Re: [Apple iPod] Transfering movies from a DVD to my iPod

Hey Murray,

I tried to convert "Mary Poppins" for my kids, but Handbrake 9.2
couldn't decrpyt it. I guess you're lucky that you are using an Apple
platform, because under the Windows Guide of handbrake, it clearly
states, "Handbrake on the Windows Platform does NOT decrypt
Commercial DVDs". I've read elsewhere that Vista has a block on
copying DVDs. Somehow, Imtoo Converter is able to overcome it for
some films. Hence, Handbrake is useless to me without a decrypting
program. ANYONE HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR A FREE-WARE DECRYPTING
PROGRAM? I suppose HandBrake is preparing itself for a Napster hit
by the Microsoft and Apple Nazis. Say goodbye to consumer rights on
this topic in the next few years. It's an utter shame that we will
not be able to use our purchased items as we see fit so long as we do
not duplicate them for monetary gain. I hope someone takes this all
the way to the US Supreme Court, because this is utter nonsense. Why
in the world would someone have to buy 2 or more versions of the same
movie for their different devices?

thanks again for sharing your experience.

--- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, Just Murray <lists@...> wrote:
>
> http://handbrake.fr/?article=details
>
>
>
> HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform,
> multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X,
Linux
> and Windows.
>
> Supported sources:
>
> Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD
(encrypted
> or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not
> supported and must be handled externally with third-party
software),
> and some .VOB and .TS files
> PAL or NTSC
> AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
> Outputs:
>
> File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
> Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate
> encoding)
> Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of
> several audio tracks)
> Misc features:
>
> Chapter selection
> Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
> Integrated bitrate calculator
> Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
> Grayscale encoding
> cheers,
> ~~KM
> --
> Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
> -Albert Einstein, scientist, philosopher
> ---
>
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:00 PM, crazyfoaminwhiteboy wrote:
>
> > To settle the dispute what type of file does Handbrake produce?
> > MP4? If so, that is a fast import into Itunes (less than 5 seconds
> > for me on Windows Vista). The transfer to my 30 gb iPod takes a
lot
> > longer (20-40 seconds), but that hardly puts my hair in knots.
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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