Handbrake – DVD Open Source Convertor
1606 days agoHow many of you guys have a PMP (Portable Media Player)? How many of you guys would like to compress your DVD Video to something smaller in size? How many of you guys would like to watch videos on your PC instead? Nowadays, we have DVD Players which can play Divx/Xvid Video files and this makes the Divx/Xvid format rather attractive. Think large screen TVs! And I guess this is a very convenient way to “transfer” files since Divx/Xvid video files are much smaller than the native DVD format.
Well, I am here to introduce to you another open source alternative, this time to convert your DVD Video files to other video formats. It’s called Handbrake. It works under Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. However, I see that not all DVD encryption is supported, so you may not be able to “rip” certain DVD Videos out. I believe that they only support CSS type protection. You will need additional software to rip out other DVD Video files with other encryptions. And best part for some, you can convert directly to mkv files. Oh, you can convert to h.264 format as well. I am sure a lot of iPod users will be glad to have this feature.
This software is a batch converter. It allows you to queue jobs for processing and you can then enjoy a tall cup of Vodka and come back later to collect your files. If you have to do a lot of files at one go, you will appreciate the usefulness of this feature. Unless the videos are short, it will usually take several hours to encode. With batch conversation, you don’t need to be physically there.
There are other open source software out there to convert DVD Videos to other formats. But this one makes it easy. Just choose the file and the output type and then all you have to do is to wait till it is finished. No more complex commands to use or multiple software to consider.
