Blu-ray converter

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.

Additional tips:

Why this Blu-ray Video Converter is entitled Ultimate?

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.

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, what’s 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, you’d 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.

Is this helpful? Hope it is.

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, what’s 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, you’d 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.

Is this helpful? Hope it is.

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.

- AnyDVD HD

- Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

How-To:

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

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, it’s much less cost is also a consideration, no more than $45 USD. Well, hope this helps.

In Sep. 23, 2008, Adobe released Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and in October of the same year, it released Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0, both the two programs include AVCHD support (but not in the trial version of CS4). It is good news for people to see that via the two versions and the later ones, they are able to edit their footages shot by a Sony HDR-SR10, or other AVCHD camcorders, which have .mts or .m2ts file extensions. The thing is that some people already have a Premiere Pro CS3, Premiere Elements 4.0, or even older versions, they are not willing to spend money for upgrading or purchasing, and then what would be the cost-efficient way to solve their problem? As a matter of fact, you just need cost very little money for an AVCHD video converter, no more than $30, and it will totally resolve your problem.

In the following paragraphs, I would like to show you my own solution of converting AVCHD files to Adobe Premiere workable format via this kind of converter named Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter, which is only $29, and without audio and video out of sync issues.

Step 1: Run this AVCHD video converter, and load MTS/M2TS files to it

Click "Add" button to import .mts and .m2ts files as long as you launched this program.

Step 2: Select output format and set save path

Click on the drop-down list of "Format" to select an output format for importing to Adobe Premiere. This utility has specific format profile for Adobe Premiere, and you just need choose one according to your own needs.

Click the folder icon at the opposite side of "Output" to specify the save path of the output files. At the same time, if you want to combine multiple files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to do advanced settings

All the parameters in the popup window are changeable, including codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Once finished, the output files can be found out via clicking on "Open" button.

During the most special and happy family days of the year, what have you done to enjoy this amazing Christmas and New Year holiday? Have you held a party with your big family and friends, or traveled around some attractive places with your lovers and kids, or done something else you were looking forward to for a long time? Whatever you did, you must have not forgotten recording all the meaningful and unforgettable moments as precious memories via a Canon, Sony, or Pansonic AVCHD camcorder. Then it is a good idea to upload these charming things shot by your camera onto YouTube for sharing with everyone else in the world.

However, if you have this thought, you should know that AVCHD camcorders save footages in the format of MTS and M2TS, which are out of the range of YouTube supported formats, they are .FLV, .MKV, .MOV, .WMV, .AVI, MPEG, .MP4, DivX, 3GP and .OGG, therefore, in order to upload MTS and M2TS video files onto YouTube successfully, you have to convert these files to YouTube compatible formats as above mentioned previously.

At the same time, one more thing you must notice, that is video files uploaded to YouTube by standard accounts are limited to 10 minutes in length and 2 GB in size and only partner account holders are permitted to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. That means you should compress the length and size of your footages to fit the two requirements. Don’t worry,  the following part will show you how to upload MTS/M2TS holiday footages onto YouTube via Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter in detail, just feel free to go through with it.

Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

Step 2: Add MTS/M2TS files, select YouTube format and set save path

You can click on "Add" button to load MTS and M2TS files into this program, after that, hit the drop-down list of "Format" to choose a YouTube supported format, here I select FLV for instance. It is said that FLV should be a much better choice than other formats, as long as you limit the bit rate in not more than 320 kbps. In that case, the generated .FLV files will not be converted for the second time by YouTube’s encoders while uploading.

Meanwhile, if you want to combine all the MTS/M2TS files into one file, you can tick the checkbox of "Merge into one file" to realize this goal. Imagine you dislike using the save path set by default, and then you are able to specify a destination folder by yourself via clicking on the folder icon at the end of "Output".

Step 3: Set advanced settings

In this step, you can compress the file size of your footages, so as to meet the upload requirements of YouTube. Click on "Settings" button firstly, and then the following interface will pop up, which allows you to adjust video and audio parameters like aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. The smaller inserted figures will produce the smaller output file size, but accompanying with inferior video quality, so do remember making a balance between file size and video quality.

Step 4: Convert

As soon as all the above three steps are completed, and now you can press "Convert" button to begin conversion. The window below will show you the conversion info including conversion progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size as well as estimated file size. Particularly, the estimated file size will remind you if your output file size is not more than 2 GB. Otherwise, you should set the advanced settings again to fit the upload demands of YouTube. If you can't set the optimized settings accurately, try and match them as close as possible.

