gather from the release notes that they’ve published.
Check out our review of Ripit for more info, and give a look at Multiplex, the awesome virtual DVD manager. Both the apps definitely complement each other. Ripit costs a whole $18.99 for a single user, while Multiplex costs $25 as an introductory offer. Both offer trial versions which I highly recommend.
Oh, and a giveaway!
Along with the one liner, came an offer for five giveaway licenses! Thanks Jason, that was awesome! So…
- Leave a comment, and you could be the lucky winner.
- We’ve reserved two licenses for tweeting about Ripit. You could either link to here, or to the Ripit review. Make sure you include @smokingapples in the tweet so we can track it.
The winners are Matthew Bookspan, renegade, and elheffe for the comments. @t5tr and @drhdylan88 make the cut for the tweets. Thanks everyone for the comments, you will definitely meet the cut for some future giveaway.
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I would love a key, your site turned me onto Pixelator, andthat was great too
I think Multiplex is the real gem here.
Yes, please.
Great blog. Long time reader, first time commenter.
I will definitely give ripit and multi a try!
been looking for a 1 click ripping solution! actually, tried the demo of RIPIT and LOVED IT. reminded me of BURN.
love to have a key!
Would love one. Great site by the way
hey cool.
I am a big big fan of Smoking Apples!
I really love your informative website.
Would be cool to win a key for Ripit !!…
greatz
Marco
Ripit is the best, I’d love the free licence
I could use that.
If this is better than Handbrake for ripping, I am definitely interested.
Looks great!
I would love to be considered for a license.
By the way, I think you have a great looking site . . . a real eye for design. In fact, even though I follow most sites by RSS in Google Reader, I always visit your content directly at the site since it looks so nice.
Rip me, and you will give me the key….
I’d love to get a license for RipIt; how do you decide who the lucky winners are?
Gimme gimme gimme!
Me wantie!
I would love to be a winner.
I tried Ripit a while ago and loved it. Very simple to use. Just waiting for the budget to have and extra $19 so that I can buy it.
This app looks very nice. I must check it.
Gets better and better all the time, if you haven’t looked at this yet, YOU MUST DO IT!
Love Rip It, bought it a while back, but it’s MPEG-2
In the forums, it has been promised by the Rip It guys to have direct H.264 ripping, and even be faster than HandBrake?
Where is it?, When?
And how about Open CL enabled?, should be transcoding DVD’s with the power of a fast video card (nVidia) in about 12 minutes or less.
Rip-it I say!
I too would love to win this!
me, me, me!!!
I wanna have a rip!
I am using Windows with Boot Camp just because I didn’t find a good App as DVD Shrink …
Nice site !!!
Holy crap, I love Ripit. It’s replaced all of the other ripping gear I’ve been using. Get it now.
Tweeted.
It is nice to have something that “Just Works”. MTR is not cutting it anymore.
I would make good use out of this, please pick me.
doesnt work with rcc encoded dvds. wish there was an app for it on the mac
I’ve jumped from my news reader to your first RipIt interview and enjoyed it in a way that almost forgot to post here!
What an insightful interview, and a “to the point” review! Congratulations to both of you, Jason and Milind!
The simple and functional user interface of Ripit can make the user feel as if he is in front of his standard DVD player. After being presented to the way the core functionality of RipIt was implemented, we can now say that RipIt works by emulating a DVD player in 2 levels: up to the user interface and down to the instructions and registers.
I’m a DVD Remaster Pro user, so before buying RipIt I was initially concerned if it was really needed to put another app into the dock.
I don’t use this kind of app every month, so I’m more like a casual user which (prior to RipIt) was almost always in need to read some notes to make not coasters but a useful copy.
So today I’ve started the DVD Remaster app and followed its update process, on which I was pleased to know that besides improvements to the H.264 encoding, on its latest incarnation (DVD Remaster 4.5) has also included direct support for DVDs extracted with RipIt.
Yes, DVDs extracted with RipIt can be used as source on DVD Remaster.
And as stated on its developer’s page, “DVD Remaster is a full featured application for Mac OS X which recompresses large DVDs so that they fit on standard DVD5 or video players.”
As a side note, I would like to say that from the use of these 2 Mac gems, comes both great power and responsibility: so be fast, keep it for good use and enjoy peace of mind.
Wow! Look ma! So many comments! The giveaway closes tomorrow, so keep your fingers crossed folks!
Looking forward to using these 2 programs. Free would be sweet!
Hey, been thinking of trying this out for a while as well as Multiplex. The only thing holding me back iss the lack of AppleTV and iPhone/iPod touch support. Get that happening and I’m converted!
@Nick If you read up on the awesome interview with David Martorana, you’ll see that they do have some things planned for iPhone/Touch integration. http://smokingapples.com/interview/behind-the-scenes-of-multiplex-an-interview-with-david-martorana/
Sounds cool. Looks like it’s supposed to be able to rip DVD’s better than Handbrake.
Unfortunately, my old MacBook Pro has one of those pesky DVD drives that cannot be circumvented even by MacTheRipper and the last version of RipIt also had not success. I am curious how the new version performs, the release notes certainly seem to indicate that this might be solved.
Oh and I wouldn’t mind the free license for my iMac.
I’d like to have a free licence. My first post here
I’m trying Ripit these days and I really like it. Ripping a dvd it’s never been so simple.
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I’m considering buying a new hard disk to store all my dvd and manage it with Multiplex.
So, I hope I win a license
I’ve been using RipIt for a few months now. I love it. It’s easy, works perfectly and there’s never a problem.
Love Ripit. Great App. Turns a monotonous process into an enjoyable one.
i gave a shot at ripit and me likes a lot..
a free licence would be peachy!
I would like to have this! have a nice day.
I’d love this!
Great app,
doesn’t get any more simple than this, just how i like it.
Looks cool and easy to use!
Would love a key! Love the blog. Long time reader, first time commenter.
Think of me!
Great app. Simple, bullet proof, and good looking! I can’t wait for the H.264 support.
Whoa! I just need a damn key, nufn else!
Please?
Free key please! But against Handbrake and MTR, is there really room for another ripper?
Hey, show some love for the Swede
Looks cool going to give it a “rip”
Tweeted and commenting! good job on update and the fixes.
woot! Another giveaway I wont win!!!
I’ve enjoyed your blog tremendously. As a fellow graphic designer, I must say your layouts and designs inspire me to do better
Oh, yes. Ripit: I wouldn’t say no to a free license!
I enjoyed using ripit because it just does its job with minimal learning curve. But I do miss some of the power features other apps have.
The winners are Matthew Bookspan, renegade, and elheffe for the comments. @t5tr and @drhdylan88 make the cut for the tweets. Thanks everyone for the comments, you will definitely meet the cut for some future giveaway.
thanks for the time and energy you put into smokingapples! you certainly highlight quality applications, ripit included.
How do you solve the problem when a DVD publisher “copy protects” their discs by using bad sectors? Regular DVD players will ignore the bad sectors, but if you rip and try to back up the disc, the burn will fail
computers do not ignore bad sectors.