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Best Settings for DVD conversion to Nexus7 ?

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Best Settings for DVD transcode to Nexus7 ?


I just got a nexus 7 on Tuesday and I will be going on a road trip this weekend for 3 days and I will need some movies to entertain me. I was gonna try converting some DVDs I own so that I watch them on my trip in the car.

I guess I was gonna try VP8 and see if that worked beacuse I was figuring google should have made it so that a Nexus7 could watch VP8 files.

Does anyone know what codecs will work, what bit rate, ETC.... I havnt actually done anything like this in a super long time. If anyone could help me with this I would be very thank full
 
By far your best bet is to use DVD Catalyst 4 from tools4movies . com I know it's laid and there are free options out there, but this just works, with very little hassle.

It's $9.99 (half price at the moment) and is very reliable - I've converted tons of stuff with it. The best thing is that it uses a variable bit rate to keep file sizes down - important for nexus 7 - although you have to enable CRF in the settings under Tweaks for best results.

The dev is VERY supportive - when I had a DVD that just wouldn't rip I emailed and he got straight back to me with a way to solve it.

Would recommend it to anyone. It has many preset settings for many devices, but the best one is just to use Motorola Xoom HQXT1 and then enable CRF as I said. But it's also highly customisable and you can change almost any setting you want. If you use Plex to stream stuff from your home PC it will even enable a streaming flag for the resulting mp4 so it is optimised for streaming rather than downloading, but that's optional.

I haven't got an agenda - it's just a great piece of software!

Good luck!
 
I second DVD Catalyst 4. I used it with my Xoom and it was brilliant. I plan to carry on with the Nexus.
 
Thanks for that software suggestion.


I was gonna use the conversion software that is build into the VLC player.

I'll out that option if I cant get anything working. - I will also report back with that works best for me.
 
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