DVD to Innotab Conversion Process

This video shows the process in which you can convert your DVDs to a video format that is playable on the Innotab. I haven't seen any videos on YouTube yet about how to do this so I'm posting this one.

Sorry I didn't have my Innotab available for this video. It is a Christmas present for one of my kids and is put away so he doesn't see it. I did test this process and it did work.

Make sure you boot your Innotab at least once with the SD card in it so that it gets formatted correctly and the directory structure is created before you attempt to put anything on it.

Here are the Preset Settings you want to use in Freemake:
In the Preset drop down menu, select "Add your Preset".
Enter "Innotab" in the Title box.
Frame Size: Custom
Width: 480
Height: 272
Adjustment: Original
Video Codec select XVID
frame rate (FPS): 29.97
Bitrate leave default "Auto".
Audio codec select PCM
Channels: Mono
Sample Rate: 22050
Default bitrate "16"
"OK" to save


Download Links:

DVDFab Passkey:
http://www.dvdidle.com/download.htm

Freemake Video Converter:
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

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Tags:

• dvd
• innotab
• conversion
• process
• xvid
• vtech
• freemake
• dvdfab

[MrBeastier]

I'm having the same problem as an earlier poster, that when I have converted I am only creating files that are 12KB which will not be play on either my pc or innotab (thought the innotab is recognising them). I'm not sure I am doing the passkey part correctly (I've never ripped DVDs before) as when I start the problem nothing seems to happen & the icon does not appear across the bottom of the screen - the window I get when opening the program closes after about 30 secs. Any help would be great.

[travisgrindal]

@MrBeastier Are you sure you have a DVD drive? Is your computer even able to play the DVD straight from the drive using something like Windows Media Player or PowerDVD?

[kpescatore79]

5 minutes after i did first one, neither program will work now. pass key just keeps running and running and once it stops Freemake doesn't recognize that i even have a DVD in drive.

[travisgrindal]

@kpescatore79 Reboot your computer and then try again.

[babybaps19]

I converted Tangled into innotab format for my daughter and works perfectly however everytime after this ive tried to converted something it says loading failed on the innotab itself. I havent changed the sd card or done anything differently but cant get them to work even though Tangled still works. Any suggestions

[travisgrindal]

@babybaps19 Verify all the settings are correct in Freemake. Also, you could try ripping the DVD again and make sure there aren't any errors. You could also try a different SD card if you think that is the problem.

[MrBeastier]

@MrScarlett372 I downloaded all the software & used the same process that travisgrindal described, however I carried out an extra step. When I put a DVD in my PC I can see it's reading/de-crypting. However the extra step I took was instead of using freemaker to convert from DVD disc to AVI, I first used freemaker to copy/convert from DVD disc to DVD again but into a directory on my hard drive & this saves them as video files which can then be converted from video files to avi using freemaker

[MrScarlett372]

@MrBeastier can you detail these steps please - what did you do differently? How did you copy the DVD to your machine?

[MrBeastier]

@travisgrindal I can playing DVDs on my pc & I've actually had success since I posted. I tried taking the extra step off first using freemaker to convert to DVD but creating the new file on my hardrive. The new files are then stored as video files which I can then successfully convert to avi using your described process. Only thing is that that it creates multiple files instead of one (eg cars 2 is actually in 3 files). I'm gonna try your increase volume routine next. Thanks very much

[kpescatore79]

thank you so much for posting this! stared at my screen for weeks trying to figure this out. was ready to throw the tablet out the window!!