How do I put DVD movies on an iPod Touch?

Factual Questions
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I’ve given my daughter a 32 gig iPod touch. What needs to happen to put these movies on the iPod?

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handbrake works great for this. However, if you are on a windows machine you will somehow need to crack the DRM. For reasons I don’t fully understand the mac version of handbrake will do this for you but the windows version will not.

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I use Xilisoft, though I’ve also heard the later versions of iTunes will do this for you.

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I really really want to put DVDs on my iPod. I have a Windows machine and an 80gig iPod video. Is it something I could do?

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I use windows, and the Xilisoft software linked above works fine for me.

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What DRM on what? I used Handbrake last night to put Withnail and I on my iPod Touch and I have a Windows XP machine. It works perfectly.

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That is interesting. I was referring to the DRM on the DVD.
http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/WindowsGuiGuide

I have an old version of handbrake and it would not work on my DVDs. I used alternate software to rip the dvds. I will try the latest version and see if it fixes things.

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Try DVD43 to decrypt your DVDs. It’s free and runs in the background. I use it with Handbrake and never had a problem with it.

Download here.

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Key Functions:

1. Rip any DVD and video to iPod video and audio formats

Rip DVD and convert MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV to iPod MP4, H.264 video formats and iPod MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC audio formats.

2. Transfer music and video files from iPod to computer

Help you to backup iPod video/audio files to PC, then you could transfer the video/music to another iPod or iPhone.

3. Easy and powerful editing function (Merge, Trim, Crop, Snapshot)

It offers powerful editing functions such as joining multiple DVD chapters, titles or different videos files into one file, trimming any clip from video and DVD, cropping the size of video play region and so forth.

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For iPod users, Tipard iPod Converter Suite is a requisite iPod converter to rip DVD and any video to iPod MP4 video format and MP3, M4A, AAC audio format. It can also backup the files on iPod to computer. This iPod Converter Suite is discount software for the coming Christmas. It is actually the combination of Tipard DVD to iPod Converter, Tipard iPod Video Converter and Tipard iPod to PC Transfer.

Key Functions:

1. Rip any DVD and video to iPod video and audio formats

Rip DVD and convert MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV to iPod MP4, H.264 video formats and iPod MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC audio formats.

2. Transfer music and video files from iPod to computer

Help you to backup iPod video/audio files to PC, then you could transfer the video/music to another iPod or iPhone.

3. Easy and powerful editing function (Merge, Trim, Crop, Snapshot)

It offers powerful editing functions such as joining multiple DVD chapters, titles or different videos files into one file, trimming any clip from video and DVD, cropping the size of video play region and so forth.

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I also use Handbrake and DVD43. They work great, but were not able to work with The Dark Knight disc that I had recently. When you use Handbrake, I’ve found that a bitrate around 400kb/s has good quality and much smaller files than the default of around 900k.