Riptastic

A small macOS app (Avalonia 12 / .NET 10) that rips a DVD VIDEO_TS folder to MKV and/or MP4, wrapping HandBrake and ffmpeg behind a neat and tidy GUI.

Features

• Startup dependency check:
  Verifies the required tools are installed and, if any are missing, shows the exact brew install command to fix it.
• Drag & drop:
  Drop VIDEO_TS folder (or browse). Titles are scanned and the lengthiest title is auto-selected; you can override it.
• Options:
  Output folder, file name, quality preset (High / Balanced / Smaller), and MKV / MP4 / both.
• Live progress:
  Activity window to see rip in action - with cancel option.
• Detects the picture ratio:
  Detects ratio and outputs it correctly with square pixels. For 2.35:1 offers option for "fill 16:9" side-crop.

MKV keeps AC3 5.1 surround, all subtitle languages, and chapters. MP4 carries AAC stereo + AC3 5.1 and chapters for maximum device compatibility (no subtitles — MP4 can't hold DVD bitmap subs). When both are selected the video is encoded once and the MP4 is remuxed from it (no re-encode, no quality loss).

Requirements

macOS with these tools (install via Homebrew):

brew install handbrake ffmpeg libdvdcss

To build, you'll need the .NET 10 SDK. The UI is built with the Avalonia UI framework (v12), which is restored automatically from NuGet.

Run

dotnet run

Future Improvements

At the moment this just supplies what I need (e.g. macOS), but if I get any requests for Windows or Linux support I'd be happy to extend to cover those.

Licence

MIT