subject: How Do I Download DVDs to My Creative ZEN on Mac OS X [print this page] How Do I Download DVDs to My Creative ZEN on Mac OS X
just purchased the Creative Zen X-Fi & I want to convert a few DVDs so I can watch them on my phone. The problem is that I don't know the first thing about doing it. What format will I need to convert the DVD? -- from U.K Pinky
Creative Zen X-Fi Review
The Creative Zen X-Fi is a stellar all-around digital music player, boasting many features that stand up nicely to the latest versions of Apple's iPods. Not only you can download music, video, and images wirelessly from your home computer to the player, but you can also steam media from your computer from Creative's servers, which offer podcasts and free music .or if you want to download DVD to Creative Zen X-If, it is really possible and easy. Here, I will show you how to convert DVD to Creative Zen X-If and import DVD to Creative Zen X-If in 3 steps.
Before converting DVD to Creative Zen X, you should get to know about what kinds of formats are supported by our Creative Zen X-Fi. Here I list all the supported video /audio formats playable on Creative Zen X-Fi
Video/audio formats supported by Creative Zen X-Fi
* Video clips in MP4 (generally MP4 is preferable with better picture quality), XVID, WMV, DivX4, DivX5
* Music/audio files in MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, and Audible
Below is the detailed tutorial about How to transfer DVD to Creative Zen X-Fi on Mac.
Step1. Download and install Mac DVD ripper to Creative Zen and running it, and then load the DVD movie from Mac
Step2. Select Output Setting
Select "MP4" from the output format list in "Format" drop-down list. And the output directory to save the converted files in "Output" drop-down list. You can also adjust other settings such as video quality, audio track, Bitrates, aspect ratio, brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.
Step3 .Convert DVD to Creative Zen X-Fi on Mac
When the settings are done, click the "Start" button to start conversion. And then the program will automatically start to convert DVD to Creative Zen X-Fi. That's all. When the conversion is finished, you can click "Open" to locate the file in your hard drive.
Finally, just put the converted DVD to Creative Zen X-Fi, and now you can enjoy DVD movies on your Creative Zen X-Fi player any time and any place. You can also convert some part of the DVD to Creative Zen X-Fi or convert DVD to the other portable player compatible formats.
