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Have you been hunting around for a great all-in-one solution for converting your DVD movies into a format that can be used on other devices, such as an iPod? FairUse Wizard 2.8 might be just what the doctor ordered, and lucky for you it’s free for a limited time (normally $20).
The newest version, which is what you get for free, includes predefined profiles for all of the most popular devices that you would want to watch your videos on. This way you can throw a movie into your DVD drive, select the type of device you want it encoded for, and walk away while it does all of the dirty work. You can also create your own profiles if you so desire, but here are the ones that it comes with:
- Standalone MPEG-4 Player
- TiVo HD
- iPod Video
- iPod Touch
- iPhone
- Apple TV
- Zune
- Xbox 360
- PS3
- H.264/AAC/MP4
- H.264/AC3/AVI
The FairUse Wizard website has crumbled under all of the traffic they have been receiving by offering the free deal, but don’t worry because we’ve got you covered. You don’t need to obtain a serial number or anything along those lines to get it for free, and so we’ve posted a mirror of FairUse Wizard 2.8 that will be fully functional immediately after installation.
I’ve never used this software before for any conversions, and so I’m not sure how great it works. It’s installed on my machine now though, and I plan on using it the next time I have a movie to convert. If you’ve got any experience with this software let us know how well it works.
IMPORTANT: After the installation has finished you’ll be asked whether you want to install a toolbar in Internet Explorer or Firefox, and have it change your default search engine. This is probably not something you want to do, and I recommend unchecking the box.
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Another possible solution would be DVD43 http://www.dvd43.com/ which will sit in the background and decode DVD’s much like AnyDVD; except it’s free. Then use this with Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/ to convert to video for use on the iPod. I have not tried this solution, but a friend asked me about this a few weeks ago and this is what I came up with. It looked good and like it would fill the need. Now with the solution you found we have more options. Thanks Ryan.
No problem. The thing that I really like about this is that it’s an all-in-one solution so that you don’t need two or three different applications to get the job done.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
I use MagicDVDRipper (not free) and it rips to DivX for use on my HTPC, and to mp4 for watching on my iPod. It will rip to a bunch of formats, but those are the ones I use. Totally worth the money.
Even though I’ve moved back to Windows XP, I prefer the free command-line mencoder tool to rip my DVDs. It’s quick and easy if you know how to use it.
Example usage: mencoder.exe dvd://1 -dvd-device e: -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -endpos 30:00 -chapter 2 -o tmp.avi
This command will rip DVD title 1 (the part from chapter 2 till thirty minutes after that), save the audio in the MP3 format, save the video in a format that has a good disk use/quality ratio, keep the resolution unchanged and save the result to tmp.avi.
I use Free Video To iPod Converter (http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/) to convert videos to iPod format. It relies on ffmpeg, a command line Linux tool. Although the name makes you think it’s crap, it’s not. Just choose between high, standard and economy quality and boom, you’re done. Works for the iPod video, iPod nano, iPod touch, iPhone and PSP.
I’ve actually used mencoder quite a bit in the past, but the nice thing about this is that it’s a simple all-in-one solution so that you don’t have to dig into the command line or have multiple applications.
It’s even faster than using a GUI if you ask me. After you’ve dropped mencoder.exe in C:\Windows, all you gotta do is press Windows+R, enter ‘cmd’, press the return key and type your command.