iPhone Forum :: View topic - How to convert DVD and Video to iPhone for Win & Mac?

iPhone Forum

General Discussion - How to convert DVD and Video to iPhone for Win & Mac?

thelonglistse - Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:55 am
Post subject: How to convert DVD and Video to iPhone for Win & Mac?

This guide is mainly about how to rip DVD and convert video to MP4 for Apple iPhone, it should be easy to understand. It includes 5 parts as follow:

Windows OS Guides:
Part1: How to convert DVD to iPhone.
Part2: How to convert video files AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, DAT to iPhone.

Mac OS Guides:
Part3: How to convert DVD to iPhone on Mac OS.
Part4: How to convert video files to iPhone on Mac OS.

Transfer
Part5: How to transfer video to iPhone.

Here is a iPhone converter review, you can visit it to get more info.

Before start the guide, here is something about iPhone that we should know:

Video formats supported:
H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Audio formats supported:
AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Part1. Convert DVD to iPhone video & rip DVD to iPhone audio (Windows)
1. First download ‘DVD to iPhone Converter + iPhone Video Converter Suite’ install and run it. You can learn more about this software by visiting here

2. Insert the DVD you'd like to convert to your computer's DVD drive.

3. Click 'File' menu and 'Open DVD', or directly hit 'Open DVD' button to load the DVD. Set the profile to be iPhone 480*320 mpeg-4 video which is the default DVD video quality.

4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, select the subtitle and audio sound tracks etc, then begin to play the movie through the software by click the play button.

5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click 'Yes' button to start ripping DVD to iPhone MP4 or iPhone H264 video from the point that the movie starts. That is all. Just so easy!

If you'd like to record from certain time point, or want to change some parameters like 'output format', 'video bitrates', 'frame rate', 'audio bitrates', please click 'No' button to close the window.

Optional parameters settings
* Select subtitles and languages
Click 'Subtitle' or 'Audio Track' in the 'Setting' menu, choose the related value you like.
* Set output formats
Choose the target file format from 'Profile'. The software supports converting DVD to iPhone 480*320 MP4 video, Pod MP4 video, iPod h264 video, MP3 audio.

* Set the start time to convert
Use the video playback controls to queue up the point at which you want to start ripping. Or click 'Setting -> Go to' and jump to previous/next chapter.

* More parameters
Click 'Setting -> Output video settings', here you can choose different profile, video/audio bitrates, video size, disable video/audio, aspect ratio, frame/sample rate, etc.
If you are not familiar with these options, please view the descriptions listed at the bottom of the window.

*Crop/cut & Resize the movie
If you want to make the widescreen dvd(16:9) to be outputted as fullscreen(4:3) video, you can use the crop function.
Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen", if you don't need to keep the subtitle.
Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band.

*Direct/batch conversion
If you want to rip you DVD movie into one whole file, please use the direct ripping mode described above.
If you want to rip your DVD by chapters to into separated output files (for example your music DVDs, TV Episode DVDs), you can use the batch conversion rip mode, just ticket out the titles you want to convert and click convert.
You can switch these two modes by clicking on the mode-Direct & Batch.

7. Hit 'Convert' button, choose the recording time point and quality, then click 'Yes' to begin to convert DVD to iPhone video or audio quickly.

8. After ripping, transfer the converted files to iTunes, and then sync to iPhone.

Part2. How to convert movies to iPhone video (H.264, MP4) and iPhone audio (MP3, AAC, WAV), AVI to iPhone, MPEG to iPhone, WMV to iPhone, MOV to iPhone, DivX to iPhone, Xvid to iPhone, DVR-MS to iPhone, RM to iPhone, RMVB to iPhone, ASF to iPhone, AVS to iPhone, MPG to iPhone
1. First download ‘DVD to iPhone Converter + iPhone Video Converter Suite’ , install and run it. For more features about this software, you can refer here.

2. Click 'Open file' button to load the video file(s) you'd like to convert. The iPhone converter software supports batch conversion mode.

3. The default output format is iPhone 480*320 Mpeg-4 video. If you'd like to change this, click "Profile" button, set the output format to iPhone 480*320 mpeg4 video, iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video or iPhone audio (MP3). Here, you can also set video size, frame rate and more.

4. Hit 'Convert' button to start converting video to iPhone.

5. Transfer the converted video or audio files to iTunes library and sync them to iPhone.

Part3. How to Convert Rip DVD to iPhone (for Mac users)?
DVD to iPhone Converter provides several default iPhone video profiles, which you can use converting your DVD to iPhone Video MP4 formats. The profiles will help you get the video you like such as minimal size video, high quality video, etc. It also has many settings you can customize, for example, convert DVD to iPhone mp4 video by custom file size through setting video bit rate, rip DVD’s any titles or chapters, select target subtitle and audio track. You can get adjustable video what you want to play on your HD TV through iPhone.

DVD to iPhone Converter for Mac also can rip DVD movie to iPhone straight with high video quality. It supports converting an entire DVD to one video file, and also supports ripping any segment by setting "start time" and "end time".

