I created a Client’s Centenary Video in VegasPro and had it published on a DVD which I created several Motion menus in DVD.
What’s the best/easiest way to RIP from DVD to import to my iPad?
I have HandBrake.
I would rip to mp4 with chapters or MKV/mp4 with chapters in Handbrake. The Apple presets in HB are said to work nicely.
Video_TS player support is almost non-existent in portables and the folders are fiully six times larger than a ripped MP4.
Menu support is an as-yet unimplemented feature of MKV. Nobody took an interest in developing it.
The possible advantages of MKV are multiple audio tracks and subtitles, and multiple DVD titles in the same file. Otherwise, either wrapper should play the same.
That said, don't use AC3 audio for iThingies or AppleTV. That said, the current AAC encoder in Handbrake is just average.
The Apple presets in HB are said to work nicely.
@Musicvid So, am I to understand you haven’t experienced using the Presets for iPad? Do you know if I’d get my Menus, Structure and animated Menu backgrounds?
Video_TS player support is almost non-existent in portables and the folders are fiully six times larger than a ripped MP4.
Menu support is an as-yet unimplemented feature of MKV. Nobody took an interest in developing it.
Why would I use MKV over MP4? I’m a novice to this DarkArt?
The possible advantages of MKV are multiple audio tracks and subtitles, and multiple DVD titles in the same file. Otherwise, either wrapper should play the same.
O...K... ?
That said, don't use AC3 audio for iThingies or AppleTV. That said, the current AAC encoder in Handbrake is just average.
Ah, right.
Anybody else have “experiential” Tips n Tricks?
A couple of years ago, Apple and Dolby seemed to be in a pissin’ match and VLC for iPad wouldn’t play ac3 files. In the last six months, I’ve had no problem playing recorded MPEG-2 transport streams with ac3 audio from my HTPC over wi-fi. I haven’t used DVD for such a task since I could just drop the disk in a drive.
This stream is even interlaced 1080.
The Apple presets in HB are said to work nicely.
@Musicvid So, am I to understand you haven’t experienced using the Presets for iPad? Do you know if I’d get my Menus, Structure and animated Menu backgrounds?
I hve no Apple devices, and no, Menus and architecture are not supported, only chapter points.
Video_TS player support is almost non-existent in portables and the folders are fiully six times larger than a ripped MP4.
Menu support is an as-yet unimplemented feature of MKV. Nobody took an interest in developing it.
Why would I use MKV over MP4? I’m a novice to this DarkArt?
Mkv can wrap MP4 or anything else, it's not needed unless you need the multiple track supports mentioned.
The possible advantages of MKV are multiple audio tracks and subtitles, and multiple DVD titles in the same file. Otherwise, either wrapper should play the same.
O...K... ?
As just above.
That said, don't use AC3 audio for iThingies or AppleTV. That said, the current AAC encoder in Handbrake is just average.
Ah, right.
Apple has only lately added AC3 support, but it's not a format for sharing, because it won't play for many. It's cumbersome compared with native AAC, an Apple invention.
Anybody else have “experiential” Tips n Tricks?
Grazie, you could render out your menus separately from the DVD, and include those on an MKV with your program to show your talents, but they wouldn't be functional, just motion video files.
You can search the app stores for a DVD folder player for ipad, but the Video_TS folder could take up 20% of your tablet's storage space
I want them Functional! I want all my Magic visible. I also wanna be 21 again.
I bet you'll find something in the app store, get a big sdhc card!
When I can have a DVD play from Menus on my TV. When I can play my extravagant Creations from Windows Player on my PC. When I can navigate through a YOUTUBE Menu and play tons of Puppies and Kitties and when I can Navigate through “Menus” of innumerable Playable Switch/Click on even the most modest of HomeMade Websites, I can’t do this on my iSlab? This makes me iNutz!
@Musicvid Many thanks for your kind patience with me over this. To me, as a non-programmer, I do have an ability to attract those that do to be instigators in driving concepts forward.
If I seem mildly cynical about the practical prospects, it goes back to my first 'droid a Nook with a 1080p screen and lousy memory handling, and took an expensive (then) 32GB card, onto which I could fit 4 DVD titles. Of the players that claimed to work, one did, and finding a non-expiringn APK to play AC3 was the next challenge. My hopes of Apple being able to do better than that on an iPhone are where my skepticism lies.
My other lack of joy comes from the disinterest of anyone, apparently, to build a prototype for full menu support and display in MKV, which is definitely part of the spec, but the effort gets tossed aside as "a dying format."
I might turn to looking for Cloud services that convert DVDs to functional online menu-driven movies, if such a thing even exists.
So as far as showing my DVD masterpieces to prospective clients and staffers, it was a portable backseat player/screen combo.
I have caught myself several times giving advice from the point where I gave up searching, maybe years back.
If there is something new that translates to 'droid, I'll get it. Until then, this aging Quixote is passing the torch. Grazie, I feel your ache.