This is something nice for the Mac OS X fans. Handbrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Originally, it was meant to be available only on BeOS, but now it has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, a Windows port is not available, but it is currently been worked on.

Supported sources:

• - Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
• - PAL or NTSC
• - AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

• - File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
• - Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
• - Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features

• - Chapter selection
• - Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• - Integrated bitrate calculator
• - Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• - Grayscale encoding

Downloads
HandBrake 0.7.1 Source (link relocated)
Handbrake 0.7.1 for MacOS X (10.3.9 or later, Universal Binary) (link relocated)

In fact, there is also an experimental Windows version of HandBrake which can be found in their forum thread.

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