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Free iTunes DVD Ripper
- Copy DVD into iTunes Freely, How to Rip DVD to iTunes
Thanks to the high audio/video quality, iPod, iPhone and iPad are always fantastic portable devices for playing videos. Meanwhile, we may want to watch DVD movies on iPod, iPhone or iPad. Yet, a general DVD is in MPEG-2 or VOB format with CSS copy protection. To get a DVD movie onto iPod, iPhone or iPad, you need a iTunes DVD ripper to remove the protection and rip DVD to iTunes compatible video first.
Here we will introduce 2 free iTunes DVD Ripper or rip DVD to iTunes, so that users could get around the technical limitation of Apple and copy DVD into iTunes.
Tip: Following are iTunes DVD Ripper for Windows, if you are using Mac, see DVD to iPad Converter for Mac which is also compatible for iTunes.
Free iTunes DVD Ripper - VLC Player
As a free and open source media player, VLC is a multimedia player, streamer and encoder supporting many video files as well as DVDs. This guide will mainly focus on introducing its capability of streaming video.
Step 1: Get started
Insert your DVD disc into DVD Drive, run VLC iTunes DVD Ripper, and then click "Convert / Save" under "Media". When you find "Open Media" window pops up, click "Disc" tab and then check "DVD" as output. Locate to "Disc device" field, make the directory points to the optical drive with your DVD, and then click "Convert/save". You could define the starting position of your video clip by selecting title and also choose to rip a specific dvd chapter to iTunes.
Click "Convert /save", then a window will pop up to guide you select a location for the output file. Make sure you have set the correct file name and extension for the file.
Step 2: Convert
Click "Start" and wait until the conversion completes.
Free iTunes DVD Ripper - Cucusoft DVD and Video Converter
The Cucusoft iPad Video Converter Suite is an all-in-one DVD Video to iPad Converter. With this iTunes DVD Ripper, you can easily convert DVDs and all kinds of videos to iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, etc. It's free to download, safe to install and easy to use. Following are how to copy DVD into iTunes.
Step 1: Run the iTunes DVD ripper on your computer. Then click the DVD to iPad icon.
Step 2: Load DVDs
Insert the DVD movies to the computer. Click "Open DVD" to import DVD movies.
Step 3: Select iTunes compatible video format (MOV, MP4).
Step 4: Start conversion
After settings done, click the "Convert" button to start the DVD to iTunes conversion.
Comparison and Recommendation:
Overall, VLC is powerful in both video playing and streaming. But since it is a player at first, it has inevitably limited the range of input and output formats. Also, VLC does not support the DVD with internal encryption, which has also restricted its capability of processing the DVDs.
Cucusoft DVD and Video Converter concentrates on DVD to iTunes conversion while it does well in many aspects: wide range of formats, multi threading processing, great output quality, DRM removal, video previews and advanced editing options including crop, trim and watermark, etc.
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