Movie Conversion Software for the iPhone

Below are our recommendations for movie conversion software for your Mac or PC to convert your existing DVDs and videos to be optimized to play back on the iPhone.

One of the most accessible ways of getting movies on your iPhone is to convert your existing DVD library. If DVD native files could even play on an iPhone, it would be impractical, because DVD files are enormous in size and would easily fill up an iPhone or iPod touch with just one movie. For example, the smallest DVD format holds over 4 GB of data to play a movie, and yet most movies today come on dual-layer DVD discs that hold nearly twice as much movie data.

Conversion software, then is necessary, not only to convert your DVD movie to a format your iPhone will happily play back, but so that it optimizes the movie, too, compressing it to be much smaller in data size and yet still have pristine playback quality on your iPhone or iPod touch. After all, you are not playing this movie back on a large HDTV, so the movie can be compressed down substantially and still achieve very high playback quality on your smaller iPhone screen.

Conversion software can also convert videos already existing on your computer to play on your iPhone.