Cannot encode certain episodes on DVD?

Give the DVD to VLC first.

If VLC will play it, you can always uses VLC to recode the episode to an mp4 instead of Handbrake this time. Under Advanced File Open > play the file locally while saving the output as a program stream

and recode to mp4 or whatever you normally choose for Handbrake alone.

You need a special software program to "rip" the movie from the DVD and encode it in a format that your iPod can play. There are a lot of these programs. Try "dvd to ipod touch"--it's free and available for both Mac and PC.

Source(s):

http://www.dvdtoipodtouch.biz/

this is a step by step guide about how to convert DVDs to ipod touch

or you can ask the expert

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/dvd-to-ipod-touch-problem

I recommend that you use aimersoft to rip the DVD's, it can bypass all kind of dvd copyright protection schemes and save the DVD to computer in iPod video formats.

Most of all, it will not break the video into pieces, it will join all DVD titles and chapters and make them as one standalone video file.

You can download it here

http://www.dvdtopreviews.com/dvd-to-ipod-converter...

Here is a step by step guide about how to convert DVDs to ipod video format with aimersoft, thus you can sync the DVD to your iPod

http://www.dvdtopreviews.com/weblog/2009/03/how-to...

ok im a total technophobe and all (know nothing) but since you said ANY ideas i do recall hearing of these screen-capture cards which from what i gather just take whatever goes onto the screen and then you could maybe burn it on dvd and do what you want from there.