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Due to high audio/video quality, iPod and iPhone are always fantastic portable devices for playing videos. Meanwhile, we may want to watch DVD movies on iPod and iPhone. Yet, a general DVD is in MPEG-2 or VOB format with CSS copy protection. To put a DVD movie onto iPod and iPhone, you need a DVD ripping program to remove the protection and rip the DVD movie to iTunes compatible video first.
For PC users, there are lots of such programs that can rip DVD movies to iTunes videos. Among them, I prefer to use [url=http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php]Clone2Go DVD Ripper[/url]. You can download it from [url=http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php]http://www.clone2go.com[/url].
With Clone2Go DVD Ripper, you can convert nearly all DVDs to iTunes videos for playback on an iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPhone 3G, including purchased DVDs, original DVDs, DVD copies and even downloaded DVDs.
Below is the step by step tutorial that details how to rip DVD movies to iTunes video files, ready to transfer to your iPod/iPhone:
[b]Step 1. Import DVD movie[/b]
Click "File -> Open DVD..." to import the DVD movie from your DVD drive. Alternatively, you can click the "Open DVD" button to import the DVD movie you are going to watch on your iPod/iPhone.
If the DVD movies is saved as a folder on your hard drive, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate that folder, which is composed of two separate folders: VIDEO_TS and AUIDO_TS. From the VIDEO_TS folder, select the .vob file to import and then click "OK".
[b]Note:[/b] Apart from DVD ripping feature, Clone2Go DVD Ripper can also be used to convert video files and download YouTube videos for iPod, iPhone and a lot more mobile devices.
[b]Tip:[/b] If you want to merge several DVD chapters/titles into one single file, just multi-select them and choose "Edit -> Merge Output". What's more, Clone2Go DVD Ripper supports batch importing video files and batching convert DVD/video files.
[b]Step 2. Trim the video[/b]
If you just need a clip of the DVD movie for viewing on your iPod/iPhone, you can drag the "Start to trim" and "Stop to trim" buttons to get the certain segment of the DVD movie.
Since you are going to watch the DVD movies on your iPod/iPhone, you need to choose the output video format compatible with iTunes. From the drop-down list of "Profile", you will see profile categories including "Apple iPod" and "Apple iPhone". The formats in the corresponding categories are just for iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano and iPhone. That's to say, the videos generated with these formats can be added to your iTunes Library.
Now you can click the "Start Encode" button to starting ripping the DVD moive to iTunes for iPod/iPhone.
[b]Tip:[/b] The output video files are easily available by clicking the "Folder" button on the main menu after the ripping/converting process is done.
[b]Step 5. Transfer the DVD movie to iPod/iPhone[/b]
Launch iTunes. Click "File -> Add File to Library...". Select the video file from the output folder and click "OK". Navigate to "Movies" tab and you will see the video. You can double click to play it.
This is for all those iPhone 3G owners still in fix and searching for ways to watch videos on your new gadget. Today I'll let you know how to watch DVD movies and videos from other sources on your iPhone.
To begin with you need to know the formats your iPhone can play.
[b]The Video Formats Supported by iPhone Include[/b]
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 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 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, .mov file formats
[b]The Audio Formats Supported by iPhone Include[/b]
MP3, MP3 VBR, WAV, AAC, Protected AAC, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF
Now to watch the DVD movies and videos what you need to do is simply rip the DVD movies or convert the video files into a video/audio format supported by iPhone 3G. After you have the files in a compatible format upload them into your iPhone through the sync of iTunes Library.
To convert the video files you need to download the Clone2Go [url=http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoiphone.php]DVD to iPhone Converter[/url].
So are you all set? Let's start the process now.
[b]Step 1[/b]
First open the iPhone converter.
Add DVD video or audio files.
If the DVD movie you need to convert is on your disc drive, click on the DVD button.
In case you have saved it in a hard drive, click the Add video button and locate the folder.
Locate the path of the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. the .vob files appear.
Select the .vob files and click OK.
By clicking on the Add video button you can also import video from various other sources.
