I need help with my i pod video?

Question

I have dvds I want put on my itunes,so I can put it on my i pod. How do I do that? When I try to put my dvd's on my computer to play them it says ,"Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer." I don't understand.
Does this mean I can't do it?
Please help!

i'm sorry andrew, I didn't know this was illigal

i'm sorry andrew, I didn't know this was illigal

Answer 1

If you can't play the DVD on the computer, then of course you can't add the video to iTunes - get the compatible decoder, if available. But even if you can play the DVD, the video needs to be converted to an MPEG-4 video file. ITunes will do this, but long running films take a long time to convert.

Answer 2

You probably don't need the "decoder" (codec) that actually plays the DVD on your computer. For sure, you're going to need a piece of software that rips the dvd movie contents off the DVD you have, into your computer. However, I think in all cases, that is illegal (unless you made the DVD of course).

It's up to you, but I certainly don't condone ripping DVD illegally. If you would like to peruse this matter, I'd search Google for something like "how to rip dvds". Once again, I'm assuming you're doing this under legal premises.

After ripping the DVD with the software, you'd need to get it into a iPod compatible format (mp4). I reccomend http://www.zamzar.com.

However, seeing as ripping commercial DVD's is illegal, I would simply go to Google Video (google for it) and download some sweet short clips for you iPod video. There is some pretty good stuff on there.

Answer 3

I have an Ipod Video to. u can't put on DVDs(which i am mad about) because they want u to buy the DVDs from the itunes store