Cross-platform media player VLC is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife of media applications" for good reason: Not only does VLC play nearly any file you throw at it (you even voted it the best ...

We have a long history of discussing ways for ripping the commercial DVDs that you own—from our DVD Ripping FAQ to Jon Seff’s Convert Video For Any Device to Beyond Handbrake’s Defaults. And we do ...

HandBrake, our favorite way to convert DVDs to iPod-ready video formats, has released a major upgrade that adds support for just about any video source format, not just DVDs. The new features come ...

I need to pull 30s clips from a library of DVDs, but only if the DVD is not encrypted. Previously we had been using Handbrake, but someone installed VLC and it started using that decoder. I would be ...