Lifehacker.com’s post Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters reports:

“Commercial video converter software’s aplenty, but there are several solid free utilities that can convert your video files on every operating system, or if you’ve just got a web browser and a quick clip. Put DVDs on your iPod, YouTube videos on DVD, or convert any video file with today’s top 10 free video rippers, encoders and converters.”

Here’s the list of all ten of the utilities. Read the entire article at the link above for more details on each one.

10. VLC media player (Open source/All platforms)
9. MediaCoder (Open source/Windows)
8. Avi2Dvd (Freeware/Windows)
7. Videora Converter
6. Any Video Converter (Freeware/Windows only)
5. Hey!Watch (webapp)
4. VidDownloader (webapp)
3. iSquint (Freeware/Mac OS X only)
2. DVD Shrink (Freeware/Windows only)
1. Handbrake (Open source/Windows, Mac)

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