Lots of people have been looking around for information on how to burn tivo files generated by a TiVo DVR to a DVD disc, so as to watch them on a PC or their widescreen TV via a DVD player, as well as a Blu-ray player. To give a solution to this universal problem to full extent, my post will focus on this point, and present you the method of how to author tivo files to DVD. If it is what you are looking for, just take it easy to go through with it.

What you will need:

1. TiVo Desktop

2. A video converter that can support tivo files, here I choose Pavtube Video Converter

3. A DVD burner, like ImgBurn, Nero Express, etc.

At first, you should transfer your recorded files which you want to burn to DVD from your TiVo box to your personal PC via TiVo Desktop, that is "Pick Recordings to Transfer". Then do as the following instruction shown:

1. Run Pavtube Video Converter and add tivo files to it

Once you run it, the following wine red interface will appear, and you can click on "Add" button to load tivo files into it.

2. Select DVD format as output format, and set save path

As long as tivo files are imported, you should click the pull down menu of "Format" to select a VOB format for DVD burning. Here I choose DVD-Video Format – NTSC (*.vob) for instance. Notice that NTSC is a video format used in North America, Central America, Japan, and parts of South America; PAL is the video format used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, most of Asia, and parts of South America; SECAM is used in Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, Former USSR, and Americas. You should select one according to your geographical regions.

At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to locate the output VOB files. Additionally, if you want to combine all the tivo files you loaded to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

3. Set advanced settings

If you’d like to adjust the video and audio parameters of your tivo files before conversion, you can press "Settings" button to enter the interface as below, on which you are permitted to adjust aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc.

4. Start conversion

As soon as the above steps are finished, you can click "Convert" button to begin converting tivo files to VOB, which is the source file that can be burn to a DVD disc directly. Once conversion is done, you are able to find out the output VOB files via clicking on "Open" button.

After finished, what you should do next is just inserting a blank DVD to the DVD drive of your PC, and then use no matter ImgBurn, Nero Express or whatever to author the generated vob files to DVD. Then a new DVD that is originated from your tivo files is belonging to you right now.

As we all know, Windows Movie Maker is the free video editing software installed on a PC using Microsoft Windows OS. However, probably because of the copyright issues, Windows Movie Maker only provides supports for a relative small range of formats. I’d like to list them out.

Windows Movie Maker accepted formats:

.WMV, .ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and .MP3
Additionally, the Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Movie Maker support importing MPEG-2 Program streams and DVR-MS formats.

It is obviously that AVCHD .mts and .m2ts files are out of this range, and if you try to capture these videos to Windows Movie Maker, it will prompt you that:

My question is that how to make it possible to let Windows Movie Maker workable with them? Up to now, the only answer I have got is that doing format conversion is absolutely necessary. Then what program can work well to do this? Through some attempts on several utilities I searched on Google, finally Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter stands out from the others. Before using it, I've tried some similar converters as well, virtually all of them can transfer mts/m2ts to Windows Movie Maker compatible format, but always bring problems one or another, like terrible conversion speed, audio and video out of sync issues, etc. This one does not have these issues, so it won my appreciation, of course.

Well, back to the point, my post aims to show you a detailed instruction of how to convert .mts and .m2ts AVCHD files for importing to Windows Movie Maker via Pavtube, just go through with it to see whether it is what you need or not. Okay, here we go.

You can download this video converter here, and then install and run it.

Step 1: Click "Add" button to load your .mts and .m2ts files.

Step 2: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the pull down menu of "Format", you will be able to select a Windows Movie Maker supported format from the output format profile, here I choose .wmv for example. Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to store the output files for your WMM, if not, this program will export them to the default save path automatically. BTW, if you want to combine multiple .mts and .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick "Merge into one file.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click "Settings" button, then you will be able to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window to customize the output files, these parameters include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.

Once finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output files effortlessly, and what you need to do next is just importing them to Windows Movie Maker for editing via its "Import video" option.

Interested in building a mini Blu-ray library to store up your favorite movies? Then it’s my honor to give you my recommendations about some essential classic movies in Blu-ray that you can never let slip. My list includes some old classic films as well as the latest released movies, like Avatar. Actually, it’s definitely impossible to summarize all the classics here once and for all, so I’m looking forward to hearing your ideas about this. Sharing would be a happy thing.    

