Handbrake No Longer Rips DVDs on El Capitan and Higher

Long story short, there’s a new security feature that prevents libdvdcss from being installed, which is the key to ripping DVDs (for back-up purposes only – natch). You’ll need to install X-code, X-code command line tools, then Homebrew and then libdvdcss.  Restart Handbrake and you’re good to go.

  1. Follow these instructions for XCode and Homebrew install.
  2. Then in terminal enter this text:
brew install libdvdcss

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