How to Watch DVD films on iPad Mini 4/3

Here is the process for how to rip and copy DVD movies to your iPad Mini 4/3 to watch on a road trip.


Both the iPad Mini 4 and iPad Mini 3 has the same 7.9-inch, 2,048x1,536-pixel display. The display still looks great at all angles, with plenty of contrast, great color reproduction and all the IPS goodness you've come to expect. It's so cool to watch DVD movies on iPad Mini 4/3/2, especially when you're on a road trip. But we all know that iPad Mini 4/3 can't read DVD. If you happen to have piles of DVD movies and want to put them on your iPad Mini 4 or iPad Mini 3, you can refer to the tutorial below, whichs will show you how to convert DVD to iPad Mini playable movie and how to move them to your iPad Mini 4/3.


First, a quick note: we know that there is still a lot of legal ambiguity around ripping content that you have legally purchased. At Audioholics, we believe that you should be able to watch purchased media on your system regardless of whether it's coming from a standalone DVD player or a media center frontend. Actually, it's not as difficult as you imagine. To get DVD movies to iPad Mini 4/3, you'll need a third-party DVD ripping software.

Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but it still cannot yet protected DVD discs the way it can with regular DVDs. So you'll need to look for a Handbrake alternative to rip DVD to iPad Mini 4/3 regardless of the DVD copy protection. EaseFab DVD Ripper for Mac is the bee's knees, which can help you fast rip DVD discs to a format playble by iPad Mini 4 and iPad Mini 3 while keeping the original quality.

With it, converting DVD to iPad Mini is simple as ABC. After downloding, follow the wizard to install and run the program. If you're using a Windows PC, turn to the Windows version. Then follow the steps below to convert DVD to iPad Mini 4/3 comaptible formats in a few clicks!

How to rip and transfer DVD to iPad Mini 4/3

PS: If you have movies on both DVD and Blu-ray and want to put them on your iPad Mini, simply turn to the Blu-ray Ripper to get the job done.

Step 1. Add DVD files

Insert your DVD into your DVD-Rom. Then click the Load DVD button to import the DVD movies or click the drop-down menu of "File" button to add files to this DVD ripper.



Step 2. Choose the output format

Click "Profile" box and move mouse cursor to "Apple" category, select "iPad Mini 2" or "iPad Mini" as the output format, which will remove all the incompatibility issue for you.



Step 3. Start ripping DVD to iPad Mini

At last, click the Start button to begin converting DVD movies to iPad Mini 4/3 immediately. The conversion only take 10-15 minutes or even less.

Once you ascertain that the conversion is successfully completed, you can import the file anywhere you wish to even in the media player as long as the file is iTunes friendly. First, locate the output file where you have saved the videos. Then open the iTunes app so that you can import the output videos to it. This can be done by dragging and dropping the media file. If the transfer is successful you can further transfer the converted DVD file to your iPad Mini 4 or iPad Mini 3 and you can easily enjoy them everywhere you wish to.

Additional Tips

Tips 1: If you want to view DVD on iPad Mini with subtitles, simply click Subtitles and select the one you prefer. You can also choose preferred audio track from the Audio drop-down lists.



Tips 2: If you like, you can click on settings you could easily set bitrate, frame rate, codec, channels, sample rate, etc to adjust parameters that affect video quality and file size for the video you prefer. keep in mind that bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.