Im new to the vibrant world. How are you guys transferring movies to your phone and what programs are you using to do so? Do you have to convert them first? help a newbie out....Thanks
Handbrake is the answer.
http://handbrake.fr/
I got tired of re-ripping my DVD's every time I got a new portable player (iPhone, Vibrant, etc).
So what I did was I purchased a 1TB Western Digital My Passport hard drive (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...lack/9522322.p?id=1218118265681&skuId=9522322) and am using DVDFab7 (http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm) to rip the DVD in raw format to the drive.
Now I have a portable HD with a bunch of movies in raw, but unencrypted, format. (Note that these are all DVD's for which I've paid. I wouldn't recommend that you do this for any movie that you haven't purchased.)
To convert from raw DVD format to the format that I happen to be using at the time (which right now is mp4 for my Vibrant), I boot into Ubuntu Linux and do a command-line conversion using handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/). The beauty of doing things this way is that I can set up a shell script to convert all of my movies from raw format to whatever other format I'm using, all unattended. and the next time I have a new device, I can do the same thing without having to start the DVD Swap Dance again...
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Hi there,
I am reasonably new to the HD, and WM in general. Just got my HD and absolutely loving it. I have a few long train journeys coming up though, and am looking to make the most of video/audio playback.
Basically I'm not 100% sure how to do it all. I have some DVDs that I would like to rip to my harddrive and then convert into a suitable file type to be played on my HD. I have DVD Decrypter which I will use to rip them to my harddrive, but I'm not entirely sure of the best way to proceed from there. They will just be in standard DVD format on my harddrive. If anyone can help and give me a quick tutorial and recommend a few programs to use, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks!
Firstly I rip the DVD movie to a Divx format.AVI file, then I use a program on my desktoppc called "PocketDivxEncoder" which converts the .AVI to a compressed format suitable to dump onto my memory card (about 80MB for a 45min TV show with reasonable quality - so on that basis a movie would be arounf 160 - 180MB), then finally use PocketDivx player (downloaded from www.divx.com) to watch fullscreen - works perfect for me, I have a 16gb card and have several completer series of tv shows stored quite happily with really good quality viewing!
Thanks for that. How do you rip the DVD movie into DivX? Sorry, new to all this!
there are several freeware apps that you can use to rip a DVD, I use one called "Shark Ripper", it has numerous options incl. output format - where I select DIVX video compression and MPe audio compression. Take a search on download.com and I'm sure you'll find a suitable freeware DVD ripper!
can someone share any information on how to convert videos for the nexus s? as i am having quite a bit of trouble, programs used etc?
http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-faq-how-tos/840-how-convert-any-video-your-nexus-one.html
enjoy. yes i know it says nexus one. same screen res though. worked like a charm for me.
Cheers dude
I use handbrake also, but do so in a slightly different way.
I got tired of re-ripping my movies each time I switched to a device that had a different resolution/codec/whatever. So what I did was to buy two 1TB drives, one for DVD Movies, and one for DVD TV shows. Then I downloaded the free DVDFab (http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm). DVDFab will strip the DRM from the movie and copy it. For movies I only copy the "main movie", for TV Shows I "copy the entire disk".
Then, since I dual-boot Ubuntu Linux, I wrote a couple of scripts to use HandBrake to go through all of the DVD folders and convert any DVD Movie to my current movie codec (right now mp4 using H.264). For the TV DVD's I create a text file with each episode's title and location on the disk. That way I can again transcode them automatically.
So, for instance, when H.264/mp4 is no longer viable and we are all on WebM, all I have to do is download the latest version of HandBrake for Ubuntu, change the settings in the script, and re-run them. Viola, I have all of my movies and TV shows on my third 1TB drive that I can take with me and put on my phone or laptop or whatever.
I found FormatFactory to be better than handbrake if you already have the source on your computer and want to implement subtitles. Just my experience.
Below are the settings that I use.