Audio Files (*.mp2,*.mp3,*.wav)
Windows Media Player(*.avi,*.wmv,*.asf,*.dvr-ms,*.ms-dvr)
MOV/MP4 Files(*.mov,*.mp4,*3gp,*.mp4,*.qt)
Real Media Player(*.flv)
Flash Video Player(*.mkv)
MKV Video Player(*.avs)
AviSYnth Scripts(*.mpg,*.vob,*.dv,*.m1v,*.m2v,*.dat,*.amv)
Once the DVD or video has been been imported you can watch it on the main interface.
Here's your chance to pick the DVD or video you wish to play on your iPhone. Select the portion you want to play. Drag from the Start to trim and Stop to trim button to select the segment.
[b]Step 2[/b]
To choose the proper profile look for the drop-down list of Profile option on the right. Choose the profile that suits you best. Like for instance if you want to play the video in MPEG-4 choose the iPhone MPEG-4 Video from the list of profiles.
In previous posts, I talked about how to convert iTunes DRM protected AAC (M4P) to MP3, convert DRM protected WMA to MP3 and convert Rhapsody/Napster music to iTunes with [url=http://www.m4p-wav.com]TuneClone[/url]. In this post, I will show you how to convert iTunes M4P to WAV with [url=http://www.m4p-wav.com]TuneClone M4P Converter[/url].
It is very easy to complete the burning (in iTunes 8 ) and encoding (in TuneClone) process. You only need to choose TuneClone virtual CD drive as the CD burner in iTunes. The best three parts are:
[b]1.[/b] well preserves the ID3 tags information;
[b]2.[/b] works great for batch converting iTunes playlist;
[b]3.[/b] no need for real discs.
The only difference from converting iTunes M4P to MP3 lies in that, when you make settings in TuneClone, you need to choose "WAV" from the "Output Format" options.
Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Below are the media formats accepted by Windows Movie Maker:
To import a DVD clip into Windows Movie Maker, you need to extract the clip from the DVD movie, and then add it to the Windows Movie Maker project. I'd recommend using [url=http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php]Clone2Go DVD Ripper[/url] to perform the DVD ripping process.
[b]1. Add DVD movies[/b]
On the main interface, click "File -> Open DVD..." to import the DVD disc. Or you can click the "Open DVD" button to add the DVD.
If the DVD movie is saved as a folder on your computer, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate that folder, which is composed of two separate folders: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. From the VIDEO_TS folder, select the .vob file to import and then click "OK".
[b]2. Trim the video[/b]
You can drag the "Start to trim" and "Stop to trim" buttons to get the certain segment of the DVD movie.
Windows Movie Maker needs external codec to decode mp4, xvid and mpeg2 video. To skip this trouble, please select "Customized AVI Movie(*.avi)" profile and adjust "video codec" to "msmpeg4v2", "video size" to "Original" to get AVI video accepted by Windows Movie Maker.
Now you can click the "Start Encode" button to start ripping the DVD clip to Windows Moive Maker AVI format.
[b]Tip:[/b] The output video files are easily available by clicking the "Folder" button on the main menu after the ripping/converting process is done.
[b]5. Import the DVD clip to Windows Movie Maker[/b]
After you get the output video clip ripped from the DVD movie, now you can begin to import it into your Windows Movie Maker.
Click on "File". Then click on "Import". A window will appear. In the window, navigate to the video clip you extracted from the DVD movie just now. Then double click on the file. You'll see the icon for the file in your Windows Movie Maker "Collections".
[b]Tip:[/b] Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format. Actually, A *.MSWMM file is not a video file. It is a project file of Movie Maker (more like a record file). You have to open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save the movie to your computer: Go to Movie Tasks bar -> Finish Movie -> Save to my computer. After that you will have a WMV file which can be converted to another video format or burned to DVD.
The other day Apple announced that it was making about 80% of the iTunes store DRM free, with the remaining 20% to follow shortly. DRM-free iTunes means that in theory you should be able move your music to other computers and devices easily...
But... iTunes Plus DRM-free music comes in .m4a format which is based on the MPEG-4 part 14 standard. Problem is, far more devices don't recognize what to do with .m4a than do (and its video sibling, .m4v). MP3 is a far more popular format.
