How to Rip and Stream DVD Videos over DLNA Server

Cassie J. 20/11/2019

DVD Ripper

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Nowadays, with the fast development of science and technology, more and more TV manufacturers have brought us many surprises, for instance, the Samsung. Samsung’s new smart TV lets you find and control exciting content in new and unexpected ways. Help you enjoy an exceptional picture and a TV experience like never before. Wouldn’t it is great to digitize or rip all of your favorite DVD movies for moving them to your DLNA server, thus, you are able to watch them on a smart TV without needing your DVD player?

Part 1: What's DLNA and DLNA supported format?

Hereby, I am glad to show you what DLN is and which kind of format it supports. DLNA, stands for "Digital Living Network Alliance", is a non-profit trade organization which defines standards that enable devices to share stuff - photos, video, music - with each other. DLNA is designed to act as a bridge between various bits of kit, so that user can watch a film from PC on big-screen TV, play an MP3 from smart-phone on stereo, or send shots from the family photo album to wireless printer via tablet. DLNA simplified the process by establishing a single protocol that ensured DLNA - certified multimedia devices from different manufacturers would work together.

In fact, if you are interested in home entertainment, you would have the thoughts of streaming DVD movies to DLNA compliant PC, HD TV or tablet to share with your family members and friends. How to rip and stream DVD Videos over DLNA Server? As we mentioned above, DLNA does not support DVD files. To rip and stream DVD Videos over DLNA Server, you need some reliable and stable tools so that you can stream DVD videos via DLNA with ease.

Part 2: 3 Best tools to rip DVD to DLNA Server

How to Rip and Stream DVD Videos over DLNA Server? In this tutorial, we will share with you three best tools to rip DVD to DLNA server.

Leawo DVD Ripper
As a professional DVD ripper, Leawo DVD Ripper allows you to rip and convert DVD to video, to extract audio content from source DVD and save in various audio formats like AAC, FLAC, WAV, MP3, etc., and it allows you to directly set device model as output profile. Besides, Leawo DVD Ripper accepts all kinds of DVD discs. DVD discs protected by CSS encryption, multi-angle DVD discs, DVD discs from any region, and DVD discs from any movie studio can be imported for DVD ripping. Leawo DVD Ripper is 6 times faster in DVD ripping and converting without any image quality loss.

Leawo DVD Copy
To copy a large collection of DVDs to Plex/NAS home media server, you are suggested to turn to Leawo DVD Copy. As one of the best DVD copy software, Leawo DVD Copy allows you to copy DVD without any restriction. It can remove the CSS protection and region codes applied to the DVD disc thus allowing you to copy protected DVD regardless of the studio it belongs to or the region it’s released in. To suit needs from different people, Leawo DVD Copy has 3 different copy modes which provide 3 different ways to copy the DVD.

Brorsoft DVD to DLNA Converter
To get rid of all of the physical copies of DVDs and rip them to hard drive for viewing DVD videos via DLNA when needed, Brorsoft is a good choice. Brorsoft DVD to DLNA Converter can always catch up with the latest DVD copy protection variant and convert DVD to any common video format you want like MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, AVI... It supports more than 70 input formats and up to 250+ output file format. It lets you convert virtually any standard video and HD video file format without hassles. Optimized for NVIDIA CUDA, AMD acceleration technologies, the super speed video conversion now is 6X faster than before and surpasses most regular video converters.

Part 3: How to Rip and Stream DVD Videos over DLNA Server with Leawo DVD Ripper?

To rip DVD to use over DLNA, we highly recommend Leawo DVD Ripper, which can always catch up with the latest DVD copy protection variant and convert DVD to any common video format you want like MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, AVI and more. With Leawo DVD Ripper, you can encode DVD video to DLNA supported video formats with ultra-fast encoding speed and least quality loss.

Step 1: Launch the program Prof. Media (DVD Ripper is a module of Prof. Media) to enter the home page, where you need to click "Convert" button on the sub-menu or "DVD Ripper" button in the middle to enter the "Convert" interface. On the "Convert" interface, click "Add Blu-ray/DVD"button to import the DVD movies you want to rip. As you see, all added files will be listed below and you can preview them, take snapshots, choose subtitle and audio track, etc. as you like.

Useful Tips: Once DVD content is selected, you will get 3 options for you to import DVD file(s): Full Movie, Main Movie and Custom Mode. Full Movie is to import all titles, and Main Movie is to import the longest title by default. Custom Mode is to freely choose titles for importing. Choose a mode and click "OK" button to start importing source DVD files.

Step 2: Choose output format
The best format for DLNA streaming is MPEG-4 files. In a drop-down box named "MP4 Video", you can click the box to pop up a small panel, where you need to click "Change"  to enter the "Profile" panel. Select either video/audio format or mobile device as output profile under "Format" or "Device" group. Various video/audio formats and device models are available for selection, like 4K MP4, 4K MKV, HD MP4, HD AVI, MOV, iPhone 6s, iPad Air, etc.

Useful Tips: You can also adjust video/audio parameters. As for DLNA streaming, select a proper bitrate and resolution based on your WLAN bandwidth. To do that, you can enter the Profile Settings panel by clicking the same drop-down box and then clicking "Edit" option instead of "Change" option.

Step 3: After profile settings, get back to the "Convert" interface, on which you need to click the "Convert" button to set output directory for saving the output files.

Step 4: Finally, simply click Convert button to start encoding DVD to a DLNA compatible video.