02 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Ripping a DVD on Fedora Core 13

TweetI thought this would be a pretty straightforward task. It was, though it took several minutes to track down the CSS library needed for decryption of the DVD. All I want to do is copy Talking Words Factory to my phone so my kid can watch it in the car if needed. It looked like [...]

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04 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Ripping a DVD to iPhone or iPod-compatible m4v for free?

TweetI was stuck somewhere the other day wishing I had the full movie “Cars” on my iPhone. Surprisingly, this is not something you can presently do through iTunes. After some searching I figured out an easy way to do it for free. The two programs you’ll need are good old DVD Decrypter and WinFF. Put [...]

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27 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

One-click converting .avi to .mp4 for iPod or iPhone

I found a way to convert my camera’s .avi files to iPod and iPhone-compatible .mp4 files with minimal effort. The .mp4 files are also significantly smaller.

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