[lorenczak]

Any idea how I can put my dvd's on my 9000 to watch them? I've looked through the Media Manager and it dosn't seem to have any "import movie" function. Would I need a 2nd party dvd rip program? then put it in my movie folder? How have you all done it?

[David Valencia]

i use pqdvd to rip dvds for my ipod/itouch/bold and save them to a folder on my desktop. Then using media manager, I drag the file to my memory card.

I also drag music from my itunes library to my memory card.

[wasillaguy]

I run linux so my options would be different than yours but whatever the method you use, you should be able to shoot for about 100mb filesize per every 30 minutes of movie. I formatted all my movies after ripping them to match the resolution of the bold and that shrunk the filesize down on the mp4 to be just about a perfect 400mb for a 2 hour movie.

[Jared]

check out ViO Video MobileConverter its a great free app which has a default setting for the Bold 9000.

[ewdp]

Originally Posted by wasillaguy

I run linux so my options would be different than yours but whatever the method you use, you should be able to shoot for about 100mb filesize per every 30 minutes of movie. I formatted all my movies after ripping them to match the resolution of the bold and that shrunk the filesize down on the mp4 to be just about a perfect 400mb for a 2 hour movie.

I would like to do this too. Which program do you use?
Thanks in advance.

[lorenczak]

Originally Posted by David Valencia

i use pqdvd to rip dvds for my ipod/itouch/bold and save them to a folder on my desktop. Then using media manager, I drag the file to my memory card.

I also drag music from my itunes library to my memory card.

So the Bold can play the same format as the iphone/ipod? Or there's an option to format for different phones?

Maybe I'll just d/l it and try it out

[TotalTech]

I like Handbrake myself since I work on Multiple platforms. It converts and rips and removes the drm. (not for stealing but for coping your own media). You can output in many formats.

HandBrake

blurb from their open source site

Supported sources:

* Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
* Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

* File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
* Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
* Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

* Chapter selection
* Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
* Integrated bitrate calculator
* Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
* Grayscale encoding

[masonfoley]

You might want to search the forums as the answers to your questions have been posted.

Here are some threads found by searching on "DVDs Bold" in the search bar.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...ight=DVDs+Bold

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...ight=DVDs+Bold

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...ight=DVDs+Bold

[Intellectual_Zodiac1]

hopefully the vio video mobileconverter works because handbrakes keps givin me alot of errors and the help section said to keep trying till it works...:/ i think its cuz im running vista, it claims its compatible but i dont think it is. *crosses fingers please work*

[mckinneycm]

DVDFab with the Mobile Option is the way to go. 2 Click process.