So, can you convert .m4a files into.mp3 files? Yes you can, and you can do it all from within iTunes (iTunes 8)! Here's how:
1. Click on [b]Edit -> Preferences...[/b]. From the [b]General[/b] tab click on [b]Import Settings...[/b] button.
5. Now find a file that you want to convert, right-click on it and select [b]Create MP3 Version[/b] and an MP3 copy will be created.
Note that you'll have now both versions of the song in your library, so you’ll have to do a little housekeeping.
Note that if you want to upgrade your previously purchased iTunes tracks to DRM free, you need to pay 30 cents per song. You can't pick and choose which tracks to upgrade. Start by going to the iTunes Store home page, and clicking on "Upgrade My Library" under the "Quick Links" heading. Once there, you'll see a list of all the songs and albums that are available for upgrading, with a price next to each. But the important number to look at is the price next to the buy button, since that's how much it'll cost to upgrade your library.
So if have an extensive music collection with many songs (i.e. [b]500[/b] songs) purchased from iTunes and wanted to get them freed from DRM protection, you will have to pay [b]USD150[/b] for the upgrade. And in order to listen to them with your MP3 player or mobile phone music player, you still need a further step - convert the AAC music to MP3 one by one (as the steps show above). It not only messes your iTunes library up but also costs you a great deal of time and money. Therefore, if you really want to play the previously purchased music tracks from iTunes Store with MP3 players or mobile phone music players, you just need to get [url=http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php]TuneClone Audio Converter[/url] to help to remove the iTunes DRM protection and [url=http://www.tuneclone.com/itunes8-m4p-to-mp3.php]convert the iTunes music to the popular MP3 format[/url]. Also, if you get iTunes Plus DRM-free music files and want to play them with the MP3 players or mobile phone music players incompatible with Apple AAC format, you can still use TuneClone to turn them into MP3 format, saving the time to create MP3 version for the songs one by one.
If you have moved from Apple iPod to Microsoft Zune, you probably have some songs that you purchased from the iTunes Music Store that you would like to move to the new device. You will run into a hurdle if you try to transfer the files directly as Apple's copy protection prevents the song from playing on another device. There is a workaround to this however...
1. Create a new playlist in iTunes.
2. Add the protected songs to your playlist until you have 72 minutes of music.
3. Click the "Burn Disc" button.
4. Click the radio button next to "Audio CD" and tick "Include CD Text" option.
5. Upon completion of burning the disc, rip the songs to MP3 using Windows Media Player.
6. Open the Zune software and sync the newly created MP3's to your Zune device.
Alternatively, you can use [url=http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php][b]TuneClone Audio Converter[/b][/url]. It automatically generates a virtual CD-ROM drive during the installation. The virtual CD drive tricks your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM protection is removed without wasting a CD and the speed is very fast. Below are the steps:
1. Create a new playlist in iTunes.
2. Add the protected songs to your playlist. Since iTunes burns the protected music with TuneClone virtual CD drive, there is no limit as to music length so long as you have enough hard drive space.
3. Launch TuneClone. Click the "Settings" tab. In the pop-up window, you can specify output folder, output file name format, output format (Here we can choose MP3 or WMA since Zune accepts MP3 and WMA music), etc. for the output files. Note: You can check whether TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed and where it is installed in the bottom left corner of the interface.
5. In the pop-up window of "Burn Settings", select "TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW" from the "CD Burner" drop-down list, click the radio button next to "Audio CD" and tick "Include CD Text" option. Click "Burn" to start burning.
6. Upon the completion of burning the disc and encoding the music, you can open the TuneClone manager screen to show all the converted music files. To locate the output folder, simply click the "Folder" tab on the interface.
7. Open the Zune software and sync the music in the output folder to your Zune device.
Done.
You may have at hand many fantastic DVD movies and video files, which you definitely love very much. Also, you have a smart BlackBerry Storm and you really want to watch these DVD movies and video files on your BlackBerry and take them on the road.
