one stop shop for all the codecs you will ever need (probably)

I really had no intention of writing up another software recommendation so soon, but given the nature of video playback/conversion, codecs are a necessary thing – I’ll leave it to Wikipedia to explain. There’s always been a great debate to whether you should install codecs individually, or download and install them in packages. Those arguing [...]

one click voodoo – convert dvds to xvid/divx/h.264

Out of all the tools I’ve recommended in this series of entries, Fairusewizard is probably the program that I couldn’t do without. It basically allows you to convert a physical DVD, or even a DVD image (.ISO/.IMG) into either XviD/DivX/H.264 formats. There are even some presets for conversions specific to devices, from Zunes to PS3s. [...]