How-To: Rip DVDs and Play them on your Blackberry Bold 9000
After a lot of frustration and searching around about how to get movies to play on my Blackberry Bold, I finally just resorted to experimentation. I eventually found success and I thought I would put together a quick and easy guide to ripping your DVDs to your Blackberry Bold. Here’s what you need: (This is for Windows users)
DVD Fab removes the copy protection from the disc.
Handbrake encodes the ripped TS_VIDEO folder ripped from the disc into a format that your Bold can play.
Lets get started:
1. Open DVDFab and select DVDFab HD Decrypter
2. Inset your DVD into your DVD-Rom Drive
3. After scanning the disc, you will see a window like this:
4. Select the “Target” folder. This is where the VIDEO_TS folder from your DVD will be extracted to. I just left mine at the program default, which is in My Documents.
5. You Don’t need to change anything, just click the NEXT Button
6. Change the “Volume Label” to whatever you want. I would probably just use the name of the movie.
7. Click START and your are done! Depending on the speed of your computer and the length of the movie, the ripping process will take anywhere from about 10 to 30 minutes.
When you are done, you will have a folder called “VIDEO_TS” in the target folder you chose on the front page of DVDFab. Now we need to use Handbrake to encode the video data into a format which the Bold can play back.
When Handbrake loads up, the first thing you will want to do is load your VIDEO_TS folder.
1. Click the big “Source” button at the upper left corner of Handbrake and choose DVD / VIDEO_TS Folder
2. Navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder that DVDFab created.
3. Create a Destination file by clicking the “browse” button next to the destination field. Name the file whatever you like!
4. Now you need to input your settings. For this I have just included a screen shot. (One image per tab)
5. Last but not least, click the “Start” button at the top and have something to make yourself busy with because this will take anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes for most people. That’s it! You are done (well, not quite, you still obviously need to move the MP4 file from your computer to your Blackberry’s media card, then your really done and reach to go).
ENJOY!
A slight note: Many Blackberry Bold 9000 handsets with the factory operating system still installed will have crashing problems when trying to seek / rewind / fast forward in video files using the BB media player. There is a fix for this from RIM. It may not be for the faint of heart though, (but if you’re savvy enough to rip dvd’s, you should be ok to upgrade your BB OS). I recommend you upgrade to the newest official OS release, with is 4.6.0.185. Stay away from the BETA stuff like .190 etc etc. Learn more here:
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