I am sure many of you have a pretty decent collection of DVD movies. Many a time you might want to play those movies on your shiny new iPhone or a video iPod. This can be quite tricky because Apple iPhone supports only mp4 and H.264 video.For this you need a convertor which converts your videos to the supported formats. Now coming to the software I was talking about i.e. Handbrake, it helps you convert your DVD videos to either H.264 or mp4. Here are some of the features of Handbrake..

Supported sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD
• PAL or NTSC
• AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

• File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

Handbrake is an Open Source convertor and you can download both the Windows and Mac OS X versions from the Handbrake Website.