How To Copy DVDs to iPod using free software for Windows

What up people??

ive ordered my 30gb ipod from apple.com and im trying to get some videos in my iTunes library ready to be transferred to it when it arrives. i've been using the dvd encrypter and videora but quality of the movies is not very impressive. i mean..i watched a couple music videos from itunes on my friends ipod and the quality was absolutely amazing. like an HD tv almost. however, my videos when played on the computer are somewhat pixelated and do not compare to what i saw on my friends ipod. also, when i right-click a video in itunes they all have a bit-rate of 64kbps this seems low is this what my problem is?

By far the platfom most suited for creating h.264 complient ipod movies is the mac, there are at least 4 converters that work. 42dvdvxplus and a hacked version of handbrake are the best.

Several windows products claim to but none create h264 video yet, hey will soon they promise. in some cases you discover this after paying you money,

I know of only one way to create h264 videos that WILL play on the ipod, and that is with the freeware library x264 and the freeware tool megui.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=674495#post674495

it works, its relatively fast and FREE

OK sorry im a little slow. so what does this one do thats different than the two programs listed at the top?

walter, after clicking that link which thing/things do i click to download? there are a million of them

this is the only method right now for geeting h264 compression on windows, smaller file sizes, better quality

I usedNero recode to down load dvd videos to itunes it worked and i can watch them it also puts them on my ipod in the movie section of the video (why i dont know) but i cant watch them the screen just turn black what am i doing wrong please help ty 🙂

If you all had decent computers (Mac's).............

HANDBRAKE

-Joe

Hman797

yes, thats part of the fun of working with gnu software. And after spending several hours yesterday working this out and testing it. I found this

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/ipod-video.ars/6

goes to show you that whenever you think of something ten other people are thinking along the same path.

BUT

I learned a lot, I pulled the cvs for both handbrake and ffmpeg, know were the coding changes are to make handbrake work. If you want to compile handbrake you have to get it from the cvs all the source code downloads are old.
I also have a pretty good idea were the problem in the x264 module in ffmpeg is, (I don't think its as up to date as the handbrake distribution, or ffmpegx) . Which would explain why the mac converters might work and the pc ones don't. An sending some of my results to companies I'm beta testing for, I'm also looking at recomping ffmpeg with some of the changes I discovered.

On the mac encoders are based on either the apple h264 codec or x286.

on the pc its a liitle more complicated

Nero digital,, does not seem to work with baseline, and remember you have to think about the aac audio part to.

the elecard codec which does not seem to support baseline

the mainconcept which is very expensive

and open source ones are based on x286 or the embedded x286 library in ffmpeg.

Today I'm going to recompile a version of ffmpeg, and maybe start writting an encoder frontend in java or c#.

Like I said I learned a lot

EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. I learned that you can use programs like quicktime pro to reformat the movie but i'm not sure.

Here's a memory saving tip I just realized:

To save space on your iPod, deselect the end credits chapter when you are about to use DVD Decrypter. This saved me about 600mb off the decryption file size; not sure how much on the mp4 file size.

I do, I have an imac g5, but the windows xp machines are cheaper and more durable. I never shut them down Besides still no h264 for the pc, i see a short opputunity to maybe develop something and get it in the market. Not a lot of opputunity for new shareware these days.

You can also run them through iMovie and accomplish the same thing.

Not sure why but my dvd decrypter dosnt seem to be working or im just doing something wrong even thogh i followed that tutorial thing exactly. But when i try to open the movie on either windows media or iTunes once the decrypter is finished it never works. iTunes will open but nothing will happen. Could someone help me out please?