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Getting DVD movies on your iPod touch and iPhone

If you're like me, you take one or more of your DVD movies, TV shows, podcasts and other content with you on your iPod or iPhone when traveling. Heck, I even take stuff for long car trips across town, or to watch when I'm sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office.

Most of the time, it's pretty simple to get movies, TV shows or podcast content onto your iPhone or iPod touch for viewing at a convenient time -- you can simply use iTunes to download it (for a suitable fee). Things get a bit more complicated when you want to watch a commercial DVD from your collection on one of these devices.

Fortunately, as we reported recently, there's a great tool called HandBrake that accomplishes this task quite nicely and has just been updated to a fully-compatible, Leopard-only version. OK, but now that you have the software, how do you use it so you can watch that 300 DVD when you're on the train to work tomorrow?

The folks at iPhone Atlas have taken care of that one for you; they've just posted an article that guides you step-by-step on how to take video from that purchased DVD and get it onto your iPhone or iPod touch. It's a pretty simple and painless process that yields surprisingly good results -- especially when watching something on the very nice, touchable screen of the iDevices.

If you're like me, you take one or more of your DVD movies, TV shows, podcasts and other content with you on your iPod or iPhone when...
 

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linda

It is a good idea of enjoying DVD on my iPod or iPhone when traveling .
Some one use Handbrake,or other tools.I read some reviews about popular DVD to iPod ripper.I found that not all popular rippers are easy to use.
http://www.topsevenreviews.com/reviews-dvd-to-ipod-converter.html

April 11 2008 at 4:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
crawtai

This is really stupid, but when I try to open up Handbrake, it does nothing. It will bounce in the display bar, but that's it. Help?

April 03 2008 at 5:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
goodfriend

Share : how to rip DVD and convert Video to iPod at http://www.oursdownload.com/convert-DVD-video-to-iPod-video.html
Share : how to rip DVD and convert Video to iphone at http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html

March 10 2008 at 10:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
goodfriend

Hello all friends , you can try this .
It is a good choice , too .
Video DVD To iPod Converter, an award-winning video converter that provides conversion from almost all videos to iPod video format.
It can convert all video files such as DVD, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB, 3GP, WMV, MPEG, AVI to iPod movies.
Video/DVD To iPod Converter includes "iPod Video Converter" and "DVD to iPod Converter"(DVD Ripper Include). So with this iPod Video Converter , you can convert both DVD media and video file media to iPod video/iPod movie.
You can enjoy your favorite DVD and video clip on your iPod as a portable DVD Player.

In addition to conversion, VIDEO/DVD To iPod Converter can help users extract sound from video files to save it as MP3 audio.
Download it at http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-and-video-to-ipod.html

February 27 2008 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jean-Michel

I'm using the CloneDVD mobile-Software from Slysoft (www.slysoft.com). It's very easy to use and makes a good copy and quality from your dvd. In my country this software is legal to use for personal using.

February 26 2008 at 3:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
victor h

I also use HandBrake to help me to convert DVD movies to my iPod touch. And I got a very useful articles centering on how to protect DVD, backup DVD and maximize the value of DVD for Mac users here http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/articles/protect-backup-enhance-dvd-discs.html
This article also includes the guide for HandBrake.

February 21 2008 at 8:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
windbell

And here I also got an useful guide on how to download DVD PDF Podcast Limewire and YouTube video to iPod, share with you:
http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/download-dvd-pdf-youtube-videoto-ipod.html

February 21 2008 at 8:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CZ

Wow. The guide has you doing the encode at 860kbps... That's OVERKILL for the iPod Touch or iPhone. If you're using H.264 then Single-pass at 600kbps is fine. Looks great.

Only do higher if you're watching on Apple TV or using the cables to connect to a television. At the resolution needed for the iPod Touch/iPhone, though, you're just wasting space doing higher-bitrate encodes.


February 21 2008 at 5:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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CZ

Oh, wait-- I meant they have it at 960kbps... Which is even higher and totally overkill.

February 21 2008 at 6:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

Since when is it illegal to rip a DVD? The term "rip" doesn't come from 'ripping off'! And when in the Handbrake process does it say "click here to bypass DRM?"

If time-shifting is legal, what about space shifting? Why can we rip music to an iPod but not a video?

It is all in the _distribution_. If you don't distribute, how are you breaking the law?!?!

February 21 2008 at 3:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kris

I generally rip the movie with Mac The Ripper to the HDD, which takes about 35 minutes. Then I start with Handbrake on that with good quality, double pass, etc. The advantage is that I can rip a bunch of movies relatively quickly, then queue them up to encode overnight or while I'm at work. I've gone through about 40 movies so far with another 200 or so to go.

I have a Infrant NV+ NAS for storage, and I'm experimenting with a Popcorn Hour media tank for playback on the TV, though I may end up picking up a Mac mini to put under the TV instead. I have the space, so I also tend to rip an iphone/ipod specific version of the movie and save that as a separate file so I can have the full size, good version for home viewing and a leaner portable version.

February 21 2008 at 2:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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