Handbrake: The Best DVD Ripper Money Can’t Buy

The reason you can’t buy it is because it, like iSqunt, is free! Handbrake has the ability to rip a DVD to a plethora of formats including the near universal mp4. It is also extremely simple to use; just insert the DVD, open the program, and rip away.

In most cases, the default settings work perfectly; however, you can tweak the settings to your personal preference if need be by adjusting the quality (bitrate) of both the video and the sound. If hard drive space is an issue, you can limit the size of the file as well. Beyond basic quality and file size adjustments, there are dozens of other settings that I cannot begin to comprehend such as “B-frames”.

Handbrake is great application to have, even if you have no current plans to use it because you never know when you might need to rip a DVD.

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One Response to “Handbrake: The Best DVD Ripper Money Can’t Buy”

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    digginestdogg
    Not quite perfect though and not the only product you need. Sure it rips to other formats fine, but what if I want to..Oh I don't know... say backup the latest DVD I bought to another DVD? I usually used Mac The Ripper (which is now rip-off after 2.6.6, 3.0 in beta, pay BEFORE you get to test out--yeah ahem--right sign me up LOL) but some recent DVDs again scramble even more and MTR cannot decode them. So I won't buy them if I cannot exercise my free right to Fair Use. But Handbrake helps converting the videos but not with maintaining the VOB structure I need to make backup copies. So, while it is a great product for some (I don't watch small screens), it particularly sucks at the one key task I need an it for. If there is a way to do that with Handbrake, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

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