Tip: What type of TV shows and videos can be played on iPad?

* Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable
* H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
* MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Freeware: Use DVD decrypter + Free iPad video converter

1. Download the DVD decrypter and video converter for ipad , install it to your computer and run it.

2. Place the DVD you want to rip your video from into your DVD drive.

3. Go to the Mode menu and select IFO I mode. This will give you access to two new tabs; Input & Stream Processing.

4. Go to the Tools menu, select Settings, go to the IFO tab, then under Options, change File Splitting to None and press OK.

5. Go to the main screen and click the Stream Processing tab. Enable it and only select the first video listed. Note that home encoded movies do not support subtitles of any kind and that your file can only have one type of audio.

6. Start ripping.

7. Download free iPad video converter and launch. Press 'Convert' button, and click 'Video File' link.

8. The iPad Converter freeware has two ways of converting videos, Normal Mode and Power Mode. The former can only be used online, while the latter can be used both online and offline. Let's take Power Mode for example.

9. Click the "Select File" button to choose the video you want to convert. If you want to change the location of where your converted video will be located, click the "Browse" button.

10. If you want to change the title of your converted video, edit the "Title" text box. If you want to access another device's profiles, change the "Device" combo box. Select the encoding settings you want by picking an existing or custom profile. To start your conversion, click the "Start Converting" button.

The free solution need convert twice (DVD to VOB, and VOB to iPad). First of all, you have to rip DVD into one big file with free DVD rippers such as DVD Decrypter, then convert the ripped file to iPad playable files. There is no doubt that this will waste more time than the straight ipad dvd converter mode.