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Handbrake

HandBrake is released under GPL, and is a DVD to AVI/MPEG-4 (Ffmpeg) ripper/converter. It lets you encode directly from DVDs (even encrypted ones).

Video
The application lets you choose the bitrate (kbps). The default bitrate is 1024. You can also set the target size, and HandBrake will automatically set the bitrate.
Handbrake supports 2-pass encoding.
You can also Crop & Scale... the picture size (default is 720 x 544), and crop the picture from the top, bottom, or left or right size.

Audio
You can also choose what language you want ripped a long with the video. The support codec for audio is MP3. The default bitrate for audio is 128, but can be set between 32 and 320. Handbrake supports encoding of two audio tracks, so you can also choose a secondary language.
The file format the rip is saved to AVI, and the location /boot/home/Desktop/Movie.avi.
The application was originally available only available for Zeta/BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and GNU/Linux.

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