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1. What is a DVD?

DVDs are a form of optical storage media based on the compact disc. Originally called Digital Video Disc, and later Digital Versatile Disc, "DVD" is now used with little sense of the original terms. Essentially, a DVD is a larger, faster CD that can hold video, audio, and/or computer data. Physically similar to a CD, a single-layer, single-sided DVD has a maximum capacity of 4.7GB (about two hours of MPEG-2 video), about seven times the capacity of a CD-ROM (a normal CD holds around 650MB). A double-layer, double-sided DVD-ROM disk has thirty times the capacity of a CD-ROM (over 17GB). The DVD specification supports access rates of 600KBps to 1.3MBps.
DVD-ROM describes DVDs used as computer storage. DVD-R is a once-recordable DVD format, which requires a special drive and media, while such formats as DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD-R/RW can be written multiple times.

DVD-ROM players are capable of reading CD-ROMs, CD-I disks, and video CDs, as well as new DVD-ROMs. Most DVD players can also read CD-R disks.

2. How to rip DVD to MOV on Mac?

DVD to FLV Ripper for Mac serves you with the fastest Mac DVD rip speed to rip DVD to YouTube FLV and MP4 video. It enable you to select any part of DVD titiles and chapters to adjust and merge into one file.
Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to FLV on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Free download and install DVD to MOV ripper for mac
Intel version
PowerPC version
To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want).

Step 2: Load DVD to convert to MOV
Insert DVD into your DVD-ROM. Click "Load DVD" button to load your DVD. Just Click "Load IFO" button and press DVD folder or DVD IFO file.

Step 3: Select mov as output format
Use the “format” on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the right of the "Format" label to get format drop-down menu.


Step 4: Change mov Video and audio Settings
You can change the Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate of the mov video and Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder and Bit Rate of the mov Audio. The size of the mov file depends a lot on these settings.


Step 5: Select output directory
Expand the "Output" panel. Use the "Browse" button to select an output directory.

Step 6: Click "Start" to Rip DVD to FLV on Mac.
If you want to trim, crop, capture screen picture, merge several video clips on to one file and more editing, please go to how to edit videos with DVD to mov Ripper on Mac.

What's MOV?
MOV is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files. QuickTime Content (.mov, .qt), developed by Apple Computer, is a file format for storing and playing back movies with sound. This flexible format isn't limited to Macintosh operating systems.
The QuickTime (.mov) file format functions as a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (e.g. for subtitles).

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