How to convert a DVD to quicktime.

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:52 pm. 3 comments

Here’s how to copy a DVD to your harddrive and convert it to a movie that will play on your iphone, ipod or in quicktime on your computer.Go to http://handbrake.fr/ and click on ‘download it now’ to download the latest version of handbrake. Instal and run handbrake. Insert the DVD you want to copy. Click the ’source’ in the top left of the toolbar, and select the DVD.

Under ’source’ select the title and chapters that you want. You can work out the chapters by opening DVD player and looking in the information window. To verify them you can check the duration. Click ‘toggle presets’ in the toolbar and this will give you a pull out window where you can select the output quality that you want. AppleTV is better quality, iPod is lower quality and a smaller file. I made my own settign called phone, which makes a very small file. I used: MP4 file, MPEG-4 Video/AAC Audio. Video was 320×240 and 15 frames per second and 350kbps. Audio was 128 kbps and 24khz. This was as small a filesize as I could make with still an OK quality. Select a destination directory (eg desktop) and press the start button. It can take quite a while, allow a few hours!