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Handbrake: Now for Windows!

Just wanted to drop a note to ya’ll about this great program called Handbrake. It converts a DVD to a compressed video file in a variety of containers and codecs (Mpeg 4, Xvid and h.264; mp4, m4v, avi, ogm, mkv). The nice bit is that it has a bunch of “presets” so you don’t have to mess with options or settings to get good results out of the gate. It has really powerful features, but the “easy mode” stuff is a good starting point.

For the longest time it was only available for Mac OS in its full featured form. The Windows version was sort of neutered and the Linux version is GUI-less. Now the Windows version is the same as the Mac OS version. Give it a try, its FREE! Free as in beer, as well as speech.

REMEMBER! THIS DOES NOT DECRYPT COMMERCIAL DVDS! YOU WILL STILL NEED A PROGRAM LIKE ANYDVD, DVD43 or DVD DECRYPTOR TO RIP THE DVD TO DISC!

http://handbrake.fr/