If there's no built-in drive, connect an external drive. It is fully compatible with macOS Big Sur and earlier.
The tutorial below will show you how easy it is to free convert DVD to MP4 on Mac with MacX DVD Ripper Free. Its official website is home to a wealth of tutorials, from a very basic introduction to DVD ripping, to advanced skills like copy DVD main title/full title, choose soft/forced subtitles, add external subtitles to DVD, trim/cut off clips, remove unwanted black borders, rip soundtracks from DVD, etc. It's an all-sided powerhouse, and even has Intel/Nvidia/AMD GPU hardware acceleration to quicken DVD to MP4 ripping speed up to 47x real-time faster, and to offload the compute burden from CPU to GPU to avoid 90% CPU use, overheating, software half crash issues. Even some physically damaged unplayable DVDs can regain the crisp image thanks to the auto repair tech during ripping. That attributes to its ripping algorithm, De-interlacing tech and High Quality Engine. Oriented as a cutting-edge all-rounder, it can ingest whatever you feed it, 99-title DVD, bad sector DVD, region code DVD, fake playlist DVD, scratched DVD, workout DVD, Japanese DVD.Īnd you'll be badly pleased by the resulting MP4 quality - almost identical to the original DVD quality. If you're looking for a DVD to MP4 converter for Windows, click here.