1. Best Format to Rip DVD for Storing Digital Movies [No Quality Loss]
Almost all DVD digitizing involves a loss in quality. But this is a big no-no for the quality freak. There are also people who are looking for storing DVDs digitally to their hard drive, USB, NAS, media server, to name a few, to free up space in their houses with everything preserved, but not overly concerned about the file size. In this situation, you can choose to rip DVD to:
Option 1: ISO
By simply copying the whole DVD to ISO image format, you will retain all the stuff you care about onto your computer at 1:1 ratio, such as the movie content, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitles, authors, year, etc. It is also the best format to copy to another DVD as a backup.
Related: See how to copy DVD to ISO image with original quality >>
Option 2: MPEG2
The DVD-video standard uses MPEG-2 (aka. H.262) to store movie, with allowed dimensions 720x480 and 720x576. Ripping DVD to MPEG-2 format will help to store the full original content, which is de-interlaced for use in HD TVs or computer monitors. Generally, there are some DVD ripper software allows to backup main movie content in MPEG2, whereas some extras like ads, tidbits and more are excluded from the rip but still the quality is unaffected at all and the output file size will be much smaller than IOS image.
Option 3: MKV
MKV is the best format to rip DVD to if you prefer the best video/audio quality possible (see how to convert DVD to multi-track MKV with all audios, subtitles) . It is highly acclaimed for holding video, audio and subtitle tracks in one single file while maintaining the output quality almost identical to the original DVD disc. However, MKV may produce a big movie ranging from 4-7GB that is extremely large. Despite this, it is still regarded as one of the best formats to store digitized DVD movies and is the standard of HD video in Blu ray or FHD quality.
Note: Many users take for granted that upping the DVD video resolution before the ripping will result in a better movie quality, for example, convert DVD to MP4 at a resolution of 720p or even higher. But this doesn't help at all, instead, it will lead to large file size but perform the same as original, with no quality enhancement at all. Because the original DVD resolution is either 720x480 or 720 × 576. Don't expect any dramatic quality improvement when your source movie is just so-so.
2. for Apple iPhone iPad
Apple ditches many mainstream video formats such as AVI, MKV, WMV, DivX, WebM, etc and recognizes MP4, MOV and M4V encoded in HEVC, H.264, MPEG-4 Part 2, at a resolution of up to 1080p on iPhones or iPads. But here are still the best recommendation you need to ip DVD to iPhone iPad or others for your Apple ecosystem.
Best format: MP4
Ripping DVD to MP4 format, though resulting in a minor loss of quality, guarantees the best possible compatibility and good quality-size ratio, which are two decisive factors to convince iTunes iPhone iPad to play the digitized movie, especially when your mobile is space-constrained. Generally, a full movie title will be compressed and reduced by 70-80% in MP4 format, with acceptable video quality. Besides, MP4 is still the optimal format to archive the digitized movie easily.
Best codec:HEVC (Optimal for newer iPhones, iPads, and Macs)
HEVC, also known as H.265, for videos especially at a resolution of 4K 2160p. With better compression than H.264, HEVC is the best format to convert DVD, with resulting file reduced to 40%+ smaller than the predecessor while preserving the same visual quality, greatly releasing your iOS device space.
Note:
HEVC works with mobiles/Macs with the latest iOS 11 or macOS High Sierra.
HEVC is computer intensive. The DVD to HEVC conversion will needs more time than other format transcoding. You'd better to horse stronger hardware and download a DVD ripper with hardware acceleration enabled to minimize the amount of transcoding necessary to make it viewable on your new iPhone X/8 or more.
3. For Android Smartphones or Tablets
There are times you want to ditch the physical discs and rip those movies and TV shows onto your Android for watching without a disc tray. But what's the best format to rip DVD to Android? According to Android documentation, the media format support built into the Android platform include 3GP, MP4, TS AAC, WebM, MKV (for Android 4.0+), H.264, HEVC, VP8, VP9, MP3, AAC, WAV, OGG and more. But there is still the preference when it comes to rip DVD to Android format. The table below is the video encoding recommendation.
|
SD (Low Quality) |
SD (High Quality) |
HD 720p (N/A on all devices) |
Video Resolution |
176x144px |
480x360px |
1280x720px |
Video Frame Rate |
12fps |
30fps |
30fps |
Video Bitrate |
56 kbps |
500 kbps |
2 mbps |
Audio Codec |
AAC-LC |
AAC-LC |
AAC-LC |
Audio Channels |
1 (mono) |
2 (stereo) |
2 (stereo) |
Audio Bitrate |
24 kbps |
128 kbps |
192 kbps |
4. for TV
A streaming player is a must if you want YouTube, Netflix, Hulu or Amazon on your TV. But there is an alternative. You can stream your DVD collections to TV with Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast or other media players. And first of all, please get your DVD discs into digital files that can be streamed. So what is the best format to rip DVD for streaming?
Best format: MP4
It is the most commonly used file format for video, so you will be able to view on most devices, including media server and TV. MP4 is also a streamable video format that can save a lot of disk space. It even allows to sent videos via email or place on the web for easy viewing anywhere. However, you need to bear in mind even the HDTV has become the standard with preferred aspect ratio of widescreen 16:9, there are still some TVs made in a square shape called a 4:3 aspect ratio. To enjoy a full-screen movie playback, please make sure to rip DVD to MP4 H.264/AAC format with proper settings that are suitable for either 4:3 or widescreen 16:9 television. see how to change aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 >>
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