How to Get DVDs to Stream to Roku 4/3 Easily?

Summary: Are you trouble of streaming DVD to Roku 4/3 for good playback or uploading? Don't worry, this article is a tutorial on how to stream DVD movies for Roku 4/3 for uploading and playing.


The Roku is a tiny box that connects to your television and allows you to stream video content from the Internet. Usually, if we have a Roku player at home, most users primarily use it to stream Netflix and Amazon Instant Videos. Ever thought of playing DVD in Roku player? Read on this article, i will share some tips and tricks with you.

Keep in mind that the Roku (either Roku 3 or Roku 4) only supports H.264 MPEG-4 certain common video formats and obviously doesn't accept DVD files. So if you are just planning to stream DVD medias to Roku 3, Roku 4, what you should do is to convert from DVD to MP4(h.264) in buck to solve the Roku and DVD incompatible issue. In other word, if you want to stream DVD to Roku 4/3 for playback, an DVD to Roku converter is needed.

Here Brorsoft DVD Ripper is the recommended DVD to Roku converter for you. With this program, you can rip DVDs and lossless re-encode DVDs to MP4 (H.264) for Roku 4/3 keeping the original video quality. Of course, this DVD ripper can help you convert commercial DVD movies to AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, etc as well. What's more, it can also enable you to rip DVD for directly playback on Android, iOS, Windows based devices. If you are using Mac, you can also use Brorsoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Just download the right version and follow the guide below.

How to rip and convert DVD to Roku 3/Roku 4 Video Format

Step 1. Load DVD files

Install and launch the video converter for Roku. You can directly drag and drop the DVD files into the main window of this converter. Or add DVD files by clicking the "add" button.



Step 2. Select format for Roku

Click Format bar and choose Common Video > H.264 Video (*.mp4) as output format. MKV is also supported by Roku, so you can choose it. Why we recommend mp4 as the target format is that by packing the videos in mp4, the file size will be reasonable small and the video quality remains.



Tip: Roku does play MP4 files according to the relevant info in Roku official site. However, Roku just plays the MP4 files with H.264 video codec and AAC audio. Click the Settings icon to set the correct video, audio codecs.

Step 3. Convert DVD to Roku

Click the Convert button to start encoding DVD to Roku friendly video with the top DVD to Roku Converter. Then conversion won't take too much time if your video files are not too large. When the conversion completes, click Open to get the converted MP4 videos and now you've get all done.