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.
Posted at 10:40PM Mar 17, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc.
Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity expressed in "Avatar"? Have you ever wept for the extremely romantic but tragic love in "Romeo and Juliet"? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"?
Uncountable classic movies have given us different kinds of feelings, wanna collect as many as them to be as your own collections on your home server, on your HD of PC, or enjoy them on your portable devices no matter wherever you go? If so, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac would be your suitable choice. It's used to convert DVD movies to various video and audio formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4 (MPEG-4, H.264), MOV, MP3, etc., which are compatible with handheld devices like Motorola Droid, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Archos, PSP, Creative Zen, etc. Following is the user guide in detail.
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac
Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.
You can add DVD files to it through "DVD Folder" or "IFO File". After that, you can click the drop-down list of "Format" to select the output format according to your mobile devices accepted format. At the same time, you can hit "Browse" button to specify where to locate the output files. Moreover, if you want to join multiple titles or chapters into a single file, you can tick "Merge into one file" to realize this goal.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Clicking on "Settings" button, experienced users can set video Codec Name, Bit Rate, Video Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video, as well as setting audio Codec Name, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to make the quality of audio better.
Step 4: Convert
After all the settings are done, you can click "Convert" button to start DVD ripping. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the ripping info, including ripping progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size, estimated file size, etc.
Additional Tips:
1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.
2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.
3. Ripping by chapters is supported.
4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.
5. 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.
6. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.
7. Specific effect models are provided, such as "Simple gauss blur", "Simple laplacian sharpen", "Aged film", "Flip color", and "Invert".
Posted at 10:37PM Mar 17, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
How to convert MTS or M2TS to iPod, iPhone, etc. compatible formats on Mac?
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.
Posted at 03:43AM Feb 25, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
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.
1. Pavtube MOD Converter for Mac does not have the audio-video out of sync problem.
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.
Hope you could enjoy it. ^_^
Posted at 03:40AM Feb 25, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
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.
Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac.
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.
Posted at 03:35AM Feb 25, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
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.
1. Download, install and run Pavtube HD Video Converter
for Mac .
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?
Posted at 03:30AM Feb 25, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
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.
Posted at 03:26AM Feb 25, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
Solution to playback Blu-ray movies on TV via WD TV HD Media Player
Want to find a solution to playback Blu-ray movies on your widescreen TV via WD HD Media Player? As a matter of fact, WD TV HD Media Player promises to play just about any video format you throw at it, including high definition video up to 1080p. You put the videos on any USB mass storage device, like an external hard drive or a thumb drive, and plug it into the device, WD TV HD Media Player will recognize the files on the drive and play any video, audio, or photo files it finds. However, according to the feedback provided by some users, WD TV HD Media Player does play m2ts selectively only, some are, and some are not. In purpose of solving this problem, this post will talk about how to rip Blu-ray movies to USB for playback on TV via WD TV HD Media Player.
WD TV HD Media Player supported file formats:
Video: MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264), Subtitle SRT (UTF-8)
Audio: MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital, AIF/AIFF, MKA Playlist PLS, M3U, WPL
Photo: JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
The Blu-ray ripper we will use is called Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper , which can rip and convert DVDs and Blu-Ray movies directly to any other formats, including HD video format. Now lets have a look at its operation steps.
Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
Step 2: Load Blu-ray movie, select output format and set destination folder
There are three ways to importing Blu-ray movie, namely by pressing "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder", "IFO/ISO". As soon as Blu-ray files are loaded, now you can click the drop-down button of "Format" to select output format. In order to keep Blu-ray in high definition, here I choose "MKV HD Video" for example, so that the ripped files can be played via WD TV HD Media Player.
At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to indicate save path, of course, you can skip this step, because this program offers a destination folder set by default, if you do not specify, it will export files to this folder automatically. Moreover, if you want to play your files without intervals, you can check "Merge into one file" to combine multiple chapters to be one file.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Besides this, you can also click "Settings" to adjust video and audio parameters to ensure the output HD quality. Changing video and audio codec, adjusting aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. are all available here.
