In this thread, I want to share some of my experience on uploading DVD movie to utube and DVD editing skill. Hope it helps!
Tool needed: Moyea DVD4Web Converter [Link: flash-video-mx.com]

YouTube accepts video in AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG, 3GP and MP4 but DVD or VOB. Then how to upload your DVD to the YouTube for sharing? You may do a close second thing for the first important target to convert DVD to MP4 or any format above. There are a lot of DVD to YouTube resolution MP4 converter products but I am talking about one for free. Moyea DVD4Web Converter is to convert DVD to MP4. The converter supports to convert DVD to MP4 without size limitation but YouTube allows video in just 10 minutes. DVD4Web Converter can trim the video into clips for you and you may upload separately one by one.

This is how to convert DVD to MP4 in one-step:

Open the program and click "Load DVD" to load your DVD in. Unfold the Video_TS folder and select the title and chapter to convert. Select YouTube resolution (*.mp4) in "Style", and set your output folder in "Output". Click the big button to start the conversion, and done. If you want to merge the non-adjacent chapters, get the “Merge into one file” checked.



Get a 10 minute video clip from the DVD movie

Use the video trimming function offered by the program:

Click Customize>Trim, adjust the "Start Time", "End Time" and then click the "Apply" immediately behind. Or, you can drag the handles on the slide for a rough position and then adjust the start and end time precisely in "Start Time", "End Time".



Get rid of the black margins on the movie

Use the video cropping function offered by the program:

Drag the dot frame or select in the "Letter Box" for a section. Set the values for "Top", and "Left", etc. for preciseness. Click “OK” to confirm.

you're downloading hellboy onto youtube? hmmm, seems a little sketchy.

and who would want to WATCH it at youtube quality??? lol

i'd like to know how to convert my DVD's so i can watch them on my apple TV.

No, that is NOT the best way to convert DVD to MP4. VLC will do that for free.

And uploading DVD's to Youtube is illegal unless you are the rightful copyright owner or have permission from them.

Do the usual ways not work for you?

what are the usual ways? sorry, the only program i've tried is DVD shrink, and thats never worked for me. i seem to download the movie into a folder on my PC but cant figure out what to do with it from there in order to view it with anything.

Ooh, I expected you had a Mac when you said AppleTV. But anyway, I think this is still valid since there is now a Win version:
handbrake (encoding)
vlc (playback)

To view "it with anything":
I would expect DVD Shrink to behave similar to OSX programs I've used from the limited reading I've done on it. (Mac user here, haven't really looked at it) But take a folder you've already ripped with DVD Shrink and play it with vlc, it should have a Video_TS folder inside. Use the Open Disc dialog in vlc and pick the TS folder to open (or just choose the overall movie folder you ripped), not a specific file. Make sure "Use DVD Menu" is selected in the Open dialog before clicking ok/open. It should figure out what can be played and give you a mouse controlled DVD playback interface. Try Fullscreen mode direct on your TV if you are hooked up.

And to convert for AppleTV, use handbrake. If the Win version is the same, it will ask for a movie folder upon opening the application. Pick one, and choose the proper MPEG4/H.264 settings for AppleTV compatibility.

VLC for encoding as well.

Don't even need to use Shrink. Open VLC, do File-Open Disc, then choose "Stream/Save" and go to settings. From there, you can set it to encode to any video format you want.

thanks guys, i'll check it out!

edit:just did a search and found this site... is this what i'm looking for? should i DL the top one (Windows self-extracting package (15.6MB)?

[Link: videolan.org]

thanks again.

Yeah, that's it.