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I found FormatFactory to be better than handbrake if you already have the source on your computer and want to implement subtitles. Just my experience.
Below are the settings that I use.
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Format Factory's website is showing as hostile on McAfee's SiteAdvisor...
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Format Factory's website is showing as hostile on McAfee's SiteAdvisor...
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....It doesn't on others. So you can decide who to believe. I mean, it's been used and recommended by xda members and other sites. So yeah, believe what you want and use what you want.
The only thing McAfee got right is the wavesecure app, otherwise I wouldn't just believe everything their software say.
which is the best free converter for converting a 3 gig DVD VOB file to play on the DHD and what settings should it be set at
thanks for any advice
ffmpeg via terminal will convert almost any format to any format and resize using padding if necessary.
I don't think there's a better, more able converter out there.
Of course you'll need something like Ubuntu on your PC...
Handbrake might work too.
So, I have a rather extensive DVD collection and now that I have multiple media devices that obviously don't have built-in DVD players, I'd like to start converting my DVD collection to portable files. I have tried some options that are available for Ubuntu, but I haven't been able to get a very good quality rip. I'd really like to use the Nexus 10's gorgeous screen to its fullest extent.
1. Does anyone have a recommended (preferably free, or at least under $20) solution for ripping DVDs? Either Windows or Ubuntu work.
2. What settings do you use that give you the best picture quality for your Nexus 10 (I'm not overly concerned with file size)?
3. Is there a required media player to load to my Nexus 10 for viewing certain files?
I use Arista Transcoder or Handbrake on Ubuntu... or Handbrake on Windows... play with the settings a bit or scour the web for presets... BTW, both are free!! For Handbrake, I use a slightly modified version of the High Profile preset...
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Rip to DVD to Nexus 10: the best video format is H.264 MP4, setting the video size as 720*480 is enough and setting the video bitrate as 1000kps ~ 2000kps is proper.
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There are many programs out there that allow you to make copies of your DVDs and let you watch them the way you want to view them. Like someone mentioned Handbrake or Brorsoft dvd ripper. Both of them works well. However, handbrake can't rip dvds without third-party softwares. The second utility now has Nexus 10-ready output modes and it can handle commercial dvd discs.
I also have a large number of dvd's. Mine are ripped to video_ts folders. I've played with a large number of conversion programs but there are enough inconsistencies with the conversion where the main movie isn't detected properly or tv episodes end up incorrect. This happened often enough that I eventually gave up given the size of my dvd collection and the time it would take to fix everything.
I found that XBMC for android and wondershare player in the play store both play dvd's in their native format with full dvd menu support. I mount my dvd collection as a cifs share on the n10 and they playback without issue.
I can also connect remotely using open vpn and playback over the web with a little initial buffering due to the limited upload speed of my home internet connection.
Google Nexus 10 accepts MP4/H.264/DivX/WMV as video formats and MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/Flac, and if I were you, I would go for H.264 MP4 with aac audio because the video with that codec is in high quality, and it can be accepted by other devices, so no need for re-transcoding. About DVD ripping tool I would recommend DVDAid. I choose MP4 format for nexus 10 (Android ) and the conversion complete in half an hour. Now I have ripped 4-5 movies and transferred them to my tablet.
Ripping DVDs for Watching on Nexus 10
I searched on Google a long time for getting a powerful DVD tool to rip my collected DVDs into Nexus 10. Finnaly I found a professional tool to copy my DVD with subtitle. That's nice.
Thanks to this forum, I was able to find my Samsung Galaxy Hub downloaded movies and move them to the external SD card. Thank you for that!
I've searched the web (and this site) for a way to convert pyv to mp4 or any other format that I can burn to a DVD and watch on tv or at least watch on the 27" desktop monitor. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks,
Monica
To my understanding, the movies lic, is tied to the device you download them, unless a program breaks the security on the movie it won't be possible to rip them.
Now you could try to stream them to your tv.