Step 4: Ripping
Once all the above settings are completed, you can click "Convert" button to start Blu-ray ripping, and the output HD MKV files can be found by clicking on the button "Open". After that, you can copy these files to your USB, and plug in it to WD TV HD Media Player to enjoy via TV.
Tips:
According to some users' feedback, the output files of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is the
only format that they can smoothly fast forward at 16x regardless of the output
format.
Posted at 07:40AM Feb 04, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
Expand capacity of Apple TV
For some reasons, I havent made full use of my 40GB Apple TV in the last 2 years. Recently, I have more spare time to do so, and would like to use it in my living room with my wide screen TV to enjoy its functionality fully. It works fine to playback all the files I throw at it, but 40GB is too confining for all my photos and music, not to mention my movies and other video collection. To solve this problem, once I have to make my Mac Pro and iTunes running to stream all my data to the Apple TV. It seems a bit troublesome, I dislike it. So I look for a solution to expand the capacity of my Apple TV. Via Google, Ive found some useful articles talking about this issue, and I followed them, and finally successfully upgrade the hard drive of the Apple TV lately. Here Id like to document my process below, but before that, Id like to show my gratitude to people who Ive got useful info from their articles, even though I can not remember their exactly names now.
In summary, the process is relatively simple, a small 40GB hard drive can be freely replaced, thus becomes a DIY Apple TV.
Dismantle the Apple TV, remove the hard drive, and connect it to an Intel Mac Pro via WiebeTech Forensic DriveDock or other 2.5-inch hard drive FireWire bridge. Start the Mac, and you will see that hard drive partition of Apple TV is structured as follows:
/dev/disk5
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *37.3 GB disk5
1: EFI 34.0 MB disk5s1
2: 400.0 MB disk5s2
3: Apple_HFS OSBoot 900.0 MB disk5s3
4: Apple_HFS Media 36.0 GB disk5s4
400MB of space which could be used to store the system restore data. Extract overall image via CopyCatX, and recover them to a new hard drive which you want to change back. I found lots of people like using a Western Digital 120GB WD1200VE hard drive. Install the new hard drive to Apple TV, and in the test, you will find the system continues to recognize only 40GB of space, because the partition information is the same with the original 40GB hard drive. But in fact, there are more than 70GB of space not being used.
Remove the new hard drive to re-connect to the Mac, and allocate the unused more than 70GB space to the Media partition with the help of iPartition or other partitioning software. Be careful, not to change the EFI or the other 400MB partition.
After install it back to the Apple TV, all the 107GB space will be recognized completely, you are done!
Now Im able to store more photos, movies, music, and television shows on the Apple TV. But when it comes to video playback, Apple TV has strict formats limitation, it caused troubles again, and I have to convert all my videos to Apple TV formats .mp4 and .mov in advance. However, this does not the most important thing Im concerned, because I have already have a video converter on my Mac Pro, and my most intention is to watch my Blu-ray on it. Fortunately, via Google again, I get an available Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to meet my needs, which is able to run on Mac independently as long as you have an external BD drive. To keep HD quality as well as compress BD size, I usually select HD video as my output option. A great product, I like it. Besides this, it seems there are also another version developed for Windows user, attached this BD ripper here, maybe its your choice.
Well, by the way, Apple installed Fujitsu hard drives in original, and this could be due to their relatively small power and heat consumption, so when replacing the hard drive, you can also take this factor into account. In addition, the replacement of the hard disk will let you lost product warranty, please proceed with caution.
Posted at 07:33AM Feb 04, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
Easiest way to convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1
Surfing online, often see people asking questions like this: "Does anyone know how to convert 5.1 AAC to AC3? If so, what software do I need and encoding/conversion settings. Thanks in advance for any help." As a matter of fact, this is a normal question, because some of our usually used multimedia devices can decode or read audio codec selectively only, we have to do format conversion to meet their requirements. For example, some theatre amplifier can only decode AC3 5.1 format, while Apple TV can only deal with AAC audio, or whatever. In this post, Id like to document a easiest way to convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1, in the near future, if I have enough spare time, Id like to talk more about how to convert AC3 to AAC, that may be in my another post.
To convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1, you just need Pavtube Video Converter only. This program is capable of reading a wide range of video and audio formats, including videos from DVs or camcorders (JVC, Panasonic, Cannon, Sony, etc.), TiVo (*.tivo), DVDs (*.vob), Blu-ray (*.m2ts,), YouTube (*.flv, *.f4v), and many other videos in common media formats, like mp4, avi, mkv, ts, tp, evo, aac,dts and so on. The detailed process is as below:
Step 1: Click "Add" button to load your video files
Step 2: Select output format and specify save path
Click the pull down
menu of "Format" to select your needed format, here I choose "MKV HD Video
(*.mkv) for instance. Click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to decide
where to locate the output files.
Step 3: Click "Settings" icon to specify AC3 5.1.
Once click "Settings"
button, a "Profile" window will pop up as above. Now you should select ac3 as
audio codec, and select 5.1 as audio channel. By the way, you d better adjust
audio bit rate at 448K to match the effect of 5.1 channels to full extent. All
needed settings are completely showing in the above interface, you just need
follow them, and this will lead you to get an AC3 5.1 surround sound
successfully.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
As long as conversion is finished, you can click "Open" button to find out the output files with the converted AC3 5.1 channels.
Well, hope this helps.
Posted at 07:30AM Feb 04, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
How to rip Blu-Ray movie to 3GP?
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is a professional converter for users to convert Blu-Ray movie to almost all popular video formats and a basic tool for you to enjoy high quality videos on 3G Phone. With this program you can convert Blu -Ray movie, either in your hard drive or directly from the Blu-Ray disc to *.3gp and *.3g2 for watching on 3G Phone wherever. For more information, please visit Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.
Now please find a step-to-step guide to convert Blu-Ray to 3GP:
Tip: Make sure you have installed Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and got your Blu-Ray disc at hand before conversion.
Step1. Add Blu-ray files
Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, click DVD ROM to extract Blu-Ray movie from disc, or click DVD Folder if you would like to add Blu-Ray files from your PC. The Loaded Blu-ray video information will be showed in the file list, and you can rename the output videos in the file list. Select the segments you would like to convert. If you are not sure which to select, try double click on a selected file so as to preview it.
Step 2. Customize the output settings
Move down your mouse to the format bar, click it to select output format. As you would like to play the videos on 3G Phone, point to 3G and select 3GP or 3G2 from the submenu. Then you could specify an output folder to save converted videos. Just type save path in Output bar or click the small folder icon to specify the output folder.
Step 3. Start conversion
Check the file list and make sure all the required files are selected, then click Convert button on the right bottom to start converting Blu-ray videos to 3GP. A window will pop up, and you can view the progress of conversion or set auto shutdown from the window.
When the conversion completed, you are free to copy the converted videos to your 3G Phone for enjoyment.
You can download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for free trial from here.
Posted at 07:27AM Feb 04, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
How to rip DVD to Divx AVI?
DivX Codec has become more and more popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. And thats why sometimes we need to convert DVD to Divx AVI format which is easy to play back or edit. Which program converts DVD to Divx AVI in the easiest way? Most DVD fans prefer Pavtube DVD Ripper since it converts DVD to Divx with fastest speed and perfect quality. Well, lets come to a step-to-step guide to convert DVD to Divx AVI:
Step I. Getting Started
Download Pavtube DVD Ripper to your computer, and double-click to install it.
Now run the software. The program window will appear. Insert the DVD you wish to
rip into the DVD drive and click DVD ROM to load DVD from
optical drive. If your DVD is saved as files on your computer, click DVD
Folder and browse to the folder that contains DVD files. Now all the
episodes are imported to the file list.
Step II. Set format and output folder
Click the Format bar, and choose Common video ->Divx AVI as output format. You could specify an output folder to save converted videos. Either type save path in Output bar or click the small folder icon and browse to a suitable destination folder.
