AlaynaThatncher
07-12-2014, 06:01
Due to some murky legal issues, iTunes can’t (nor do I expect will ever be able to) rip your purchased DVDs to copy to your iOS devices or play on your Apple TV. But many third-party apps can, and the free HandBrake is at the top of my list for such purposes.
HandBrake can rip your DVDs so you can watch them on your iOS device or Apple TV. With HandBrake you can pull movies and TV shows off the DVDs you’ve bought over the years and convert them to a format suitable for your Apple devices, at the same time including subtitles/closed-captioning data or removing unwanted audio tracks, say, in the process.
Once you’ve ripped your DVDs, you’re left with beautiful files—with absolutely no tagging metadata to help iTunes sort and display them properly. To fix that, a tagging utility is a must http://www.issaved.com (http://issaved.com). (They're also quite useful if you record TV shows from free, over-the-air signals using an EyeTV-type device.) My favorite such app is Jendrik Bertram’s $20 iFlicks.
iFlicks looks up metadata online to help you properly tag your movies and TV shows. iFlicks looks up metadata from online TV-show and movie databases and can add useful tags such as TV-show episode names, seasons, and episode numbers; movie release dates; directors and descriptions; and cover art to your files. iFlicks is also a video transcoding app that can convert files from one format to another to make smaller versions of big files, or to turn non-iTunes-compatible videos into Apple-friendly ones, say.
HandBrake can rip your DVDs so you can watch them on your iOS device or Apple TV. With HandBrake you can pull movies and TV shows off the DVDs you’ve bought over the years and convert them to a format suitable for your Apple devices, at the same time including subtitles/closed-captioning data or removing unwanted audio tracks, say, in the process.
Once you’ve ripped your DVDs, you’re left with beautiful files—with absolutely no tagging metadata to help iTunes sort and display them properly. To fix that, a tagging utility is a must http://www.issaved.com (http://issaved.com). (They're also quite useful if you record TV shows from free, over-the-air signals using an EyeTV-type device.) My favorite such app is Jendrik Bertram’s $20 iFlicks.
iFlicks looks up metadata online to help you properly tag your movies and TV shows. iFlicks looks up metadata from online TV-show and movie databases and can add useful tags such as TV-show episode names, seasons, and episode numbers; movie release dates; directors and descriptions; and cover art to your files. iFlicks is also a video transcoding app that can convert files from one format to another to make smaller versions of big files, or to turn non-iTunes-compatible videos into Apple-friendly ones, say.