Question about converting DVD's to Ipod Video

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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
I am going to finally be purchasing my first ipod shortly and have a large collection of MP3's but as well I have a lot of video I'd like to put on it. most of this video is on DVD's. Some are homemade such as video taking from home videos but some are commercial DVD's.

Is there any software for the mac that will take this video from the dvd's and make it into a ipod video file? I used to have a PC and found software that can convert to ipod video (or other mp3 player videos) but when doing this often it was sloppy, converting it into multiple files that were hard to play. I appreciate any advice.

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    It will probably be the same sort of software that you get with the video ipod for ripping dvds to ipod format. If not xilisoft dvd ripper has ipod settings as an option to rip to.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    Handbrake.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    There's a great program called Handbrake



    Mac compatible w/ Windows Beta.



    It's slow but works well. You have to tweak the settings for standard Handbrake to make it iPod compatible, so I recommend Instant Handbrake. You just click iPod for the file format, and let it rip.





    http://handbrake.m0k.org/





    If you want to use regular and tweak the settings, here's a tutorial



    http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/
  • Reply 4 of 5
    nerudaneruda Posts: 439member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by arindlaub View Post


    There's a great program called Handbrake

    It's slow but works well.



    I second that, it is slow and hogs a lot of processing power. MacTheRipper rips an entire DVD in a 1/3 of the time and doesn't use 130% of my coreduo's processing power. The rub: you still need to encode to mp4.

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715
  • Reply 5 of 5
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,309moderator
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Neruda View Post


    I second that, it is slow and hogs a lot of processing power. MacTheRipper rips an entire DVD in a 1/3 of the time and doesn't use 130% of my coreduo's processing power.



    Handbrake uses your CPU because it's encoding at the same time. Still, I don't like it. It cut out the audio on a number of files and I had to do them all again. I burned them to disc and found I'd missed one. It also cut down to half speed on a number of rips. I won't be using it again.



    Instead, I would rip with Mactheripper and encode the result using isquint.
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