Hackszine.com: HOW TO - Put DVDs on the iPhone

HOW TO - Put DVDs on the iPhone - the super simple way

HandBrake is a GPL'd multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter - it's super easy to rip the DVDs you have and put them on the new iPhone - they look great and are about 1 GB each, here's how...

First, get HandBrake - Link. There are also PC versions of HandBrake, it might work about the same way.

Make 825
Install it, run it. Pop the DVD in. Pick the DVD volume. Choose your settings, I use the defaults usually.

Make 826
It takes about 30 min or so, it runs fine in the background.

Make 827
Drag the MP4 file it makes in to iTunes, in videos tab in iTunes for the iPhone select the movie, click Sync.

Make 828
In a couple minutes it transfers over.

Make 829
It's about a gig.

The video is in the videos section. iPod / Videos.

It looks and sounds great!

*Joe notes - I found if you create a new preset for iphone in handbrake and set the video dimensions to 480x320 you can crunch movies down to a much smaller size optimized for the iphone native resolution.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Jul 16, 2007 12:00 PM
Home Theater, Mac, iPhone, iPod, iTunes | Permalink | Comments (7)

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Posted by: samurai1200 on July 16, 2007 at 11:25 PM

good 'ol kill bill.

anywho, i'm not entirely 'up' on the subject... but isnt ripping DVDs illegal? or was it copying? I dunno, i'd still do it anyway.

Posted by: Christian.Burns on July 17, 2007 at 5:25 PM

Sparky showed me how to do this at Mindcamp 4.0 two weeks ago. It does look amazing. Wish I had one so my kids could watch it on the plane trip to hawaii coming up.

Posted by: guykamen on July 31, 2007 at 9:12 PM

You can get the file down to around 400-700MB with 2-pass H.264 while maintaining the same quality. Perfect for those 2-CD AVIs.

Posted by: Arya on January 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM

OMG! About 30 mins, it took me like 2hours for kill bill 1 which is shorter and i have a fast computer!

Posted by: Jac on February 17, 2008 at 3:25 PM

Anyone know how to input cellfone video clips (.3gp) into iphones?

Posted by: me x) on February 23, 2008 at 5:09 PM

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Posted by: D-Term on September 3, 2008 at 9:43 AM

I tried these steps with I Robot and it gives me a message saying that it didn't sync because This movie can not be synched. Is it in the incorrect format (mp4)? Did Apple put out a change in iTunes to block this?

Any ideas?