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Handbrake has always known as one of the best DVD to iPod converters to date and the company has recently come up with its latest upgrade. This new upgrade can convert both DVDs and any other video format into an iPod playable file. In other words, Handbrake is special piece of software that is capable of converting any video format into something that’s all set to be loaded on to your Apple TV, iPod or any other video device. This new feature has been added courtesy of the libavformat and libavcodec libraries.

Handbrake is an open source, multi threaded; multi platform and GPL licensed video transcoder. It is highly intuitive software and offers amazing user interface to all its users. This is awesome software which is capable of ripping off your DVD into video files in MPEG-4 format that can be played on portable media players like the Archos 7 Internet Media Tablet 320GB. It shows compatibility with Windows 2000/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux. This software delivers improved or enhanced picture quality with complete control over various audio tracks. The problem of internal DVD encryption has also been resolved in the latter versions.

Handbrake features a complete audio video synchronisation and Theora video encoding. Its advanced features allow you to manipulate or alter various settings for your audio, video as well as subtitles. Some of the options that are available are bit rate, frame rate, audio quality, video size and dimensions and finally number of audio channels. Finally to conclude, Handbrake is a DVD decoder which is not only capable of decoding your favorite DVD files but at the same time also converts them to MPEG-4 movie format.