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Originally Posted by TheNorm
OK, time for an update.
Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately none were entirely suitable (e.g. didn't run as stated, didn't overcome copy protection, etc.)
However, the links you gave me had links to other sites, and I eventually managed to find a suitable application. AoA DVD Ripper ( http://www.aoamedia.com/dvd_ripper.htm) turned "Mean Girls" and "Sleepover" into mp4 files in "real time" (a couple of hours each), and look very good on the iPod. The application had a free trial (10 minutes of converted video) and cost me less than £20.
Oh, and my daughter is happy!
A good result all round - reps to all who helped. Thank you! |
glad to help, yeah the copy protection is a problem for any app ,there exists several free copy protection removers that work as you save the cd/dvd to disk and they allow you to be selective in what you copy to save space etc,then just run the encoder app over that dir.
you say its realtime, and that implys single pass encoding and not AVC ,probably the old divX/Xvid codec in single pass low bitrate/quality mode.
any chance of putting a 5 min sample of your encode somewere to show the quality/size of this app's output, on your ntl:tw webspace perhaps?.
free YAMB should work fine for cutting the mp4
http://yamb.unite-video.com/