Importing DVD movies to iTunes directly on Mac os x Lion is not allowed due to copyright protection issues. However, rip/convert DVD to iTunes compatible file formats, like H.264, MPEG-4, MP4, MOV, M4V, M4R, and MP3 is a great solution. This article will elaborate a solution on how to rip and transfer DVD to iTunes on Mac Lion for further playback on iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPod and Apple TV.

One would think that rip DVD to iTunes seems not a big technology challenge for Apple at all, it just have to be locked into a proprietary, DRM-encoded iTunes-only format. You’d insert the disc into your PC, and iTunes would ask how you’d like to rip DVD to iTunes: optimized for Apple TV streaming or optimized for iPad/iPhone/iPod. Once it was in iTunes, the files could be transferred within the entire Apple products: the PC desktop (Windows and Mac iTunes libraries), the living room (Apple TV), and the portable realm (iPod and iPhone).

Ripping DVD to iTunes sounds possible to make the best of both worlds, however, Apple is not likely to say yes. Which means Apple won’t add DVD ripping feature to iTunes. Yet savvy consumers would say:”We are already doing the DVD to iTunes thing.” Yes, there are so many third party softwares (freeware/shareware) can rip DVD to iTunes now, Pavtube DVD to iTunes Converter for Mac, Handbrake etc.

“What I would like to do is load many DVD/Blu-ray folders and have the product encode them. It is a lot easier for me to rip all of my Blu-rays first to hard drive, and encode them all later…”

“I want to load a number of DVDs, and then convert them to iPad video.”

“I have several hundred DVDs stored in ISO format. I need to be able to batch convert these rather than selecting one at a time. Is this possible?”

If you have hundreds of DVD movies to rip/convert, batch processing becomes important. Converting a DVD may take 10 minutes to 2 hours based on the computer and settings you used for DVD conversion. Most DVD ripper tools load one DVD at a time and you have to be around to babysit these one by one. Things become much easier when the ripper includes batch processing feature- you load multiple DVD movies at a time and have multiple DVDs converted in batch. This would really help with overnight processing. The following guide shows you how to process DVD Videos batch conversion with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter, which converts videos, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs to various formats.