Pleasantly surprised

[pphaneuf]

There was a few times where I wanted to lend DVDs to co-workers, but since all those I have are region 1, I couldn't really do that. I figured I could rip them and lend those instead, but didn't really spend the time, expecting this to be a arduous process of figuring out DeCSS junk and what-not.

But no, I was quite pleasantly surprised by HandBrake, a GPL program that has everything worked out for you, end-to-end, with just enough control without flooding the user with countless knobs with which to screw up everything. Two thumbs up, highly recommended.

Comments

[lautreamax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a recent discovery of mine as well. Before I switched to Mac, I used DVDDecrypter, which was awesome as well. I was really happy to find something that seems to work as well if not better for the Mac.