Know a good dvd ripper for mac?

I just downloaded handbrake and it's taking about an hour to get through 10%. Does anyone know a good dvd to ipod converter that is free and compatible with a mac?
thanks

Yeah, it could certainly be due to the 2-pass encoding setting.
If you're at 10% on the 2nd pass after 1 hour... that's entirely normal.
2-pass encoding will yield a higher quality video file, but it will take roughly twice as long to encode.

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