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How to Rip DVDs to Your Hard Drive in Windows and OS X?

Even though there are many websites for you to download movies, you may still want to buy some DVDs to enjoy a high-quality video playback. While, you probably get tired of watching DVDs via DVD player or spending time looking for the DVD you want. If so, you can rip DVDs to your hard drive for watching freely on PC.

However, it is hard for you to rip DVD to hard drive because of the DVD copy protection and region code. So in order to rip DVD to hard drive, you gonna need a DVD ripper to help you remove DVD protection and region code, and convert DVD to mp4 format, so that you can enjoy the converted movies on any media player on your PC. Here I highly recommend  Pavtube DVDAid for you.(For Mac user, turn to Pavtube DVDAid for Mac for downloading. Now, the app has updated to support the El Capitan.) It can convert all kind s of DVDs to h.264 MP4 formats, which is compatible for all kinds of media player. And you can adjust the video parameters for a better video quality on your own need. Follow the next steps to finish the conversion

Free download and install:
          

Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/dvd_ripper/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-DVDAid/3000-7970_4-76158510.html  

Steps to rip DVD to H.264 MP4

Step 1. Load DVD disc

Run the program, insert DVD into your computer's DVD optical drive, and from the "File" drop-down menu, select "Load from disc" to add DVD disc to the program.



Step 2: Set output format

You can choose "HD Video" > "H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” from the “Format” bar or other HD video depending on yourself.



Step 3: Customize output video quality

Click "Settings" to pop out "Profile Settings" window, set output video codec, size, bitrate, frame rate according to your own needs. For example, to enjoy high definition movies, you can adjust the output file resolution as "1920*1080" in "Profile Settings" > "Size(pix)".



Step 4: Start to convert

Go back to the main interface, press right-bottom "Convert" button to rip DVD to hard drive in MP4 format.

After the conversion, you can enjoy your DVD movies on PC freely, or you can transfer the converted MP4 video to your smart-phone for watching on the go.

PS. For Windows user, you can use Windows Media Player to play your converted DVD movies. For Mac user, you can use QuickTime to play the movies. For carrying around convenient, you can transfer the converted movies to External hard drive or Thumb drive, so that you can transfer your DVD movies to projector, TV, PC and etc via USB port.

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Rip and Backup DVD Collection to My iTunes Library

As a DVD collector, you can certainly watch your DVDs in the usual way, with a DVD player. But for Apple users, wouldn't it be bad to rip and backup your DVD collection to iTunes library, so that you can sync them to your Apple devices and watch them anywhere?

All iOS devices like iPhone 6S, iPhone 6, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4, iPod Touch 6, Apple TV 4 are using iTunes to manage the digital video files. That is to say, if you want to watch movies on your Apple devices, you have to sync videos to your iTunes library firstly. However, what should be mentioned is iTunes library only recognize video files in MP4, MOV, M4V formats, and it can not rip DVD due to the copy protection. So if you want to enjoy DVD videos on Apple device, you have to firstly rip DVD to compatible formats for iTunes library. Some of you may have not figured out a proper way to rip and backup DVD collection to iTunes library, so this article will show you the right solution.

The current software options for ripping a DVD are virtually endless. From free to costly, easy to complicated, the right ripping tool is completely subjective to the end-user. Here I will introduce you two DVD rippers.

1. HandBrake: This free app lets you convert DVD to other mainstream formats, like MP4, MKV, which you can add to iTunes library. It has immense power for offering all sorts of options for ripping, managing audio tracks, displaying subtitles and more. You can also use it to convert videos from most formats to iTunes-compatible files. However, it can not rip blu-ray and commercial DVD.

2. Pavtube BDMagic: If you are looking for ease of use, then don’t mind spending a little money to buy it. As it can convert DVD, 2D/3D Blu-ray and ISO image files to iTunes library compatible video formats for playing on Apple devices with easy operation. I’ve found the quality to be excellent, and see no difference when compared to playing the discs themselves. Now download it and follow the easy steps here to rip and backup DVD collection to iTunes library. (review

Free download and install: 


Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-ripper/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-BDMagic/3000-7970_4-75922877.html

Steps to rip and backup DVD collection to iTunes library

Step 1. Load DVD discs

Connect the external DVD drive, place DVD disc in DVD drive. When the Welcome page pops up, Click "Try" to continue. In the Main interface, click "File" > "Load from disc" to load DVD movies. Here you can also import blu-ray, ISO files and IFO files to convert.



