Good afternoon,
After receiving a black 60 GB video iPod from my GF as an early birthday gift and doing a little research and testing, thought I'd start a new thread to explain assorted dorama related iPod topics. First of all...
:yell: YOU CAN WATCH DORAMAS ON A VIDEO IPOD!
Presently, I'm watching Gokusen episode 1 as I write this message.
While the screen is only 2.5" diagonal, the clarity, sharpness, color, brightness, and contrast are beautiful. The subtitles are small, but still large enough to read without straining.
To watch doramas, you'll need a video iPod, which come in 30 GB and 60 GB varieties.
Next, you'll need a dorama that you want to watch.
For this example, I chose Gokusen, which I have on my PC in DivX format courtesy of the awesome Buruburu.
You'll need to convert the episodes to Mpeg 4. To do this, I recommend the FREE iPod Converter software from Videora.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
For a standard dorama recorded in 4:3 (non-widescreen) format, almost no configuration is required -- simply utilize the default settings (MPEG-4/320x240/768kbps Stereo/128kbps). All you have to do is hit the One-Click Transcode button. Choose the file(s) you want Videora to convert and let it rip. Note that conversion time will vary depending on the episode's file size and horsepower of your PC.
Next, go launch iTunes and choose File --> Add File to Library... and it will import the video to your library.
Go to the Preferences --> iPod -- Videos and select Automatically update all videos and hit the OK button. The video file(s) will commence uploading to your iPod.
From there, you should be good to go. Battery life is supposed to be 16 hours on the 30 GB model and 20 hours on the 60 GB, but that sounds optimistic. Purchase an optional external battery pack and you'll have enough juice to get you through an entire dorama for you night flight to Japan! :dancing:
Cheers, :drink:
PCM
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:yell: YOU CAN WATCH DVDS ON A VIDEO IPOD!
First, you'll need a DVD you want to watch, put it in your DVD drive.
For this example, I chose The Fellowship of the Ring, which I have on DVD in widescreen special extended edition.
Second, you'll need to decrypt the DVD, which copies it to your hard drive. This takes around 20 minutes using DVD Decrypter, which you can download here:
http://www.doom9.org/
You'll find it in the the Descrambling / Ripping tools link.
Next, convert the DVD to Mpeg-4. To do this, again I recommend the FREE iPod Converter software from Videora.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
Launch DVD Decrypter. The steps are listed here:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html
Go to the Mode menu and select IFO I mode. This will give you access to two new tabs; Input & Stream Processing.
Go to the Tools menu, select Settings, go to the IFO tab, then under Options, change File Splitting to None and press OK.
Go to the main screen and click the Stream Processing tab. Enable it and only select the first video listed. Note that home encoded movies do not support subtitles of any kind and that your file can only have one type of audio, so generally you choose the first audio selection listed.
Before you begin ripping your video, note the destination of the video file. This is where your raw DVD rip is going to go and it will be rather large in size. If you want to change the directory that DVD Decrypter will output to, click on the Browse button and navigate to the folder you want and press OK.
Now that you know where the movie file is going, click on the Decrypt button to start decrypting the DVD to your hard drive.
Once it is done, close DVD Decrypter. Expect a 4 GB to 6 GB movie to take about 12 to 18 minutes.
Next, launch Videora iPod Converter.
Click on Convert (1) and click Transcode New Video (2). Then locate the file that you ripped using DVD Decrypter previously and click Open (or locate the file on your computer you already have, like MPEG or AVI, etc).
Once video is loaded into the program, change the Title to what you want the video title to be (3) and then press Start to begin (4).
Once the transcode is complete, your video is ready to be moved to your device. The finished file will be located in the Output Videos to: folder specified in the Setup seciton. Simply copy the file using Windows Explorer to your device, or if your device is an iPod, import the video into iTunes.
Fellowship of the Rings Part One came out to be 679 MB.
