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How to play a DVD on a Samsung Galaxy

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Tips and Tricks

by Julian

The Galaxy Tab is capable of performing many tasks and can prove to be an excellent audio and video player for your adventures or just at home.

Let's look at the video portion. Indeed, if we know a lot Android for its ability to go online, the system can also be entertained provided you use the right tools.

I will explain a trick to play a DVD on a Galaxy Tab. And everything is totally free. This tip is valid for the Galaxy Tab 7, Tab 10.1 and Galaxy 8.9.

In reality, this is not the DVD that you will read but its private copy and for legal questions, you must have the original DVD. Reading is local, that is to say, made from the hard drive, memory card or storage media connected to USB. The move by the network application of other features that will be another one next section.

What tools?

To play a DVD on a Galaxy Tab, you need a computer with Windows Vista or 7 with a DVD player, free software MakeMKV, the free application VPlayer (MX Player can also do the trick) and your movie to disc DVD format.

MakeMKV software creates a digital copy of your hard leaving free choice on the video tracks, subtitles and audio to save. Thus, you keep all options offered by the DVD format. This is convenient but conversely, the resulting file is almost as large as the original contents of the DVD. Expect to get files between 4 and 8 GB

The free VPlayer can play digital video files in MKV format. It allows selection and display of languages ​​and subtitles. Perhaps the opportunity to learn a new language? The free MX Player also enables these features. Both applications are very comprehensive. They are available in Android Market.

Finally, visit the Android Market to download the application VPlayer ARM7 or MX Player ARM7 to obtain optimum performance for your tablet.

How?

To play a DVD on a Galaxy Tab, we must first create a copy of the film on the computer. First download, install and run the software MakeMKV.

Make sure the disc is in the virtual drive in the software interface.

Then click the DVD icon button with an arrow to a hard disk.

A few minutes later, you have the choice of video tracks, audio and subtitles.

Check the ones you want to keep.

On the right side of the interface, browse your hard drive to select the directory where the movie file will be saved.

Then click the Make MKV green arrow.

Several minutes later, according to the power of your computer, you get your film in digital video format MKV. Computer, reads the file with VLC Player.

Copy the file to a memory card or internal memory of your tablet.

Download, install and start the application VPlayer (or MX Player) on your Samsung Galaxy.

Your video should appear in the playlist of the application.

Simply click it to start reading.

To change language, click the three dots at the top right of the screen and open the Audio tab. Select the desired language. To change the subtitle, open the Text tab and select Tracks. Note that it is possible to change their locations, positions, colors, sizes and styles.

The application also offers many options for both technical and ergonomic.

For the technique, normally, the default settings are sufficient.

For usability, enable for example as Gestures in the Misc tab of the Settings. Thus, during playback of video, slide your finger near the left edge to change the screen brightness. Slip near the right edge changes the volume.

If by chance, the video was not at the maximum of the screen, pinch to expand the image horizontally to the edges to the left and right or the pinch to stretch the image vertically upwards and downwards .

Practice, the screen can be locked by clicking the padlock.

In conclusion

This is not the only way to read a DVD locally on the Galaxy Tab. Indeed, using backup software for PC, you can choose different formats that may have the advantage of occupying less space but may offer fewer options.

The idea here was to present a simple, relatively quick, efficient and quality to enjoy your own DVDs (of course) on the tablet from Samsung.