
Phoenix-based sartup Nito announced today that they have released an update to
Hawkeye, their $29.99 video ripping and encoding software. Hawkeye is the Swiss Army knife of video utilities. It rips video from DVDs and encodes it into a wide variety of video formats, sizes, and aspect ratios designed for computers and PVDs of all kinds (as you can see from the screencap below) including the iPod and Sony PSP. Version 1.0.9v6 adds support for the iPod h.264 low baseline encoding at resolutions up to 640 x 480. Hawkeye also features drag and drop support for PVDs. want to copy a movie to your PSP? Just mount the PSP in Hawkeye and drag the DVD or video file to the PSP icon. Hawkeye will handle the resizing and encoding by itself. Best of all, Hawkeye is a full-service digital video app. It doesn't just take you movies off DVD, it will take files in any video format it supports--which is most of them, including various MPEGs, Xvid, SCVD, h.264, AVI, DVI, and WMV--and urn them directly to DVD, complete with custom menus. Still working on that DVD of the family reunion for grandma? Want to make a highlight disc from your favorite Lost episodes? Give Hawkeye a spin.

Update: just to clarify, Hawkeye is Mac only.