Movie Conversion: Instructions for using Handbrake

Yea Khassy... you're right. What a "head scratcher" that the Music tracks from Itunes converted over nicely inside "Double twist" but the Movies DID NOT!  How disappointing.  So next question is, what applications have you heard of that can remedy my issue??  Lastly, where can we buy Movies, Music Videos and Songs for our Thunderbolt??

In case I haven't said it yet, thanks for all the input... Much Appreciated...

I just downloaded Aimersoft and I have several choices of file types to convert the itunes movies INTO??   The default setting is .ASF   is this ok?? There's also several types of MP4 avail??  Any suggestions??

Edit:  I've been messing with this newly installed $35.00 software and can't get it it convert anything... It's late and I'm tired...and very disappointed...I keep getting a message saying "Itunes not installed," yet there's not decrypted files showing up in the output file that the application set-up.... I'll have to contact their support desk in a few days. I'm hitting the road for a business trip.....

Rockplayer ?  Now you tell me!

I have a silly question. After using handbrake and making the m4v file can you copy protect it? Issue i'm having is a friend wants me to add some of his movies to his thunderbolt for him and I want to ensure that they can not be copied/sold to others potentialy getting myself in trouble.

Khassy Khassy Khassy !!! You're the bomb!    My android is successfully accepting/playing my decrypted video files ( Using ROCKPLAYER). It's awesome...I owe it to you and this awesome forum...Thanks...   I need just one last piece of refinement (advice)... My videos are playing inside Rockplayer with (default ) dimensions of 640*480. However, there seems to be a good 1/8th of an inch of useable screen both on the top and bottom of the movie, when it's playing.  Have you run into that yourself at all or do you have an idea how I can improve that. It doesn't seem like I'm getting full advantage of androids monster 4.3inch screen. At this point I'm probably getting no bigger screen display than if I just kept using my ipod touch.   Any advice??   But don't get me wrong. I'm loving the fact that I've gotten to this point.  Warmest Regards!!!   Joe

EDIT> I just found the options setting that utilizes the entire screen. I changed the 640*480 to "keep original size." Does anyone think that's a bad idea for any reason. I'm open to a counter-arguement-honestly?  Also, not sure why this happened-maybe it's the fact I changed the file output to m4v, not sure, but the music video I downloaded was playing perfectly but the first 10 seconds of it was bad audio (skipping in and out). After 10 seconds though it was fine.  Lastly, Rockplayer's control buttons ( play/stop , fast forward, rewind etc) never vanished from the screen after a few seconds of the video playing - like other players do. It became a little annoying/distracting after awhile.  Is this something that I can correct? Or is this something that is better with the "pay version" of Rockplayer? Any help out there.....Bueller.....anybody???   (but at least I got the screen issue resolved I think)   Thanks everyone... 

Moonunit!  Thanks for the cropping instructions...but within the Aimersoft decrypting application there's a settings menu that allows me to select an option in the drop down box called "Keep original size."  (The default was 640*480).  So the video content when I played it was infact using the entire screen, so if I can avoid downloading another application or cutting out another step that serves me well.  As I mentioned in my earlier post(s) I'm slightly better than "novice" on the technology front.  My remaining challenge is to figure out why Rockplayer's control buttons ( play/stop , fast forward, rewind etc) never vanished from the screen after a few seconds of the video playing - like other players do. It became a little annoying/distracting after awhile to continually see the control buttons hanging there, overlayed, on top of the video.  Is this something that I can do to correct that? Admittedly, I am using the "free" version of Rockplayer. I'm wondering if that's what is doing it? If I had the "pay" version would anything be different?

Lastly, I had some audio issues during the first 10 seconds or so of my video playing, and then everything smoothed out on it's own.  I had used M4v as the output file type (the input type was a DRM Itunes file).    Any ideas friends ( both for the control buttons staying on the screen as well as my initial audio issues at the beggining of my video?)

Thanks,    Joe

Hey Moon... I had to tap hard a few times ( maybe it's my screen protector) but that made the controls disappear...  AWESOME.... thanks  ( but told you I was a novice )... I think I tried previously to "tap" but nothing happened. Must have been to light of a strike.  Anyway, I will try downloading a few more files and see if this sound issue persists...hopefully this was a "one off" occurance...   Khassy recommends the M4v file type.... Does anyone else any strong feelings one way or another on that. The software  I have defaults to the .asf windows media player format but I can change it to M4v, MP4 or any number of other options... I'm open for suggestions... Barring any notification to the contrary I'll probably side with Khassy...she's been nothing but good help so far!!

Finally got movies on my thunderbolt.don't know why, but for the longest time I could not get handbrake or dvd decrypter to work on my computer. Today I was able to decrypt and convert 2 movies to mp4 using those 2 programs. For some reason newer disney movies must have very powerful drm encryption, i tried bolt and pinocchio with no success. Oh well. Other movies work well. I'm happy now, don't feel left out anymore.