Filed under: iPod Family, Video, How-tos
First porn, now DVD's on your iPod
Mark Pilgrim has been a busy man. First he put up a tutorial showing you how to convert any stray video files you might have littering your hard disks, with particular interest in porn, onto your iPod. Now he has turned his attention to DVD's (no mention of what genre he favors).We have posted about HandBrake before, and it is a critical application in this tutorial. It will take any DVD and rip the video off of it and encode that video into a number of formats, including H.264 (the choice of the iPod generation).
Soon I'll be watching Mystery Science Theater on C.K.'s new iPod (just don't tell him I took it).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Reid Bode said 6:04PM on 10-13-2005
Yes!
I actually asked this for the "Ask TUAW"
Low and behold, someone answers for me!
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Jason said 6:55PM on 10-13-2005
That's "Lo and behold..."
I'm happy to see DVD-to-iPod conversion, too!
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Gregory Pierce said 7:24PM on 10-13-2005
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.
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Callum said 8:38PM on 10-13-2005
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.
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Nick Vance said 11:19PM on 10-13-2005
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.
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benedict murray said 7:56AM on 10-14-2005
i was wondering about that, Nick
Why do you need the mac the ripper stage?
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icruise said 9:56AM on 10-16-2005
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.
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Seb Jones said 5:22AM on 10-18-2005
was just wondering if you have already ripped a movie to a higher resolution will it still play on the ipod?
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