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iPod Ripping DVDs to 5G iPod (iPod Video): Steps That Work!
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tv show not transferring
I ripped an episode off a DVD using MTR and converted using HB. I've done the same thing before with movies, without problem. My concern is the following:
When I sync the iPod, everything shows up, except for the TV show. I did rip the entire disc and convert the one episode (I was trying to get the 4th episode on the disc), instead of the Main feature extraction that clay requires (that only showed episode 1).
I tried to figure out what I did wrong, but I don't know what happened. Does anybody have any ideas?
I ripped an episode off a DVD using MTR and converted using HB. I've done the same thing before with movies, without problem. My concern is the following:
When I sync the iPod, everything shows up, except for the TV show. I did rip the entire disc and convert the one episode (I was trying to get the 4th episode on the disc), instead of the Main feature extraction that clay requires (that only showed episode 1).
I tried to figure out what I did wrong, but I don't know what happened. Does anybody have any ideas?
I plan on letting my computer work on that tonight, but I was wondering what the problem was. It's one of those i-know-something-went-wrong-and-can-work-around-it-but-it-would-be-nice-to-know-what-i-screwed-up type problemsChundles said:
nbs2 said:
What resolution did you convert the show at? Maybe you passed the 230,400 pixel limit of the iPod. Also make sure it's not a .h264 above 320x240. Either of these two problems would yield a movie that will work fine on your computer and iTunes, but will not play on an iPod.
Ok, so I figured out that my relabeling the episode as a TV Show was keeping it from transferring. But, I have a new problem - why is one of my files showing up without a Title? I know it has one, as I titled it myself. But, when it transfers, the title gets lost.nbs2 said:
I have a dvd I ripped using Handbrake 7.0. Seemed to rip fine around 4.5 hrs, it said done. Copied to Itunes and it shows up in the library but when updating my ipod a Itunes window comes up and says that the movie is not recognized by my ipod. What am I doing wrong?
Sorry this was a double post. New to the site. Thanks nbs2 for your help.
Sorry this was a double post. New to the site. Thanks nbs2 for your help.
See my above post (and you may want to edit out your double post). It may take some time, but try Converting it for iPod (I'm at my PC, where it is under the Advanced menu).66Pontiac said:
66Pontiac said:
Did you rip to H.264? If so, did you click "baseline"? What specifications did you choose? The iPod 5G will only accept very specific specifications for the videos it plays...
asherman13 said:
I was using the mpeg4. Read back through some of the discussions and followed Clayj advise and ripped to the H.264, and was very pleased with the results. Took awhile but let it rip overnight, well worth the wait. Also tried in combo with Mac The Ripper but could not get handbrake to pick up the file it created. Thanks for your help.
to start out i have a 30gb ipod video and i'm using win xp pro. i'm also using dvdshrink. i put in a dvd and and selected the main movie and hit back up. after it was done, i found the movie on the hard drive and it had an audio folder and a video folder. and all the files were something like iso files. there were a bunch of them in each folder. any idea on what i can do make them into a movie file that i can run through videora?
problem with some dvd's
hi:
be patient with me, i am new here, but thanks to your help i have 29 dvd's in my ipod.
i have found problems with these dvd's mostly using mtr and hand brake lite. i tried a couple using handbrake, and got the same results. i have also tried dvd2pod with some, but no luck. here it goes:
the forgotten- no sound
brithers grin- no sound
mulan, black cauldron, aristocats, incredibles, shark talegrave of the fireflies and the cat returns cannot find a long enough segment
some say it has a bad vov.
closer
any ideas?
thanks for all your help so far
gladys
hi:
be patient with me, i am new here, but thanks to your help i have 29 dvd's in my ipod.
i have found problems with these dvd's mostly using mtr and hand brake lite. i tried a couple using handbrake, and got the same results. i have also tried dvd2pod with some, but no luck. here it goes:
the forgotten- no sound
brithers grin- no sound
mulan, black cauldron, aristocats, incredibles, shark talegrave of the fireflies and the cat returns cannot find a long enough segment
some say it has a bad vov.
closer
any ideas?
