Rip DVD to iTunes 10.5 Format and Sync With Your Apple Products

Apple quietly announced the release of iTunes 10.5 on Tuesday. The feature added to this version of iTunes is the capability to sync iOS devices via Wi-Fi. In other words, this feature enables content synchronizing between an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using a Wi-Fi connection. This is a big step in a sense, while, the expectation for supporting DVD formats fails again. As always, iTunes 10.5 only rips CDs rather than DVDs, which more or less leaves some regrets to DVD fans.

I believe it is a piece of cake for Apple to enhance this function to transfer DVD to iTunes format. Apple explains that DVD and Blu-ray purchases may include an iTunes Digital Copy. However, Apple wants to encourage people to download films and videos from the iTunes store. Maybe this is a most important reason for iTunes not supporting ripping DVD. At the same time I don’t see why I shouldn’t copy my DVD which I have paid for to my iPad. Here I will share the method to transfer DVD to iTunes format.

There are many methods to transfer DVD to iTunes. The third party application--DVD ripping software is a must to transfer DVD to iTunes format. Many DVD ripper applications for transferring DVD to iTunes format can be found over the internet. Users can compare the price, the ripping speed, the stability and the output quality and so on to choose the most appropriate DVD to iTunes video software. Someone may recommend free DVD ripping software, but to my experience (I have a Windows laptop myself and I have tested), the current free DVD ripping software is hard to handle. I choose Sothink DVD ripper to rip DVD to iTunes 10.5 for the clearer picture quality and high speed.

First, install DVD to iTunes app and load DVD. Then the most important step is to select the output video format. As we all know, iTunes 10.5 supports the following video formats: MOV, MP4, M4V, MPEG, AVI, 3GPP, 3GPP2 etc. You can choose MP4 format (for smooth synchronization between iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV, MP4 is a best format), and set the desired video and audio quality.

However, this DVD to iTunes video software enables you to edit the DVD before ripping, such as trimming DVD, cropping DVD, adjusting effect (bright, contrast and saturation) and adding watermark.

When all settings are done, click “Rip DVD” button. Just wait for minutes, the transferred MP4 format will be done. Then you can easily enjoy the videos on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch via iTunes 10.5.   

You see? It is quite simple to rip DVD to iTunes video. Though some format limitations, we can still watch commercial DVD movies via iTunes with an assistant to copy DVD to iTunes. This will really be a gem to enjoy DVD movies for the synchronization between iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV.