Movie Conversion: Instructions for using Handbrake

Does anyone know how to rip a bluray disc into mp4 or any playable format on the phone? I'm starting to build a bluray collection and some movies dont come with the "dvd" freebie... I havent been able to figure it out yet but it looks as if handbrake should handle it...

thank you so very much Khassy!

Sorry about your problem Bass. I couldn't tell you what's wrong because I haven't tried ripping a dvd yet. It's something I am not familiar with yet.

On the other hand, I bought some Doctor Who episodes on iTunes, and also a couple of music videos. The music videos were converted with no hitch, however Format Factory could not convert the Doctor Who episodes. I am not sure if those have a different level of protection or maybe because they are British and may use a different crazy format or something.

In trying to get my first movie on to the Inspire, I downloaded a digital copy to my pc and Rockplayer on the phone. Copied the movie on to the phone and fired it up. Rockplayer says the movie is playing but all I get is a black screen with no audio.   It works on videos created on the phone.  So I tried using Handbrake on the digital copy.  Only gives me an error and does not work.  It does not like the source.  I tried a few of the other presets, changed the format etc. but no luck.  What went wrong?  The digital copy was downloaded thru iTunes (I dislike Apple, maybe it knows that!) and it plays just fine.  I must be missing something someplace.

Plays ok on the PC. It says is a m4v file.  When I look at the file on the phone, I don't think it reconizes it as readable file as it has a ? mark in it. Rockplayer sees it ok.  What format should I down load the files in? The other choice was wmv.