H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320x240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats.

MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480x480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats

The biggest challenge here is that most of movies on DVDs are encrypted and DRM protected. To rip DVD in some places is legal, while some not, bottom line is that you don’t use the ripped movie for commercial purpose, but for personal entertainment.

There are bunch of programs out there on the net that can decrypt DVD and remove limitation on DVDs, some can also rip DVD to iPod formats. Personally, I prefer to DVD to iPod converter for Mac (shareware) to rip DVD, I just find it is suitable in my case, so I will use it in this guide as an example.


Rip commercial DVD and home video DVD
DVD to iPod converter for Mac can run smoothly on both PowerPC Mac and Intel Mac, it can easily decrypt various commercial DVDs, lifts restriction and make DVDs region free. You can rip DVD to your hard drive on your computer and play the video anywhere without having to worry about region limits.

DVD mainly contains IFO and VOB files, you are supposed to rip VOB file to from DVD and convert video to iPhone. A poor program will lead to unsync problem between video and video. I have tested DVD to iPod converter for Mac; it works like a charm, nothing wrong with video and audio, works like a charm.

Convert DVD to iPod mpeg-4 format
Mac DVD to iPod converter can convert DVD video to MPEG-4 and H.264 that iPod can import. All the video enabled iPod players like iPod nano, iPod touch and iPod classic are all supported. It is also an easy thing to rip audio from DVD and save audio as mp3, flac, aac.

Edit DVD video to iPod on Mac
iPod nano, iPod touch and iPod classic have different screen sizes, which could lead to a same video that in mpeg-4 style can play on one screen, but can’t work on other screens. DVD to iPod converter for Mac can solve the problems easily by compressing DVD video into different file size (resolution) like 320X240, 640X480, with correct bit rate and frame rate setting.

You can select a part of the chapter or a few chapters within a title or a few titles or even entire DVD to rip. You are allowed to trim video, crop, rotate, merge files into one and add effect to video, depending on your project.

Import DVD video to iPod
After you ripped the DVD to your hard drive, you are now ready to import video to your iPod. i just wrote a How-to guide about how to copy video to iPod, hope this would help.

Step 1. please download a iTunes at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ it is totally free.

Step 2. Plug your iPod to your computer. This will launch iTune. If not, start iTune manualy.

Step 3. In iTune, go to the 'File' menu and click 'Add File to Library...'. This will open a file box in which you need to select the video you have just converted.
Still remember where the converted DVD video is using the DVD to iPod Conevrter? great , select it , Once you have selected the file, click 'Open' and wait for iTune to add the file to its Library.

Step 4. The video is now added to your iTune Library, but you want it to be copied to your iPod. Here is how:
a. Go to Library in the Itunes left menu, then click Movie...the converted video is surely there
b. now drag the converted video directly to your iPod in the iTunes left menu( once you plug your ipod, there is an iphone icon appears in the iTunes left menus--Devices)

Ok, you are set now. Wait for the video transferring is done. Then plug off your ipod, your video will be there

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