what programs do i need?

Handbrake for the encoding. Being a Mac user not sure what DVD rippers are out there for ripping encrypted discs.

A company called Red Kawa do a bunch of free progs for that. Google them.

DVD43 to break the encryption (just runs in the background) and Handbrake for the encoding. Handbrake’s a piece of piss to use- plenty of presets for each plater type (touch, nano, psp etc etc.

I use those Red Kawa ones too

WinAVI Mp4 Converter

will handbrake do all jobs – copy dvd decrypt/encrypt as appropriate?

It does everything apart from decrypt.

I use this:
http://www.imtoo.com/dvd-to-ipod-suite.html

Very good tools.

Andy

Nice simple guide for the Red Kawa stuff:

http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/guide/dvd-to-ipod/

On the pc I used to use DVD shrink to rip DVDs, works really well and was free, I’d then use Handbrake to convert to ipod.

Now I’ve got a mac, does anyone know of software to rip encoded DVDs on a mac? I have mac the ripper buy it doesn’t work on a lot of encrypted DVDs.