Putting a DVD onto an Ipod or other Digital Players.

Making a digital copy and watching it on your Ipod or other types of players is fairly simple. What you need is a software package that by-passes the DVDs disc encryption, then takes the VOB files of the movie and converts it to the correct format.

Now bypassing DRM (Digital Rights Management) and Copy Protection on DVD dics may not be legal in your country. If you own the DVD and you are making a copy to play on your device then in some countries this is legal.

Now each digital media player uses a certain type of audio video codecs to encode the file so it’s playable on its video playing software.

Apple Ipod media players use a encoding called a MP4. The MP4 format can be encoded using the MP4 encoding or for the Ipod the H.264 Quicktime video codec with the Apple Audio codec (AAC).

The Zune player uses the WMV (Windows Media) format and uses the WMA(Windows Audio codec) for sound.

Blackberry Video uses the MP4 encoding, Divx 4 encoding, Divx5,6 files are currently not supported.

When you’re looking to convert from DVD to a type of player, it’s important that the software you use goes from VOB to the correct codec types. If a file is coded in the incorrect format, most likely your player will not be able to read the file correctly.

Now each video media player may have a different way of loading the files to the players, both blackberry and zune can be accessed by the different OS file manages as a USB type drive.

The Ipod and Iphones are a different story, these players use Apple’s (Mac) file systems and you’ll need to use a “loading software” (Itunes) to sync the files onto the devices. Fairly easy to do, all you do is import the MP4 file to your Itunes software. Then sync up your device.

The best advice I can give is check your hardware specs, most players play resolutions of 320x240, up to 30 frames per second (fps)

                

What are you doing to you're IPOD!! Size your video right

The first time smaller is always better!

You've just gone out and pick up a classic IPOD, okay so you have 80gb.. Life is great.. you can fill it anyway you like! If you have a smaller hd, then maybe this will be more important to you.

Lately, I don't know how many times I've answered this.

Why are you putting DVD sized video onto your ipod.

1. Maybe because it's easier than sizing in right!
2. Maybe you don't want to spend the time to encode, compress it to the right size

What you are doing is getting no better quality video!

The ipod screen resolution is 320x200 on the average IPOD model. If you use higher video resolution the ipod is still only displaying it as 320x200.

So what are you doing ripping video at 1024x768 (standard screen resolution of your computer. Did you know that you're non-hd TV is higher than 320x200 and lower than 1024x768? It's 640x480..

What does this tell you!

1. DVD video doesn't need to be used as it is on your IPOD
2. if you don't convert the video you are not maximizing you drive space

There are free tools out there, these have been developed using the open source community. Videora is probably the most popular one. The biggest issue with the open source video conversion utilities is the video codec it's using to re-code the video stream, it's prone to pixelation (squares) to scramble. Like the xvid(open source) vs Divx debate. It's up to you! Xvid is free - has clearer video stream but has pixelation problems, where divx is not-as-vivid but is less likely to pixelate.

Do you're IPOD a favor, get any converter, free or not.. but remember that you could have up to 4 times more full length features on it!

Converter Picks

1. Cucusoft
2. ImToo
3. Videora

                

Cucusoft - Converting your DVD's to IPOD format

The Cucusoft DVD to iPod Converter is the easiest to use DVD to iPod converter software available. It can convert almost any type of DVD to play on Apple iPod Video player. It’s a powerful DVD to iPod converter with very fast conversion speed. The output also supports full screen viewing. You can enjoy your favorite DVD’s on your iPod as a portable DVD Player. Now you can get this DVD to iPod Converter at a very competitive price!



It has never been easier to convert you DVD's and save them directly to your IPOD. Works with next generation IPODs and Nano's. Cucusoft provides award winning customer service.

Why do I need a conversion program? Ipod uses a MP4 and MPA(audio) format to play back video, also DVD video is usually 1.5-2.0 gb in size. Cucusoft Ipod to DVD compression software will convert to MP4 with out quality loss and the MP4 format size will be 150-300mb in size .. This means you can fit many more movies on your IPOD.

Does this software load the video to my device? Yes, you'll be able to load the media file after the conversion process with an easy to use process that is part of the application.



Rating: 5 stars out of 5

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