Hey all, I'm new to the forum but I've been following guides on this site and reading the forums for everything I've needed for years now. This time I have searched plenty of methods but I feel like I'm not getting the right plan here since I'm kind of mixing a few different things at once and probably confusing things and just making the process more complicated than it needs to be. In a nutshell, I own a lot of PAL DVDs of music video compilations which I'm ultimately aiming to get the individual videos on my iPod. For NTSC DVDs when I do this, what I tend to do is rip the DVD with AnyDVD, then go into CloneDVDmobile and encode each chapter/video seperately so I have individual video files. So I don't know the best way to get the PAL DVDs done since there's a different process as to converting the video from PAL to NTSC *THEN* encoding that to iPod video. I'm confused as to how exactly I should do this and where in the process there is the greatest risk of quality loss. It seems when I'm reading a lot of the FAQs or forum threads here in regards to PAL DVDs, people are usually asking about PAL DVDs of movies, which will have subtitles or seperate audio tracks. Because many of my PAL music DVDs are just bonus discs included with audio CDs they therefore don't really have too many extra audio streams etc. so I feel like it should probably be easier to rip the videos than to have to rip audio and video seperately (i.e. I don't have to worry about ripping a French audio stream or anything). Maybe I'm just confusing myself more by analyzing it all too much? If anyone could give me a brief (or extended if it suits you) guide to get from my PAL DVD to having my videos on my iPod, it'd be greatly appreciated!
A few things I forgot to mention: I apologize if this thread might've been better in another forum but this seemed like the best choice. I connect my iPod to my TV. I'm not sure if PAL videos play straight up on the iPod (as they would on a computer) but I'm assuming once you connect the iPod to the TV, that's where the NTSC output would matter most?
Yet another follow-up: I decided to just try encoding the videos to mp4 through CloneDVDmobile in the exact same way NTSC DVDs are done. It seems to work perfectly fine, including being played on a TV. Somewhere something is lost on me in understanding, but as long as it works, that's ok!
