How to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies
To avoid the original Blu-ray and DVD discs being scratched by frequent use,
it is a good idea to copy and save them as video folders, or burn them to
another blank Blu-ray disc or DVD disc as backups. When it comes to this point,
a practical program written for this utility is necessary. In my article here,
Id like to take Pavtube Blu-ray Copy for example to show you
how to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies via it in detail. If you are
looking for such a solution right now, you can feel free to move on with the
following paragraphs.
First of all, what can Pavtube Blu-ray Copy do for
you?
1. Make perfect 1:1 copies of Blu-ray and DVD movies
2. Support disc to disc, disc to folder, and disc to ISO backup to meet your
multiple needs
3. Copy Blu-ray and DVD movies with flawless quality
4. Free you from the annoying protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies
5. Directly burn Blu-ray and DVD movies without other burning software
Okay, now lets have a look at its simple operating steps.
Step 1: Select Blu-ray or DVD source file
Click the drop-down list of "Source" to select Blu-ray or DVD source file.
You can select from BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, and Image File
(*.ISO).
Step 2: Select Target
Click the drop-down list of "Target" to select destination folder, your
target can be BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu- Ray/DVD Folder, or Image File (*.ISO).
Step 3: Entitle Disc Label
If your target is a blank disc, then you can type your wanted disc label into
the textbox after "Disc Label"
Step 4: Click "Start" button to begin copying and burning
Additional tips:
The "Options" window will pop up as soon as you press the red circle marked
icon at the left. To burn a disc to a blank disc, the program will generate some
temporary files previously, and then burn them to the blank disc. The temporary
files will be saved in a default folder, if you want to save them in your
specified folder, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Work Space" to
change. Furthermore, you are allowed to tick "Delete temporary files" and "Shut
down computer automatically", so as to save your storage space and manage your
time in a proper way.
Keep HD quality of TiVo files while doing format conversion
Keep high definition quality of TiVo files This article tells you how to
keep HD quality of tivo files (TV shows, Netflix movies or whatever) recorded by
your TiVo HD DVR, TiVo HD XL DVR while doing format conversion for your other
devices. To retain HD quality of your tivo files, please follow the steps
below:
Guide: How to keep HD quality of TiVo files while doing format
conversion
1. Transfer TiVo movies to your personal computer
To achieve this goal, you should make use of TiVo Desktop software, you can
download it here: TiVo Desktop
software. Open TiVo Desktop, click "Pick Recordings to Transfer" to transfer
TV shows to your PC. The TiVo Desktop will prompt when the transfer is
finished.
Step 1: Click "Add" button to import TiVo files to this program
Step 2: Select HD video as output format and specify destination folder
Click the pull down menu of "Format" to select "HD Video" firstly, and then
choose a format according to your end use of the output files. There are more
than 10 selections in "HD Video" profile, including HD MP4, HD MOV, HD MKV, HD
AVI, HD TS, HD MPG, etc., and which one to select is totally depending on
you.
At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to
specify where to store the output files, if not, this program will export
generated files to the save path set by default automatically, and wherever your
destination folder is, you are able to find out the output files via clicking on
"Open" button with ease.
Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters
On the popup window, you are allowed to reset all the options on it, such as
codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels,
so as to make good control of the output file quality.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
Additional tips:
1. This TiVo converter
enables you to combine multiple TiVo files into one file, so that there are no
intervals while playback. Just tick "Merge into one file", and this goal will be
achieved.
2. Fast conversion speed and perfect audio and video in sync technology.
3. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.
4. This program can be used as a simple video editor. The trim function
allows you to get a specific length of video accurately since its inner seek
function can capture any key frame of video, while with crop, you can cut off
the black edges and unwanted video area easily. Its watermark function allows
you to add different sorts of watermarks, including text, image (including GIF),
and video watermark, so as to realize picture-in-picture effect in your TiVo
files.
How to convert TiVo files to MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, and VOB on Mac
As we all know there is no certain software developed for Mac users to
transfer and replay TiVo DVR recorded files as "TiVo Desktop" doing on Windows.
But if you want to do format conversion between TiVo file
and other video formats on your Mac directly, what is your method? My way is
to use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to achieve my goal. Once you are sure you
have the same requirement as I do, follow these
steps to find the solution.
Requirements:
- TiVo recordings: they can be from your own TiVo DVR or
from the DVR of your friends
- TiVo Media Access Key: it is a specific 10-digit number
assigned to every TiVo account holder. If your TiVo source file are from your
friends, then ask him/her for it.
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Video Converter for Mac and click "Add" button
to load TiVo files
In the first attempt, a dialog window will pop up as below, just click "OK"
button.
