Top 6 Free DVD Rippers, Video Converters on Mac
Aug 11, 2009 Free software
So many video file formats on the planet, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them-whether that’s on your iPod, iPhone, PSP or Mac-you need the right utility to convert ‘em into the format that works for you. Commercial video converter software’s aplenty, but there are several solid free utilities that can convert your video files on Mac, or if you’ve just got a web browser and a quick clip. Put DVDs on your iPod, YouTube videos on DVD, or convert any video file with today’s top 5 free video rippers, encoders and converters.
1. Handbrake (Open source/Windows, Mac)
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Back up your DVD’s to digital file with this open source DVD to MPEG-4 converter app. Intel Version (6.1MB) PowerPC Version (6.0MB) |
2. MacTheRipper (Freeware/Mac OS X only)
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Extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, minus all the copy protections and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. |
3. iSquint (Freeware/Mac OS X only)
Convert any video file to iPod-sized versions and automatically add the results to your iTunes library. iSquint is free, but its support has discontinued. Many readers preferred the pay-for Mac video converter, which means after-sale service and upgrade. See also how to convert video for iPod with iSquint.
4. Any Video Converter for Mac (Freeware/Mac OS)
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Convert almost all video formats for Mac users including, ASF, MPEG1/2/4, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, AVI and output MPG, MP4, FLV, 3GP and AVI for iPod/PSP or other portable video device. |
5 Hey!Watch (webapp)
Web Site Hey!Watch converts video lets you upload videos from your your computer or online video sites like YouTube. And then Hey!Watch encode said videos into a wide variety of file formats, like H264, MP4, WMV, DivX, HD Video, Mobile 3GP/MP4, iPod, Archos and PSP. Hey!Watch only allows for 10MB of video uploads per month for free, and from there you pay for what you use, but it’s got lots of neat features for video publishers like podcast feed generation and automatic batch processing with options you set once.
6. VidDownloader (webapp)
When you don’t want to mess with installing software to grab that priceless YouTube clip before it gets yanked, head over to web site VidDownloader which sucks in videos from all the big streaming sites (YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, Blip.TV, DailyMotion, etc.), converts ‘em for you to a playable format and offers them for download. Other downloaders for online video sites buy you a Flash FLV file, but VidDownloader spits back an AVI file.
If you’re looking to simply application to convert a few videos to play on your iPod or Apple TV, you may be interested to know that you can actually do this from within iTunes under the Advanced menu. What’s your favorite way to convert video to the right format? Did we miss any good ones in this list? Let us know in the comments.
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August 18th, 2009 at 7:10 am
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