Quick Riping
1. Open a DVD
From the main toolbar, press the Open DVD button, or you may select File-> Open DVD from the main menu.
You will now be asked to provide the location of your DVD you wish to encode.
Press OK, when you are happy with your selection.
DVD to iPod will now populate the view with the main contents of the DVD. This can take a few seconds to complete, depending on the speed of your CPU and DVD-ROM drive.
You should have something similar to the image shown below, obviously your Title and Chapter layout will look different to the one shown.
DVD to iPod will automatically detect the Main Movie on the DVD, in the example above, you can see it has selected Title 04, which is 1hr 48 minutes in duration, so it's a good guess that this is the actual movie. The other Titles 01 Through to 11, could be anything from Deleted Scenes, Extras, Menus, Trailers etc, basically anything else that is on the DVD.
2. Configure Video and Settings
Select the Video and Audio Codec you wish to encode your video file with, by using the property settings pane on the right hand side of the main program window.
3. Choose Where Your Video File Should Be Stored On Your Hard Drive.
- Under the General Settings section in the property settings pane, you will see the Output Directory. This defaults to C:\
- It is advisable to use Windows Explorer to create a new folder to store your video files in, for example C:\My Video Files
- Once you have done this in Windows Explorer, click into the Output Directory setting and a button with 3 dots, should appear at the end of the field.
Pressing the button with 3 dots, allows you to select the folder or directory where you want your video files to be created. So in this example, we would pick C:\My Video Files
4. Renaming TitleXX to something more meaningful
As you will see, the default name for your files has been generated with the format of - Title 01, Title 02, Title 03, etc...
You may edit these names, simply by clicking the field and changing the name to something more meaningful, such as My Family Movie or whatever you seem appropiate. Changing this, means you will end up with a file called My Family Movie.MP4 rather than Title 01.MP4
5. Ready to Rip.
OK, we are ready to go.
Press the Start Ripping button to begin the process - The encoding process and will report the progress on the current process (if you have not turned off the Show Progress option)
You may abort the encoding process at any time, by pressing the Abort button, this will stop the encoding process, but any files already encoded will remain.
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