Have you been a Gear VR owner? As you see, Samsung and Oculus have made it easy to import and watch your own movies in virtual cinema mode. If you have some movies on DVD disc, why not transfer and watch DVD movies on Gear VR in Oculus Cinema? In this article, we will show you how to convert DVDs to Gear VR for playback quickly and easily.
In order to get DVD files onto Samsung Gear VR, what you need to do is to rip DVD to Gear VR compatible videos(the Gear VR by default supports most common file formats including MP4, AVI, and FLV). Here Brorsoft DVD Ripper is highly recommended to help you do the job.
It can professionally rip DVD to Gear VR supported video format with fast speed and excellent output quality. In addition, this DVD ripping tool can also convert DVD to various popular video formats like AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MOV, FLV, MKV, 3GP, etc. as well as rip DVD to optimized video for playback on iPad, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Xbox 360, PS3, Galaxy Tab and more. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to DVD Ripper for Mac (Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version. Now download the right version and follow the tips below to finish your task.
How to rip DVD for playing on Gear VR
This quick start guide takes DVD Converter Windows version (Including Windows 8) screenshots as an example. The method to convert DVD movies to Gear VR is the same. All that you should take care is to download the right version according to your situation.
Step 1. Load DVD movies
Insert the DVD disc into your computer's DVD drive and click the "Load DVD" button on to select and load the DVD movies you want to play on Gear VR. ISO and IFO files are also supported. After the movies are loaded, you can preview them on the right viewing window and adjust volume or take snapshots freely.
Step 2. Select Gear VR preferred format
As we mentioned above, Gear VR supports MP4, AVI, FVL, etc format. You can click the "Format" bar and choose one from "Common Video" list. If you want to play 3D movie with Gear VR, you can choose an output format from "3D Video" profile list.
Tip- Profile Settings
lick the "Settings" icon and you will go into interface named "Settings". You can adjust codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel as you like. For ripping DVD to view on Gear VR, 2D videos for the Cinema app should be in 720p (1280*720) with a higher bitrate around 5mbit/s.
Step 3. Start to convert DVD to Gear VR
When you have finished all the above settings, you can simply click the Convert button on the main interface and let the software do the DVD to Gear VR MP4 conversion for you.
After the conversion, click "Open" icon to locate the converted video files and then transfer them to your phone directly or an SD card for watching on Gear VR with ease.
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Source: Transferring DVD files to Samsung Gear VR
