Originally Posted by baldbilluk:
“I am planning on buying myself a video Ipod for Christmas, I already have a psp portable, and want something smaller, I want to use if for copying DVDs that I have copied from the TV, as I am deaf, I do not need it for music or anything else, can someone tell me a good ripper to copy the VOB files to the video IPod as I want to see how it looks, before (or if) I buy the video Ipod”
The ipod needs mp4 or mv4 format not VOBs, there may be an easier way to do this, but I use a free mac thing called handbrake to rip and convert DVDs for an ipod touch. And Mpeg streamclip to compress them further. I've made them about 700MB a movie and the picture quality is superb they could easily be compressed much further. By the way you need to use itunes to put the videos on to your ipod either by syncing to your pc library or manually copying the videos using itunes.
I've found sometimes itunes doesn't like my compression and converts the videos again to its prefered format all by itself.
...for video the ipod touch is the one to get - much bigger screen and much thinner than the classic one. Its brilliant and does wifi internet and email and more.