How to Convert and Play DVD Movies on iPhone or iPad for Free

Having a large collection of DVDs and want to watch them on your Apple devices? Many of you want to watch DVD movies on your iPhone. Typically, you need to insert the DVD disc to a DVD drive on your computer. How to play the old DVD movie on your iPhone? However, you can either convert the DVD to the iPhone supported format or copy the DVD movie to your iPhone device. In this article, we will share the best DVD to iPhone converter for you. Follow this tutorial and play you favorite DVD movie on iPhone or iPad.

Part 1. Learn about iPhone Supported Formats

Before converting DVD to iPhone, you need to know about iPhone supported formats first. Here we have listed all file formats supported by iOS devices like iPhone or iPad.

1. iPhone natively supports the common video formats, including MP4, H.264, M4V, MOV, MPEG-4.

2. iPhone supported audio formats: MP3, MPEG4 HE-AAC v1/MPEG4 AAC v2 (.aac, .m4a, .mp4), MPEG2 AAC-LC/MPEG4 AAC-LC (.aac), PCM (.wav, .aiff)

3. Supported photo formats: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP

4. It also support document files, including PDF, Text, Rich TEXT, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote.

Part 2. Best Way to Convert DVD to iPhone

Finding a good DVD to iPhone converter is essential if you want to play the DVD movie on your iPhone. Though there are many DVD converters on the market, not all of them works best. Here we recommend AVAide DVD to iPhone Converter, which is a powerful and easy-to-use DVD converting software for Windows and Mac. It can convert DVD to iPhone MP4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MOV, M4V videos. This converting software supports many iOS devices, like iPhone, iPad Pro, iPad mini, etc.

How to convert DVD to iPhone supported formats

Step 1Free download and install AVAide DVD to iPhone Converter on your computer. Insert the DVD disc into DVD drive on your computer. Then you can run the DVD to iPhone converter and click Load DVD to load the DVD disc you want to convert.

Step 2Go the Convert All to area and select the output format you want. Move to the Device tab and choose the corresponding device type.

Step 3Then click the Edit icon to edit your DVD video. Here you can rotate the DVD video horizontally/vertically, crop the edge of the video, add watermark, adjust audio track and subtitle. If there is no need to modify your video, you can skip this step.

Step 4Finally, go to the Save to area to select the output folder, and click the Rip All button to rip the DVD to iPhone supported video.

Since iPhone supports a number of video formats, such as MP4, H.264, MOV, M4V, MP3, AAC, etc., you can select one desired format when choosing the output format for iPhone.

Part 3. How to Sync DVD video to iPhone

After converting, you can use iTunes to sync the converted DVD video to iPhone for free. In this part, we will show you detailed steps to transfer the DVD video to iPhone.

Step 1Open iTunes, click File at the top menu, and select Add File to Library. Choose the converted DVD video and transfer it to iTunes.

Step 2Connect your iPhone to computer. Hit the device icon in iTunes, and click on Movies.

Step 3Select Sync Movies, check the DVD movie, and click the Sync button to start syncing DVD video to iPhone.

Part 4. FAQs of converting DVD to iPhone

1. Can iPhone play DVDs?

You can’t play DVDs on iPhone directly because there is not DVD slot on iPhone. But you can rip the DVD or record them with professional tools. Then sync the DVD movie to iPhone.

2. Can I plug a DVD player into iPad?

No. You can’t connect a DVD player and play DVD movies on it. But you can stream a digital copy of the DVD movies on your iPad.

3. How can I digitalize my DVDs?

To digitalize your DVD, you need to install DVD Ripper on your computer. Insert the DVD into the DVD drive. Run DVD Ripper and click Load DVD button to import the DVD. Then select the digital format you want to export, and click Rip All button to digitalize your DVD.

By Bryan Simmonds on Sep 22, 2023