As usual, the time when people use PCs, they converted many DVDs into AVIs. In addition, they had to break some AVIs into separated files which are CD-sized since they didn’t own DVD players or trillion-byte hard drives. Be relax because no one will doubt you, not alone call MPAA in within your IP address just for the reason that you have read the passage.
Suppose you have already owned a Mac, but you can’t play any movie neither by iPhone nor by iPod. To make it even worse, some cannot be played on Macbook. Then, what should you do?
My experience tells me that an MPlayer or a VLC will help you when Quicktime doesn’t work. Even if they are not so good and only non-Mac, they are efficient and used for free. In contrast, MPlayer is more direct, while VLC contains more formats which make you have more choice. When you cannot play a video by none of them on your Mac, it may suggest that something wrong with the movie.
Handbrake
It will be even harder for you to make your movies suitable in an iPod or an iPhone. A handbrake will make your DVD ripping easier such as DVD to MOV on Mac when you keep the original ripped DVD from eBay. Not only does it owns a perfect series of settings for high demanding users, but also it owns basic presets for common users, such as iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, etc.
I listen to your requirement. You an AVI and it cannot be played in Quicktime. What you should do is to transfer it m4v for iPhone to play or mp4. In most occasions, I choose AppGeeker. With the same feel as Handbrake, it also has a number of output choices for technology and smart-alec alert windows to use.
However, for the rest few occasions, avoid buying Quicktime Pro to deal with your AVI to MOV Mac task when it has been broken into chunks. It occupies the highest hours of Macintosh media to deal with 700MB files. I don’t know why D-Vision videos geeks French, but they are actually quicker and clearer without paying money. Click the button “Tools” and it will do for you as well as deal with bad AVIs for you.
You may encounter the situation when your video files do not work for seldom times. My Batman Begins in .mp4 file couldn’t play within my iPhone. Hours of hard thinking, I tried it in Quicktime and tried to find its properties in “Movie Properties”. I opened the menu and found that the video was only one second longer than the voice track which is actually a few fractions. It is a little mistake which cannot be found in playback while terrible enough to bring some problem. Therefore, after I chopped the beginning and end for a half-second length off, everything became good.
And there are even seldom times that you find strange .mkv format or some other formats movie in your collection. In these situations, a VLC is the best choice for you because it can help output an MPEG file (How-to: convert MPEG to MOV) with time and pains for which AppGeeker usually makes iPod-worthy.