After that, the following window will allow you to enter your Media Access
Key, just insert it, and click "OK" button to confirm. What you should do next
is clicking on "Add" button to load your TiVo files again. Or
you can directly drag and drop the file into this program. Meanwhile, suppose
you want to let it alone and do something else during the conversion, you can
tick "Shut down the computer after conversion".
Step 2: Select output format
Click on the drop-down list of "Format" to select output format. This utility
supports a wide range of output format, including MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV,
VOB, and customized formats for iPod, iPhone,
PSP, PS3, Apple TV, BlackBerry, etc.
Step 3: Do advanced settings
Click on "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec,
aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If you are
not good at this step, you can totally skip it. By the way, if
you wanna combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick the
checkbox "Merge into one file" in the main interface.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on "Open" button
with ease.
How to convert DVD to AVI for further editing with Windows Movie Maker
DVD movie still plays essential role in our audio/video daily life in spite
of prosperity of online video and handheld devices. The problem is that DVD
movie is not editable and you can only watch the movie the
way it is presented on the disk. This is a time of individual customization
and showing your own style, why not tries to edit a movie and watch it whatever
way you like. To edit the DVD movie, you need to
convert DVD to AVI firstly
and then import the exported AVI videos to Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker,
and Sony Vegas etc. First let us start from what is AVI.
About AVI AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave Which is defined by
Microsoft, it can work as a container to be embedded with different codec, such
as DivX, XviD, etc. The AVI video generally brings high quality, but
occupies larger disk space. It is suitable for further video editing.
To edit DVD with Windows movie maker, you need a DVD Ripper to convert DVD to
AVI. This popular DVD Ripper
offers AVI formats with various codec, which will
certainly meet your needs to play, and edit video etc
1. Run Pavtube DVD Ripper
If you have not installed it yet, please download the free trial version of
Pavtube DVD Ripper.
2. Add DVD video by clicking "DVD ROM ", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO".
3. Choose the AVI format on the "Format" drop down box.
There are several profiles with AVI as output format.
Pavtube DVD Ripper offers
several options for AVI with uncompressed codec and less compressed codec. The
uncompressed codec is available for the profile
"Losseless raw video". The profile is set with recommended settings, and you
can also change the output settings by clicking the "Settings" button. There are
four video codecs for uncompressed AVI: BGR24,
RGB555, YUY2, and RGBA32.
There are 5 profiles for AVI with less compressed codec, in "Common Video"
profile, there are AVI MSMPEG4-V3, Xvid AVI, and Divx AVI, in "HD Video"
profile, there are AVI HD Video and Divx HD AVI.
4. Check the "Convert" button to start converting
After conversion, just click the "Open" button, and you will find the output
AVI files.
Now you have got the output AVI videos, and the rest of the work goes to
video editing software. Lets take Windows movie maker for example.
Step1: Import your video. Get your video onto your computer
any way you need too. Open Windows Movie Maker.
Step2: Edit your AVI video. Open your storyboard by clicking
"View storyboard". Your storyboard will be your timeline and where you will do
most of your editing. For you movie folks we can call it your
"cutting room floor". To put your video in the storyboard, drag it from your
library to the storyboard. Click the plus sign on your timeline so you can see
video and audio lines. If you want to add extra audio to your
piece, import it the same way you did your video.
Step3: Play your AVI video and watch for where you want to
cut and delete the extraneous video. Place your timeline cursor (the blue line
that crosses perpendicular to the timeline) where you want to cut
your video and split it by choosing "Edit split". Split your original video
as many times as you want. Once you split the video you see the rest of the
original video in your library. Delete the video you don't want by
pressing "Delete" on your keyboard.
Step4: Add video by dragging it to the storyboard. Make sure
your cursor is where you want it on the timeline because the program will
automatically place your audio track where your cursor is. You will
notice your audio track goes into the audio space on your timeline. To edit
audio follow the same steps as the video.
How to rip Blu-ray files into HD video format on Mac?
Want to find an effective way to rip Blu-ray files into HD videos without
many quality losses, but failed? If you are a Mac user, and involved in that
case just right, this thread here may exactly do you a favor, since it is
written in purpose of showing people how to do it via the help of third party
software called Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for
Mac. Apart from ripping Blu-rays to standard media formats like
AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV,
WMA, M4A, etc., Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac can also make use of HD codec
like H.264, Xvid, MPEG-2, WMV, Divx, etc. to convert BD files into lots of HD
video formats, such as H.264 HD Video (*.mp4), H.264 HD Video (*.mov), MPEG-4 HD
Video (*.mp4), MPEG-2 HD Video (*.mpg), MKV HD Video (*.mkv), WMV HD (*wmv),
Divx HD (*.avi), AVI HD Video (*.avi), etc. Now, lets move on to see how to rip
BD files into HD video formats on Mac step by step.
