#272 HandBrake
Installing HandBrake on macOS Sonoma for ripping copy-protected DVDs. Long live physical media!
Notes
HandBrake is the application I’ve trusted for many years to do my DVD ripping on macOS. Why rip? Because machines don’t come with DVD drives any more, so I rip once and then play from the digital copy. Long live physical media!
I’m setting up fresh on macOS Sonoma (Apple Silicon M3), using HandBrake-1.7.2.dmg from
HandBrake
Installing libdvdcss
HandBrake can’t rip copy-protected disks by default. This can be fixed by installing libdvdcss as explained here
The easiest way to install libdvdcss is with HomeBrew:
$ brew install libdvdcss
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==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/libdvdcss/manifests/1.4.3
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==> Fetching libdvdcss
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/libdvdcss/blobs/sha256:a88500318685760e0425a099d0459f7be9f7505b89e69785af9d7ae183e40541
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==> Pouring libdvdcss--1.4.3.arm64_sonoma.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libdvdcss/1.4.3: 18 files, 403.9KB
==> Running `brew cleanup libdvdcss`...
Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP.
Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
Making libdvdcss available to HandBrake
HandBrake can’t find the library in the HomeBrew installation location
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/libdvdcss/1.4.3, as it is looking in /usr/local/lib/.
The solution is to copy over the required library:
$ sudo cp /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libdvdcss/1.4.3/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib /usr/local/lib
$ ls -al /usr/local/lib
total 144
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Dec 29 19:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 Dec 29 19:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 72480 Dec 29 19:19 libdvdcss.2.dylib
When ripping with HomeBrew, the activity window will confirm that the library is found:
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[19:20:24] macgui: ScanCore library found for decrypting physical disc
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Note: unfortunately, we can’t use symlinks. I tried this first:
sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libdvdcss/1.4.3/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib
But the operating system sandbox comes down hard:
[19:09:42] macgui: dlopen error: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib, 0x0001): tried: '/usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib' (file system sandbox blocked open()), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib' (file system sandbox blocked open())
More info: mac OS file system sandbox blocked open()