1. The Wizard of Oz

Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr

Director: Victor Fleming

Time: 1939

Kind-hearted girl Dorothy was blew into a strange and wonderful country - Land of Oz by a tornado, and lost her way home. There, she gradually became acquainted with the Scarecrow without brains, Tin Man with no heart, and a very Cowardly Lion, who in order to achieve their aspiration and help each other, hand in hand collaboration, have gone through hardship and difficulties, and encountered lots of strange things. In the end, by virtue of their extraordinary intelligence and indomitable perseverance, they made their wishes come true.

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Although The Wizard of Oz is seventy years old, it still attracts and delights both kids and grown-ups. Magic, music, unforgettable characters and magnificent decorations make this movie a timeless American masterpiece.

2. Gone With the Wind

Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland

Director: Victor Fleming

Time: 1939

The same with The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind is one of the American masterpieces of 1939, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. It tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint, and the story of Rhett, Scarlett and the fall of the Old South is an undisputed classic. It’s a must for any classic film collection.

3. Casablanca

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid

Director: Michael Curtiz

Time: 1942

Set during World War II, Casablanca focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

4. The Terminator

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Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton

Director: James Cameron

Time: 1984

In the year 2029, the ruling super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back in time to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before she can fulfill her destiny and save mankind.

This is the film that cemented Schwarzenegger's spot in the action-brawn firmament, and it was well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg who kills without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and direction are pared to the bone and all the more creepy. But don't overlook the contributions of Linda Hamilton, who more than holds her own as the Terminator's would-be victim, Sarah Connor--thus creating, along with Sigourney Weaver in Alien, a new generation of rugged, clear-thinking female action stars. It's surprising how well this film holds up, and how its minimalist, malevolent violence is actually way scarier than that of its far more expensive, more effects-laden sequel. --Anne Hurley

5. Braveheart

Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson

Director: Mel Gibson

Time: 1995

In the late 13th century, William Wallace returns to Scotland after living away from his homeland for many years. The king of Scotland has died without an heir and the king of England, a ruthless pagan known as Edward the Longshanks, has seized the throne. Wallace becomes the leader of a ramshackle yet courageous army determined to vanquish the greater English forces. At the historic battle of Stirling, Wallace leads his army to a stunning victory against the English. Knighted by the grateful Scottish nobles, Sir William Wallace extends the conflict south of the border and storms the city of York. King Edward I is astonished by the unexpected turn of events. Unable to rely on his ineffectual son Prince Edward, Longshanks sends his daughter-in-law Princess Isabelle to discuss a truce with Wallace...

6. Gladiator

Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris

Director: Ridley Scott

Time: 2000

In the final days of Marcus Aurelius' reign, the aging emperor angers his son Commodus by making it known that he wants Maximus, a fearsome and respected Roman general, to be his successor. Power-hungry Commodus kills his father and orders the death of Maximus. But the latter flees, only to discover that his wife and child have been murdered by Commodus. Captured, Maximus is forced into slavery, where he is sold to Proximo, a former gladiator who serves as both mentor and slave master. Maximus trains as a gladiator in the arena, where his fame grows. He goes to Rome, intent on avenging the murder of his wife and son by killing the new emperor Commodus. Maximus has learned that the one power stronger than that of the emperor is the will of the people, and he knows he can only attain his revenge by becoming the greatest hero in all the empire.

7. The Pursuit of Happyness

Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Time: 2006

Will Smith stars in the inspirational true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who's struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raise their 5-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) on his own. Chris' determination finally pays off when he lands an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only one in twenty interns will make the cut. But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the street, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self- confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend.

8. District 9

Starring: Sharlto Copley, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Time: 2009

District 9 is a 2009 South African science fiction-action film directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James.

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi- National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable -- he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.

9. 2012 (This title will be released on March 2, 2010)

Starring: John Cusack, Woody Harrelson

Director: Roland Emmerich

Time: 2009

From Roland Emmerich, director of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and INDEPENDENCE DAY, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

10. Avatar (Blu-ray will come soon)

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Stephen Lang

Director: James Cameron

Time: 2009

The film is set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a fictional Earth-like world in the Alpha Centauri planetary system. Humans are engaged in mining Pandora's reserves of a precious mineral, while the Na'vi—a race of indigenous humanoids—resists the colonists' expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the Na'vi and the Pandoran ecosystem.

