Update| How to Rip Blu-ray to Digital Movie for iPad Users
Do you know the iPad? It possesses large and HD screen display, which makes it quite enjoyable for HD video movies watching. Have you ever tried to play Blu-ray videos on iPad? But, the final result is a failure, isn’t it?
This article would be the right place for you to know how to play Blu-ray movies on iPad. The answer is ripping Blu-ray videos to other video formats which can be acceptable by iPad.
If you want to know more information about ripping Blu-ray/DVD to other video formats for different playing devices, you can refer to these articles: Does Xbox 360 Play Blu-ray? And How to Rip DVD to MP4 for PC and Android?
Part1: How to convert Blu-ray to iPad supported file formats
Obviously, in order to convert Blu ray to iPad video files, you need to make clear what video formats Apple’s iPad tablets are friendly with. The below table shows you detailed info.
| Supported Video Formats | Supported Audio Formats | |
| iPad | MOV,MP4,M4V,H.264,MPEG-4 | HE-AAC (V1),AAC (16 to 320 Kbps),Protected AAC (MP4 from iTunes Store),MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps),MP3 VBR,Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4),Apple Lossless,AIFF,WAV |
Apparently, Blu-ray video is not friendly with iPad. So, we need to find a tool to rip Blu-ray. f2fsoft Blu-ray Ripper is highly suggested for you, the best Blu-ray/DVD ripper can decrypt, convert BD or DVD movies to videos without quality loss.
1: Decrypt and rip Blu-ray disc with disc protection and region code; Decrypt Blu-ray discs with BD+ and the latest MKB protection and CSS-DVD discs.
2: Rip Blu-ray to MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV, and other 180+ HD/SD formats; so does DVD.
3: Backup Blu-ray movies to normal videos for space saving.
4: Convert 2D Blu-ray movies to 6 different 3D effects.
5: Fast conversion with NVIDIA CUDA, AMD APP and Intel Quick Sync acceleration technologies.
Now, let's begin to rip Blu-ray.
Step1: Download and run f2fsoft Blu-ray Ripper free on computer.
Step2: Load your Blu-ray movie from computer to f2fsoft Blu-ray Ripper software by clicking Add Blu-ray/DVD to load movies or just dragging movies to the main interface.
Step3: Click VOB Video on the top of the interface. There will be a drop list: Edit, Change, Apple to All. Click Change. You will see another interface, click Format > Common Video > MOV, MP4, M4V as you like.
Step4: Click Edit option to adjust video parameters of selected profile, including: video codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, channel, etc.
Step5: Finally click Convert button.
Part2: How to transfer the converted Blu-ray movies to iPad from computer
After finishing Blu-ray to digital movie conversion, we need to transfer the converted movie to iPad.
This process could be very simple as long as we get help from iTunes.
Step1: Connect your iPad to computer via digital cable.
Step2: Log in iTunes on computer.
Step3: Open Movies tab, check Sync Movies option, and choose target movies.
Step4: Click the bottom right Apply button. Stay iPad connected.
If you find it’s extremely complicated to transfer the converted Blu-ray movies to iPad via iTunes, or you’ve failed to do this with iTunes, you can try to use f2fsoft Phone Transfer, which can transfer videos from iPhone to Mac and from computer to iPhone.