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DVD converters?
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I can't seem to find a recommended software program to convert my DVDs for my iPod Touch for Macs. (The well reviewed ones seem to be only for Windows.) Any ideas? I just ant to be able to watch my own movies on my iPod...thanks...
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Last edited by OreoCookie; Dec 19, 2007 at 01:53 PM.
Reason: Edited out subtle spam reference)
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mactheripper and isquint
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Handbrake will rip the DVD to MPEG4. iSquint will convert existing rips (in all kinds of movie formats) into something your iPod can play. Best of all, they're both free. 
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Handbrake after MTR ripping to your hard drive is a great way to get a decent file for use in iTunes. But Handbrake does not (currently) re-encode from one of its mpeg4 formats - so, if you are like me and encoded everything at high quality the first time I ripped my video library, I now have to re-encode everything for my iPhone/video iPods. One option is to re-rip and re-encode from my original DVD library. As none of the options (below) are all that fast, this is something I am considering,
VideoHub is the 'pro' version of iSquint.
Elgato's Turbo H.264 is another option.
iTunes also has a converter function like iSquint, is faster IMHO - but makes larger files.
I find iSquint to be tortuously slow converting a handbrake-encoded file for something usable on an iPod. It is not dual processor aware; so if you have nearly any Intel Mac, it's not as quick as it could be. The more expensive VisualHub is, however, and seems to do the same job faster as a result.
I've tried them all in the past month - and I get compressed files usable on my iPhone that vary quite a bit in file size. I am going to directly compare a few in terms of quality to see what I can tolerate in terms of artifacts.
If I were to do this all over again with a fresh start, I'd use MTR/Handbrake and encode the highest quality files that can be played on an iPhone. They might be relatively big (>1GB per DVD), but they would look pretty good on the big screen, too. Otherwise, you need to do two encodings - which would be simpler if you started at the beginning.
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Originally Posted by jaa37 
I can't seem to find a recommended software program to convert my DVDs for my iPod Touch for Macs. (The well reviewed ones, like ****yousoft, seem to be only for Windows.) Any ideas? I just ant to be able to watch my own movies on my iPod...thanks...
****yousoft?
What's ****yousoft?
My bet's 20:1 this guy and greenappleage are the same spammers who show up every week to hawk their Windows crap - and "well reviewed"?
There hasn't been ONE SINGLE favorable review of their **** on this forum - only the regular copy-and-paste advertising diatribes.
Right right?
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The true test is if this dude returns to reply to this thread. If he doesn't, he's a spammer.
My money is that we never see him again.
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Handbrake is by far the best option.... also available is HandbrakeLite: a ripper with the sole purpose of DVD-to-iPod conversion. Simple and efficient.
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