We recently did a post that showed how to get movies onto an iPhone for free. We used a video file (a recent episode of NCIS) we already had on our PC and used software – that can be downloaded free – to convert it to an iPhone compatible format. The software then auto transferred the converted file from our PC to iTunes (for later viewing on our iPhone)
At the time we promised to do a later post explaining how to get movie/video files onto our PC in the first place! The problem with TransferMyVideo is that it does not copy “protected” DVDs. But all our favorite videos are “protected”.
The solution to the problem turns out to be extremely simple. There is a small – again FREE – piece of neat software that can be downloaded and used to unlock our videos. Its called DVD43 (the gives us the green smiley face on the left). Once downloaded, it just sits on our desktop and auto unlocks videos when we use software such as TransferMyVideo. Its super cool and that easy to use (ie it does it all without us having to doa thing!)
All we have to do is: put video into our computer’s DVD player; open TransferMyVideo; select “My DVD”; wait a few seconds for the titles to load (this does not happen if you have not downloaded the free DVD43 unlock software); select the movie file to be copied; click “convert”.
TransferMyVideo converts the DVD very quickly to iPhone compatible format (at about twice playing speed). When the DVD has been converted to an iPhone playable file, it will be auto loaded to iTunes and can be found in the Movies library ready to be synced to an iPhone.
The links for the two free bits of software that allow us to watch our DVDs on our iPhone are:
Now, as we explained in our previous post, the TransferMyVideo software is free but comes with the watermark in the middle of the screen (as seen in the above screen shot showing My Oceans 13 DVD playing on my iPhone. But the non-watermark version is very cheap- you can download it HERE!