[lovelystone]

It's been a quite while now since Apple unleashed their iPhone, the smart and lightweight handheld device which have a gorgeous 3.5" screen. It can make phone talks, netsurf via internet with Safari, and play crisp videos and music as iPod. Admittedly, there are a lot of complaints from people about iPhone's short life in battery, exclusive use for AT&T and high price. But we all have known and realized that iPhone has been playing a big number in Apple's iPod family.
In terms of the tech parameters published officially in Apple's site, we noticed that except the screen size, all the video and audio formats supported by Video iPods are totally the same, especially iPod Touch, it seems to be another iPhone just without the mobile phone connection. And the truth is, there are some differences amongst them, even they are very tiny so as to masses always overlook them unconsciously. For example, the iPhone's requirement is video bit rate at 2.5Mbps, while the iPod Classic and iPod Nano can be playing over 3.0Mbps. It doesn’t mean iPhone cannot support this 3.0Mbps kind, but if you’ve tried, you’d have to take my words, coz the 3.Mbps videos is unable to work on iPhone and iPod Touch. But what's the matter if you are just playing videos in an iPod or an iPhone?
In order to demonstrate what I said, I did some tests to compare the displaying quality between iPhone and iPod. First of all, I just converted a DVD video file to iPod MPEG-4 video format by using Xilisoft DVD to iPod Converter, set the resolution at 480 by 320 and bit rate at 2.5Mbps. And then, I did this DVD to iPhone conversion and settings again with the DVD to iPhone Converter from Xilisoft, although the output profile was named iPhone MPEG-4 (480*320). After that, I transferred the converted video files into a iPod Nano and an iPhone respectively thru Xilisoft iPod Rip, iPod and iPhone software for transfer, and no surprising, the video quality plays well as in the same criterion just with your eyes. By the way, these iPod and iPhone software from Xilisoft Corporation are way easy to use. The only spot which cannot content my needs is that the iPod rip doesn't have an option to modify the file name, even though it did better at removing video files directly from iPod or iPhone than Apple's iTunes.
So the conclusion is that iPhone can play videos perfectly as Video iPod did. Just like my tests, maybe most DVD to iPod converter software can fulfill your requests in DVD to iPhone conversion no matter you owned a Video iPod and an iPhone or just one of them.

[redcard]

I don't understand what you said there with those words

[Eurisko]

Originally Posted by lovelystone

So the conclusion is that iPhone can play videos perfectly as Video iPod did. Just like my tests, maybe most DVD to iPod converter software can fulfill your requests in DVD to iPhone conversion no matter you owned a Video iPod and an iPhone or just one of them.

This is all a matter of personal preference, and is also dependent on the method you save the videos. If you choose Apple's built-in converters (Quicktime) there are two methods: Covert to iPhone (480x320, 1.2MBps, H264) or Convert to iPod (320x240, 900KBps, H264). This is the canon methodology.

When using Third Party programs (I've never used Xilisoft myself). The naming conventions are not in line with Apple standards and therefore can be tricky to interpret. In short, their version of DVD to iPod vs DVD to iPhone, can mean basically anything they want it to mean.

A resolution of 320x240 is quite fine for either the iPod or the iPhone aesthetically speaking. So the long answer here is.... ya DVD to iPod is fine.

Before convert video to iPhone or convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, Divx,
XviD, Youtube, RMVB, DVR-MS, FLV, ASF, MPG to iPhone, or rip dvd to iPhone,let's check the format limitations for iPhone.

Audio
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Video
Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile

with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per

second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 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


In my experience, if you want to convert any files to your portable. you just need find which formats will be supported,and then convert them with free tools

or share tools:
there is some free tools that may help you.
video tools:
SUPER http://dl2.afterdawn.com/download/ce...8_Build_24.zip
DVD tools:
Hanbrake: http://handbrake.fr/?article=download
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPhone/
But in my personal experience,the freeware always have some problems more or less.its quality can not be guaranteed


DVD to iPhone:




Now, to rip dvd to iPhone is not a puzzle. Much of software can realize it. Moyea DVD to iPhone Converter is a great one. Not only can it rip video to

iPhone, but also it supports to separate audio to iPhone. The function of video editing is also the reason I’m pleased at it.
Here is the link: http://www.my-video-converter.com/dvd_to_iphone/

Steps:

1. Download the converter at http://www.my-video-converter.com/dvd_to_iphone and install it.
2. Load the dvd to the program and choose the chapter you want to convert
3. Click the Settings button and make sure that the option for Aspect Ratio is Auto.
4. Click the big button on the right to start conversion.

[reddevilseye]

y when I convert in iTunes to mp4 they come without sound
anyone ???

[Eurisko]

Originally Posted by reddevilseye

y when I convert in iTunes to mp4 they come without sound
anyone ???

Videos that are saved in certain formats are multiplexed, meaning the audio and video are melded into one stream. Quicktime (and hence iTunes) does not recognize the audio as a separate entity within these streams and only converts the video.

Mpeg1 is a prime example of this. What you can do to check the format of your video is open it in Quicktime and select "Windows -> Movie A/V Properties". If you only see one stream, its multiplexed and needs to be de-multiplexed before iTunes can correctly convert it.

For the Mac there is a free program called BBDemux that can be used for this.