Easy DVD Burning

iTunes is a popular digital media player from Apple, which you can use to listen music or watch videos with. Unfortunately, it is also the only interface to manage the contents on several of Apple portable media players, including the popular iPod, and other devices such as the iPhone and iPad. If you want to watch your DVD movies in your iPod or iPad while on the go, you need first to convert them to a format supported by iTunes and your media device.

Of all the things iTunes can’t do, one of these is play a DVD movie. That’s it folks, you can’t play DVD in iTunes nor can you copy DVD to itunes. You need to first convert movie to iTunes supported format, transfer video to iTunes, before you can play movie in iTunes.

Converting your DVD movie to iTunes

As a digital media player to compete with other popular multimedia software such as Windows Media Player and VLC media player, iTunes has support to a wide range of audio and video file formats. iTunes can play video formats such as *.mov (QuickTime movie), *.mp4 (mpeg-4, h.264), *.m4v, *.avi (Windows video), *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv (Digital Video), and any other video formats supported by QuickTime. You need to convert your DVD movie to any of these video formats.

If you plan to watch them on a portable media device, then preferably convert them to a format supported by the device. For instance, iPod and iPhone can play *.mp4.

Additionally, as most commercially-produced DVDs employ some kind of copy protection scheme that prevents the casual copying of such media, you need a capable ripping software that can bypass these protection schemes. A recommended DVD ripping software would be DVD neXt Copy neXt Tech.

Converting DVDs to any formats playable by iTunes is very simple when using DVD neXt Copy neXt Tech, it involves inserting the DVD disc and going through the ripping and converting process, which should take about 15 to 30 minutes depending on the speed of your system and the size of the movie. There are a lot of built-in presets which should make any process simple. After which you can move video to iTunes playlist and play it from there or load it to your portable media device.

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