Note 1: Users who upgrade the latest version of VLC, namely VLC Player 2.0 and those who upgrade OS X to El Captain or macOS Sierra may also have Handbrake won't scan disk problem. 2 Important Notes When Installing VLC to Remove DVD Protections Before Ripping with Handbrake And strictly speaking, no matter how it updates in the future, HandBrake will not decrypt and unscramble any protected DVD and Blu-ray discs itself, doomed by the kernel mode and coding schemes. On another hand, if VLC changed the code libraries it uses for decrypting, Handbrake will not find VLC or the installation to deal with any commercial DVD. Handbrake can rip some DVDs with regular and conventional, but difficult or cannot handle DVDs with tough encryptions, like Disney X-project DRM, CSS encryption (CSS) encryption, ARccOS, Region Code, DVD Region-code, etc. However, as for DVD encryption technologies, some are regular and conventional, while the others are new and tough.

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