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#Vlc media player rip dvd commentary track how to

#Vlc media player rip dvd commentary track how to

In a future post I’ll cover how to setup your Synology NAS as an iTunes server capable of streaming these converted DVDs so that you don’t have to use your Mac or PC as an iTunes server. Movies that we “rip” have to be hosted on our computer or Synology NAS in order to be shared. One advantage of buying the movie in iTunes is that it is made available online for streaming to any Apple device using your same Apple ID.

The bad news is that a few of your DVDs you will try to convert and you will need to find other tools or buy the movie digitally. The good news is that most of the tools are free and work well. In this post we’ll cover the steps needed to convert (aka ripping) your DVD library into MPEG-4 movies (.M4V) that are compatible with playback on PCs, Macs, iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) and even Apple TV. If your old enough to remember VHS and having to buy the same movie again when it came out on DVD then you’ll be happy to know that using a few tools on your Mac you can easily convert your DVDs to movies. While the movie industry isn’t excited about users being able to rip their DVD collection it is obvious that between NetFlix and iTunes that more and more movies are being streamed rather than played from DVD or Blu-Ray. That said we still have a large library of old DVDs. My kids prefer to stream movies to the iPads or Airplay them to the big screen. The concept of a disc as the vehicle for watching content is dead.