TV shows have been part of our life and we're adding more and more TV shows to our DVD collection shelf. With newest shows comes up, we really need to saving space and time for collecting them, one good way is to rip TV series DVD into digital files that will play on commonly used devices. There are multiple titles on an episodic DVD and usually each title is an episode. How do you rip them into respective episodes with high quality.
Since most commercial DVDs has copy protection, therefore, before ripping them into episodes, you will first need to bypass that protection. Since most free DVD Ripping tool such as Handbrake or Format Factory lacks the ability to remove DVD copy protection, therefore, you will need a professional DVD Ripper application to get rid of the protection.
After a lot of online testing and comparison, we finally settle on Pavtube ByteCopy, the program can powerfully remove all DVD copy protection including AACS, BD+, Cinavia, UOP, DRM, BD-ROM Mark and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. Apart from that, the program also keeps on updating to include the ability to deal with the new encryption used on many recently new DVD disc.
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After loading the DVD disc, the program can automatically detect and select the main movie title (the one with the longest length and largest file size) for you. You can then rip TV series DVD into individual episodes in various different file formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, MKV, 3GP, H.264, H.265, MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4, Divx/Xvid, WMV/VC-1, etc.
Besides common digital file formats, the software also allows you to convert DVD into episodes by outputting devices preset profile formats with the optimal playback experience on iPhone, iPad, Android phone/tablet, Windows Phone/Tablet, TV, game consoles, etc.
For Mac users, you can switch to download Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac to perform the conversion on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS Yosemite.
Step by Step to Rip TV Series DVD into Individual Episodes
Step 1: Import DVD Movies.
Download, install and run this DVD ripper. Insert DVD into your DVD Drive, you can load DVD by clicking "File" > "Load from disc". Or load DVD Folder by clicking "File" > "Load from folder" or load DVD IFO/ISO image by clicking "File" > "Load IFO/ISO".
Step 2: Select DVD titles to rip.
After the DVD scanning process is completed, all DVD movie titles will be listed on the program. Check the titles (episodes) that you want to rip and then choose your desired subtitle and audio track from the drop-down list of "Subtitle" and "Audio" on the bottom of the main interface.
Step 3: Choose output file format.
Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of your desired output file formats. Here, we choose to output one of the most device compatible file formats "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" under "HD Video" main category.
Step 4: Begin the conversion process.
After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin TV series DVD to individual episodes ripping process.
When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files for conveniently viewing on different devices and applications.
