I know that you can rip CDs and LPs onto a computer and hence to an iPod. I just bought a turntable that USBs to a computer and is fairly automatic. Googling for DVDs to iPods I saw several pieces of software. I think the first one only cost $25.
If you have a mac I know of great software to rip your own dvds and other great software to help you encode them so that you can burn them onto cds (much smaller) or put them on your ipod...
But if you don't have a mac I can't help ya. I'm pretty sure both the programs we use are mac only.
I know that you can rip CDs and LPs onto a computer and hence to an iPod. I just bought a turntable that USBs to a computer and is fairly automatic. Googling for DVDs to iPods I saw several pieces of software. I think the first one only cost $25.
Do you have a link for that turntable? I have a ton of albums I'd like to put on my computer.
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My cousins bought a PSP and some software to convert from DVDs to files you can view PSP, but it wont let you convert any dvd's which have copy protection. Basically useless. I had to find them other software to rip the DVDs to mpeg and then use the software they had bought to convert that to PSP. Be careful about such things for iPod conversion software if you go that route.
Do you have a link for that turntable? I have a ton of albums I'd like to put on my computer.
Mine is an ION, listed online at about $200. My youngest son called me one day while he was at Costco and they had it for $120, I had him pick one up. To bad we don't live close by, its really not the sort of thing you need, once you get your records done. Looking at my machine, the manual, and Amazon I am not entirely sure they are the same model.
My boyfriend and I bought one for his dad for christmas cause he was a dj and has 5 MILLION albums. We bought the one from the skymall magazine for $150.00 - I'll let you know what he thinks about it after christmas (he's a techie and will critique the thing to no end). I just saw one at target for over 200 and had to laugh that the stupid airline magazine was ACTUALLY cheaper than the big box store.
here's the link: we bought the $159.99 dollar one Skymall -
Thanks everyone. First DVD on the iPods. Kids happy. Dad happy.
In case anyone's wondering, the process of ripping the dvd to ipod format is painfully slow. Takes about 2 1/2 hours for a 2 hour movie. Click "process" and go to bed.
yup. slow and it's often a machine hog. a 2-pass encoding on my machine (which is older, like 2 years, but still a G4) is like 4ish hours, sometimes 5.
It takes a while to RIP, but it doesn't to slow my pc down too much. I'm using Handbrake for Windows on a Pentium M 1.7ghz. I can do other things and there's just a slight delay.
Also, once handbrake is running, you might need a driver to decrypt (or whatever ) a commercial dvd. Were I to use something, I might use dvd43. It runs in the background and provides on the fly "decryption."
BTW, Handbrake isn't perfect. Handbrake even pops up a cmd window (like DOS). But, neither were the ones that I downloaded on a trial basis. They all suck for some DVDs. Some suck for some and work fine for others, some suck for others.
i'm thinking that a two program combo may be my best bet... for example, a dvd ripper that pulls well as a wmv, and then a separate program to convert to mpeg4.
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FYI, if you tried Handbrake and found it to fail a lot on DVDs that aren't perfect, go and upgrade to the latest, version 0.9.2. Today, it's RIPped three DVDs that the old version crapped out on due to read errors.
Do you have a turntable now? If so it's pretty easy to do w/out buying one of those USB tables (which have gotten mixed reviews).
We have a few turntables - These easily hook up to a computer to transfer records? I'd love to know how hard it is and how much equipment I need. Should I even look into doing it?. I can google it but am busy and don't want to open that can of worms just now.
All you need is a turntable, phono pre-amp (supposedly there are ways around even needing this), and some cheap cables to plug into your computers' line in. If you don't have a line in you can get a usb input for pretty cheap:
All you need is a turntable, phono pre-amp (supposedly there are ways around even needing this), and some cheap cables to plug into your computers' line in. If you don't have a line in you can get a usb input for pretty cheap:
Tons of tutorials are floating around the web. It's easy, but a little time consuming.
I've been using Audacity to do other things. They make it sound so easy, but who's got the time to do each track, one by one? Record, removed noise, record next track. Repeat for every other track on the record.
I've never tried the program mentioned below, but I'd spend $25 easy to be able to have it do all the work automatically.
iPods and DVDs
) a commercial dvd. Were I to use something, I might use dvd43. It runs in the background and provides on the fly "decryption."
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