Want to view your favourite DVD movies on Zune?

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Part 1: What formats does Zune Support?
Zune audio and video formats:
The audio or video format is the container that stores audio or video information. It holds the actual audio or video content.
You've probably heard of the most common audio and video formats: Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video, MP3, and MP4. You can find out the format of your media by looking at the file extension—the characters to the right of the dot in the file name. For example, an MP3 file's extension is .mp3.
You can play, burn, or sync audio and video files on the Zune software that are in these formats:
AAC audio created with AAC-LC audio codec: .m4a and .m4b

Windows Media Audio: .wma

MP3 audio: .mp3

MP3 playlists: .m3u

MPEG-4 media created with either the MP4pt2 video codec or the H.264 video codec and the AAC-LC audio codec: .m4v and .mp4

QuickTime movie created with either the MP4pt2 video codec or the H.264 video codec and the AAC-LC audio codec: .mov

Windows Media Center DVR (Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate only): .dvr-ms

Windows Media Video: .wmv

Zune playlists: .zpl

Part 2: How to convert DVD to video and audios supported by Zune?
How to convert DVD to Zune? You get to know what you want from a DVD to Zune video Converter. Super fast conversion speed, high quality output video, batch conversion, all these factors are what we expect from a DVD to Zune converter. And supporting splitting and merging would be a plus. If you Google DVD to Zune converter, you will be present with hundreds of result about converting DVD to Zune video, but which one to choose, I have write an article on how to choose the best DVD Ripper according to your need, you can visit for reference. Today I share this guide and demonstrate how to convert DVD videos to your Zune with Pavtube DVD to Zune Converter.
1. Download and install Pavtube DVD to Zune Converter
2. Launch the program and Click the button of DVD Rom, DVD Folder or IFO file, and a dialog box pops up for you to select the original DVD movies. Here, you have added the DVD movies to the product. After adding the DVD movies, you can click “+” to open sub-directory: the titles and click “+” again: the chapters. Here, you can select the chapters you like to rip.

3. Select one format for playback on Zune by clicking the triangle button.

From the drop-down bar, you can get what you want. Then specify where to save the ripped movies by selecting from Output box. The advanced settings are provided for the experienced users. You can click Settings button to set the parameters like bit rate, frame rate, video size, and so on.

4. Edit the videos by clicking Edit buttons:
If you want to do some customization on the output video, you can edit the DVD before converting; for example, you can trim the video, crop the image and adjust the effects. Click different tabs of Clip, Trim and Crop according to yourself.

5. Click the run button to start ripping the movie. You don't need to wait until the conversion ends; you can tick the box” shut down after conversion" and leave it alone.