Topic: libdvdcss is a software library for accessing and unscrambling CSS encrypted DVD

[Software Santa]

libdvdcss2 is a very useful software library for accessing and unscrambling CSS encrypted DVDs.
Use this to enable Handbrake to Rip many Commercial CSS protected DVDs to Regular Movie Files! A Free DVD Ripping system!

Use this as a 3rd Party Library: in your Windows HandBrake folder, Vidcoder folder, or XMedia Recode folder, to be able to Rip Commercial DVDs protected with CSS!

So what is libdvdcss? Libdvdcss is a free and open source software library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the CSS (a kind of DVD copy protection). In other words, it is lib (library) + dvd (DVD) + css (Content Scrambling System). Generally speaking, if you want to rip CSS-protected DVDs via HandBrake or VidCoder or XMedia Recode, libdvdcss is necessary.

The Package to Install libdvdcss2.dylib on a recent Mac OS X System is Here:
https://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.2/macosx/libdvdcss-1.4.2.pkg

The ARCHIVE Containing libdvdcss-2.dll to place inside your HandBrake, VidCoder, or XMedia Recode, installation folder, on a recent Windows System, is Here:
https://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.3/libdvdcss-1.4.3.tar.bz2

For your Mac:

Download that Macintosh Installer Package, and run it, to Install the libdvdcss2 Library in the correct place.  (apparently in: root/usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib OR root/usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib on older systems.)

NOW when you Launch Handbrake: it does not display the copy protection warning!!!
And you will be able to back up your DVDs protected with the CSS system!
For Windows Systems:

1. First of all, download and install HandBrake from its official site: https://handbrake.fr/

2. Download libdvdcss Windows 10 from the link above.

3. After downloading, unpack the archive and open the folder. Look inside for a file named libdvdcss-2.dll    
[Attention, some said that you need to rename libdvdcss-2.dll to libdvdcss.dll. No, this extension won’t work if you do that.]
Then drag the .dll file into your HandBrake program folder, like this:



If you did not change the folder during the HandBrake installation, it should be (C:\Program Files\HandBrake).

4. Now restart HandBrake ... and you are now able to decode CSS-encrypted DVDs.

You can now use HandBrake to make backup copies of your CSS Protected DVDs!     

Find the Latest Versions, of this Library DLL, HERE:  https://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/