Importing Movies onto IPod Touch

[Stg-Flame]

Sorry if this doesn't make any sense or if it is incredibly simple, but I do not own the IPod. My dad bought one for when he has to work out of town and we were able to get the music from his CDs onto the IPod, but I am unsure how to get dvds imported.

Can someone please give me a brief description on how to stick movies onto his IPod? We were able to put some movies onto my roommate's IPod before he went back to the Marines for SoI, but I wasn't present when they were added to his IPod - I only added his music.

Note that before today, I have never used ITunes.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Have you already ripped the DVDs? If you have you can use handbrake to encode it. It already has presets just pick the iPod Touch one. If you haven't ripped the DVDs yet then you have to rip them first then use handbrake to encode it.

 

[pm]

My method is to use the free version of DVDFab to rip the movie and then use Handbrake to convert it to iPhone/Touch format.

 

[Rottie]

does dvdfab to rip the movie with closed caption?

 

[Stg-Flame]

My method is to use the free version of DVDFab to rip the movie and then use Handbrake to convert it to iPhone/Touch format.

Thanks, I shall try this.

 

[jpeyton]

Unless you own some REALLY obscure DVDs, why the insistence on ripping the DVD yourself?

Chances are someone already has ripped/encoded it. As long as you legally own the movie, I don't see any issue with using another person's rip.

 

[pm]

does dvdfab to rip the movie with closed caption?

I'm not sure. You can rip it with subtitles and then you can put the subtitles in with handbrake. I'm not sure how it handles closed caption... but then I don't see how closed caption would work with an iPod Touch either... you'd just use subtitles, I'd think.

Unless you own some REALLY obscure DVDs, why the insistence on ripping the DVD yourself?

There's three reasons that I can think of:

1. ripping it yourself is much more of a legal gray area that has not been effectively contested in court. The idea of timeshifting seems to fall into the Fair Use doctrine... unless you talk to the MPIA who think it doesn't... but either way, it's not been tested. Whereas having someone else rip a CD (and thus a DVD) has been contested in court and was deemed illegal (MP3.com vs. RIAA)
2. You can control the quality - you know exactly what you are getting.
3. My internet provider - Comcast - actively monitors bittorrent and limits bandwidth as well as sending Cease and Desist letters. Beyond the legality of the whole thing, I have no personal desire to get into an arguement with my internet provider.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Unless you own some REALLY obscure DVDs, why the insistence on ripping the DVD yourself?

Chances are someone already has ripped/encoded it. As long as you legally own the movie, I don't see any issue with using another person's rip.

To add onto pm's answer:

Why go through the trouble of looking for a rip someone else made when the DVD is sitting 20 feet from me? I am not an expert by any means of copy protection, but what I do know is that you are allowed to make one digital copy for backup purposes. However, in the event that you are like me and you don't wish to chance your DVDs and CDs getting scratched, you would make a backup copy and just use the backup while the original is stored safely. So in essence, when I buy a DVD, I buy a backup and create the DVD that I will then utilize at a later time.