Linux is sometimes belittled for having inferior applications, but that's simply not the case. Take DVD rippers, for example -- a plethora of them work on Linux machines. With so many to choose from, which is the best?

I performed three tests on five programs: HandBrakeGTK, AcidRip, dvd::rip, Thoggen, and VLC. The first test ripped a minute-long bonus feature (Yoda and some clones rapping) from the commercial Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith DVD (I am a geek). I performed the second test with the same scene, but with libdvdcss2 (a DVD decryption program) installed. I performed the third test with a nonencrypted DVD that I burned myself (Breakdown, which is about 46 seconds long and available on the Brickfilms site. I used a Dell Dimension 4700 with 1GB of RAM and Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10, running as few other programs as possible. The output was (ideally) MP4 with H.264 compression at 30 frames per second (FPS) (dvd::rip did it in Xvid, AcidRip in lavc, Thoggen in Ogg Theora).

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