bugeyeandy

Anyone recommend a good converter to put a dvd or 2 onto my Ipod touch?
There zillions if you look on Google and I don't mind paying for a good one but I've no idea which ones are good and which ones are slow and useless.
I'm using a Vista PC.

boxst

I use Videora and it is very good.

Steve

bugeyeandy

Thanks Steve, i'll give it a go

wiley

iTrader: (63)

thats what i use, good program

wiley

Markus

I might have to investigate Videora. My suggestion would be to try Handbrake

madras

Another vote for Handbrake.

Has preset tabs for converting to iPhone/iPod Touch, very simple to use or there are some advanced setting if that floats your boat.

I use it for my iPhone and the kids nano's, works well and is free!

madras

bugeyeandy

Thanks lads, I used Videora and it worked perfectly.
Nice slick Freeware app, thumbs up from me!

richardg

not working for me - i'm trying to add the first series of the green wing to my ipod. all i manage to convert when i select one of the 3 largest files on disc 1 (a .vob file) is 0.24 seconds of the episode - any suggestions on how i sort this please?

richardg

tried handbrake and managed to get 2:58, but the picture quality is worse than the adverts on tv that warn against video piracy!

thinking about it, it might be easier if i were to buy a pirate copy and leave the originals nice and safe at home!

T4molie

I tend to rip the dvd to my pc and then use handbrake to convert. Newver had any problems with it for my iTouch

But I am going to check out videora

FX02

iTrader: (5)

I downloaded DVD Shrink and then I used Handbrake to convert it to play on the ipod. I can play back the converted movie through my PC but it won't go onto my Ipod - even though I have it in itunes. Does any one have any suggestions as to why this might be? It's definateley selected to be copied onto my ipod, it just won't transfer.

kbsub

Tunebite ....

GaryK

I use clonedvdmobile in conjunction with anydvd.

T4molie

Don't want to hijack but does anyone use a particular dvd ripping program that will do copy protected dvd's?

As mentioned above I use DVD Shrink to backup dvd and then handbrake to convert but dvd shrink doesn't seem to like copy protected dvds

ScoobyJawa

Videora here too

RichardS2005

dvd fab decrypter platinum - there's a free trial and it converts from DVD direct to Ipod/Blackberry/Zune etc as well as DVD.

Cheers

Richard

Phil

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volwov

Do you want to put your dvd movies on your iPod?
Do you want to put your videos on your iPod?
Do you want to backup your iPod songs and videos on your computer?
Use Aiseesoft DVD to iPod Suite.
It includes
a Aiseesoft DVD to iPod Covnerter
a Aiseesoft iPod Movie Converter
a Aiseesoft iPod to Coumputer Transfer
Free download: http://www.aiseesoft.com/download/dvd-to-ipod-suite.exe

1. Convert DVD to iPod and any video/audio to MP4/H.264
It could easily convert DVD to iPod Touch and video/audio files to MP4, H.264, MP3, M4A, AAC with excellent speed and quality.
2. Professional function of audio converter
It can convert MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM to iPod M4A/AAC/MP3 audio files.
3. Transfer music and video from iPod to computer
It can transfer songs from iPod to computer. And help you backup iPod video/audio files to PC, then you could transfer the video/music to another iPod or iPhone.
4. Easy and powerful editing function (Merge, Trim, Crop)
It offers powerful editing functions such as merging multiple DVD chapters, titles or different videos files into one file, trimming any clip of video or DVD, cropping video size and so forth.

scoob_dood

Tools I have been using for my iPhone video needs:

DVDFab 5 for extracting DVDs
DVD Copy Software from DVDFab | Copy DVD to PSP, DVDR or iPod

Xvid4PSP
http://www.winnydows.com/

xvid4psp is great and will convert downloaded video quickly and cleanly in an iPhone friendly format (along with many others) and its totally free. My biggest complaint is the lack of batch conversion - I would like to be able to take ~10 files and convert them all in order.

- Jon