Can't Get a Handbraked'd DVD on iPod Video

[DocDVD]

Using H264, 500 or 750kbps, audio at 128, and h264 across the board, I can get the video converted and into iTunes, but it will not transfer to the Pod.

Any ideas?

[frankko]

You forgot to mention what pixel resolution you're encoding to.

[DocDVD]

320x176 or 320x240 depending on the video. I have the fps as same as source.

[trevor]

You can use up to:
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320x240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats.

Here's a good page describing what you can do and how:

Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/ipod-video.ars)

Trevor

[DocDVD]

The version I downloaded from Handbrake's page appears to be the same one mentioned in that article. Here's how I am getting it to work now, which seems to be one step too many: Ripping the Video_TS folder with handbrake using the above mentioned specs (which is what your article specifies, Trevor), and then opening it in QT and exporting video to iPod. If I just do handbrake, it will not show up on the iPod, even if I rename the file to m4v.

[trevor]

I haven't yet tried h.264, but MPEG-4 works really well on my iPod, and QT Pro is not necessary.

Trevor

[jeffo]

when you are encoding to the h.264 format, make sure you choose BASELINE option because it is not the default in handbrake when you choose h.264