Surface Pro 4 is the perfect balance of portability and power. With 6th Gen Intel Core processors and up to 1TB of storage, it’s built to run professional-grade software. And the PixelSense Display has stunning color and contrast that comes to life with Surface Pen and touch. Wish to take all your favorite DVD movies with you when you are travelling, Surface Pro 4 can be a good choice. What really matters here is that there is no built-in DVD drive or DVD player software on Surface Pro to directly play the DVD disc, the good news is that you can rip DVD into Surface Pro 4 playable digital file formats with DVD ripper software and then play the ripped movies on Surface Pro 4 with its built-in video player app.

Best tool to convert DVD movies to Surface Pro 4

Before going any further, yo should first be clear of what file formats can be played on Surface Pro 4. After a lot of searching on the Internet, you may be disappointed to find that there are no specific information about Surface Pro 4 media playback information, even neither on Microsoft’s official page.

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The good news is that there are some DVD Ripper software gives the chance to directly output DVD to Surface Pro 4 preset profile formats with the optimal playback settings, so that you won’t need to worry about the format incompatible issue. One such program we highly recommend to you calls Pavtube DVDAid, the program can powerfully bypass all copy protection from DVD, you can then use the proram to freely rip the non protected DVD movies to Surface Pro 4 preset profile formats.

Trim/Split/Crop DVD movies for Surface Pro 4

To save more space for your Surface Pro 4, you can use the program’s built-in trimming function to reduce video file size by cutting off unwanted parts, cropping function to remove the black bars or unwanted size area or the splitting function to split large video into small clips by file size, count or length.

For Mac users, you can download Pavtube DVDAid for Mac to perform the same conversion on macOS Sierra or macOS High Sierra.

  

 

Step by Step to Rip DVD Movies for Surface Pro 4 Playing

Step 1: Run this DVD to Surface Pro 4 Converter; load DVD disc.

Click the top left icon, you can choose to import DVD from ROM, DVD folder or DVD ISO/IFO. It will check the main title by default; moreover, ISO files could also be recognized automatically so that you no longer need to run virtual drive to mount it.

Step 2: Choose output format.

Click “Format” bar, you can get optimized videos for your surface under “Windows > Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)”. The output videos also fits on Surface Pro 4 perfectly. If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish.

Trim QuickTime MOV file length

In the video editor window, choose the “Trim” tab and this tab is selected by default when the editing window appears. You can use the trim function to cut off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Crop QuickTime MOV file size

The “Crop” facility enables users to get rid of the black edges and unwanted area of the image. In the video editor window, navigate to the “Crop” tab. Follow the below methods to crop selected video:
A: Crop video by dragging and dropping the crop frame. Simply move your mouse cursor to drag and adjust the green frame to desired position.
B: Crop video by setting values. There are “Simple Mode” and “Advanced Mode” under Crop feature.

Split QuickTime MOV into smaller parts

Click the split button on the file list to launch the Video Split window. Ticking “Enable” option, you can split the file by file count, time length, or file size.

Step 4: Start Conversion.

You can hit the big red “Convert” to start converting DVD to Surface Pro 4 with best video settings.
After the conversion, click “Open output folder” in the conversion window, or “Open” in main interface to quick locate the converted video. After getting the converted movies files, you can transfer them to Surface Pro 4.