How to convert DVD to iPod video/audio on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)?
iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic supported formats:
- video formats: M4V, MP4, and MOV.
- audio formats: AAC, MP3, WAV, and AIFF.
If you have some awesome DVD movies, don’t you want to put them on your iPod so that you can watch them on the go? Enjoying movies is a good time-killing entertainment when you are travelling around. This article guides you in converting DVD movies to iPod video or iPod audio with DVD ripping software for Mac, which is a powerful DVD to iPod Mac(including Mac OS X Snow Leopard) software that can rip DVDs to iPod formats with perfect output quality.
What’s more, this smart program save you the trouble of figuring out the best output setting for your iPod, you can just select iPod video MPEG-4 (*MP4) from the default output list, which is the optimized output setting.
Convert DVD to iPod video/audio on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard)
1Install and Run DVD Ripper for Mac
You can download DVD Ripper for Mac for free:
To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want it).
2Load DVD movies
Insert your DVD movie into your DVD drive. Click the "Load DVD" button to load your DVD movies.

3Convert DVD to iPod on Mac OS X
- If you want to convert DVD to iPod video formats, you can select the output format as iPod video MPEG-4 (*MP4).
- If you want to extract audio from DVD to iPod, you can select the output format as AAC or MP3.
Transfer videos/audios to iPod on Mac
Connect your iPod to Mac and start iTunes. Find the file you made above and drag it onto your iPod.
Click "add file to library"

Now the ripped DVD movies is in your iTuens library, ready for being imported to your iPod(iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic and more). It won't be on your iPod until you sync - make sure you have the movies box checked in your iPod preferences.
That's it. Enjoy your DVD movies on your widescreen iPod touch anytime, anywhere!
