Last night, in preparation for my trip to San Francisco, I decided to rip a couple movies onto my iPod Touch for the flight. I had never done this before, so it sent me looking for a solution. Now I know that Google makes it’s living on ads, but it’s a little disheartening that I had to sift through dozens of pages of paid solutions, where there is an absolutely perfect one for free.
Handbrake is an open source application for Mac OS X that accomplishes this task quickly and easily. It even has format options to set up for iPod Touch, iPhone, Video iPod and PSP automatically.
I set up two movies last night, Mr. Brooks and Hot Fuzz, and it took about an hour each. It created files about one gigabyte in size and I was set.
I copied them into my iTunes library, synced the iPod Touch and I was set. I tested the movies and they looked fantastic and had perfect audio sync.
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Wow Sounds ingenious! I’ll have to give it a try!
Nice one! It’s for windows aswell.
Downloading now.
i still dont know how to do it
Epic!!!!
Your story is exactly the same as mine, but it works on windows as well. Oh yeah crappy 30$ programs, BURN IN THE HEART OF THE TARDIS BABY!!!!!!!!
this doesnt work for windows xp does it?
[Philoking: Yes, it does, there is a Windows version on the site!]
i have tryed this and it come out as mp4 is it suposed to??? also will this be placed into the video movie or music area please write back
thanks for the comment mate i’ve being trying to figure this out for a whilee..:)
x
finally looking all over the place finally found somthing thanxs man
Hiya,
This may seem like a really stupid question. But like you I was going through google trying to find a way of putting my homemade videos that I made with a digital camera onto my ipod touch. I know you said it is free, but are there any hidden charges. I have tried a few free downloads of software and when you are almost just finished it tells you to pay by a year or whatever. As I haven’t a credit card, I find this a bit tricky. And can’t open and account with itunes coz have no credit card information.
WHERE DO I GO TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES TO MY IPOD AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I NEED TO HAVE TO DOWNLOAD THE MOVIES,,
I tried it and it didn’t work. It was very pixallated and not very good looking. I couldn’t even tell what was playing.
i would suggest using DVD video soft for converting movies to iPod, or iPhone or PSP. http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/ It’s free. It will dl youtube videos, and convert for any device on the fly all at the same time. Youtube, it will convert to mp3 if you just want the audio, or convert to mpeg-4 for media devices.
I hope this helps.
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I know how to download the movies but my problem is when I go on my iPod Touch I can’t find the movie, but when I go on iTunes and under the movie I see it. So basically where do I go on my iPod Touch to see the movie?
Gabrielle: Initially you have to tell iTunes to sync movies, by default it does not.
Thank you SO much. It’s the day before I go Banff and found this article at the top of google and it is perfect.
I’m still confused… What do u do once u download it?
THIS WORKED PHENOMALLY
i still DO NOT get how 2 do it
i downloaded it and when i click on it then it won’t come up
this is driving me insane i have been doing this for like 5 hours and it won’t work
How do I decide to which to download, 6.2 or 5.8 or XP?
Handbrake is a complete piece of crap. I have never been able to get it working on Windows XP. I thought I’d try again and here I am staring at a screen that says Reading Source…can take up to 1 minute. 5 minutes later no change.
I went onto that wwebsite and i still dont get how to do it???
can you help please
Thanks man, great program. Cheers for your technological skills!
To all you people that think hard drive is stupid, It is awesome and it worked perfectly! All you have to do is pick a movie and let it encode it then copy and paste the movie (after you encoded it) and put it onto itunes from there you can put it on your ipod
AM DOWNLOADING THIS ATM, SEEMS OK SO FAR, THOUGH DOES TAKE A WHILE.
I HOPE IT DOESNT CHARGE AFTER A WHILE THOUGH, MANY OTHERS DID.
I do like to use handbrake, it rocks ! and you site provides many useful info, keep up the good work, also welcome to my website: drm removal
one thing to note , Handbrake can’t deal with copy protected DVDs.