Best format conversion and ripping tool?

[anonymous-user]

I want to rip some dvd's to mp4 for my home server and also convert a load of home videos in .mov, .avi and .mkv to mp4. What's the best tool for the job? Cheers.

[Zad]

Handbrake certainly used to be the weapon of choice. Free, but not difficult to use, and I know professional content producers use it:

https://handbrake.fr/

No idea if anything else has come along to overtake it, but give it a go!

[anonymous-user]

Great stuff thankyou

[Murph7355]

I never had much success with Handbrake for the ripping part, but use it for all conversions of the ripped DVD.

For ripping I use DVDFab. They seem very quick to look into new encryption schemes etc too which is a massive bonus (for me, that bit makes it worth paying for).

(NB I'm a Mac user but both bits of software are available for Windows 10 I believe).

[Bullett]

Makemkv for the ripping
Handbrake for converting

[viggyp]

Bullett said:

Makemkv for the ripping
Handbrake for converting

Same for me especially as the newer versions of Mac OS won't let Handbrake rip DVDs anymore.

[anonymous-user]

viggyp said:

Bullett said:

Makemkv for the ripping
Handbrake for converting

Same for me especially as the newer versions of Mac OS won't let Handbrake rip DVDs anymore.

Thanks gents. Only tried converting so far with handbrake, what a great piece of software, by which I mean a complete noob like me can use it and get great results. Appreciate everyones help.

[SystemParanoia]

I like using ffmpeg in the console

https://asciinema.org/a/104869

[Simon.]

I used FFMPEG to do all my transcoding.

for %%f in ("*.mkv"); do ffmpeg.exe -i "%%~nxf" -map_metadata -1 -vcodec copy -acodec copy "%%~nf.mp4"

works a treat (change the mkv to other source files), make sure you save it as a CMD file (if Windows) and it has to be run from a local \ mapped drive, can't be run via a network browsing session.

I have used it to convert from mkv, avi, flv and a couple of others.

[Murph7355]

fblm said:

Thanks gents. Only tried converting so far with handbrake, what a great piece of software, by which I mean a complete noob like me can use it and get great results. Appreciate everyones help.

If you have a surrond sound set up, or may do in future, make sure you include a few sound tracks in the "Audio" section (I use a "Passthru", a Dolby Prologic and Stereo JIC).