handbreak is a good application to do the conversion http://handbrake.fr/
On 24/03/2012, at 9:03 PM, cm wrote: > I couldn't agree more, Mart. I have for many years been a proponent for > getting rid of those large failure prone plastic discs, and in fact have > managed to do so in my house and business at least. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 24/03/2012, at 20:14 , Martin Hill wrote: > >> Definitely best to rip all of your DVDs onto a nice big hard disk on your >> Mac and then sync whichever ones you want onto the iPad. >> >> This way you don't run the risk of scratching or getting dirty fingerprints >> on the DVDs, you also have instant access to the DVDs without being forced >> to sit through all the cruft at the start of the DVD that you can't usually >> fast forward thru and you can keep your originals safely >> locked away as a backup. >> >> I wish I had done this with our complete set of 3 Lord Of the Rings DVD box >> sets. We still have the empty DVD cases but the discs themselves have >> somehow disappeared never to be seen again. I never got around to ripping >> them onto our lounge room iMac's Drobo RAID array so now we are down almost >> a dozen very expensive discs. :-( >> >> -Mart >> >> >> On 24/03/2012, at 5:45 PM, Adrian Skehan <adrianske...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Good afternoon all! >>> >>> Does anyone know if there is a way of viewing video from a DVD on the iPad >>> 3 by having it on a portable device of some sort? I have the adaptors for >>> Camera and SD Card which work well for uploading pictures but I can't see >>> that they offer any sort of solution to what I would like to do. >>> >>> I have a lot of TV series & movies on DVDs, some of which we take away with >>> us when we go east to watch for a bit of entertainment when we are in >>> remote areas. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>> adrianske...@me.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
