The biggest issue you're likely to come across when ripping and converting DVDs is copy protection. Unless you drop a wad of cash for some commercial software that can rip and decrypt, converting your DVD's is often a two-step process. Enter DVD43. This handy little app will run in your system tray on startup and automatically decrypt your DVD's as they are placed in your optical drive. Once you see the green smiley face in the system tray, (typically just a few seconds) your disc is ready to be converted. This mean you can use Handbrake, VidCoder, or some other software to convert your DVD to a video file in essentially a single step process.
Andrew Gehman
Jul 05
|08:55
Ripping DVDs may not be new to you, but you may not be aware that when you rip a DVD to your Hard Drive, you can play those rips on your PC without converting them to MP4, AVI, ISO, etc. A lot of Media Players and Media Center apps will allow you to play these VIDEO_TS files natively, just as if the DVD itself were sitting in your optical drive. In my post over at How to Geek, I take a look at how to rip DVD for free using HD Decrypter and how to play them back on your PC with some common media player and media center apps. Check out the full post on how to rip a dvd and play it on your PC over at How to Geek.
I was pretty anxious to try out the Miro Video Converter when I first heard about it. Being a new Droid owner I'm constantly on the prowl for new and cool ways to use my Droid. Especially ways to convert video for the Droid. 
Pazera makes some nice and basic media converter software apps that work really well for their specified task. Like the 
The MKV format has been gaining quite a bit of popularity of late, especially for converting high definition, Blu-ray, etc. Some of the awesomeness of MKV files lies in their ability to hold an unlimited amount of audio, video, image, and subtitles. MakeMKV converts DVDs ridiculously quickly. We're talking like 15 minutes to rip a DVD. MakeMKV runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and 
This is a fairly common problem especially among the growing number of us with video enabled cell phones. You grab your phone to take some video footage and turn it to the side to get a "landscape view." Not much of an issue if you are just going to watch it on your phone, but if you want to transfer it to your computer to watch or burn to DVD, the video is rotated 90 degrees. Needless to say, this can make watching it comfortably an issue.