1. Download the latest "[url=http://www.top5soft.com/files/m-dvd-to-iphone-suite-for-mac(regnow-77019).tar]DVD to iPhone Mac Suite Converter[/url]" or "[url=http://www.top5soft.com/files/m-dvd-to-iphone-converter-for-mac(regnow-77019).tar]DVD to iPhone converter for Mac[/url]", install and run it. You can visit here to learn more about this software.

2. Insert the DVD movie you'd like to rip into the DVD drive,

3. Click "DVD" button to load your DVD, select the output format and set the optional parameters like audio track and subtitle,

4. Hit 'Convert' to start the iPod DVD conversion process.

Part4. How to convert videos to iPhone (for Mac)?
iPhone Video Converter for Mac can not only convert AVI, MOV, MPEG, DivX, WMV, VOB, XviD to iPod video MP4, but also extract/convert media files to iPod audio M4a, MP3 on Mac, also it support batch conversion.

1. Free download "[url=http://www.top5soft.com/files/m-dvd-to-iphone-suite-for-mac(regnow-77019).tar]DVD to iPhone Mac Suite Converter[/url]" or "[url=http://www.top5soft.com/files/m-iphone-video-converter-for-mac(regnow-77019).tar]iPhone Video Converter for Mac[/url]" install and run it. You can visit here to learn more about this software.

2. Load your video files by click the 'Add' button

3. Set your the audio channels, video size and frame rate etc or you can leave it to the default setting.

4. Click the "Encode" button, that's it!

Part5: How to transfer video to iPhone.
You need iTunes version 7.30 or later to sync music and video to iPhone.
If you don’t have iTunes yet, you can download free from here.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
If you already have iTunes, just create a play list; drag your music and video to the list (set your iTunes to “manually manage music and video”), connect your iPhone to computer via USB cable, then click iTunes “File -> Sync iPhone”, Done. If you have any question about this guide, feel free to post here.

allen0831 - Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:05 am
Post subject:

a good similar dvd converter for mac is use-to-use and the quality is so great,further learning,click here xilisoft

jeffmatt - Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:07 pm
Post subject:

Nice iPhone guide, it works great for me. And I found a guide about how to active and unlock iPhone for free, that’s awesome.
http://www.youtubetoipod.biz/guide/free-unlock-iphone-safely-with-iphone-unlock-software.html

areswy - Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:51 am
Post subject:

imtoo dvd to iPhone Converter for Mac, Mac DVD to iPhone converter software to rip DVD to iPhone MP4 and iPhone MP3 easy and fast, can help Mac users convert DVD to iPhone and iPod supported video and audio formats efficiently!

maysefooters - Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:18 am
Post subject:

Also there is a great site for someone who wants to convert DVD, youtube, limewire, myspace and any free video to iTunes for iPhone,iPod touch/classic/nano/video, Apple TV. There are some software which can do the work well:
http://www.dvdtoitunes.net

areswy - Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:25 am
Post subject:

Extremely easy to use DVD to iPod converter, DVD to iPhone converter to help you rip, convert DVD to iPod video MP4 format, DVD to iPhone, and DVD to iPod audio formats like MP3, AAC, M4A with excellent image/sound quality.

garrade - Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:11 pm
Post subject:

areswy wrote:

Imtoo is also a good choice ,is a better tool for your iphone....

maysefooters - Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:56 am
Post subject:

I like the all-in-one great dvd and video software now. I promise it is the best one. Cucusoft Ultimate DVD Converter + Video Converter Suite converts DVD's and videos to play on almost any portable device including iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, and Pocket PC, etc. Meanwhile, it can also support output almost any audio/video format including Video format(H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc.) and Audio format(AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, WMA, etc.). Free download it here now.
http://www.top5soft.com/video/cucusoft-dvd-video-converter-suite.html

cooper - Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:03 pm
Post subject:

What i am using is xilisoft DVD Ripper for Mac ,which is powerful, all-in-one DVD Ripping software which is designed for Mac users. The Mac DVD Ripper provides an ideal solution to rip your DVD to video/audio to play them on your iPod, iPod touch, 3GP mobile phone, BlackBerry, MP4 Player, MP3 player and so on.

jeffmatt - Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:34 am
Post subject:

maysefooters wrote:

Nice converter, my friends also recommend this software to me, I always use it to copy DVD to my computer, it works really nice.

maysefooters - Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:11 pm
Post subject:

I did not synch my playlist to my laptop before my iPhone froze and needed replacement. I can not see the songs on iTunes in my playlist but I can see that I purchased them in my account. Where do I find the songs that I purchased on my first iPhone?

jeffmatt - Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:02 am
Post subject:

maysefooters wrote:

In iTunes authorize the account and then you can go to the top menu and "check for purchases".

thelonglistse - Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:17 am
Post subject:

In iTunes, when I try to convert a music video for ipod/iphone there is no sound after it is converted?

Jasonx - Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:57 pm
Post subject:

Discovering the best fitted Franklin Marshall 2012 New will make you truly feel that you have achieved one thing great. These Franklin Marshall Men's clothing really should be resistant so that snow and rain will not penetrate within and damp your garments and insulated or with thermal to retain you warm and cozy.

All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Powered by phpBB2 Plus and Kostenloses Forum based on phpBB