Tips: You can choose preferred subtitle and audio by scrolling down the "Subtitles" and "Audio" option. And "Forced subtitles" will help you get translations only alien languages are displaying.

Step 2: Set output format

Click the drop down box of "Format" to select iTunes highly compatible format like MP4 from "Common Video", HD MP4 from "HD Video".



Tips: If you want to add the DVD movie to iTunes for play on iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc., you can also directly select iPhone, iPad, iPod as the output format to get videos with optimized settings for your Devices. What is more, you can go to "Settings" page to adjust parameters of your output profile including Video&Audio bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, etc.

Step 3: Start to convert

When you have done everything, click "Convert" button to rip DVD movies to iTunes formats. Once the conversion completes, you can get the ripped DVD movies file under "Open" panel. Now, it is much easy for you to load the local ripped DVD movies into iTunes library and sync the movies from iTunes library to your Apple devices.

Mac version is here. Now, this program has upgraded to support Mac OS X El Capitan.

Moreover, now you can get the app at a big discount in Pavtube Thanksgiving Coupon.

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Free Rip DVD to Android Phone for Watching

“As a fan of DVD, I have collected many DVD. Recently, I am going to go on a long journey to 
Hawaii, and in order to kill my time during this long journey easily, I want to play my DVD on Android phone for watching in a portable way. But my phone can not play DVD directly and I have searched online for a long time and still can not find an effected and free way to help me solve it. Please help me if your have a good idea, thanks!!!”. This is one of the common problems I found on the VideoHelp. So if you have the same issue like him, follow this article and I will recommend you an easy and effective method to rip your DVD to Android phone for watching freely.

We all know that Android accepts limited video formats and it can not play DVD directly for its limit of format and the protection of DVD. So, in order to watch DVD movies on Android phone, you need to rip DVD to Android phone supported video formats like MP4, MKV, 3GP, etc. To realize it, you can download a DVD ripper which is one of the easiest methods for you. 

Pavtube DVDAid is a good choice for ripping DVD movies to Android phones with fast ripping speed and excellent output video quality. It can lower the size of the movie by adjusting “settings”, such as lowering size and bitrate, for better transferring and playing. What's more, some video editing features like cropping, rotating, adjusting video effects, etc. are provided to customize your videos. (Review)

If you are using a Mac, do not be worried, this software can also help you solve the same problem. Please turn to thePavtube DVDAid for Mac to copy DVD on Mac (including Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite and Mountain Lion). Get the DVD ripper now and freely enjoy your favorite DVD movies on your Android phones.

Free download and install:
          

Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/dvd_ripper/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-DVDAid/3000-7970_4-76158510.html

Steps to free rip DVD to Android phone for watching

Step 1. Load DVD disc

Insert a DVD disc to PC DVD drive and click “File” icon to load movies from your disc, then run the software and load the movie.



Step 2: Set output format

Click on the "Format" drop-down list, you can find the optimized presets of the mainstream devices there and then set it as the output format to get videos with optimized settings for your Android. In case you have trouble locating the best output format for your Android device, optimized preset format for mainstream Android phones are listed under Android category. 



Step 3: Customize output video and audio quality

You could customize output video and audio quality in "Settings", including video codec, video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc. For example, if you want to lower the video size to storage more movies in your Android phone for watching, you can adjust video size to a lower one, like 1280*720. Bitrate can also be adjusted to make the file size smaller.



Step 4: Start to convert

Click the big "Convert" button to start to convert DVD. When the conversion is done, simply click the "Open output folder" icon to locate the created video, and then you could rip this DVD movie to your Android phone for movie enjoyment with ease.

Finish all these steps, then you can add the videos to your Android phone via USB connection to enjoy your happy journey.

Now, you can get a big discount on  Thanksgiving Coupon. So act now before you miss the great opportunity.

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