How to Rip DVD to Apple TV on Mac OS OS X
2012-04-09 02:42:01 /
Posted by Adam Cash to Mobile Fun
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Apple TV, as an efficient way to watch online video, TV shows, or to stream photos and music from your Mac to the widescreen TV for enjoyment, of course helps you a lot during the days. Well, what if you are tired of renting video or TV shows but wanna watch your huge collection of DVD movies through Apple TV on the big TV set? Generally speaking, Apple TV has its own format supported list (detailed info in the bottom of this article), and when you are about to play DVD movies using Apple TV, you are required to rip DVD to Apple TV files first.
This article here would assist you to convert DVD to Apple TV on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard included) with the help of a professional DVD to Apple TV converter for Mac, so that you can finish the DVD ripping task quickly and successfully. In that way, you are able to keep the high video quality. Here comes the step by step guide of the DVD ripper for Mac:
Load DVDs to the DVD to Apple TV converter for Mac
In order to locate DVD to the Mac DVD ripper, you are offered two ways: one is directly drag & drop the DVD disc icon on the desktop of your Mac to the Mac app, the other is head to "File" then choose "Load DVD". You are also allowed to import DVD files into the Mac converter for converting. Only the main part of the DVD is defaulted to load when the application is launched for the first time, so if you prefer to load the whole DVD, go to "Preference" then choose "All titles" from "Load Contents in a DVD" dropdown list under Advanced tab.
Set Apple TV as your output format
To simplify your DVD to Apple TV Mac conversion, the smart software offers you an optimized preset for Apple TV, which means, you can directly select it to be your output format under Apple Device section.
Note:This Mac converter additionally supplies you some useful edit function which can mix your own flavor to the media file. Detailed info: User Guide of DVD ripper for Mac.
Start to convert DVD to Apple TV on Mac OS X
Hit on the button of "Convert" then let the smart Mac app finish the rest. The DVD ripper for Mac works perfectly on Mac OS 10.5 and above.
And once the Mac conversion finished, you then can add the items to your iTunes library, then connect your Apple TV as usual and go ahead to your amazing DVD movie experience with Apple TV.
What’s more:
Apple TV Supported Video formats
- H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
- MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
- Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
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