Step III. Converting
Now everything is ready for converting DVD to Divx AVI. Simply click the Convert button at bottom right. You may check the progress on popup window. If you would like to combine all the chapters into one file, please check Merge into one file.
You can download Pavtube DVD Ripper for free trial from here. To get more information of this program, please visit Pavtube DVD Ripper.
Posted at 07:23AM Feb 04, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate 3.3.1.841
Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate is a comprehensive ripper and converter tool to help you to rip Blu-ray DVDs, common DVDs into video formats and convert almost all of videos from one to another, including common video like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, HD video like TS, ASF, MOV etc to support playback on almost all of popular mobile players like iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Blackberry and so on.
The latest version (3.3.1.841) added support to Dolby TrueHD audio codec.
Feature Highlights:
1. Powerful 3-in-one Blu-ray DVD Ripper, DVD Ripper and video Converter.
2. Output perfect sync audio and video quality.
3. Super fast speed to rip DVDs and convert videos.
4. Marvelous video editing functionalities for special needs.
5. Remove BD+, and AACS protections, MKB Version > 10 is supported
6. Support Dolby TrueHD Audio and DTS-HD Audio
Key Features:
Comprehensive 8-in-one ripper and converter
You can use this program as a Blu-ray DVD Ripper, DVD Ripper, Blu-ray
Backup, DVD Backup, Blu-ray Editor, DVD Editor, Video Converter and
Video Ediotr.
Import DVD and video in the same window at the same time
You can import DVDs and load videos into this program at the same time, and they can be listed in the same window.
Wonderful output quality
This program outputs super high picture and sound quality. Moreover,
you can have the perfect sync audio and video quality without any out
of sync problems.
Super fast conversion speed
You can completely finish the whole conversion without waiting a long time.
Support input various formats
This program supports inputting Blu-ray DVDs, common DVDs and videos
formats like MTS, M2TS, M2T, TS, VOB, MP4, AVI,WMV,MOD, TOD, MKV, etc.
Powerful editing functions
Users can edit the DVD video, Blu-ray video and other video by
trimming, cropping, adding watermark, choosing special effects to get
the right video they like.
Support almost all of popular players
Support iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, PS3, iRiver, Archos, Creative Zen,
Pocket PC, Blackberry and other portable media players, mobile phones,
etc..
Support importing Blu-ray DVDs and other videos in the same window at the same time
You can import Blu-ray DVDs and videos by clicking "Add Video" or "Load DVD" button in the same window at the same time.
Merge Blu-ray video and other videos into one file
By clicking "Merge into one file" button, you can merge multiple Blu-ray video and other video files into one file.
System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7
DirectX Version: 9.0 or above
Memory: 64MB at least
Processor: Intel Pentium ? processor at 500 MHz
Hard Disc Space: 512MB or above
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM, Blu-ray Drive
Download Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate:
http://download.pavtube.com/blu-ray-video-converter-ultimate/blu-rayvideoconverterultimate_setup.exe
Posted at 09:53PM Jan 29, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
Solutions to watch Blu-ray movies on Mac and WD TV
Not an easy thing for Mac users to play back Blu-ray movies, even they are your personal purchasing. Ive summarized three ways that Mac users have usually used to playback Blu-ray movies as following. Frankly speaking, the former two solutions seems a little troublesome, personally, I prefer the last one.
Solution 1: With the help of AnyDVD HD via Windows:
Requirements:
- A Windows PC with a built-in Blu-ray drive or an external BD drive.
- AnyDVD HD
- A Mac: MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, or Mac Pro
- Latest VLC media player or MPlayer
How-To:
1. Insert your Blu-ray disc to the BD drive, and run AnyDVD HD to remove copyright protections 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.
