HandBrake: nice open source video conversion tool.

I’m often asked to get video off of a DVD recording of a lecture or presentation so that it can be used with the Spark MediaMarkup tool or embedded into a web site (e.g. blog, wiki, course system etc.)

HandBrake is a cool little tool that does a great job of converting the DVD video into a number of standard formats. And best of all it’s open source (therefore free) and comes in a variety of OS flavors.