It is well known among many circles that one’s tendency to stay at a Holiday Inn Express demonstrates several things–primarily, that I just saved 15 percent on my car insurance by switching to Geico.
I always see this one recommended, but I can’t seem to get it to work for me. I’m not sure why that is. Does it support pretty much any codec for its conversions?
It’s just a riff on a series of silly Holiday Inn Express commercials. In each advertisement, the main character does something surprising or beyond his usual capabilities, and the last line he delivers in the ad is “…but i did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
There’s an example here.
It will import a whole lot of different formats, from DVD folders to avi files to wmv files, etc.
In terms of output, though, the most recent releases use the MPEG-4, H264, or VP3 (Theora) codec, and will export only as MKV or MP4 files. Earlier versions (up to 0.93) supported the DivX codec and the AVI container, but these were dropped for reasons outlined here:
Handbrake is great for me, because i have an LG Blu-Ray player that offers both DLNA functionality and a USB port, and will comfortably read MKV and MP4 files from either my computer (over the network) or from a USB key.