How to Remove Disney Protections and Rip Disney DVDs

Disney DVDs, especially newer releases—often use advanced copy protection like Disney X-Project and the 99-title DRM, which can cause ripping errors, freezing, or looping playback after 30–40 minutes. This makes backing up Disney DVDs for kids or portable viewing frustrating, even when older Disney discs work fine. Many users want to convert Disney DVDs into digital files to protect aging discs and watch movies anywhere. Below, we’ll show how to safely rip Disney DVDs on Windows and Mac.

Part 1. How to Rip Disney DVDs with a Free Disney DVD Ripper Easily

To effectively remove Disney X-Project DRM and rip Disney encrypted DVDs, try WinX DVD Ripper.

• It can remove Disney X-Project DRM, CSS, region codes, RCE, Sony ARccOS, UOPs, AACS 2.0, and more.
• It will rip 99-title Disney DVDs to H.264, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, ISO, 350+ formats.
• It supports DVDs from Pixar, Marvel, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, and others.
• It will instantly detect the correct title from 99 fake titles of a Disney DVD, without the need of libdvdcss or 3rd-party decrypters.
• Keep you away from halfway Disney DVD ripping, incomplete rip issues.

Please DO NOT use WinX DVD Ripper to rip rental DVDs.
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How to Rip Disney DRM-ed DVDs on PC or Mac?

Here we take Windows version as a demonstration. Even if you are an Mac user, you can still follow the steps below because the process of ripping Disney DVDs on Windows and Mac with WinX DVD Ripper are similar. It can flawlessly rip Disney DVDs, such as Up, The Princess and the Frog, Toy Story, Frozen, Finding Dory, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as the latest Disney releases, such as Moana 2, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Snow White, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, etc.

Step 1. Open the Disney DVD you want to rip.

Start up WinX DVD Ripper, insert your disney DVD in computer DVD-ROM, and click DVD Disc button to load movie. After you open the DVD, the software will begin scanning the contents of the Disney DVD and automatically determine the correct title to extract.

Step 2. Choose an output profile.

Select any output format you desire on the Output Profile. Your Disney DVD can be converted to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV video file for PC/Mac, to fit Apple/Android/Microsoft/Sony devices or websites, and saved to a music file. If you want to rip your Disney DVD to MP4, you can find this output format at General Profile.

And, you can make personal settings like selecting several titles and clicking "Merge titles" to combine them into one, trimming video segments, cropping and cutting off unwanted area of the movie, choosing or adding subtitles and setting tags.

Step 3. Start to rip your disney movie DVD.

To initiate the DVD ripping process, simply click the "RUN" button and the Disney DVD ripper will begin its work. You can continue with other tasks while the ripper runs in the background. By supporting advanced hardware acceleration, it can take full advantage of Intel Quick Sync (QSV) and NVidia NVENC to speed the DVD ripping or backup on computer up to 47x real-time faster.

Watch the YouTube Video Tutorial to Rip Disney Protected DVDs

Note: Ripping commercial DVDs might circumvent the copy-protection system employed on Disney discs, so to some extent it's questionable as to whether the use of this type of software is legal - even if you own the DVD and are ripping it only to watch it in another form. So it is necessary to consult the related laws in your country before ripping protected DVDs and make sure the copy is totally not for commercial use.

Part 2. What is Disney DRM and why it's so Difficult to Rip Disney DVDs?

DRM is a set of technologies used to control access and prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of digital content. It is commonly used by content providers like Disney to protect their copyrighted materials. Disney uses a specific type of DRM called Disney X-project DRM, which is widely used by publishers such as Disney, Pixar, Paramount, and Warner. In addition to movies and TV shows, this DRM is also used for workout DVDs, AV DVDs, and other specialized types of DVDs.

Generally, Disney DVDs encoded with the X-project DRM will:

• Disney copy protected DVDs have 99 titles, making the total detected content appear large (40 GB).
• Some Disney DVDs may fail to play on region-incompatible or older DVD players.
• Repeated read errors may cause excessive drive activity during failed ripping attempts.
• New copy protection prevents DVD from being ripped by general DVD ripper software and the videos converted from DVD will be out of order, scrambled or get stuck in a loop.
• It may even shorten the life for DVD drive if wrong decoding scheme is misused.

Many DVD rippers can't rip Disney DVDs:

Many common DVD rippers struggle with Disney DVDs. For example, HandBrake can handle basic CSS protection with libdvdcss, but it cannot properly decrypt newer Disney DVDs. During ripping, it may get stuck at a certain percentage, report "no valid title found," or produce files that loop after 30–40 minutes. In practice, free DVD rippers rarely provide reliable support for Disney’s copy-protected DVDs. Even well-known tools like DVD Cloner, K9Copy, DVD43, and DVD Shrink often fail on newer releases.

Part 3. FAQ about Ripping Disney DVDs