Handbrake Lite

I just have one question. Is there anything faster then Handbrake programs for converting DVD movies to ipod mp4's. One Dvd around 1:45 is taking like 18 or more hours on my G4 1.25 powerbook. Please help. Help me please. I don't want to have to re-buy my movies from itunes that I already own on dvd. And I don't want to steal movies from Limewire. I just want to watch the stuff I already paid for. I believe that that is fair. Please help.

According to your profile notes, you only have 512 mb of RAM. That's barely enough to run the OS. As it is.. yer slogging along on a G4. Your computer is simply underpowered to do the task any faster.

In addition to your computer limitation, be sure to check the settings of your rip in Handbrake. For iPod viewing, the low rez setting works great and creates the smallest (and fastest) rip. Also, don't select "two passes" -- cuts time more than in half and doesn't lose appreciable quality.

I've ripped several movies and TV shows, and the rip time is roughly the playtime (`06 iMac 2.0).

Like Daddy Elmis stated, you probably have it set to 2 pass encoding, which is why you're experiencing such long conversion times (and of course, there's the RAM limitation).