Mac OS X: While Windows and Linux users abound with free DVD-ripping software, OS X isn’t quite as lucky — but today, you can grab the incredibly full-featured MacX DVD Ripper Pro for free.
High-powered hardware and slick looks are nice, but computers should actually make things. Apple and Microsoft both offer software to organise photos, make movies and enjoy your computer. We compared iLife and Windows Live Essentials head to head from a first-time home user’s perspective.
Initially only available for iPad, you can now pick up VLC for any iOS device and watch all the video formats Apple doesn’t natively support.
Android: Your Android phone should have a really simple video player built in, one that tackles anything you have on your SD card. In the meantime, grab VPlayer, and your XviD, DivX, WMV, MKV and other files can be played with ease.
If you’re looking for a simple, one-click solution for converting and downloading YouTube videos sans software, DownloadTube is a free tool for web-based YouTube file conversion.
With H.264 solidly planted as the codec of choice for just about every mobile device, we’ve come to a point where you can encode a video once and play it back on pretty much any mobile device. Here’s how.
If you use iTunes to organise your media, you’ve probably run into the roadblock of adding files it doesn’t support (like MKVs). Here’s how to trick iTunes into support the files you want.
Bad video interlacing leaves distracting horizontal lines across your screen during video playback (especially when there’s a lot of on-screen motion). Tech blog Tested details how to fix video interlacing on the fly.
VLC has come to the iPad, allowing many more media formats that before were unplayable on Apple devices. Without hardware acceleration, however, you’re going to run into playback issues. Here are your best bets for optimal playback.
