HandBrake (DVD to Divx convert)

Originally developed on Mac OSX, this open source program was subsequently increased even on Windows platforms. The potential is good: you can convert it into mpeg4 (.m4v) in H.264, you can choose the audio codec (MP3, AC3, AAC, Vorbis), you can choose which subtitle track and you only have subtitles forced, and so on.

Unfortunately are not supported either Divx or Xvid (AVI nothing), and even compatibility with standalone players (except if you have one can read MKV video with video x.264) is instead supported output to various Apple devices, including iPods and the like (understandable for a program for the Mac came first, and only after coming to the PC Windows).

The speed of HandBrake is remarkable, one of the fastest programs in this category, if not the fastest. The quality of the final result with the MPEG4 format is discreet, but nothing more (and also with the format x.264/MKV not greatest). Programs like AutoMKV takes much longer to encode, but the results are much better.

Compared to earlier versions, now the crop is done properly, however, often be wrong AR (ratio between height and width of the frame), resulting in flattened or elongated faces.

HandBrake