Right, been trying (admittedly not very hard and not for very long) to rip some DVDs to my iPod. When i started i use 2 programmes, one was simply called DVDDecrypter (source unknown, this was about a year ago?) and the other was the much acclaimed Handbrake. Simply put using neither have i managed to get a DVD from the disc onto my iPod 
i did manage with one of the two to get a movie into iTunes (which is not easy as itunes seems to want to be as unhelpful as possible most of the time) I think it was the dvddecrypter one but im not sure. I also dont know why it wont copy to the ipod as itunes "doesn’t do" error messages.
So at some point between now and then i tried again. i managed to get 3 movies onto the desktop as .VOB files (again, not sure which programme) which work perfectly except, when you can see the mouth of someone who is talking, their voice is silenced (this however i think is the way my speakers turn it to surround sound as when i bypass the converter its fine and also when i select the 2.0 audio track on VLC media player then the sound returns)
I tried just now putting one of these through handbrake with the "ipod" output selected. The given file is an m4a file that absolutely nothing can read.... wont import to itunes (again no error messages, just pretends i didn’t ask it to do anything),l vlc will open it but not play it, windows media player says it doesnt have the right codec and quick time says its an un-supported file format.
All i want to do is give the programme a media file, click a button (i will press a few if necessary) and for it to give me something i can drag onto my ipod.... can anyone in the magical land of ocuk give me ANY advice at all?
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i did manage with one of the two to get a movie into iTunes (which is not easy as itunes seems to want to be as unhelpful as possible most of the time) I think it was the dvddecrypter one but im not sure. I also dont know why it wont copy to the ipod as itunes "doesn’t do" error messages. So at some point between now and then i tried again. i managed to get 3 movies onto the desktop as .VOB files (again, not sure which programme) which work perfectly except, when you can see the mouth of someone who is talking, their voice is silenced (this however i think is the way my speakers turn it to surround sound as when i bypass the converter its fine and also when i select the 2.0 audio track on VLC media player then the sound returns)
I tried just now putting one of these through handbrake with the "ipod" output selected. The given file is an m4a file that absolutely nothing can read....
wont import to itunes (again no error messages, just pretends i didn’t ask it to do anything),l vlc will open it but not play it, windows media player says it doesnt have the right codec and quick time says its an un-supported file format.All i want to do is give the programme a media file, click a button (i will press a few if necessary) and for it to give me something i can drag onto my ipod.... can anyone in the magical land of ocuk give me ANY advice at all?
Thankyou to those of you who havew read this far! have an e-cookie