2. Copy the .m2ts files to an external drive or a USB stick, whatever, just let the Mac be able to read them.
3. Use the latest VLC media player or MPlayer to play unprotected .m2ts files.
Solution 2: Running Windows on Mac via Boot Camp
What you will need:
- A BD drive
- A Mac
- Blu-ray playback software on Windows, like Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 Ultra
How-To:
1. Install Boot Camp and Windows
I do not mention too much about this process, because Apple has already given the full direction about it here.
2. Connect BD drive with your computer, and Playback Blu-ray via PowerDVD 9 Ultra on the newly installed Windows OS.
Solution 3: Rip BD with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac
What you will need:
- A BD drive
- Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac
This ripper provides directly copy function as well as HD video output option, so there is no need to worry about the output file quality of your Blu-ray movie.
The above two methods are all depending on the assistant of Windows, while the third one is not, thus Id like to show the detailed operating steps about this one in detail.
Easy-to-use steps:
1. Load BD files through "DVD Folder" or "IFO File".
2. Select audio track from the pull down menu of "Audio", both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio are supported.
3. Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select output format. Directly copy, HD video, iPhone, iPod, PS3, and many other devices and formats are all supported.
4. Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ration, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels(5.1 channels is included).
5. Click "Browse" button to specify save path.
6. Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Once the conversion is done, you are able to find out the output files via clicking "Open" button. If you choose directly copy, you can use VLC or MPlayer to play the output .m2ts files, if you converted to other usual formats, like mov, mp4, then you can use QuickTime player or whatever to play back them.
Via the Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac mentioned in solution 3, you can also absolutely realize playback BD movies on your HDTV with WD TV. Both WD TV Live HD Media Player and WD TV HD Media Player are all workable with .m2ts files, and they also support Full HD resolutions up to 1080P in common. In order to reserve the HD audio and video quality of your BD movie, you can completely select "Copy"> "Directly Copy" to just get the .m2ts files as the original as long as your USB device has enough space to store the output files. If not, you can also consider converting BD to a HD video format to save space as well as keep HD quality of the source file.
Well, hope the above contents are helpful.
Posted at 09:49PM Jan 29, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
Solutions to keep TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of Blu-ray .m2ts files
If you have tons of .m2ts streams from your Blu-ray discs, which are copyright protections removed, and want to convert them to other video formats and keep TrueHD audio or DTS-HD Mater Audio of the original files, and then whats your idea to realize this goal? Actually, I know some of you do not have any idea about this, because its not an easy thing to get a program to recognize the two special soundtracks at all.
Fortunately, Pavtube Studio has upgraded its MTS/M2TS Converter recently, which has added supportS to both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, is able to convert M2TS files to whatever formats you need, such as MP4 format supported by iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Gphone, Blackberry, etc., 3GP format supported by most cell phones, FLV format which is suitable for online transferring, MPEG-4 format which is workable for importing to iMovie and Final Cut, and many other video formats like AVI, MPG, MOV, MKV, VOB and so on.
The following part will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance, and will show you how to keep your wanted audio track while doing format conversion.
A step-by-step instruction will be starting in the following part, which will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance. If you want to follow this guide to have a try, you can download Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter here.
Step 1: Click "Add" button to load .m2ts streams
Step 2: Click "Properties" to select TrueHD audio
Click the drop-down list of "Stream ID", and there are several options, select each one to see which one is TrueHD audio, if it is, "truehd" will pop up in the textbox of "Format", just like the following window showing. Do remember clicking "OK" button to save your selections.
Step 3: Select output format and specify save path
Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select your wanted output format, and click the folder icon at the opposite side of "Output" to specify where to locate the output file. Moreover, if you have the needs of combining multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".
Step 4: Set advanced settings
Click "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should set soundtrack as 5.1 channels.
Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
More related features of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter
1. Fast conversion, excellent output quality, and perfect audio and video synchronization.
2. Convert, compress and edit videos from Blu-ray DVDs or HD camcorders.
3. Trim, crop, add special effects and different watermarks
4. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.
5. Enjoy the output videos online, on portable devices, or backup on computer.
Posted at 09:46PM Jan 29, 2010 Read More... by chipidsa in General | Comments[0]
