TAG | HD video
Handbrake is a cross-platform, powerful and free software tool that easily converts DVD video to another format, with many target devices like iPhone, iPod, Apple TV for you to select in the Presets. With these presets, you can just simply choose the device you want to play your video with and then you don’t need to select the corresponding settings one by one manually. However, there is no Zune HD option in the Presets. Therefore, if you have a Zune HD and want to convert a DVD to watch it in Zune HD using HandBrake, you need to adjust the settings manually. Here are the steps and settings for converting DVD to Zune HD with HandBrake. Hope this is useful for you.
1.Download, install and launch HandBrake. Select the DVD file by clicking on Source.
open video file in HandBrake
Tip: If you are converting directly from a DVD, you may need to run a DVD decrypter in the background, since many DVDs are encrypted with copy-protection and HandBrake is unable to decrypt DVD. You can use the freeware DVD43 as the decrypter.
2. Select the Iphone & Ipod Touch in Presets on the right side.
select iPhone&iPod Touch
3. In the “Picture” Tab, if you video aspect ratio is 16:9, change the resolution to 480 x 272. For non 16:9 video, set the resolution to 480 x “blank”. This will let the non 16:9 video to have a right 480 width but a smaller or larger height adjusted by HandBrake.
4. In the “Video” tab, leave all settings as they are.
5. In the “Audio” tab, change to “Stereo” and 160kbps.
Audio tab setting
6. Set a destination folder to save the converted file in.
set destination folder
7. Let the other settings keep as what they are and then click on Start at the top menu bar to begin the encoding. A window will open to show you the converting progress.
encoding
After it finishes, you will get a H264, M4V file ready for you to drag and drop to the Zune.
Tip: You can save the above settings for converting to Zune HD next time by clicking on Add button at the right bottom and store the whole settings as Zune HD or any name you like in the Presets..
save settings
Note: If you want a program to convert your video to Zune with much better quality, faster speed and more formats supported, you can check TouchUp DVD to Zune Converter, which release you from manually making the settings. What’s more, it lets you directly convert a DVD to your Zune without any other tool to decrypt the DVD first. You can read a tutorial for it to know this intuitive converting software further.
