Ipod movies

[datahawk]

Does anyone know of a good, safe program to convert DVD's so I can download them to my ipod? I'd really rather not pay for movies I may already own just so I can watch my on my ipod. :P

Comments

[feren.livejournal.com]

Handbrake is also vailable for Windows. However, my experience with it has been substantially frustrating. If you try DVDFAB and like it, stay with that. Handbrake will not improve your quality of life.

[datahawk.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm going to do a smidge more looking, but dvdfab seems to be it. I just don't want to have to pay apple money for movies I already own, so i can watch them on my ipod. bugger that.

[roho.livejournal.com]

Ditto Handbrake, both as good and frustrating. I've ended up with a two-part process:
1. Decrypt the DVD to HD with DVD Decryptor
2. Convert to iPod with Handbrake

The GUI for Windows Handbrake is pretty terrible, but usable - hopefully they've got rid of that nice 'feature' where you would set up a queue of movies to process overnight...and then it would prompt you after each one that it was done, before moving to the next! Sure defeats the purpose of a queue.