How to Enable Chromebook to Play Video DVDs

Chromebook laptops are new online computing thin clients based on the Google Chrome operating system that are only available when connected to the Internet. You should run all web-based applications or go through the Chrome browser, and all the relevant source material is stored in the cloud. However, the Chromebook does not have any Windows or Mac applications. It does not even have a built-in DVD drive due to the relatively small hard drive capacity, which means that you can not play DVD directly on a Chromebook.


While you can connect an external USB DVD drive to your Chromebook, you can not currently use the Chrome OS to watch DVD movies. Unlike the simple movie file format that may be found online, DVD video playback on your Chromebook requires special decoding software and codecs to work properly. Google has not licensed this software and included it in Chrome OS.

In fact, it is easy to watch DVD video on Chromebook without quality loss as long as you got a DVD Ripping tool .

The article would show you how to Convert DVD to MP4 step by step with a professional Dimo Video Converter Ultimate .This program can professionally rip DVD to Chromebook supported video format with fast speed and excellent output quality. It will help you remove all the restrictions of DVD, like CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS and PuppetLock. Mac version is here.

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How to convert DVD to Chromebook compatible format

Step 1. After installing Dimo DVD ripper , and load DVD contents by clicking "Add DVD" (DVD folder and ISO image files are supported also).


Step 2. Hit the drop-down menu of "Select Format", which will bring up a panel of tons of preset formats where you can choose any format you will play as per your playback devices or compatible media player. Here we just pick "Format" > "Video" > "MP4" who is widely accept by nearly all devices.

Tip: If you're not satisfied with the result videos. You can click the Settings button beside Profile to set bitrate, frame rate, codec, channels, sample rate, etc to adjust parameters that affect video quality and file size for the video you prefer. Please remember the file size is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in bigger file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Step 3. Tap "Start" to realize DVD to Chromebook conversion. After that, hit "Open" to find the generated movie and transfer it to your USB stick.

How to play ripped video on Chromebook

First plug the USB stick to your Chromebook. By default, Chromebook uses the built-in media player to play audio and video files. Just simply double-click the target video file in Files app and now you can enjoy DVD on Chromebook offline!

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  1. TomminyDecember 18, 2020 at 12:46 AM

    i recommend you use the powerful video converter and editor iDealshare VideoGo.

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