As we know, DVD is VOB video, and DVD has CSS copyright protection. iPod supports only MP4 and H.264 video, if your video is not compatible with iPod, you can't add it into iTunes library and sync it to iPod for playback. So this step by step guide will teach you how to rip copyright DVD movie and convert any video on iPod on Windows and Mac. This guide works for all series of iPods including iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Video and iPod Classic, etc. It includes five parts as follow index:

Part 1: How to rip DVD movie and convert video to iPod on Windows
Part 2: How to convert protected DVD movie and video to iPod on Mac OS X (Visit Here)
Part 3: How to download and convert YouTube video to iPod (Visit Here)
Part 4: How to download and transfer limewire video to iPod (Visit Here)
Part 5: Download PDF document and electronic book to iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Video (Visit Here)

The tool you need is this DVD Video to iPod converter, it includes DVD to iPod Converter and Video to iPod Converter. I tried and reviewed about 20 iPod converters including freeware and shareware. The reason I recommended this one is because it's easy to use and supports copyright protected DVD, even the latest protected DVD. I have scaned it with Norton Virus Protector and AVG Anti-Virus, it's safe without any virus and spyware. You can free download the DVD Video to iPod Converter from here, the file size is about 11 MB.

For more iPod converters alternatives, you may refer to this DVD Video to iPod Converter Reviews.

Part1. How to rip and put copyright protected DVD movie to iPod?
Step1. Download the latest version of DVD Video to iPod Converter, and install it. You can learn more features about it by referring to here .

Step2. Run the DVD to iPod Converter, insert your DVD into DVD-Rom, load the DVD movie by clicking 'Open DVD' button or choosing 'Open DVD' from 'File' drop down menu. One or several titles appear in the list.

Step3. As usual, the longest title is the main file of the movie. You can remove the title you don't like to convert by unchecking the title. Select 'Subtitle', 'Audio Languages' to what you like. For advanced setting, you can click the button next to "Profile" to open the setting panel, you can custom the video quality and audio quality here. If you don't know much about the parameter, the defauly setting is OK for you, the quality is pretty good for playback on iPod.

Step4. To 'Output Folder', Enter the full pathname or choose the path where you want to save your video files by clicking the related button. And then click 'Convert' button to start the conversion. It would take about 30 minutes to convert a regular DVD movie.

If you want to add the converted video to iPod through iTunes, please follow these steps:
1. locate the converted videos and drag them to iTunes library.
2. Plug in your iPod to computer, then iTunes will detect your iPod as a device.
3. Select your iPod device on the left panel of iTunes, click "Movies" tab, and check the videos you want to sync and click "Apply", that's all.

Part2. How to convert AVI WMV MPEG FLV MOV VOB DivX XviD MKV ASF to MP4 video for iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Video.

You can click the "Video to iPod" button to lunch the iPod movie converter, it supports all video formats including MKV, AVI, XviD, WMV (Windows Media Player Video), MPEG (limewire), MPG, FLV (Youtube), DAT (VCD), RM, RMVB (RealPlayer), MOV (QuickTime), ASF, etc. You can also use it to extract audio track from video to mp3 or aac for playback on iPod. The operation steps are similar with the DVD to iPod Converter, so I'm not repeat here.

After you finish the video conversion, you can drag the converted mp4 video into your iTunes library, then plug in your iPod and sync the iPod with iTunes, then the mp4 video will be transferred to iPod.

Related download
* To convert RM/RMVB real media files to iPod, Maybe need to install Realplayer:
http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk
* To convert WMV, ASF to iPod, Maybe need to install Windows Media Player:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx

Size:11MB
Supported OS: Windows All (64bit & 32bit), Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003/2000
Learn more feature info about this DVD Video toiPod Converter by visiting here

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