Step 1: Click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to import Blu-ray files.
Step 2: Click the drop-down list at the end of "Format" to select an HD
format as output format. Here I choose H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)" for instance.
Step 3: Click "Browse" button to look for and set a save path to store the
output HD videos.
Step 4: Click "Settings" button to do advanced settings.
After clicking this button, you will enter the window shown below, on which
you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters like codec name, bit rate,
image pixel, sample rate, etc., in that way you can take charge of the output
file size as well as image quality on your hands freely.
Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start Blu-ray ripping.
As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click "Open" button to find
out the ripped HD files with ease.
BTW, if you want to combine all the BD files into one file, so that there are
no intervals while playback, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file" to
achieve it.
Also, if you want to do simple editing on the original BD files, you can
click "Editor" button to do this. Briefly speaking, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for
Mac provides users with functions like "Crop", "Trim", "Text
Watermark", "Image/Video Watermark", "Effect" and "Audio Replace", via these
functions you can remove unwanted areas of the original video, specify a certain
video duration to rip, add your own preferred pictures, text, and videos to be
as watermark in the output HD files, and adding special effects, as well as
substitute the primary audio with your favorite ones.
All in all, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for
Mac can basically meet all the needs you demand during the course
of ripping Blu-ray files into HD video format. Well, its time to end up now,
hope this helps. Good luck.
How to add special effects to your HD videos on Mac?
Peoples demands for video quality continuously follow up with the
development of multimedia technology. Hence, HD video is born. Nowadays, we can
get HD videos from various ways, like downloading online, recording by HD
camcorders, coming from HD or Blu-ray DVDs, etc. Additionally, more and more
people are willing to make efforts to edit their on-hand HD videos, therefore,
this guide, with the intention of offering help to these people ,will introduce
you how to add special effects to your HD videos on Mac via Pavtube HD Video Converter for
Mac step by step.
2. Add your HD video files to this program, then click icon
"Editor".
3. Press tag "Effect" to adjust common effect
parameters as well as add special effects.
3.1 Adjust common effect parameters and Deinterlacing As
soon as you click the "Effect" button, the following interface
will show up, you can adjust the common effect parameters like Brightness,
Contrast, and Saturation by dragging the slider bars. If there are stripes on
your original HD videos, you can hit the checkbox
"Deinterlacing" to fix it.
Apart from changing the common parameters of effect, now I will show you how
to add special effects to your files. Follow me, please. Just click the
drop-down list of "Effect", which is between
Saturation and Deinterlacing. Afterwards, you
will see there are seven options as below interface showing:
Select whatever special effect you need, and if you want to change your
former settings, just click "Reset". As long as you have chosen
a satisfactory effect, click "OK", the settings will be saved,
otherwise press "Cancel" to abandon it. Well, next, I will
reveal you all the special effects one by one; meanwhile, you can consider which
one is that you need right now.
3.2 Simple gauss
blur This function can remove the video noises, so that your video
quality will be improved a lot. So long as you have this problem, you can use
it. If not, you may just skip it.
3.3 Simple laplacian sharpen This function enables the
video files to have sharpened edges; in that case, the resulted videos will be
much more different from the normal ones.
3.4 Gray Look at the following picture, the difference
between original previewand output preview has obviously presented the effect of
"gray". From the literal meaning of it, we can also know that
it shadows the bright color of the original files, and achieves a deep gray
effect.
3.5 Aged film I put this function here, because it is a
little same with the above mentioned "gray", cant you see it? The visual
difference lies in that "aged film" is fulfilled with the color of old yellow,
while the above one is filled with gray. You can use this effect to make your
videos look like old films produced many years ago.
3.6 Flip color Primary color red and blue are reversed by
this function, and the generated video image seems much bluer than
before.
3.7 Invert Like "flip color",
"invert" also realizes its special effect by reversing
conflicting colors, such as black and white. This effect really brings us great
visual impact. Dont you think it looks like the scenes appeared in some horror
movies? Ha-ha!
4. Convert When you have finished adding special effects
to your HD videos, you can click "Convert" to continue your
conversion job. A video file with built-in special effects is really wonderful.
Dont you think so?
How to convert MKV files to other video formats like AVI, MOV, MP4, etc. on Mac? (Support Snow Leopard)
Feel headache to deal with tons of MKV files downloaded from the network on
your Mac OS? Congratulations, you are lucky enough to be here, since this thread
here will focus on this point and tell you how to convert MKV files to other
video formats like AVI, MOV, MP4, etc. on Mac, even the newly released Snow
Leopard is supported. I believe some of you are searching solutions to this
problem, in that case, just feel free to get whatever you need from this post
with ease. The program we will use is called Pavtube MKV Converter for
Mac, and now lets have a look at the step-by-step instruction of
it together.
