How do you download movies on DVD to Nexus 8? So I'm going on a trip this week and the plane is rather long. I wanted to get movies on my tablet without having to buy them or rent them on the Google Play Store. So I was searching on the Nexus 8 Help website and I found no helpful instructions. So if someone could help me that would be great. Thanks.
Needless to say, the Google Nexus 8 is a wonderful tablet which can be used to watch videos on the go. However, according to Google, the Nexus 8 only supports videos in some certain format. And you cannot play DVD disc movies on it directly. What if you have collected many DVD movies which you'd like to get them onto Nexus 8 for playing? You may think it's impossible but it's totally achievable to watch DVD movies on Nexus 8.
In order to transfer DVDs onto Google Nexus 8, you will need an app to do this. The best and most easy-to-use program would be DVD Ripper (DVD Ripper for Mac). This special DVD to Nexus 8 Converter lets you easily rip and convert any DVD disk movies into Nexus 8 compatible video formats like MP4. Besides, it will do this in 6X times faster speed with amazing quality. Below is the step by step guide you may follow and download DVD movies to Nexus 8 for enjoying.
So here we have both Mac and Windows version of DVD Converter for Nexus 8. According to your specific operating system, download the right version and get it installed on your computer. The process is pretty much the same to convert DVD into Nexus 8 on either Windows or Mac platform. Here we take Windows process as an example. Once installed the application, you may launch it on your computer.
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Here you may want to insert the DVD disc into the computer's DVD drive. On the program, you may click on "Load DVD" button on the top tool bar. Then you will be able to browse the DVD files and import them into the software. The added files will appear on the left panel. On the right part of the interface, you can preview the loaded movies if you want.
Since MP4 is one of the supported video format by Google Nexus 8, here you may click on "Profile" button, go to "Common Video" and there you can select "MP4" as the output format. Of course, you can use this professional DVD Movie to Nexus 8 Ripper to convert DVDs to any file format you want. What's more, you can hit on "Settings" to edit output parameters like resolution, frame rate, encoder, etc.
Whenever you're ready, you may simply press on "Start" button and this smart application will now start ripping and converting DVD videos into Google Nexus 8 supported movies.
Then you need to wait for a while till the process is completed. After that, you can hit on "Find Target" button and there you can see the converted DVD movies which are now in Nexus 8 compatible MP4 format. Now you can connect your device to the computer and transfer/add DVD movies to Nexus 8 for enjoying. Have fun.