If you own DVD's that you would like to copy / rip to MPEG-4 for use with your iPod, Mac, iPhone, AppleTV, etc., you will want to check out Handbrake, which is a free open-source converter for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
Handbrake 0.9.3 was recently released with a number of new features to help you convert your DVD's and other sources to other formats:
- “Universal input - HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.
- Linux GUI - There is now an official GTK graphical interface for Linux, available as a binary for Ubuntu. This is the real deal, interacting directly with HandBrake's core library instead of just putting a pretty face on a command line interface. It has full feature parity with the Mac interface.
- Video quality - The x264 project has really come into its own this year, and HandBrake 0.9.3 integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library. Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations.
- Audio flexibility - HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks.
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You can download Handbrake here.
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