The iPod, Apple TV and iPhone play back videos encoded using either MPEG-4 or H.264 codecs. They are open-standard video formats, and not in any way proprietary to Apple, but at the same time do not represent a broad portion of the video contents that are currently available outside of the iTunes Store. Further, they do not represent the video standards that are used by most video recording devices, TV recording devices, or commercial DVDs. The result is that finding video contents from anywhere other than the iTunes Store that are already encoded in an Apple-ready format is going to be difficult, and many of these contents will therefore need to be converted.

DVD to iPod Converter is a professional DVD ripping software which can convert homemade DVD and encrypted (rent or purchased) DVD to iPod video and audio files like MPEG-4, H.264, AAC, MP3, and these converted files can be played on all series iPod, iPod Touch, iPod, Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Shuffle.

Whats more, this DVD ripper can edit DVD, it can help you clip DVD segment, crop DVD size, edit DVD effects, adjust subtitle, and add DVD watermark, to get the customized DVD video and audio files.

The following is a step by step guide on how to convert DVD to iPod with the DVD to iPod Converter.

Step 1: Download and install DVD Ripper

Step2: Add DVD disc or IFO file

This DVD to iPod software supports to import two kinds of DVD (DVD disc and IFO file) Click one of the icons.

Step 3: Select output format

Click the triangle on the right of the “Format”, you will see the drop down list, it lists many popular media players such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, BlackBerry, etc, so you can choose the right formats according to your media players.

Step 4: Output Video Settings

Click the last icon on the tool bar, you can customize video and audio parameters on the pop up window by choosing from the drop down list of these parameters. If you dont know how to set the correct parameters manually, you can just click “Low” or “Mid” or “High”, but you should know that high quality video contains large size and vice versa.

Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting “No Subtitle”. Selecting Audio is the same. What’s more, you can also choose a proper output path as your destination folder for the converted movies.

Step 5: “Start” Conversion

Click “Start” button to start the DVD to iPod conversion. And you will find the output files by click “Open”.