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HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video
transcoder, available for MacOS X, NetBSD, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:
 * Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD
   (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally
   and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries),
   and some .VOB and .TS files
 * Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to
   decode.

Outputs:
 * File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
 * Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate
   encoding)
 * Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several
   audio tracks)

Misc features:
 * Chapter selection
 * Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
 * Integrated bitrate calculator
 * Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
 * Grayscale encoding