See, the following window is its friendly main interface, you can click Add
button to load MKV files which you want to convert into this program.
Step 2: Choose output format and set destination folder
As soon as MKV files are input, now click on the drop-down list of Format
to select an output format according to your end use of the output files. For
example, import to iPhone or iPod for playback, you can select MP4; add to
BlackBerry for entertainment, you can choose WMV or AVI; upload to YouTube for
sharing, you can select FLV; load to iMovie for further editing you can choose
MOV, etc. Whats more, if you want to join multiple MKV files to be one file,
you can check Merge into one file to realize it. Imagine you dislike using the
path set by default to save the output files, you can specify one by yourself
through hitting Browse button.
Step 3: Set configurable settings
Pavtube MKV Converter for
Mac permits users adjusting video and audio parameters like codec, aspect
ratio, bit rate, frame rate, etc., in that case, you can decide the output file
size and the video quality. In principle, the larger input values will generate
better quality, but accompanying with larger file size; on the contrary, the
smaller input values will produce smaller file size, but in accordance with more
inferior file quality. Due to this, youd better make a balance between the
output file size and the output file quality. If you are not good at
configuration, you can totally skip this step.
Step 4: Convert
As long as the above mentioned steps are all finished, what you should do
next is just pressing Convert button to begin conversion. After done, click on
the Open button, and then you will find out the output files easily.
How to Convert Canon Camcorders JVC Everio MOD files to MP4, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc. on Mac?
With the development of video recording technologies, more and more people
are willing to record their daily lives with camcorders to keep memories, such
as wedding parties, birthday parties, babies growth, or whatever else they
thought deserved recording. Sometimes recording is simple, while handling the
generated videos is complicated. Because the video files produced by camcorders
usually can not be recognized by most playing or editing software on Mac
directly, MOD is one of the formats among them. If you have a JVC, Canon, or
Panasonic camcorder, you have probably seen this format before. Next I am going
to share some of my knowledge about MOD format and how to convert MOD to other
video and audio formats for further enjoyment.
Part 1: About MOD MOD is the informal name of tapeless
video format used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders,
such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21,
SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on. It is used exclusively for standard
definition video files, and has never been given to a meaning explanation or
official name by JVC or Panasonic, the pioneers of it.
Part 2: How to convert MOD generated by
JVC Cannon Camcorder to MP4, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc.? When you meet
the MOD video files, what will you do firstly? I think to find out a useful MOD
converter for Mac at first is really essential. You should convert them to some
common video formats previously, and after that, video playing or editing can
only be done without troubles. Pavtube MOD Converter for Mac is
such a kind of converter. Now, lets go through the step-by-step instruction of
it together.
Step 1: Download, install and run this program
Step 2: Add video files, select formats, and set destination
folder Press Add button to input your MOD files
to this program, and then click Format button to select your
resulted video formats, like MP4, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc. You can also use the
default exported folder or set it by yourself through clicking Browse.
Meanwhile, you are also allowed to set output settings by click
Settings.
Step 3: Start converting ClickConvert
button at the right bottom of the main interface to start converting. Once
you have finished these editing and converting jobs, you can deal with the
resulted videos with ease: Export MP4 or MOV files to iMovie to do further
editing, or export 3GP files to your cell phone for playback, or export AVI or
MPEG files to PPT to vivify your presentation, or export MP4 files to play on
your iPod or iPhone, or export FLV files to upload to video websites to share
with others, all in all, you can do whatever you like with them.
Tips: Factually, Im using this product now and like it
very much. Because its after-sales service is really perfect. As soon as Ive
purchased it, their customer service staff Vivian sent me a greeting email
kindly, and asked me if I have some problems while using it. She has definitely
done me some favors in the use of their product. This makes me feel that I am
important, and they are prepared to help me anytime and anywhere. Yes, thats
how it goes.
Whats more, this product has several outstanding functions as below, which
can absolutely bring you joyful experiences.
2. It has pretty fast converting speed; even batch conversion can be
completed in a few minutes.
3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and
videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture
effect.
4. You can use the Trim function to select certain video clips to convert.
And you can also take advantage of the Crop function to remove black edges or
change the screen size.
5. You can merge multiple video files into one file, as well as replace the
original audio with your specified audio.
How to convert MTS or M2TS to iPod, iPhone, etc. compatible formats on Mac?
