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VLC is probably the most versatile video player you can download due to its amazing ability to play almost any codec you throw at it. This alone makes this app a worthy addition to your software suite. While most people use VLC as a simple video player, it is so much more than that. VLC is the Swiss Army Knife of video players with features that are hidden and unknown to the casual user.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Supported sources: * Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files * PAL or NTSC * AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks Outputs: * File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM * Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding) * Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

MP4 Converter - is DVD to iPod MP4 converter and video to iPod MP4 converter all-in-one software, very useful for converting video AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, ASX to MP4 and convert DVD VOB files to MP4 Video format for playing on your Apple video iPod player.

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