Although the video codec H.264 takes more CPU power and time to encode than other codec, it gives better video quality and small size and it’s more and more widely used. HandBrake is well-known for doing a good job in encoding DVD to H.264 format, but if you want to find a tool to convert a DVD to H.264 without re-encoding the audio to preserve the original audio quality and save converting time, the following free video converters are recommended to use:

RipBot264

RipBot264 converts from DVD, Blu-ray or any video to MKV or MP4 with H.264 codec. To leave the audio not re-encoding, you need to choose MKV container and it will copy stream for the audio. You can read a detail guide about how to use it.

RipBot264

Tip: RipBot264 can’t take a DVD folder as input, but if you select the first VOB from the VOB set, or the first VOB of the  main movie for just converting the main movie, then RipBob264 will load the other files for you. This is also explained in the above mentioned guide.

MediaCoder

MediaCoder can convert your DVD video to almost all popular formats and allows you to load and batch convert a whole DVD folder . To leave the audio without being compressed, check the box for Copy Audio under the Audio tab.

MediaCoder

Xvid4PSP

Xvid4PSP converts various videos to AVI, DV, MP4, M2TS, MKV with x264 and XviD video codec. It allows video copy and audio copy:

copy audio in Xvid4PSP

Note: To convert you DVD to optimized H.264 video for different video playing devices, you can check our video converters or DVD converters.

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