I have often seen people asking questions like I have a Sony HDR-SR5, or some
other AVCHD camcorders such as Canon HF11, JVC GZ-HD10, Panasonic HDC-SD5, etc,
but I failed to import the video files copied from my camcorder in the format of
.mts or .m2ts for playback on my iPod, iPhone, or some other common used mobile
players, is there anyone can give me some suggestions? Question like this seems
endless, for there are always people keeping asking these similar questions
without an end. This time when I read this question, I couldnt stop myself
giving you people a solution. Firstly I should tell you that most portable
devices can not read .mts or .m2ts files directly, if you want to play them on
your mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, etc. without trouble, you have to convert
them into their acceptable format like MP4 previously.
This article aims to tell you how to convert MTS or M2TS to iPod, iPhone,
etc. compatible formats with Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for
Mac. If you are an above question asker, please read on the
following step-by-step guide at will. 1. Install and run Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for
Mac Once youve run it, a sky-blue interface will appear as
follow:
2.
Import MTS or M2TS files to it, as well as set output format and destination
folder Click Add to import MTS or M2TS files, and
at the same time, you can click the drop-down list of Format
to select whatever format you need, like MP4 for iPod, iPhone, WMV for
Zune player, or some other formats, what you should choose is depending on which
format your portable device is supporting. Also, you can click
Browse to decide where to load the output files. Moreover, if you
want to integrate several files to be one single file, you can check
Merge into one file.
3. Set advanced settings If you have higher expectations
about the resulted file, you can click Settings to adjust the
parameters of video or audio on the below window. For example, you can set the
screen size of the output videos, or change bit rate to adjust the quality or
size of the output files.
4. Convert Click button Convert, you
will see the following window. It shows you the converting process as well as
generated size and estimated size of the converting file, so that you can make
sure if there ere enough space on your Mac to save the output files.
Additional
tips: What is MTS/M2TS?
Before talk about MTS/M2TS, AVCHD
have to be mentioned at first. AVCHD is a tapeless HD format developed by Sony
and Panasonic in May, 2006. AVCHD video is compressed in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
format, and it supports 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc. At the same time, AVCHD audio
is stored in compressed form Dolby AC-3. Well, what is the relationship between
AVCHD and MTS/M2TS? If you are attentive enough, you will find AVCHD is with
file extension .mts on camcorder and with .m2ts after import to computer.
A practical tool to help you reserve TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio of a Blu-ray disc
Blu-ray video has 5 times the resolution of
standard DVD video, therefore, to match the high definition video
quality of a Blu-ray movie, major BD movies encoded with Dolby TrueHD
audio and DTS-HD Master Audio to let viewers have this amazing
experience just like being in the front row of a concert hall, with
voices, instruments, and background music placed in different locations
in your room.
To make it convenient to watching and storing, BD owners always need
make BD backups via some Blu-ray software. Besides keeping the HD video
quality, one more thing they care about is how to reserve the stunning
TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio of a Blu-ray disc, so as not to
downgrade the watching experience. In that case, Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate
would be a good solution to realize this goal, because it is
professional at handling the two audio tracks, as well as removing BD+
and AACS Blu-ray copyright protections.
With the special intention of showing you guys how to make use of
this application to keep your wanted audio track while doing Blu-ray
copying, the following content will take Dolby TrueHD audio for example
in a detailed way.
Your source file can be a Blu-ray disc, a BD ISO image file, or .m2ts streams from a BD movies.
Once you launched this Blu-ray converter, you can load your BD files
to it in the following interface. "Add Video" allows you to load .m2ts
files directly, and "Load DVD" allows you to add BD files from a drive
or a folder.
As soon as BD files are loaded, right-click on the .m2ts video clip
which you need convert, and then hit on the option "Properties". BTW,
usually the video with longest playing time would be the main movie, if
you do not want to convert extra contents, you can choose this one only.
After "Properties" window pops up, you can now click on the pull
down menu of "Audio Stream ID" to check which audio track is TrueHD. As
long as you select an audio track, the audio codec will be shown in the
textbox after "Format". All are the same with the following marked
parts showing. Here the audio track "0x1100" is TrueHD. Afterwards, you
need go back to the above window to select "0x1100" in the drop down
list of "Audio" to set the conversion settings.
Well, this is all the procedure to select TrueHD audio, to keep
audio quality to full extent during the conversion, you need select 5.1
channel as output settings as well. This step can be done via clicking
"Settings" button in the main interface.
Actually, it is a 3-in-one program, which has integrated a Blu-ray
Ripper, a DVD Ripper and a Video Converter together as a standalone
application. That means it can not only deal with Blu-ray discs and DVD
discs, but also handle other video files in a wide range of formats,
including *.avi,*.divx, *.wmv, *.wma, *.asf, *.dvr-ms, *.wav, dts in
wav, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.ra, *.mov, *.qt, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv, *.m4b,
*.m4v, *.m4a, *.aac, *.flv, *.f4v, *.dat, *.mpg, *.vob, *.mod, *.m2v,
*.tod, and so on.
Keep Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of a Blu-ray movie
About Dolby TrueHD audio
Dolby TrueHD, the next-generation lossless compression technology,
is intended primarily for high-definition home-entertainment equipment
such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. The technology provides an excellent
high-definition audio, which is identical with master tapes of a
recording studio, so that giving users a true high-definition
entertainment experience.
About DTS-HD Master Audio
DTS-HD Master Audio is a lossless audio codec created by Digital
Theater System, which is an optional audio format for both Blu-ray Disc
and HD DVD. It is able to deliver all of the information from the
original master recording, allow a bit-to-bit representation of what
the sound engineers laid down.
Since Dolby TrueHD technology and DTS-HD Master Audio deliver
unprecedented home theater experience, there may be no one willing to
loose the wonderful audio while backup a Blu-ray movie. The thing is
that most Blu-ray rippers in the market can not recognize the two
stunning audios at all, and this may be the probable thing that
troubles you a lot. With luck, I found an available Blu-ray converter
via Google by chance, and my pleasure to share its detailed operating
steps here, sincerely hope it will be of some help for you folks who
are feeling headache about this problem.
Software I will use is called Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper,
it is able to read TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio, and output them
as 5.1 channels. Here I will take keeping Dolby TrueHD audio for
instance to show you how to retain the original attributes during the
course of Blu-ray ripping.
Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies
There are three ways to import Blu-ray files: "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder", and "IFO/ISO".
Step 2: Select Dolby TrueHD audio, output format and set destination folder
Now you just tick off on what you want to copy. Normally select the
.m2ts video stream with the longest playing time, because it is usually
the main movie of the Blu-ray. If in doubt, you can preview the
selected stream in the video pane to the right to check it. You can
also tick several .m2ts files, if you want to copy the extras of the
Blu-ray movie. Note that you can also combine everything into one file
via ticking the checkbox "Merge into one file".
Look at the "Audio" option, usually a Blu-ray movie has several
audio tracks, Dolby TrueHD audio is among them. Generally speaking, the
first one should be Dolby TrueHD, or you can play it to check if it is
what you want.
At the same time, you should select output format from the drop-down
list of "Format", here I choose "MKV HD Video (*.mkv) for instance, or
if you just need copy Blu-ray movies
without any loss, you can select "Copy" and then "Directly Copy". After
that, click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to
locate the output files, if not, the program will export the output
file to the default save path automatically, and these files can be
easily found via clicking "Open" button.
Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters
Click "Settings" button, and then you can adjust audio and video
parameters like codec, image pixels, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate,
and audio channels, to keep Dolby TrueHD audio to the greatest extent,
you should select 5.1 channels.
Step 4: Start Blu-ray ripping
Once the above mentioned settings are finished, now just click
"Convert" button to start Blu-ray ripping, the ripping info including
ripping process, ripping time, and generated file size will all be
shown clearly on the following window, and if you do not want to wait
around, you can tick "Shut down computer after conversion".
To play Blu-ray ISO backups on your WD TV Live, one thing you should
know is that WD TV Live can well play ISO files from a USB drive, while
network shares do have problems actually.
In order to get an ISO backup, whats your workflow? As all I know,
some people use tsMuxeR to back up the Blu-ray disc, and then converted
it into an ISO using Daemon Tools. Personally, I use Pavtube Blu-ray Copy to make ISO backups for my Blu-ray discs.
Within several clicks, this program can finish its task, and enables
you to get an ISO image file. What you should do is just loading your
BD files via "Source" option, and then choose "Image File (*.ISO)" from
the pull down menu of "Target" to specify the destination folder. BTW,
youd better indicate your USB drive as the save path, or you need
spend time to copy the ISO image to your USB drive repeatedly. Once the
two steps finished, the backup process will begin, and then you just
need wait for the resulted ISO files for your WD TV Live.
As long as copying task is completed, plug the USB into your WD TV,
and connect it to your HDTV via HDMI cable, what you should do next is
enjoying your BD movies on your widescreen TV leisurely.
One more thing I should mention is that some users have problems to
play Blu-ray ISO files via their WD TV, but DVD ISO is working well.
Not clear about the accurate reason, but another solution can be
recommended. Since WD TV is able to beautifully playback HD MKV files
up to Full HD 1080p, thus we just need a utility to convert BD files to
HD MKV, and then everything will be OK. Because of the Blu-ray
copyright issues, some discs are highly protected, we must take
advantage of a powerful application to do so. In that case, the
following Blu-ray ripper is suggested, it is able to remove nearly all
kinds of BD protections, including BD+, AACS, and even MKB Version >
10 is supported as well.
