Do you have a ton of DVDs? Want to watch them on your iPod/iPhone/Apple TV? For years, the best DVD ripping program, Handbrake, was only available for Mac. But the unthinkable has happened. Handbrake was ported for Windows. You can download a PC version of Handbrake now.
If you are unfamiliar with Handbrake, it’s a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
This methodshop.com page has Handbrake download links and a complete tutorial on how to use Handbrake.
Features:
- Can encode directly from DVDs (even encrypted ones) or from VIDEO_TS folders
- Supports AC3, LPCM and MPEG audio tracks
- Outputs MP4, AVI or OGM files
- Outputs AAC, MP3 or Vorbis audio
- Supports 2-pass encoding
- Supports encoding of two audio tracks
- Includes a bitrate calculator
- Supports picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.
Kent
I couldn't get the GUI to download at all – got a windows security setting. tried to adjust settings.Tried the CLI and unzipped it. but window appears for half a second and then goes away… any ideas?
Kent
I couldn't get the GUI to download at all – got a windows security setting. tried to adjust settings.
Tried the CLI and unzipped it. but window appears for half a second and then goes away… any ideas?
Anonymous
all I want to do is to be able to rip the dvd's I own to my computer I travel a lot and don't want to drag the dvd's with me but handbrake will not let me rip them because they are copy protected is there anything that I can do??
Anonymous
all I want to do is to be able to rip the dvd's I own to my computer I travel a lot and don't want to drag the dvd's with me but handbrake will not let me rip them because they are copy protected is there anything that I can do??
Anonymous
u can rip DVD's that are protected if u have a program like AnyDVD installed….guys use google…. u will get it….
Anonymous
u can rip DVD's that are protected if u have a program like AnyDVD installed….
guys use google…. u will get it….