MediaFork Released

February 22, 2007

As you may remember we have covered the brilliant ‘handbrake‘ application for converting DVD video to Mp4. The project has not been updated for a while but in the meantime the MediaFork Team have released a beta of an improved Handbrake application.

MediaFork is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter originally based on HandBrake, available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
PAL or NTSC
AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

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