I've been ripping some DVD's of a tv show to go onto my iPod, and so far I've had lots of luck. I've been using DVD Decrypter along with Videora. So far I've been using windows media player to determine what "chapters" I should rip at a time with the decrypter. (So as to get the entire episode, and only that episode on one movie.) However the last DVD of the season is full of special features and windows media's list of the chapters conflicts with the list of chapters provided by the decrypter. Anyone know how I can figure out which chapters are what so I can rip them properly?

Is that a free program? I've been looking for a good one?

 

and sorry, I have no clue about video encoding.

Yeah both of them are free. I had some trouble figuring out how to get them both to work at all, but this is my last problem I think! I don't think DVD Decrypter can let me view the DVD chapters. :( The only idea I've had is to individually rip *all* 50 chapters, see which ones Videora can even convert (some of the chapters are menus..) and after that lump the ones together that are the actual show. Then rip them again in the proper groupings. :P But that would be sooo much work..

You may be able to tell by the length of the chapters, other than converting them all and watching them, it's all I can think of.

It doesn't tell me the length of the chapters unfortunately. :(

Try out Handbrake, along with AtomicParsley. Handbrake should show the length of the chapters along with AP.