It can also cast your screen to a TV, acting as a media server, and record your screen activity as a video. Sitting somewhere between Handbrake and WinX DVD Ripper in terms of features and complexity, Wondershare Uniconverter offers some options the other two don’t.įor example, in addition to the usual DVD ripping and video conversion, it’s also capable of transferring still images between formats, and of making animated GIFs from video clips.

Wondershare Uniconverter: Best for added CD ripping

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The only downside is that it’s not as fast as something like WinX DVD Ripper, nor as easy to use. Once you’ve got the hang of how it works, Handbrake is one of the best DVD ripping programs, and the fact it’s completely free adds to this. Handbrake can create files in the h264 and h265 codecs, with several options on top of each of these. Its comprehensive video quality controls allow you to manage compression so that you hit a target file size, while a vast number of presets mean you can tailor your video file for any number of devices, as well as saving your own.

If you know what you’re doing, you can use Handbrake to de-interlace, sharpen, rotate, add subtitles, remove subtitles, down-mix audio tracks, add chapter markers, fiddle with framerates, and just about anything else you can think of. As one of the best DVD ripping programs, it stands in contrast to WinX DVD Ripper in that it has more options than just about any other video application.

Handbrake is a powerful video transcoding application that can also rip unprotected DVDs.

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