5th Gen Ipod question

[trekwarfare]

I'm looking at getting a new video capable ipod this January. I have one question though, that maybe someone who already has one can answer. I realize the video part drains the battery, I'm buying it more for an mp3 player than a portable video player (thinking of getting a PSP as well for that). What I'd like to do is take a DVD (Lord of the rings for instance), rip it to the ipod and listen to it only. I work 12 hour shifts and aside from listening to music I thought being able to listen to my favorite movie would be nice. Anyone play around with ripping DVD's to it (or is there an option to extract the audio tracks perhaps??).

Thanks for your time!

[CeleronXT]

There's an option that allows you to play video from the iPod to your TV called TV Out. Turn TV Out on and plug in your headphones as you normally would and the audio will play and the video won't.

[trekwarfare]

How easy is it to turn the screen back on once its off without a TV (since I'm at work)?

[CeleronXT]

How easy is it to turn the screen back on once its off without a TV (since I'm at work)?

Very easy.

Videos>Movie Settings>TV Out (On/Off/Ask)

You can eliminate having to go to the Movie Settings menu every time you want to switch back and forth by setting it to Ask, so every time you start a movie it'll prompt you either way.

[trekwarfare]

last question, I promise. Any idea how this would effect battery life. I'd think that since its video (rather the screen is on or not), there is extra draw on the processor so is the battery life gonna be longer than the 3 hours rated?

Don't know if anyone has even tried this.

Thanks for your help!!

[filburt1]

last question, I promise. Any idea how this would effect battery life. I'd think that since its video (rather the screen is on or not), there is extra draw on the processor so is the battery life gonna be longer than the 3 hours rated?

Don't know if anyone has even tried this.

Thanks for your help!!

It will still be decoding the video in the background as well as accessing the video data on the hard drive. A more efficient method would be to make an MP3 of just the audio, ignoring the video.

[CeleronXT]

As filburt said, it'll still take more power than an ordinary audio file, but still less power than if you were to have the video on screen as well.

[Vile]

I tried this with my iPod (Dane Cook DVD)
What I did is ripped my DVD movie with a DVD Audio Ripper and converted the DVD into audio MP3 files, then transfered them to the iPod just like any other mp3 files. Doing this won't drain the battery any more than any other standard audio would, since that's all it is...(standard audio)

[trekwarfare]

Awesome, thanks for the help. Those were the answers I was after. Having never ripped a DVD before I wasn't sure if you could just rip the audio out and convert it to MP3. I will look into this after I get the iPod.

Thanks again!

[TruthElixirX]

I tried this with my iPod (Dane Cook DVD)
What I did is ripped my DVD movie with a DVD Audio Ripper and converted the DVD into audio MP3 files, then transfered them to the iPod just like any other mp3 files. Doing this won't drain the battery any more than any other standard audio would, since that's all it is...(standard audio)

What DVD audio ripper did you use? I'm very interested in one.

[Vile]

What DVD audio ripper did you use? I'm very interested in one.

I use a couple of them...Both of these work well:

http://www.xilisoft.com/dvd-audio-ripper.html

http://www.dvdtox.com/dvdaudioripper.htm