However, BlackBerry Strom only supports:
[b]Video format support:[/b] MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264, WMV
[b]Audio format support:[/b] MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus
[url=http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php]Clone2Go DVD to BlackBerry Converter[/url] comes to the rescue! This DVD to BlackBerry Converter has the following three features:
1. Rip DVD movies to BlackBerry (DVD ripper)
2. Convert videos files to BlackBerry (video converter)
3. Download YouTube videos to BlackBerry (YouTube downloader)
So, you just need Clone2Go DVD to BlackBerry Converter to help you rip DVD movies, convert video files and download YouTube videos to the video format accepted by BlackBerry Storm and then transfer the output video files to your BlackBerry Storm. Now let's take a look at how it performs:
[b]Step 1. Import DVD movies, video files and YouTube videos[/b]
Insert the DVD disc into the disc drive, click the "Open DVD" button to import it if you are going to watch the DVD movie on your BlackBerry Storm. Or if the DVD movie is saved as a folder on your computer, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate that folder, which is composed of two separate folders: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. From the VIDEO_TS folder, select the .vob file to import and then click "OK".
You can also import videos stored on your PC by clicking the "Add Video" button and then click "OK". The supporting formats are shown as follows:
Audio Files (*.mp2;*.mp3;*.wav)
Windows Media Files (*.avi;*.wmv;*.asf;*.dvr-ms;*.ms-dvr)
MOV/MP4 Files (*.mov;*.mp4;*.3gp;*.m4v;*.qt)
Real Media Files (*.rm;*.rmvb)
Flash Video Files (*.flv)
MKV Video Files (*.mkv)
AviSyth Scripts (*.avs)
Other Video Files (*.mpq;*.dv;*.vob;*.m1v;*.m2v;*.dat;*.amv)
If you want to watch YouTube videos on your BlackBerry Storm, click the "YouTube" button on the main interface. In the pop-up window, copy and paste the URLs of the YouTube videos one by one.
There will be a list of the added YouTube videos, which will be downloaded automatically one by one. The downloading status is clearly shown on the list. After the status of all of them indicates "Completed", you can tick whichever videos you want to watch on your BlackBerry Storm.
After the DVD's, videos or YouTube videos are imported, you can preview it on the main interface. If you only want a clip of the DVD/video, you can drag the "Start to trim" and "Stop to trim" buttons to get the certain segment.
[b]Step 2. Choose a proper profile and start encoding[/b]
From the drop-down list of "Profile", you can select the most appropriate profile:
Now you can click the "Start Encode" button to starting ripping DVD movies, converting video files and converting YouTube videos for your BlackBerry Storm.
[b]Step 3. Transfer output videos to BlackBerry Storm[/b]
After you get the output video files, you can now begin to transfer them to your BlackBerry Storm.
"With a unique touch screen and cutting-edge multimedia capabilities, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone makes a great impression as you travel across town or to almost any corner of the world."
One of the great new features I am starting to enjoy on my BlackBerry Storm is the ability for it to play multimedia files and specifically audio (music).
First let's take a look at the video and audio formats supported by BlackBerry Storm:
[b]Video format support:[/b] MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264, WMV
[b]Audio format support:[/b] MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus
Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you have a BlackBerry Storm, you cannot use iTunes music.
So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media). After you burn the CD, you can rip it to your PC as an MP3 file which no longer has DRM.
Alternatively, you can use [url=http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php][b]TuneClone[/b][/url]. TuneClone makes a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.
Here is a link to a tutorial using TuneClone and iTunes 8:
[url]http://www.tuneclone.com/itunes8-m4p-to-mp3.php[/url]
After you get the output MP3 files, you can now begin to transfer them to your BlackBerry Storm:
1. Connect your BlackBerry to you computer via the USB cable.
2. If you have properly enabled your Blackberry as a Mass Storage Device, your Blackberry's microSD card will show as a removable drive on your computer.
3. Double click on the Blackberry folder.
4. Double click on the music folder.
5. Copy your music files to your BlackBerry.
6. Disconnect your Blackberry from the USB cable and go to the "Multimedia" icon on you Blackberry. You need to disconnect when you use the Mass Storage device method as it disables direct access from the BlackBerry when connected to the PC via the USB cable.
7. Click on the Music icon.
8. Click on the Media Card folder.
9. Select your Music folder.
10. Select your Song.
11. Play and enjoy.