thanks for all your help so far
gladys
Don't know in Mac the Ripper (have never used it) but in Handbrake you can select the different episodes in order in the little upper left-hand corner places.pseybold said:
I learned to do it from:
http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/
I love that page. Makes everything incredibly simple.
original? well, try these, I love them:tomflix52 said:
http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/
I've heard bad things about using H.264, and personally I just feel more comfy w/ MPEG4.66Pontiac said:
Ok, ok, I have to link again: http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/
Oh, that reminds me of my friend that didn't see "Picture Settings" on Handbrake and ended up running Quicktime Pro for a week straight to get it converted before talking to me. Good times.neonart said:
amateurmacfreak said:Oh, that reminds me of my friend that didn't see "Picture Settings" on Handbrake and ended up running Quicktime Pro for a week straight to get it converted before talking to me. Good times.
Friendly tidbit of information: If you're going to post numerous replies in one thread, it would be great if you could put them all in one post (just open a new window/tab when you "quote" the 2nd/3rd/4th/etc. thing you're responding to and copy that stuff into your initial reply). That way, everything will flow much nicer, and people will be happy, etc.
EDIT Mods, if you could merge the previous 4 posts, that would be greatly appreciated...
heres a guide for windows users to convert movies for ipod 5G. it works too.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html
Concerning Pulp Fiction
I've seen a number of posts about trying to rip Pulp Fiction for the ipod. I've been trying for a long time as well. (Jackie Brown give me trouble too)
Has anyone been able to get it to work? I've tried using a prior version of Handbrake (0.6.2) and it was able to recognize the main feature, but it quits about midway through the ripping process?? I've tried it on two computers with the same result.
Has someone tried the Mac the Ripper app in conjunction with Handbrake on this one? I've got to get that movie converted. Its my favorite. At this point its more of a battle that I just have to win. I've spent too much time already!
Any help would be appreciated.
I've seen a number of posts about trying to rip Pulp Fiction for the ipod. I've been trying for a long time as well. (Jackie Brown give me trouble too)
Has anyone been able to get it to work? I've tried using a prior version of Handbrake (0.6.2) and it was able to recognize the main feature, but it quits about midway through the ripping process?? I've tried it on two computers with the same result.
Has someone tried the Mac the Ripper app in conjunction with Handbrake on this one? I've got to get that movie converted. Its my favorite. At this point its more of a battle that I just have to win. I've spent too much time already!
Any help would be appreciated.
I just ran into the same problem... "No valid title found." when trying to convert the ripped DVD in Handbrake. This occurs immediately when I select the "PULP_FICTION Main Feature" folder that was created by Mac the Ripper.Teddy Salad said:
clayj said:
I've been thinking about getting a 5G for a week or two now, and was perusing this thread for the first time... I know this is all old discussion, but I wanted to point out that it looks as though MS is going to have the ability to rip DVDs to protected WMV files built into Vista. Not sure what they had to go through to get this deal, but seems like it is at least a possibility for the future [that Apple will have DVD importing in iTunes].
I'm impressed that the 5G iPod can playback nearly DVD quality video (onto a TV). I don't really NEED one, but it's really tempting me now. Thanks for posting all of these guides.
I PM'd clayj for some advice on how to rip DVD TV series. He gave me some advice and I said I'd report back how well it worked. This weekend I used Mac The Ripper (MtR) and Handbrake (HB) for ripping and encoding.
The TV series was Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman Vols 1 and 2. MtR allows you to do a full disk extraction or the main feature. In post #1, the main feature is what is recommended. That works great for movies, but with TV series the full disk extraction will bring it all in. (With main feature you will only get one episode. I tried that too.)
With HB I located the source folder. It took me a little bit to figure out that it is the highest folder. (I extract to my Movies folder, and the folder that starts there is the one you want.) From there you can select the 'Title' this will be one of the episodes, and it will have a list of the chapters inclusive to that episode (you can then select which chapters you want from that episode).
I tried to expand the size of the picture from 620x... to the original 720x but it wouldn't let me for some odd reason.
Anyway, I was able to select the language and subtitles, and then encode it. I did the MP4. Queing several episodes up I went to bed for the evening and let it chug along. In the morning I checked them out using QuickTime and they played very well and were complete afaik.
