“My name’s Matt Haney, and I have an iPhone”. But then, looking around on the train to and from work nowadays, it seems everyone else has one too.
One of the reasons I got the phone was so that I could watch videos on the train without using the not-designed-for-video-playback screen on my old phone, or having to carry a PSP around. So, here, for the sake of my own memory more than anything, is how I go about getting moving pictures from overpriced shiny round things onto my overpriced shiny iPhone.
Software used: DVD Decrypter & Handbrake
Basically, the process is ‘Decryptwith DVD Decrypter, then encode with Handbrake’. This can be a pain for multiple episode DVDs (TV Series boxsets, for example), as you can’t just set it off and go to bed. This is where the ancient art of batch scripts comes in. Both of these pieces of software can be run from the command line, so I use a batch script like the following*: