HandBrake

Goal : Share movies with my friends, keep copies of rent or borrowed DVDs Priorities : Good quality and high compatibility, fit on 700 MB CD-Rs, keep system requirements for playback low (i.e. it has to play on a 800 MHz G3, this rules out h.264) Settings: Chapters: usually all, but I often deselec...

Uh, why don't you just select two different chapter ranges in HB and use a target size for each? There shouldn't be any need to use a separate tool just to split your output. I' m gonna try that next time. I didn't think of it. Considering that we're living at a time when hard drives are down to li...

I would really like a quite simple feature: automatic file splitting. I normally rip movies so that they can fit on one 700 MB CD. But if the movie is longer than 90 minutes the quality in full resolution becomes quite poor. So I rip most movies for 2 CDs i.e. a 1400 MB file, which I later split usi...

You can use ffmpegX for all kinds of video conversion, including mpeg -> XviD and mp4.