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Switched Download: Handbrake Rips DVDs for iPhones, Other Devices
What it does: Handbrake converts DVDs and other videos into formats for easy sharing between your computers or loading onto a portable device or console.
What we like about it: Handbrake is dead simple to use, with one-click presets that format for the iPod, the iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, and Xbox 360. But power users can access advanced controls to fine-tune options such as resolution or bitrate, or optimize videos for devices such as BlackBerrys. Though it began as a DVD converter, the latest version of Handbrake can reformat just about any video source -- including YouTube clips and DivX files.
Unlike any other one-click video-converter app we could find (in fact, unlike most apps, period), Handbrake makes a feature-complete version for every major computing platform. Whether you're using Linux, 64-Bit Linux, an Intel Mac, a PowerPC Mac, XP, Windows Vista, or even the yet-to-be-released Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), you can run Handbrake on your computer.
What we don't like: Handbrake simply refused to rip a few DVDs, including those in our 'Space Ghost Coast to Coast' collection There are also a few small, annoying bugs. For example, our ripped copy of 'Lost in Translation' kept reporting -- in every player we tried -- that it was only 25 minutes long, even though we successfully ripped (and watched) all 102 minutes.
Bottom line: Handbrake is an indispensable tool if you have a sizable video or DVD collection that you want to watch on more devices, in more places. There are other options, but none are as easy or reliable.
Download Handbrake here.
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Subscribe to commentsMemoJun 29th 2009 1:40PM
Handbrake is a joke! It doesn't work at all! I have tried to use it to copy my DVDs with DVD43 and it doesn't rip them or burn them properly. Can someone help me?!
RobertJun 29th 2009 3:42PM
Did you remove the copy protection before trying to copy? Try using something like AnyDVD (automatically removes the protection) and then start handbrake.
RobertJun 29th 2009 3:53PM
Oh, nevermind - just noticed you said you were using dvd43
sumlaJul 25th 2009 2:45AM
HandBrake's popularity benefit from free. On the other hand, it is difficult to use for beginner, lack support and weak stability. HandBrake attend technology and ignore user experience.
I consider iFunia is better than it, http://www.ifunia.com
sixftbeanJun 29th 2009 2:38PM
Did you have VLC installed? I believe it's a dependancy now.
strider_mt2kJun 30th 2009 11:34AM
I've been using a combination of Any DVD and Fair Use Wizard 2.
For the most part I'm ripping the ISOs with Any DVD for archiving and then creating portable divx files with Fair Use Wizard 2.
FU2 will convert for iPod as well I believe.
ipdjayJul 1st 2009 11:30AM
Watching a test of our latest RJDUC MP4 format compression technology. Spiderman on my iPhone which is crystal clear and half the size ( 670 megs,) of what iTunes offers ( 1460 gigs). The PC version 1150 megs. Very impressive! "We've done what they said couldn't be done". Apple, Sony, Microsoft all have teams of nerds trying to figure out how to do this.
unkeljackJul 2nd 2009 4:52PM
This is a great Idea, but I did have some trouble sticking the DVD into my iPhone. But once I got it in there, it's great.
jredelfsJul 2nd 2009 5:40PM
All you gotta do is load the song onto yer laptop in iTunes, then hook up yer iPod or iphone to yer computer.
belleMar 28th 2010 10:37PM
ueah, handbrake is totally free, but i don't know how to use it for my requirment. and i found ifunia dvd ripper is just easy to use for me, and you can have a try.