This Blu-ray ripper
allows users exporting "MKV HD Video (*.mkv)" format, and also enables
users to reset audio and video parameters via clicking "Settings"
button. You can set the resolution at 1920*1080 to remain 1080p quality
of your Blu-ray movies, as well as keep 5.1 channel of the original
surround sound. All in all, all the parameters like bit rate, codec
name, frame rate, sample rate are all changeable in the following
interface.
After your preferred settings for your WD TV have been set well,
just click "Convert" button to start conversion. Once finished, you can
watch them on your TV via WD TV with ease, and the high quality of the
Blu-ray movie has never been changed at all.
To play Blu-ray ISO backups on your WD TV Live, one thing you should
know is that WD TV Live can well play ISO files from a USB drive, while
network shares do have problems actually.
In order to get an ISO backup, whats your workflow? As all I know,
some people use tsMuxeR to back up the Blu-ray disc, and then converted
it into an ISO using Daemon Tools. Personally, I use Pavtube Blu-ray Copy to make ISO backups for my Blu-ray discs.
Within several clicks, this program can finish its task, and enables
you to get an ISO image file. What you should do is just loading your
BD files via "Source" option, and then choose "Image File (*.ISO)" from
the pull down menu of "Target" to specify the destination folder. BTW,
youd better indicate your USB drive as the save path, or you need
spend time to copy the ISO image to your USB drive repeatedly. Once the
two steps finished, the backup process will begin, and then you just
need wait for the resulted ISO files for your WD TV Live.
As long as copying task is completed, plug the USB into your WD TV,
and connect it to your HDTV via HDMI cable, what you should do next is
enjoying your BD movies on your widescreen TV leisurely.
One more thing I should mention is that some users have problems to
play Blu-ray ISO files via their WD TV, but DVD ISO is working well.
Not clear about the accurate reason, but another solution can be
recommended. Since WD TV is able to beautifully playback HD MKV files
up to Full HD 1080p, thus we just need a utility to convert BD files to
HD MKV, and then everything will be OK. Because of the Blu-ray
copyright issues, some discs are highly protected, we must take
advantage of a powerful application to do so. In that case, the
following Blu-ray ripper is suggested, it is able to remove nearly all
kinds of BD protections, including BD+, AACS, and even MKB Version >
10 is supported as well.
This Blu-ray ripper
allows users exporting "MKV HD Video (*.mkv)" format, and also enables
users to reset audio and video parameters via clicking "Settings"
button. You can set the resolution at 1920*1080 to remain 1080p quality
of your Blu-ray movies, as well as keep 5.1 channel of the original
surround sound. All in all, all the parameters like bit rate, codec
name, frame rate, sample rate are all changeable in the following
interface.
After your preferred settings for your WD TV have been set well,
just click "Convert" button to start conversion. Once finished, you can
watch them on your TV via WD TV with ease, and the high quality of the
Blu-ray movie has never been changed at all.
How to play Blu-ray movies on HDTV via WDTV HD Media Player
Its an amazing experience to watch HD movies on a home theater
system in the living room with your friends or family. WDTV HD Media
Player is a reliable gadget to realize this goal, since it can play
just about any video format you throw at it, including Full HD video up
to 1080p. With this little box, you are able to set free all of your
collected photos, videos that stuck on your PC, and play them back on
your HDTV. As we all know, Blu-ray disc is a pop medium to store high
definition movies, but because of copyright issues, its a troublesome
thing for users to have access to BD movies at will. Now I would like
to share my own experience about how to play Blu-ray movie on HDTV via
WDTV HD Media Player, and if you are interested in it, you can feel
free to check the following content.
First of all, you should have a brief understanding of WDTV HD Media Player supported file formats:
As you can see in the above list, M2TS is included, which is the
file extension of Blu-ray streams, so if we want to playback BD .m2ts
files, we just need remove BD protection in advance. In that case, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
would be a good assistant, it is able to remove almost all kinds of
copyright protections of BD discs, no matter BD+, or AACS, even MKB
Version > 10 is supported as well.
To enable Blu-ray movies to playback on HDTV via WDTV HD Media
Player, you can select "Directly Copy" from output format profile. This
process will remove BD protections only, and the output .m2ts files
will fully match the original files, which will keep high definition
totally, but your removable disk should have enough space to save the
output files, because the generated file size would be as same large as
the original.
