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How to Rip DVD with VLC Media Player on Mac

VLC player is a free and open source media player, streamer and encoder supporting many video files as well as DVDs.

The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more. You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

This guide will mainly focus on introducing its capability of converting DVDs on Mac OS. 


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How to Convert AVCHD Lite Video to DVD on Mac OS X?


What is AVCHD Lite?

AVCHD-Lite, which is a subset of the AVCHD format popularized by hard disk camcorders from Sony, Panasonic, and Canon, uses h.264 video coupled with AAC audio for recording movies. AVCHD Lite video is currently used by Panasonic DMC-ZS3, Panasonic DMC-FZ3, Sony, Cannon AVCHD Lite Camcorder, etc.

The main differences between AVCHD Lite and the regular AVCHD: a maximum resolution of 1280 x 720p in AVCHD Lite compared to 1920 x 1080p in regular AVCHD and a less-intensive compression method - both of which make the format more suitable for less powerful camera hardware.

What you need to burn AVCHD Lite to DVD on Mac OS X?

Neither of AVCHD and AVCHD Lite video is directly supported by iMovie or iDVD on Mac OS(10.6.3 Snow Leopard included) if you want to burn AVCHD Lite to DVD. There are 3rd-party solutions that work with varying degrees of success in allowing you to work with AVCHD Lite video on Mac, like Daniusoft DVD Creator for Mac . It is DVD Burner that can convert AVCHD Lite video to DVD. With it, you can add DVD menu, edit videos and pictures, add transitions and effect, etc.

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Some tips for iPhone user

1. Free to extract your favorite music off the video.
Annoying how to get your favorite music off from the video? You would ease now with windows movie maker. Load your video to iMovie, and simply drag the video onto the audio bar on the timeline, and go to "file", "save movie file" and it will guide you to walk through.

2. Fully enjoy video on your iPhone.
It often gets error when you try to add the video to your iPhone? It is mainly because the video format is not supported by iPhone. To solve this problem, you can use an iPhone converter. I would share iSkysoft iPhone movie converter with you for its good output quality and easy-to –use. You can also use it to extract audio off video and convert it to M4R for iPhone ringtones. 
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