First porn, now DVD's on your iPod

was just wondering if you have already ripped a movie to a higher resolution will it still play on the ipod?

I don't think handbrake will actually rip the DVD -- rather it will work from the DVD in the drive, which can take a lot longer and can wear out your drive. I'd rather rip it to the hard disk first.

i was wondering about that, Nick Why do you need the mac the ripper stage?

Um, just a note about Mark's guide: You don't have to use MacTheRipper as Handbrake can rip directly from a DVD. You can even select what content and/or chapters you want in Handbreak.

Slightly off-subject, but on codecs: "Upgradable firmware enables support for future video formats." Could we crack the firmware, same way phil torrone was talking about downloading the graphics, editing them then installing the firware to change images on your ipod - is it feasable a hack-around video codecs is possible? I spent last month compressing my DVDs into PSP-happy formats; Greg - 2 hours! I was talking 3-7 per film... and then 2.0 BROKE them. *weeps*. I'm chucking this sony thing now, i don't care how white it is - it hasn't got iTunes.

I was doing Handbrake shortly after the annoucement that they'd he doing H.264 and let me tell you that Handbrake conversion of DVDs to that format is slow. Very very very slow, even at 320x240. I converted my copy of the Family Guy movie and it took about 2:45 on a dual G5 with 2GB of memory using dual pass technique (granted, it wasn't doing that exclusively). Somehow somewhere someway the process has to get a lot faster.

That's "Lo and behold..." I'm happy to see DVD-to-iPod conversion, too!

Yes! I actually asked this for the "Ask TUAW" Low and behold, someone answers for me!