How to Three ways to rip (movies, TV episodes) DVD to iPad for watching

How to convert DVD movies to iPad for free? You've come to the right place! The following iPad DVD ripper shareware or freeware can help you remove region codes, copy protection from DVDs and copy movies to your iPad with fast conversion speed. Just check this detailed iPad dvd ripping guide to rip video content off DVD disc and sync to iPad for watching.

Our target:

- Remove copy protection legally and Rip content off DVD discs smoothly

Generally, commercial DVDs are encrypted by CSS, you have to remove these things before you copy movies off DVD. Although some DVD-ripping apps, like autoMKV, can bypass copy protection, they are not updated as frequently and aren't always successful at defeating new copy protection schemes. Your best choice , therefore, is to top one of the utilities that are dedicated to the task, such as Daniusoft DVD Ripping software.

- Shrink and convert the big VOB files to media files understanded by iPad

* Movie, TV and video files in MP4, M4V, MOV file formats. H.264 video up to 720p, 30fps, main profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30fps, simple profile with AAC-LC audio up to 48kHz, 160Kbps, stereo audio.

* Music and audio files in AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless.

Best way : The professional iPad DVD Ripping software -Daniusoft DVD ripper(shareware)

Sharp tools make good works. With this DVD Ripper software, only a few clicks are enough to rip your DVD discs to various media formats. Remove all copy protections and encryptions from commerical DVD discs automatically, and convert to the files you need. It can always catch up with the latest DVD copy protection variant. For converting DVD to iPad, this App already preset the exact resolution ratio (1024x768) for iPad video, and you are allowed to customize the resolution yourself if you prefer to. When it comes to the conversion speed about the DVD to iPad Converter, it supports multi-core CPU, so you could find out it performs much faster than others, and even less than real-time.

Check out the test we do on Windows vista 32 Pentium 4 single core system, the original DVD file is near 5 GB only takes about 1 hour.

How to convert DVD to iPad MP4 video or MP3 audio

First, please Free Download Daniusoft DVD ripper, install and run it. And then follow the steps below:

Note: If you want to rip and convert Blu-ray to iPad, you can refer to Blu-ray ripping software .

1. Launch Daniusoft DVD Ripping software, choose the output format you like from "profile".

Optional: You can also set the encode speed and the output folder for saving the converted iPad files.

2. Insert DVD into your DVD drive, open DVD by hitting "Load DVD" button, and choosing "Load DVD", "Load DVD IFO" or "Load DVD folder".

3. Set the language (audio track), subtitle and the start point you'd like to convert, then click "Start".

4. After converting, you can play the output file using Quicktime or iTunes. If it is OK, just transfer it to iPad via iTunes.

Way 2: Rip DVDs and convert movies to iPad MP4, MOV, H.264 video with Handbrake (Freeware)

For DVD fans, Handbrake is no stranger as a free DVD Ripping software. It's a free Windows utility for ripping videos from DVDs and saving them in various formats including MP4 files that are playable by the iPad. Below is a quick guide for converting DVD to iPad:

* Insert the desired DVD into your computer's optical drive

* Download HandBrake and launch the application

* You should be presented with a prompt to open a source. If not, select File > Open Source and choose your DVD.

* Select Presets > Update Presets.

* Click the -Toggle Presets" button in the upper right corner of the main window.

* Select iPad  from the resulting list

* Click the -Start" button in the upper-left of the main window

* Click the -Show Queue" button, then the arrow next to your movie's name. This will tell you where HandBrake is saving the resulting .MP4 file.

However, there is no free lunch in the world.  If your DVDs are encrypted by CSS, Handbrake is willing to help but unable to do so about this.

Way 3: MediaCoder Video tran-scoder (Open source/Windows).

MediaCoder is an audio /video batch trans-coder.

The key features are:

1).Putting lots of audio/video codec & tools from the open source community into an all in one solution.

2).It's capable of trans-coding among different audio/video formats.

3).Convert video straight from a non-encrypted DVD, and allow you to choose which tracks or specific chapters you want.

4). With plugin and extentions available for Mediacoder.

More way to rip DVD to iPad? DVD shrink is another freeware which can rip video off DVD discs, but im not sure if it can convert VOB files to iPad-friendly format, you could try it if interest ...