DVDs: February 2006 Archives

HandBrake Lite

By Mark Frauenfelder on February 7, 2006 5:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

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I recently got an iPod video and I use it to watch movies while I pedal and climb on the machines at the gym. It makes the time go by so quickly that I sometimes stay on the machine for an extra five minutes or so during especially good parts of a movie. This is a miracle for me.

I use a fantastic free application called HandBrake Lite to transfer my DVDs to a format playable on the iPod. It's free and couldn't be simpler to use. You stick a DVD into your Mac, click "Open" to select the DVD, then click "Rip." That's it.

On my G3 eMac, it takes about 2 hours to convert a movie. The final size is about 500 MB. I like watching classic movies on the iPod the best, because they fill the entire iPod screen. Newer letterbox movies become thin horizontal strips.
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