You already knew the incomparable VLC media player could play ripped DVDs, but did you know it could rip them as well? Blog site The Real Caffeine shows you how. It's a pretty simple process, though ...

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 ...

With nearly everyone in the developed world in possession of at least one iPod, people are losing patience with media that plays on only one kind of device. Chief among that media is the commercial ...

This DVD-to-MP4 converter post by guest blogger Elena Dibrova is brought to you by Movavi. Want to play a cherished movie on your iPad but you only have it on DVD? Maybe you are setting up an in-home ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

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 ...

The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN. But some observers ...

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 ...