1st tablet for a technophobe

penrhyn

Well thats told me.

I like spam, for lunch I'm going to have spam egg chips, spam, spam, spam spam, baked beans and spam.

madlyn

tablet has arrived and I love it, which is a problem as it is meant to be the OH birthday present!!
very easy to set up, loaded some apps onto it and put some music on there, but i know he would like a few movies on there to watch. so does anyone have any suggestions or know of any software i can use to do this?

sillygoose

madlyn wrote: »

tablet has arrived and I love it, which is a problem as it is meant to be the OH birthday present!!
very easy to set up, loaded some apps onto it and put some music on there, but i know he would like a few movies on there to watch. so does anyone have any suggestions or know of any software i can use to do this?

Glad to hear that

What source for movies do you have in mind? most things downloaded from the internet should just play on the built in player, or download MX Player from the market its is very good at playing any format.

From DVD disks its a bit trickier. (commercial DVD's have copy protection) but its not unbeatable by any means.

madlyn

was thinking of putting them onto the tablet from an original DVD that he has.
if he gets them from the internet will he need to use netflix or similar?

penrhyn

Wots wrong with the Google Play store?
They do movies, my Nexus came with the truly awful Transformers staring the well known non actor Shia Labeouf, who is a contender with Hayden Christensen for the worlds worst actor.

madlyn

are they free from google play store?

penrhyn

No, but neither are they on Netflix.

sillygoose

There are automated programs for ripping from DVD, not tried them though.

At a pinch I would use DVDShrink to copy the DVD to hard drive, reduce it in size and remove protection then rename the VOB files into MPG's (they are just MPEG2 files anyway) and join them with another program. If needed I would then convert into another format.

Another approach is youtube, surprisingly you can find a lot of normal content, music videos, TV and full movies on there.

Free program youtubedownloader is quite adept at downloading these into directly playable movie files. (also works for other sites)

Just find what you want on youtube and copy the address from the browser to youtubedownloader and let it do its thing.

--- just be careful during install, make sure you untick to install the 'extra' toolbars or other horrible software! ----

http://download.cnet.com/YTD-Video-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html

Daz2009

This is a good app for free movies,concerts etc.....it's doesn't download them to your tablet,it streams them so you'll need to be on wi-fi

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peliculasgratis.example

madlyn

sillygoose wrote: »

There are automated programs for ripping from DVD, not tried them though.

At a pinch I would use DVDShrink to copy the DVD to hard drive, reduce it in size and remove protection then rename the VOB files into MPG's (they are just MPEG2 files anyway) and join them with another program. If needed I would then convert into another format.

Another approach is youtube, surprisingly you can find a lot of normal content, music videos, TV and full movies on there.

Free program youtubedownloader is quite adept at downloading these into directly playable movie files. (also works for other sites)

Just find what you want on youtube and copy the address from the browser to youtubedownloader and let it do its thing.

--- just be careful during install, make sure you untick to install the 'extra' toolbars or other horrible software! ----

http://download.cnet.com/YTD-Video-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html

i little more complicated than i thought. will see if really wants movies on there.