Okay, so now you have bought that cool Portable Video device we mentioned yesterday, but have realized that lugging your entire DVD collection around is not your idea of fun. You don't like DIVX for the bad rap it gets, because of its use among pirates, but you want a chance to fit many movies onto a single disk to bring along with you when travelling. What is an enterprising geek to do?! Check out HandBrake! Originally made for the long-expired BeOS, it is a DVD-to-MPEG4 encoder that is fast, efficient, and FREE for your Mac. How good is this thing? How about fitting the entire original Star Wars Trilogy onto a single DVD-ROM? Very cool! And it will help keep that travelling bag a little bit lighter.
And if you are NOT ready to invest a portable video device, don't forget that you can use QuickTime or VLC to play those same movies from that same DVD-ROM on any laptop, for free! (This all assumes you OWN the DVDs you are ripping for that DVD-ROM.)
UPDATE 7/30: If you do use HandBrake, be sure to use the AVI option. The MP4 encoding that works much better on QuickTime is not compatible with the Portable Video player below. I learned this the hard way.
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