H.264 is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. Many users may have a question - how to convert DVD movies to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC videos? As professional DVD ripping software, 4Media DVD Ripper makes it easy to rip and convert DVD to H.264 videos. And in this guide, we will show you how to do the conversion step by step.

Before starting, choose a edition to download according to your will. And surely either of them supports the DVD to H.264 converting.
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Ultimate - Supports Video Crop, Video special effect
Platinum - Supports Video Clip
Standard - Basic video converting and more.

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Download a version, install and launch it. Here we take 4Media DVD Ripper Ultimate as example, and the platinum and standard version work the same way.

How to rip and convert DVDs to H.264 videos?

Step 1: Import DVD files

Insert your DVD disk into the DVD-ROM, then 4Media DVD Ripper will read the disc automatically and list the content in the window as picture below shows.

Step 2: Output format and settings

Open the profile drop down list, and set the output format as "H.264"- in Common Video category, scroll to choose the "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video Format (*.mp4)" format.

Choose DVD Audio, subtitle and Angle as you like. And you can also change the video and audio parameters of the output format including the audio quality, video quality and channels, and define output video size, zoom mode, and bitrate in Advanced Profile Setting panel.

Step 3: Start to convert DVD to H.264

After all settings finished, you can click the green "Start Ripping" button to start the DVD to H.264 /MPEG-4 AVC conversion.
For your convenience: when the conversion finished, just click "Open" button to directly open the target file directory and check the videos.

More useful features are included in 4Media DVD ripper including video water mark, subtitle adjustment, video clip/crop, file split, etc. Know more about 4Media DVD Ripper for Windows.