Additionally, if you want to save your disk space as well as keep HD
quality, you can totally select other format that can be read by WDTV
as output format. For instance, here I choose "HD Video" .mkv as output
format, through clicking "Settings" button, and then I can set video
and audio parameters in the popup window, including setting aspect
ratio at 1920*1080, AAC 5.1 channels and something else like bit rate,
frame rate, sample rate.
After conversion is finished, just plug your external hard drive or
your thumb drive which has stored the output files into WDTV, and then
connect the device to your HDTV via HDMI cable. Once done, you are able
to enjoy your BD movies now. Well, hope it would be of some help for
you guys who are looking around for this info.
How to make Blu-ray .m2ts streams available for your PC and portable devices
To enable Blu-ray .m2ts streams to be
available for playback on a PC or some popular portable multimedia
players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc., the way of Windows users is to
make use of AnyDVD HD to remove Blu-ray copyright protections as well
as the region codes in the first step, and then have access to an M2TS
converter to do format conversion in the second step. Apart from this
method, another way is also practical, that is taking advantage of a
Blu-ray ripper directly to complete this process once and for all.
Since not everybody is clearly about the two ways, also because I have
enough spare time currently, I will present the two solutions in a
detailed way in this post, and hope it would be of some help for you
guys who are hunting for this info.
Solution 1: with the help of AnyDVD HD and an M2TS Converter
What you will need:
- A Windows PC with a built-in Blu-ray drive or an external BD drive.
1. Insert your Blu-ray disc to the BD drive, and run AnyDVD HD to
remove copyright protections and region codes of your disc, no matter
what kinds of protections your BD discs adopted, BD+, or AACS, AnyDVD
HD is capable of dealing with them. Then you will get unprotected.m2ts
files after the access of AnyDVD HD.
If you just want to watch the .m2ts files on your PC, you can use
VLC media player, KMPlayer, or whatever to open these files for
playback. If you need import them to your portable devices for playing,
you should go on with the following step to do format conversion.
Additionally, according to my own experience, VLC and KMPlayer
sometimes are choppy while playing .m2ts files, suppose you want to
watch them smoothly, format conversion is also recommended.
2. Convert .m2ts files to your wanted format (fit for your media players or portable devices)
In this step, Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter will fully perform its functionality.
Step 1: Click "Add" button to input .m2ts files to this program
Step 2: Select output format and set destination folder
Click the pull down menu of "Format" to choose an output format
according to your end use, this application provides a wide range of HD
and SD formats output:
HD formats including .mkv, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .mpg, .ts, .wmv, etc.
SD formats including .avi, .mp4, .mkv, .mov, .wmv, .3gp, .flv, .f4v, .swf, .asf, .m4v, .vob, etc.
The output files can be added to iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox
360,Apple TV, Blackberry, Gphone, Zune, , Creative Zen, Archos, Nokia,
Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, Final Cut
Express, Final Cut Pro, etc. for playback or editing.
Meanwhile, if you dislike using the default save path to store the
output files, you can click the folder icon at the opposite side of
"Output" to specify where to locate them.
Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters
Codec name, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels are all changeable in the popup window.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
Once finished, the generated files can be found out while clicking
on "Open" button effortlessly. And then you can do whatever you like
with the output files.
Solution 2: with the help of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper:
What you will need:
- A Windows PC with a built-in Blu-ray drive or an external BD drive.
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is an independent and professional utility to
rip both Blu-ray discs and general DVDs to your wanted HD or SD media
formats. With full Blu-ray disc support, it is able to remove copyright
protections of your BD disc, no matter BD+, or AACS, even MKB Version
> 10 is supported as well. With advanced audio technology, it is
capable of reading all audio tracks of a BD disc, including Dolby
TureHD Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, which will never let you miss the
mother tongue of the movie.
1. Insert your BD disc to the drive, and then run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
2. Rip BD files to your wanted formats, directly copy is supported.
Step 1: Click "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load Blu-ray .m2ts files
Step 2: Select output format and set save path
Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select your needed output
format, and click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify the
destination folder.
Step 3: Adjust audio and video parameters
Click "Settings" button, then you will be able to adjust bit rate,
aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel in the popup
window.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start Blu-ray ripping
Once the ripping task is completed, you can find out the output files via clicking on "Open" button.
The second solution seems more convenient, but if you already have
an AnyDVD HD, you can consider adopting the first solution certainly.
If you have none of them, then the second one would be a better choice.
Compare with AnyDVD HD, this Blu-Ray Ripper
is more powerful, taking removing copy protections aside, it allows
users ripping BD disc to whatever format they want, as well as supports
adjusting customized settings like bit rate, frame rate, resolution,
audio track, etc to downsize your Blu-ray movie. Also, its much less
cost is also a consideration, no more than $45 USD. Well, hope this
helps.
