How to Use HandBrake to Rip DVDs to your iPhone
Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by Chris in Blog
HandBrake is one the most well-known DVD ripping programs and you may want to watch movies on your iPhone, if you have one. Here is the tutorial for using HandBrake to rip DVDs to your iphone. Before beginning, let’s make clear that HandBrake can only work with DVDs that can be played in a DVD player not with discs in such formats AVI, MPG, WMV, or MOV.
1. Download and Installation
Download and install HandBrake. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Download HandBrake 0.9.3 here.
Now insert a DVD and run HandBrake and you will get a screen to ask you to select a DVD. Select the inserted DVD and open it.
select the DVD in HandBrake
However you will get a warning screen to tell you need a VLC because in version 0.9.3, HandBrake needs to work together with VLC to rip DVD due to the pressure it get from the movie industry. Just download VLC here and install it.
2. Source Settings
After the VLC is installed, HandBrake will scan your DVD and detect all the titles on it. For ripping a movie, you just select the longest title in the list. For ripping a TV show or something with multiple episodes on one disc, just select the episode you want.
Source settings in HandBrake
If you need to convert many episodes at a time, you can have a simpler solution- build a queue in these steps::
1). Select the Enable Queue options.
2). Make the settings for each episode.
3). Click, Add to Queue.
4). Repeat the above for each episode
3. Destination Settings
In the destination settings, select MP4 file as file format, MPEG-4 Video / AAC Audio as codecs formats, and select a location in your computer with enough capacity to store the ripped files. You can also change the default ripped file name so that you can recognize it.
destination settings in HandBrake.
4. Quality Settings
Although the Average bitrate can be as high as 768, I recommend you to set it to 400 since the optical effects are not much different, while higher bitrate will result in larger files in spite of higher video quality. Then select 2-pass encoding to get better video quality and not make the file larger, though this will take twice time.
quality setting in HandBrake
5. Audio Settings
In the Audio settings, for Language 1, select the audio track in your preferred language. There are choices for English language between MPEG and LPCM, choose MPEG. For the Sample rate, you can choose the one you like and for Bitrate, the default is 128, you can keep or select a rate up to 160, but remember the higher you set for the sample rate and the bitrate, the higher quality audio you will get but also the larger the file size will be and the more time the ripping will take.
Audio setting in HandBrake
6. Rip
At last, click the rip button. Encoding time depends on the length of the DVD, the speed of your computer, whether you are doing others with your computer and whether you chose 2-pass encoding.
ripping progress in HandBrake
7. Import into iPhone
Connect your iPhone to your computer and drag the mp4 file to the iTunes library or select Add to Library from the File menu.
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