If you have an external Blu-ray drive, then you can try Pavtube Blu-ray ripper for Mac. It has the output format for iPod, please see the picture attached below:

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It's the year 2009. Any software product that has not been updated since 2002 is unlikely to work on modern Macs, but even if it does -- any software company not online is quite obviously out of business.

The developer's personal page on Earthlink (the only "developer" link I could find) and the "Practical Press" (last listed publisher) pages are long gone. It's abandonware.

Well yes, QTX in Snow Leopard and QT Pro ($30) in Leopard/Tiger should be able to do this, but I'm not sure they can handle the DivX/XviD AVIs or MKV file formats most HD samples are encoded in.

If the digital file is in something QT supports, though, or (perhaps) if Perian and Flip4Mac WMV Player are installed, it's possible you won't need Handbrake/VLC.

The big problem really is "ripping" BluRay discs in the first place. Admittedly I don't do this sort of thing so I'm not the authority, but I'm unaware of any software for Macs that can rip BR movies even if one has a BR optical drive. As far as I know, you need Windows to do that part -- at least at present.

Is the disk copy of MacTypingTutor 5.3 still available from Wm. Rogers for the price of $15.00 per copy. I just want to verify that this person and his product still exist before I send in a check. Apparently cannot order this online!

You can do conversion from HD (or any other resolution) to iPhone/iPod playable format with QuickTime Player. It's easy and has all the Apple settings set up:

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The problem is "ripping" a Blu-Ray movie. I don't think Handbrake does that.

Follow-up: I downloaded a sample 720p file (a legal one, I should note) and tried converting it to "standard def" so that it could be burned on DVD or, as you requested, turn it into an MP4 suitable for iPods/iPhones/AppleTV.

Handbrake (free) did the trick easily, converting a 1280x720 .mkv file into 720x480 .mp4 file in roughly real-time on my BlackBook (2.16GHz Core2Duo), all I had to do was specify the output resolution. I could have hit the iPod/iPhone preset and just let it do the work. Easy.

Handbrake can do these conversion jobs while you're sleeping, so I suggest just loading in a few before you go to bed, and let Handbrake chew on em overnight, then do a sync with your iPod in the morning. Done.

You have several obstacles to face.

First off, you'd need a Blu-Ray external drive. Not cheap. Second, you'd need some software to "rip" the movie from the disc. None that I'm aware of on the Mac.

Finally, you'd need software that can convert the digital converted file to MP4 or H.264, the format the iPod uses. This I think we have, but I haven't had occasion to do this myself so I can't say. I might download a test file from the net to see if I can convert it. I'll let you know.

I have some blu-ray movies, but i wanna put them to my ipod, so i can enjoy them when im on bus or somewhere else. Anyone help?

I was thinking about getting Clear as an internet provider. I was wondering if anyone has used them or has any input about 4G mobile internet.

If I understand the issue correctly, you probably accidentally erased the User/Library folder or possibly the /Library folder.

If that's the case, the system would have automatically created a new one that is reset to defaults, which is why you're seeing one but its not "working" as you want.

Good news and bad news: the good news is that your documents and files created by your programs should not have been affected, since neither Library folder contains that stuff. All you've lost is the support files, preferences and licenses. Doing what's called an "Archive and Install" from system discs will get most of this back, particularly if you had a backup (which would recover third party apps and support files).

The bad news is that all your third-party software will no longer function. You'll need to either reinstall, buy, or discard those programs. All the programs that Apple normally supplies with that machine should be put back to rights by the archive & install procedure from the system discs that came with your machine.

If you weren't supplied with those, the seller owes you some discs.