Well, hope my list is worthwhile. BTW, anyone has the needs of backup Blu-ray movies to the hard drive of a PC or an external hard drive, or converting Blu-ray to portable devices for watching, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is a pretty good choice for you, no matter what kinds of copyright protections your BD discs have, AACS or BD+, it is able to recognize and work on them all. Or, if you are a Mac user, as long as you have an external BD drive, Mac Blu-ray ripper can do you a favor as the same with AnyDVD HD doing on Windows.

As the leading smartphone device solution, BlackBerry performs beautifully in multimedia playback, which enables users to enjoy music, videos, photos and documents in great color and sound. What an amazing thing it is to enjoy your favorite DVD movies on BlackBerry Curve 8300, BlackBerry Storm 2, Storm 9500, Pearl 8800, Bold 9700 and so on. To make this come true, what you need to do is just transferring the DVDs to a BlackBerry workable video format, like WMV, AVI, MP4, and 3GP. As of now, it’s my pleasure to share my own experience of how to watch DVD movies on BlackBerry here.

Software you need:

WAF converter supports more than 20 well known formats.

Pavtube DVD Ripper

Overview of Pavtube DVD Ripper

Pavtube DVD Ripper provides you an easiest way to edit and convert DVDs to any other formats including MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, so that you can enjoy DVD contents with your portable devices like Blackberry, iPod, iPhone, Cell Phones, etc. on the go. If you like, you can also upload the converted DVD videos to your websites or blogs for sharing after the DVD to FLV conversion.

Key features of this DVD to BlackBerry converter

Support almost all BlackBerry series, including BlackBerry Curve 8300, Storm 9500, Bold 9700, Pearl 8800, etc.

Customize your individual BlackBerry video, including video trimming, video cropping, adding watermarks and special effects, changing audio track and subtitle, adjusting audio and video parameters like bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio channel, etc.

Fast conversion speed and advanced audio and video in sync technology.

Support batch conversion and multiple files merging

Easy to use, within no more than 4 steps, you can finish your conversion task.

How to rip DVD for playback on BlackBerry

Viv converter is a powerful batch Video converter support convert viv to avi, mov, mpeg.

Step 1: Load DVD files

There are three ways to load DVD files: "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" and "IFO/ISO".

Step 2: Select output format for BlackBerry and specify destination folder

Click the pull down menu of "Format" to select a format for your BlackBerry. There are dozens of options for BlackBerry, and you just need choose one according to the specifications of your BlackBerry. Meanwhile, if you do not want to use the default save path to store your output files, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to export the output file to.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click "Settings" button, then the popup window will enables you to adjust video and audio parameters like aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to customize the output settings of the video generated for your BlackBerry.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD for playback on BlackBerry

The final output files can be found out via clicking on "Open" button in the main interface.

Blu-ray is now not new for people anymore, and movie lovers usually have a collection of Blu-ray movies on hand. To take advantage of these wonderful movie contents, users always have the needs of putting BD movies onto their portable devices for playback, like BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone, PSP or whatever else. Without luck, until now, these portable devices can not read Blu-ray files at all, so we have to use a third party software to help us remove the copyright protections and convert BD .m2ts files to the formats that can be supported by these players. Since lots of posts in the board have referred to Blu-ray playback issues on iPod, iPhone, and PSP, my thread here will focus on BlackBerry only, and tell you guys how to enjoy your Blu-rays on whatever series of BlackBerry you have, including Curve 8500, Tour 9630, Storm2 9550, Pearl 8800, etc.

What you will need:

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A BD-ROM or BD-R/RE drive

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

How-to:

Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and load BD files

You can load Blu-ray files to this program via "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO".

Step 2: Select output format for BlackBerry and set save path

Click the pull down menu of "Format" to select an output format for your BlackBerry, in the format profile, there are lots of options, you can choose one according to the specifications of your smartphone.

Welcome to Office Tips, where I provide some examples of the enhanced functionality available.

Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the opposite side of "Output" to specify the destination folder for storing the output files, if not, the Blu-ray to BlackBerry Converter will export the generated files to the save path set by default automatically. No matter using your specified destination folder or the default save path, the output files can be found out via click "Open" button as soon as the conversion is finished. Furthermore, if you wanna combine multiple .m2ts files to be as a single file, you can achieve this goal via ticking the checkbox "Merge into one file".

Step 3: Adjust audio and video parameters

Click "Settings" button on the main interface, then you will be able to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels on the popup window.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Select the convert tool for your recipe.

Step 5: Enjoy

At this point, you'll have fully functioning Blu-ray playback on your BlackBerry...