Dvd to Ipad
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Soliciting suggestions from the hive for a simple application for converting DVDs to an Ipad friendly format. Using a mac
posted by citybuddha to Computers & Internet (13 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Handbrake.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 6:35 PM on November 1, 2010 [3 favorites]


Handbrake is the app.
Specifically, I use the "Normal" preset. Works great on the iPad, AppleTV, PS3, iPhone 4, or pretty much anything else I've tried it on.
posted by raygan at 6:52 PM on November 1, 2010


The only thing is that Handbrake doesn't decrypt DVDs unless you also install VLC. (Handbrake borrows one of VLC's libraries.)
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:55 PM on November 1, 2010 [2 favorites]


However, VLC is also free.
posted by ZeusHumms at 7:08 PM on November 1, 2010


Also make sure that if you have a 64-bit Mac, that you get the proper VLC for it.
posted by contessa at 7:23 PM on November 1, 2010


Which is the one here.
posted by nicwolff at 8:05 PM on November 1, 2010 [1 favorite]


blah blah blah Handbrake blah blah blah :)
posted by razzamatazm at 10:08 PM on November 1, 2010


Also worth noting that there's now a version of VLC for iPad and other iOS devices that will play pretty much any video format you throw at it. I use it on an iPhone and it plays everything. The only downside is there's no volume control for some formats, but otherwise it rules.
posted by Happy Dave at 3:04 AM on November 2, 2010


You just missed the free sale of DVD Ripper Pro by one day, but perhaps the code still works. It's basically one button click from DVD to iPad (or iPhone, or Apple TV, or...) format.

Yes, handbreak is good too.
posted by FreezBoy at 5:39 AM on November 2, 2010


A quick look at the website for "MacX DVD Ripper Pro" confirms that it is your typical wholesale FFMPEG ripoff created by a fly-by-night development company and sold under a dozen different names. Such software invariably is error-ridden and often contains nasty surprises (though perhaps less frequently with Mac versions). I can tell by looking at the GUI that it doesn't handle inverse telecine or deinterlacing nearly as well as Handbrake's semi-automated process, which is reason enough to prefer Handbrake.

Avoid "MaxX DVD Ripper Pro" and similar superlative-laden, template-website-with-bad-translation-using products like the plague.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 7:02 AM on November 2, 2010


Yes, Inspector.Gadget, a "fly-by-night development company" that has been around since 2002. I'm also glad you can tell from a screenshot how error-ridden and feature-poor it is. Well done.

I agree Handbreak is an excellent option. I provided another option because it is simple - as the OP had requested, had been free, and I've actually used it and it works fine - with quality and speed comparable to Handbreak.
posted by FreezBoy at 8:45 AM on November 2, 2010


Nthing handbrake
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 12:05 PM on November 2, 2010


Yes, Inspector.Gadget, a "fly-by-night development company" that has been around since 2002.

...and incorporated in China, conducting all sales over the internet so as to avoid being subject to personal jurisdiction in any country that enforces intellectual property laws or has an independent judiciary that acknowledges the GPL. See also.

I'm also glad you can tell from a screenshot how error-ridden and feature-poor it is. Well done.

I have a rough idea of how many high-quality deinterlacing and inverse telecine solutions have so far been implemented in software. Handbrake contains several; that software contains none. Additionally, dynamic linking to ffmpeg project code (typically libavformat and libavcodec as DLLs) is almost universally poorly done because these companies generating such rip-offs use silly compile options.

with quality and speed comparable to Handbreak.

This is a blatant falsehood unless the developers are issuing nightly builds with the latest revision of x264 included.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 3:30 PM on November 2, 2010 [3 favorites]


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