Video Tools

Multimedia Encoder
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from all over the planet.

Features In Brief

• Converting to between most popular audio and video formats in batch
• Multi-threading design, optimized for multi-core processors (average CPU utilization on quad-core processors over 90%)
• Full control over transcoding parameters
• Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPhone/iPod)
• Fully standalone, no dependancy on system codecs/splitters
• Media Transcoding Platform to expand UI and improve user experience

Typical Applications

• Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files
• Converting for audio/video playback devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
• Extracting audio tracks from video files
• Ripping audio/video discs
• Reparing corrupted or partial downloaded video files

Supported Fomats

• MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/HE-AAC, AAC+v2/HE-AAC v2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, WMA, RealAudio, mp3PRO*
• FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, TTA, WAV/PCM, Waveform
• H.264, XviD, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora, Flash Video, Dirac, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video
• AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, PMP, RealMedia*, ASF, Quicktime*, OGM*
• CD, DVD, VCD, SVCD, CUESheet*, HTTP*, FTP*, RTSP*, UDP*

DivX integration in software
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/prosumer-products-4/divx-22005/information-22014.html

Price: $550 (plus appl. tax)
Version: 1.6.1

MainConcept™ DivX is a full version codec Plug-In for MainConcept™ Reference. It enables the user to create streams based on the MPEG-4 ASP profile which is part of the MPEG-4 Part 2 (ISO/IEC 14496-2) standard. The Plug-In offers presets for the common DivX profiles.

Free DVD decryption on hard drive
http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

DVDFab HD Decrypter 6.0.2.0 (June 24, 2009)

DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab "DVD to DVD" and DVDFab "Blu-ray to Blu-ray". It copies entire DVD/Blu-ray movie to hard drive, and removes all the DVD protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) and part of Blu-ray protections (AACS, BD+, RC, UOPS and BD-Live) while copying.