QuickTime and DVD issues

Hey I'm running WXP on my PC, the problem is that I have the new QuickTime 7 and I purchased the Pro key but I can't watch DVD movies on it. So how I am supose to copy my vidios into my ipod if I can't get the program to open them.

QT cannot by itself read DVD files, which are usually in mpeg-2 format. Apple sells an mpeg2playback component but it does have a number of restrictions, which are listed in this FAQ. The most limiting are that it will not play encrypted commercial movie DVDs and will not play the sound if it was encoded using AC3 format sound. It also will not export the sound even from those mpeg-2 files for which it will play sound.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/faq.html
This Windows freeware will create iPod movies from avi and mpeg--1 files but I don;t know if it will work with mpeg-2 movies.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

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Transfer Rate   Not Available
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