Easily convert your movies to iTunes with Handbrake

Using the iPad to watch movies is a joy, but for that it is almost essential to have them on iTunes, and I say almost because there are other solutions, but the best, without a doubt, is to have them in iTunes format. the catalog of movies available in the iTunes Store is very wide, even with original versions, but if you have your own library it is not a question of buying movies that you already have again. It may seem like a drag having to go around converting avi or mkv files to other compatible formats, but the great advantages of doing so outweigh it. That benefits? They can be easily synchronized with our iPad, and they can even be played via streaming without the need to transfer them to our device, and if you have an AppleTV you can watch them on your TV.

There is a free program, Handbrake, available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, which performs these tasks perfectly, with very good results. You just have to choose the movie to convert by clicking on "Source", select on the right for which device you want to convert it, and click on Start, it takes care of the rest. The conversion speed will depend on the format in which the film is and its size, some will take a few minutes, especially if they are already encoded in H264, and other very heavy ones can take several hours. The application has support for subtitles, and if you want to modify the conversion options you can do so.

Once you have converted the movie, you just have to drag it to the iTunes window so that it is added to your library, and you can transfer it to your iPad, play it in streaming, use AirPlay to see it on other devices ... You can download Handbrake from its official page. The possibilities that iTunes offers us are fantastic for our multimedia files, even if we have to pay the fee of having to convert them.

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