I'm new to these programs and didn't really try to push the envelope (although I did make the files too big originally to be backed up onto CD). Hope this helps answer some questions.
Thanks clayj for all the info!
The TV series was Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman Vols 1 and 2. MtR allows you to do a full disk extraction or the main feature. In post #1, the main feature is what is recommended. That works great for movies, but with TV series the full disk extraction will bring it all in. (With main feature you will only get one episode. I tried that too.)
With HB I located the source folder. It took me a little bit to figure out that it is the highest folder. (I extract to my Movies folder, and the folder that starts there is the one you want.) From there you can select the 'Title' this will be one of the episodes, and it will have a list of the chapters inclusive to that episode (you can then select which chapters you want from that episode).
I tried to expand the size of the picture from 620x... to the original 720x but it wouldn't let me for some odd reason.
Anyway, I was able to select the language and subtitles, and then encode it. I did the MP4. Queing several episodes up I went to bed for the evening and let it chug along. In the morning I checked them out using QuickTime and they played very well and were complete afaik.
I'm new to these programs and didn't really try to push the envelope (although I did make the files too big originally to be backed up onto CD). Hope this helps answer some questions.
Thanks clayj for all the info!
Chundles said:
Any problems doing it this way? I've had Movies that wouldn't work at all. Others that have no sound, or it's out of sync, etc. MtR and then HB has never failed me, so that's what I do.
But maybe this latest version of Handbrake is more predictable? What's been your experience? Any problems?
UPDATE: Just tested Handbrake by itself and had the same problems.
To test Handbrake by itself without ripping with Mac the Ripper first I tried to import House of Flying Daggers.
RESULTS: The Conversion took HOURS!!! It was like a do it yourself circumcision with a plastic spork. Agony. Usually MtR takes less than 1/2 hour to rip and then HandBrake takes less than the length of the Movie to do 2-pass encoding on my G5. Using only Handbrake it took about 4 hours! (I usually get 40-70fps while converting from the HD. When ripping direct from DVD the 2nd pass was down to 8-14fps. Horrible.)
And after all that the movie had NO SOUND!!!!
No way I'm doing that again!
I may be doing something wrong, and if so, let me know. Otherwise I'd prefer to do it in two steps and save a couple of hours of fruitless agony.
To test Handbrake by itself without ripping with Mac the Ripper first I tried to import House of Flying Daggers.
RESULTS: The Conversion took HOURS!!! It was like a do it yourself circumcision with a plastic spork. Agony. Usually MtR takes less than 1/2 hour to rip and then HandBrake takes less than the length of the Movie to do 2-pass encoding on my G5. Using only Handbrake it took about 4 hours! (I usually get 40-70fps while converting from the HD. When ripping direct from DVD the 2nd pass was down to 8-14fps. Horrible.)
And after all that the movie had NO SOUND!!!!
No way I'm doing that again!
I may be doing something wrong, and if so, let me know. Otherwise I'd prefer to do it in two steps and save a couple of hours of fruitless agony.
Here's how I've been doing it for a long time now. Works great, cept .dv files are huge, and sometimes can't handle too much motion and animation lines may now be clean. But overall, works great.
Get 0SEx here:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9830
Open the DVD in DVD Player and note the Title and Chapters of any scenes you want. Close DVD Player, and open OSex. In OSex, choose a title and chapter, press begin. Repeat for all the scenes you want. Careful though, change the name of the .vob file as soon as it's ripped or else OSex will just write over it.
Use Drop2DV to convert the resulting .vob file into DV format.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25916
Then open the .dv file in Quicktime and export it with the iPod settings.
Get 0SEx here:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9830
Open the DVD in DVD Player and note the Title and Chapters of any scenes you want. Close DVD Player, and open OSex. In OSex, choose a title and chapter, press begin. Repeat for all the scenes you want. Careful though, change the name of the .vob file as soon as it's ripped or else OSex will just write over it.
Use Drop2DV to convert the resulting .vob file into DV format.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25916
Then open the .dv file in Quicktime and export it with the iPod settings.