Tag: RIP

Popular open source DVD ripping app HandBrake has been available for Mac and  Linux for some time now, and has finally been ported to Windows. HandBrake is a slick all-in-one ripping app that will encode your ripped video in MPEG-4 or H.264 (MP4, AVI, or OGM) and has a great built-in calculator that takes the fuss out of choosing a bitrate, which is especially great if your ...

Yesterday I posted about Elliott Back's How to rip a DVD tutorial and HandBrake Lite, a Mac app for ripping DVDs for your iPod. Apparently this is the week of DVD ripping, 'cause here's another DVD ripping app: StaxRip is a lightweight, open source Windows app for ripping DVDs to several different formats with a minimum of fuss. That includes H.264 and AAC, so this might be the solution for ...

Speaking of ripping DVDs, Tyler Loch, creator of iPod video converter iSquint, has released a Mac utility called HandBrake Lite which he describes as "a horribly-mangled abomination of HandBrake, jettisoning its non-crucial features with the one-track goal of creating iPod-sized movies from DVDs." The original HandBrake was a general-purpose open source DVD-to-MPEG4 converter, but Loch ...

The last time I tried to rip a DVD was circa 2001, and though I ultimately succeeded, the experience was so traumatic I haven't attempted it since. But it's my understanding that we're on the verge of 2006 and things have improved quite a lot since the dark ages of DVD. To that effect Elliott Back has written a two(!)-step tutorial on ripping a DVD using DVD Decrypter and AutoGK. I'm sure it isn't ...