How to Copy DVD Movies to Synology NAS for Streaming

Summary: This is an instructional article on showing how to upload DVD library to Synology NAS drive for streaming with ease by ripping DVD to a NAS-friendly format.

NAS is just a big file storage really and Synology is one of the best NAS servers for you that act as a shared volume for backing up and sharing files across your network and even work as a media streamer. But you may find that copying the DVD videos to Synology NAS directly is a pain to try and play with a media streamer(PS3, WD TV, etc). Then what would be the best way to copy DVD films to Synology NAS? Just read on the article. We will share the tips and tricks with you for soomthly streaming DVD movies from Synology NAS.


Learn some tips from online, I got know that to copy dozens of DVD movies to NAS, you need to get the content off the DVD disc as a protection-free and easily readable element for NAS. In this case, at the first place powerful third-party software for backup DVD to NAS is what you need.

Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but it still cannot yet protected DVD discs. The way it can with regular DVDs, so you'll need to find an alternative to Handbrake.

Brorsoft DVD Ripper is the bee's knees, which can help you fast rip DVD discs to a format playble by NAS while keeping the original quality. Applying it, you can effortlessly rip DVD to Synology NAS friendly format like MP4, which generally accepted by almost all media players including iPad, iPhone, PS3, Apple TV, etc. Better still, it also has ability of converting DVD to almost all popular format like MOV, FLV, WMV, VOB, MPG, AVI, etc by bypassing the DVD copy protection. If you are running on Mac OS X, turn to DVD converter for Mac. If you haven't got the software, download it now and let's start the conversion.

How to rip DVDs and stream DVDs via Synology NAS

Step 1: Open the best DVD to Synology NAS ripper and click on the upper "Load DVD" button to browse and import the DVD movies you want to convert. All added files will be listed on the left source area. You can preview the DVD videos on the right viewing window and take snapshots of your favorite movie scenes.



Step 2: Click Format and choose MP4 video from Common Video, which can be recognized by Synology NAS well. MKV is also a good choice; as a container format it takes whatever you give it. And then click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files.



Tip: With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original DVD while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality. Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset.

Step 3: When everything is done, click the "Convert" button to start converting DVDs to Synology NAS compatible video files.

Once the conversion is finished, click "Open" to quickly find the converted movies. Then, Synology NAS will recognize, catalog, play and stream these DVD rips at ease.