Apple's iPad becomes one of the most useful solutions for movie playback due to its large screen size and high-resolution display. iPad Pro 12.9-inch, for example, is equipped with an LED-backlit IPS display and 2732 x 2048 pixel resolution.
Unfortunately, neither the iPad Pro, Air, or Mini supports any built-in or external DVD player and DVD-ROM. If you possess a large collection of movie DVDs and want to play them on iPad during leisure time or journey hours, you’d better rip movie DVD to iPad. Here comes the question, how to put DVDs onto iPad? This article covers the detailed guides, along with the best DVD to iPad converter for Mac and Windows.
Cisdem Video Converter
Free Download macOS 10.13 or later 
Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7
| Supported Formats | |
|---|---|
| Video | MP4, MOV, M4V, etc. |
| Audio | AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, Dolby Digital, AIFF, WAV, etc. |
| Unsupported formats | |
|---|---|
| Video | Blu-ray, DVD, MKV, WMV, MPG, FLV, F4V, VOB, MTS, M2TS, WTV, OGV, MXF, NSV, RMVB, etc. |
| Audio | AC3, APE, MKA, AU, MP2, MPA, M4B, etc. |
| Recommended formats for iPad | |
|---|---|
| Video | MP4 |
| Audio | MP3, AAC |
Cisdem Video Converter is a full-fledged and tech-savvy DVD to iPad converter for Mac and PC that stands out from the competitors. Its user-oriented design makes it easy to rip movie DVD to iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iPod, and digital formats. The software supports a different variety of DVD files, including the marketable and most recent DVD, DVD folder, ISO, and DVD with copy protection like CSS, Region Code, etc.
Aside from converting movie DVD to iPad, it also offers other unexpected functions. You can use it to rip Blu-ray movies, download free movies to watch offline, customize movies with editing tools, and convert them to any format with high quality.
Download and install the program on your computer. There is a free trial version available. Once the installation finishes, run the DVD to iPad Converter for Mac to get things moving.
Free Download macOS 10.13 or later Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7
Place a movie DVD disc into your optical drive.
Directly drag the DVD into the “rip” interface (the second tab) of Cisdem Video Converter.
Note: The software supports ripping batch DVD movies. You can add both multiple VIDEO_TS folders and the DVD disc to the queue.
Click the format icon or the "Convert all tasks to" button to open the output file panel. Select iPad-supported formats from "Video" category, like MP4 and MP3, etc.
Actually, the software has already provided the preset profiles for the iPad. Head to "Device" > “iPad”, then select a designated model for iPad Pro, New iPad, iPad Air, etc. from the right side.
Click the 
icon next to the format, and it will get you into “Setting” window. From there, you can manually set a suitable quality, bit rate, sample rate, etc.
Click "Start" button at the lower right hand of the application to start DVD movie to iPad conversion. The full DVD ripping time it takes vary based on your system's hardware specs and the length of your DVD movie.
Free Download macOS 10.13 or later Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a reputed DVD to iPad converter that's compatible with Windows 7/8/10 32bit and 64bit. It's entitled to rip movie DVD to iPad, iPhone, Xbox One, PS4, MP4, MOV, MPEG, ISO image, and so forth. The software ensures fast ripping speed by using Intel/NVIDIA hardware acceleration. It also lets you fine-tune the movie DVD with built-in editor and parameter settings.
Step 1. Download, install, and run WinX DVD Ripper Platinum on Windows.
Step 2. Insert a DVD disc and click the “DVD Disc” button on WinX interface to load the DVD titles, or load DVD folder by clicking “Folder”.
Step 3. An “Output Profile” window pops up. From the left side, go to “Device Profile” category, and choose “Apple Device” > “to iPad Video” > your iPad device. Or you can select an appropriate format from “General Profiles”.
Note: The main title is detected by default. If you wish to rip other titles, check them as well.
Step 4. Click “Browser” to define a folder to save your output file.
Step 5. Click “Run” to begin ripping DVD to iPad on PC.
Handbrake is a free DVD to iPad converter for both Mac and Windows (merely works on 64bit). It’s able to rip DVD to iPad, Android, Roku, Amazon Fire, PlayStation, etc. The program empowers you to rip general or Blu-ray discs but except encrypted ones, unless you install another tool to bypass copy protection. This free DVD to iPad converter contains another obvious drawback. There are only two output formats (MP4, MKV) are supported.
Step 1. Install and launch Handbrake to your computer.
Step 2. Insert your disc into the DVD drive.
Step 3. Click on “Source” at upper left corner and load your DVD file.
Step 4. You can directly choose your target format as “MP4 File”, or head over to “Preset” > “Devices” > “Apple 1080p60 Surround”, “Apple 1080p30 Surround”, “Apple 720p30 Surround”, according to your iPad model.
Step 5. Click “Browser” and specify the output path.
Step 6. Click “Start” to rip movie DVD to iPad.
First of all, you need to prepare a DVD player to play your movie DVD. If you don't have it, install the freeware- VLC Media Player, which has the capacity to play DVD, audio CD, and VCD.
QuickTime comes installed on your Mac- if your system is not too old. Not only be it a media player, but a recorder to capture your screen, audio, and movie. It's able to rip movie DVD to iPad format- MOV.
Windows 10 is armed with a built-in video recorder, but it can only capture video in games and some programs. The entire desktop is not included. To record/rip movie DVD to iPad free on Windows, you can try an online screen recorder like Screenapp.io.
After digitalizing the movie DVD with the best DVD to iPad converter for Mac and Window, you can set about transferring it to iPad.
For macOS Mojave or before, Windows
For macOS Catalina or later
Well, using a professional DVD ripper like Cisdem Video Converter and WinX DVD Ripper Platinum should be the best way to rip movie DVD to iPad and protect it from being aged. I don't think capturing a DVD with a video recorder is a good way to back up movie DVD, as you have to cut the video after recording and the background audio may be lost.
Jenny is a technology editor who has been blogging since she was a student. Since joining Cisdem, she focuses on writing articles about video software and how-to guides. She loves exploring new tools and techniques.
