Make a DVD I own, so I can watch it on my iPhone
 

I have not had to fly commercial in many years. :DI have a business trip scheduled soon. :mad:

I have a collection of DVDs that I want to reformat to play on my iPhone 16 Pro.

Back when I had my iPhone 5S, I had to fly to Dulles. I was supposed to arrive at 2:30 PM but I did not get to my hotel room until 1:00 AM. I sat and watched some of my favorite movies, Outlaw Josey Wales, Blazing Saddles, and others.

Now to get a commercial DVD copied to my iPhone, and have it work is a struggle. I have no intention of sharing the movies, I just want to watch a DVD that I paid for.

Any ideas on how to make that happen?

And yes, I have DVD - Blue Ray reader & burner on my computer. I have Handbrake and VLC Media player loaded on my system.

What computer OS are you running?

Most current OSs allow for screen video capture and record to a format that can be copied to your phone and watched.

I also have done this with a separate media capture device. There are many of them available on A.

I presume you could use something like Dropbox or whatever Apple uses to share files between Apple products (if your computer is a Mac), to get the file onto your phone. Dropbox may have a data limit for free accounts.

Frame grabber.

I had an analog IR reader that i needed to interface into a program that i could then manipulate the data. Built something fun, but the principle would be the same if one played a movie and then recorded said movie into a digital format. Copyright and what not would dictate that one shouldn’t share it on oil rigs and whatever else is on that copyright banner when playing vhs’s. LOL

I wouldn’t share any burnt movies through online download platforms…. Offline hard drives.

Good point, but how does he get the movie onto his phone?

Jail broken?

Sign up for Netflix for one month?

Speaking of, the ccp streaming websites seem to have extensive libraries. If they didn’t have a movie, it was too old and on YouTube.

Win11 and Mac ios have screen recording functions built in. Play the video on your computer and record it.

I am using Win 11 Pro.

That seems like total workaround, and real pain in the butt.

Back in the days of my iPhone 5s, I just ripped the DVD to a MP4 file as I remember. Then I just put it in a folder for iTunes (the worst POS piece of software ever) and it worked fine. Now the digital media right stuff has become a lot more strict. I totally understand copyright, and I don't want to cheat at all. I just want to watch one of my DVDs on my phone.

I want it stored on my phone, so I don't need internet or 5G or Bluetooth or any connection, just play a file on my iPhone. I have multiple videos on my phone I shot, but they are kinda boring even to me.

Stuck at the doctor's office or at the airport, I have a movie to watch (I do have Bluetooth headphones) and occupy some time.

I really should not be that hard.

$50 portable DVD player?


Amazon Video lets you locally download stuff

The time and effort for you to rip a DVD, convert it, push it onto your phone the watch it is astounding compared to just streaming nearly whatever you want.

It's not except maybe the first time that you do it just because you aren't familiar with the process. It'll still probably take 10, 15, 30 mins to rip a DVD (depends upon your PC and the DVD and how you tell Handbrake to do it).

Handbrake is an app that will rip DVDs to a file that you can then put on your phone, and it's available for Windows or MAC
https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Then on the main page after you've told it you want to rip the DVD, you go to "Presets" and choose one of the apple presets. The size of the video will be based on the resolution you choose.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1760357287.jpg

instructions for the full process.
https://www.dumbofab.com/resource/how-to-use-handbrake-rip-dvds.html

I'm pretty sure that he's running Windows. If he's running a MAC it's super easy to share between devices using "airdrop" which uses bluetooth.

Streaming is fine if I have a secure fast connection to WiFi, or a good 5G connection.

Sitting on an airplane, or a doctors office it will not work unless I spend a lot of money on their WiFi. I am not a fan of public WiFi as it is not real secure on a phone.

The old Mp4s I made years ago for my 5S will not play on the new phones, and I bet it is the digital rights protection.

Rip it to mp4 using VLC or ffmpeg on a desktop/laptop and then xfer to iphone to play at will. Heck if VLC on the iPhone can play an ISO image as a DVD then just rip the DVD to an ISO using K9Copy or whatever you like.

MP4 shouldn't contain any DRM, more likely to be old/no longer supported codecs and you can fix by reencoding with ffmpeg or vlc

Why would you stream it? Instructions above for ripping.

Here's the Clifs Notes on what I do. DVD > makeMKV > handbrake > Plex > download to device. Plex is a selfhosted Netflix. It does cost money, but if you do it en mase, it is totally worth it. Plus you can stream your home library across the house, devices and watch remotely at a hotel with a Roku. I know that home streaming bit is not what you were asking for, but it is a very nice perk.

Go old school and do a video with your phone while playing the movie on your TV. :D

VLC is available for i-things and has a upload via wireless where it simply fires up a simple webserver and you can drag/drop files via the browser

Then you can play your ripped movies in VLC on your i-thing and not need to worry...

Why put makemkv between DVD and handbrake?

My process
DVD > handbrake > NAS (I could run Plex on my NAS, but don't)

I don't/can't stream remotely, but then I don't want/need to. Mine is only for local streaming.

Of course, Glenn just wants to rip a DVD or several to play on his phone which is the same as either your or my process without the last step.

Using his favorite application of all time, iTunes. iTunes is the main method to move files (music, books, photos, videos) back and forth between an MS Win box and an iPhone/pad. THere are also other third party apps that act like iTunes for folks that want to go that route.

I use handbrake to shrink the file size from MKV to save space on my NAS. Plus I like to over complicate things. I use docker for most of my stuff and I have had a B!tC# of a time with pass through of a DVD/BluRay from my server to docker makeMKV.

Not a Mac guy here, Android user. Does Apple still require you to use iTunes or whatever to upload media to the phone? Lame.

I think iTunes is the preferred. It's been a while since I had a MS Win box at home, but the last time that I did, it was possible for the Win box to see the phone as a "drive" to transfer files, although I'm not sure everything would register with the appropriate apps. I think there are also some third party apps that will do the job of iTunes.

Way, WAY back, iTunes was HORRIBLE. It got much, MUCH better, but then I am on a Mac now, so I don't know how it's changed since I switched.

I used to be hardcore Android. I had the first Google phone, and then had the second, and rooted my first 3 Android phones. Android was, IMO, much, much better to IOS back in the day. I think at some point the gap shrank and the lead started to be handed off back and forth between them. Then as others in the family started getting iPhones, and iPads, and the wife got her first Mac, the interoperability between the phones and all of the other systems because the feature that really pushed IOS ahead of Android for me. Plus, all of the Android phones had so much platform specific bloat whether it was from Motorola, Samsung, etc.... That's why I liked the Google phones was because they were just Android.

Though with Plex you can download your movies right from your library.

Handbrake will rip it to MKV or MPG for you. I think VLC will as well. MakeMKV is great and free but has bugs now and then.

That said, I have ripped hundreds of our DVDs with MakeMKV and used Handbrake when the MakeMKV didn't work.

They are in Plex for us to stream anywhwere or download for airplane mode.