Cheers, :drink:
PCM
After receiving a black 60 GB video iPod from my GF as an early birthday gift and doing a little research and testing, thought I'd start a new thread to explain assorted dorama related iPod topics. First of all...
:yell: YOU CAN WATCH DORAMAS ON A VIDEO IPOD!
Presently, I'm watching Gokusen episode 1 as I write this message.
While the screen is only 2.5" diagonal, the clarity, sharpness, color, brightness, and contrast are beautiful. The subtitles are small, but still large enough to read without straining.
To watch doramas, you'll need a video iPod, which come in 30 GB and 60 GB varieties.
Next, you'll need a dorama that you want to watch.
For this example, I chose Gokusen, which I have on my PC in DivX format courtesy of the awesome Buruburu.
You'll need to convert the episodes to Mpeg 4. To do this, I recommend the FREE iPod Converter software from Videora.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
For a standard dorama recorded in 4:3 (non-widescreen) format, almost no configuration is required -- simply utilize the default settings (MPEG-4/320x240/768kbps Stereo/128kbps). All you have to do is hit the One-Click Transcode button. Choose the file(s) you want Videora to convert and let it rip. Note that conversion time will vary depending on the episode's file size and horsepower of your PC.
Next, go launch iTunes and choose File --> Add File to Library... and it will import the video to your library.
Go to the Preferences --> iPod -- Videos and select Automatically update all videos and hit the OK button. The video file(s) will commence uploading to your iPod.
From there, you should be good to go. Battery life is supposed to be 16 hours on the 30 GB model and 20 hours on the 60 GB, but that sounds optimistic. Purchase an optional external battery pack and you'll have enough juice to get you through an entire dorama for you night flight to Japan! :dancing:
Cheers, :drink:
PCM
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--------------------EDIT
--------------------
:yell: YOU CAN WATCH DVDS ON A VIDEO IPOD!
First, you'll need a DVD you want to watch, put it in your DVD drive.
For this example, I chose The Fellowship of the Ring, which I have on DVD in widescreen special extended edition.
Second, you'll need to decrypt the DVD, which copies it to your hard drive. This takes around 20 minutes using DVD Decrypter, which you can download here:
http://www.doom9.org/
You'll find it in the the Descrambling / Ripping tools link.
Next, convert the DVD to Mpeg-4. To do this, again I recommend the FREE iPod Converter software from Videora.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
Launch DVD Decrypter. The steps are listed here:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html
Go to the Mode menu and select IFO I mode. This will give you access to two new tabs; Input & Stream Processing.
Go to the Tools menu, select Settings, go to the IFO tab, then under Options, change File Splitting to None and press OK.
Go to the main screen and click the Stream Processing tab. Enable it and only select the first video listed. Note that home encoded movies do not support subtitles of any kind and that your file can only have one type of audio, so generally you choose the first audio selection listed.
Before you begin ripping your video, note the destination of the video file. This is where your raw DVD rip is going to go and it will be rather large in size. If you want to change the directory that DVD Decrypter will output to, click on the Browse button and navigate to the folder you want and press OK.
Now that you know where the movie file is going, click on the Decrypt button to start decrypting the DVD to your hard drive.
Once it is done, close DVD Decrypter. Expect a 4 GB to 6 GB movie to take about 12 to 18 minutes.
Next, launch Videora iPod Converter.
Click on Convert (1) and click Transcode New Video (2). Then locate the file that you ripped using DVD Decrypter previously and click Open (or locate the file on your computer you already have, like MPEG or AVI, etc).
Once video is loaded into the program, change the Title to what you want the video title to be (3) and then press Start to begin (4).
Once the transcode is complete, your video is ready to be moved to your device. The finished file will be located in the Output Videos to: folder specified in the Setup seciton. Simply copy the file using Windows Explorer to your device, or if your device is an iPod, import the video into iTunes.
Fellowship of the Rings Part One came out to be 679 MB.
Cheers, :drink:
PCM