Whats a good conversion program?

[MiketheMike]

Need a conversion program for converting DVD movies, in this case recorded matches, into videos. I'm using Handbreak right now, but it crapped out on me and won't convert anymore chapters from my dvd (and no this was not a trial program).

So any other good programs out there? I'm using a mac

 

[NixxxoN]

I always go to softonic to find software, its an awesome site but its in spanish...

 

[MiketheMike]

I always go to softonic to find software, its an awesome site but its in spanish...

Thats cool I can always have my friend translate it for me. You gotta have at least one Hispanic friend right

 

[Untrust Us]

haha! nice sig

 

[Battlecow]

^what he said

10whathesaids

 

[NixxxoN]

Thats cool I can always have my friend translate it for me. You gotta have at least one Hispanic friend right

Well its always important to learn some spanish as it is prob the 2nd most important language in the world along with chinese xD

 

[asianaussie]

Chinese itself is divided into at least 4 major dialects and countless minor ones.

 

[Untrust Us]

Chinese itself is divided into at least 4 major dialects and countless minor ones.

yeah, that stuff confuses me. There's a region where they speak a certain dialect of Chinese (like in the city), and then you have the farming folk who speak a different dialect of chinese compared to the city people.

 

[asianaussie]

Most regions have a slight variation on Mandarin (the base chinese, or 'pu tong hua', which translates to standard/regular language). Accents are a big factor. Guangdong in particular has the cantonese variation (Guangdong = Canton), and each city/town has certain variations. For instance, my parents say 'suo liao', which I know means plastic. In reality, 'su liao' is the proper pronunciation, and 'suo liao' means nothing.

On topic: I downloaded an add-on for Firefox called DownloadHelper, and it has the option of getting a ConvertHelper add-in (for the add-on). This ConvertHelper is enormously useful and converts with exceptional quality.

 

[NixxxoN]

most of languages have dialects.. British english is differently spoken than american english for example. Spanish has a dialect for almost every country in america, and spain itself has lots of different dialects

 

[MiketheMike]

Man this threads taken a turn. At least its an intellectual topic

 

[ballin4life]

Language Usefulness Tier List:

Top:
English
Chinese
Spanish
...

Bottom:
Esperanto

 

[asianaussie]

Put Japanese, French and German up there. Maybe Italian too. They're taught in schools all over the world, a rudimentary knowledge of them can always be useful.

 

[The Star King]

Chinese is 2nd? Really? Really? Yes, it has the most speakers in the world, but they're all pretty much compacted into one area. And why is Russian not mentioned? I would also say Korean, but that's just me because I live in an area with tons of Koreans.

 

[ballin4life]

China has the second highest GDP in the world and is still growing rapidly. Business in China will be a huge wave of the future so it would be good to know Chinese for that purpose.

 

[asianaussie]

In addition, there are huge Chinese hotspots in populated areas around the world. I know for sure that there are a huge amount in Los Angeles and the west coast in general, a friend of mine in Edinburgh says he knows a fairly large community of Chinese (granted, he is Chinese, so it might be biased), and Melbourne (Australia), where I live, has a huge network of Chinese people.

How many Russians are there around the world? I can't see it being a hugely important language, but I might be missing something.

 

[Untrust Us]

My school has a bunch of people from Korea and China. There's more Koreans though.