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The best free Hulu Downloader you've ever seen

Hulu Downloader Beta is a practical Windows application to help you capture Flash videos (.flv, .f4v), Movies, TV Shows, Movie Trailers, MTV, etc. from video sharing websites like Hulu.com, Youtube.com, Google

video, Myspace, Yahoo! Video, CBS, MTV, Megavideo, Photobucket, Dailymotion, Veoh, Demand Five, etc., and save them on your hard drive, play them back whenever you want without being connected to the

Internet.

It is capable of downloading movies quickly and flawlessly, so as to enrich your movie collections with the most popular online video resources.

Features Highlights:
Widely support for overwhelming online videos
The app is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, PTMP, PTMPT, PTMPE, PTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh,

Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video etc.

Capture URL automatically
The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no need to add URL manually.

Enrich your A/V collection
This Hulu Downloader is capable of downloading any video and audio file you can play online so that you can turn numerous online video and audio into your own collection. What’s more, a powerful player is

inlaid for you to play back the videos in library freely.

Convert downloaded videos freely (come up soon with full version)
You are allowed to convert the downloaded videos to various video and audio formats compatible with portable devices like iPod, iPhone, 3G phone, etc. With this app, you can enjoy the online flash videos on

your portable players freely, whenever and wherever.

Free download Hulu Downloader Beta:

http://download.huludownload.com/hulu-downloader/huludownloader_setup.exe

Posted at 08:50PM Mar 10, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

Watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on Palm Pre Plus with your desired file size

One feature of smart phones is that enables users to play back digital video and audio on the go, here we just focus on the newly released Palm Pre Plus. This little device has a vivid and bright capacitive touch screen, which is made out of hard plastic, although not as good as glass, holds up fine. The screen is 3.1 inch, at 320 x 480 pixels, with multitouch capabilities. Besides this, Palm Pre Plus has doubled internal memory from 8GB to 16GB, so you can store more videos, music, and photos on it, and access them whenever and wherever at will.

To enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies on the Pre Plus, two things you need consider: firstly, the file format, secondly, the capacity of your device. First off, let’s see the Pre Plus supported file formats:
Playback Digital Video Formats: H.264, MPEG-4, H.263 video and AMR audio
Supported Digital Audio Standards: AAC, AMR, MP3, WAV, AAC +, eAAC+

In addition to copy protections (CSS, AACS, BD+), DVD movies, especially the Blu-rays always has large file size, so we need a tool to assist us to remove protections as well as compress file size, or select a specific clip for playback. When it refers to this function, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is recommended.

Part one: About Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper:

It is an all-in-one Blu-ray and DVD ripper, converter and editor. With this application you can directly rip Blu-ray and protected DVD movie from the discs without other decryption software and convert them to compatible video and audio formats to transfer to Palm Pre Plus, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Blackberry, Gphone, 3GP, Zune, Xbox 360, Creative Zen, Archos, Nokia, DV, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas etc for playback and editing.

It supports both HD and SD output formats and allows you to customize video size, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, audio channel, etc. Movie collectors would be glad to find that Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper removes the protections of Blu-Ray movies and protected DVD when back them up for collection.

The ripper handles all versions of Blu-ray discs/DVDs, and allows you to select your desired subtitle and audio track, so you will never miss your mother language.

Part two: How to rip Blu-ray and DVD movies for Palm Pre Plus with your required file size

Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and import Blu-ray/DVD files to it
There are three ways to load Blu-ray and DVD files: through "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" and "IFO/ISO".

Step 2: Select output format for Palm Pre Plus
Since Palm Pre Plus supports playback H.264, MPEG-4, H.263 video, here I choose "H.264 Video (*.mp4)" as output format.

Step 3: Customize file quality and file size
Click "Settings" button, and then the following interface will show up, on which you are able to adjust bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, etc. to make control of the output file size and quality. To compress the file size, what you should do is changing the figures of these options to be smaller only. One more thing you must be sure that there will be some quality loss if you compress them to be a much smaller size, which means you’d better make a balance between the size and image quality. At least the output video quality should be acceptable by yourselves.

Step 4: Start Blu-ray/DVD ripping
As long as the former three steps are set well, then you can click "Convert" button to start Blu-ray/DVD ripping. Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking "Open" button. After that the generated files are prepared for playback on your Palm Pre Plus.

Additional tips:
How to select a specific video duration to rip
You can click on the "Edit" button on the main interface firstly, and then click on "Trim" icon. After that you can drag the slider bars below the preview window to mark the beginning and the end of your clip during the preview, or you can input the certain time into "Start" and "End" boxes directly to do your selections.

Posted at 10:54PM Mar 06, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

The method of ripping Blu-ray subtitles on Mac

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Wanna figure out a way to rip subtitles of a Blu-ray movie? Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac can do you a favor. It is a powerful tool specially designed for Mac users to rip, convert, backup and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movies. The source movie could be from Blu-ray disc, DVD, Blu-ray and DVD folder, ISO and IFO file. The ripper could remove all the protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies, back up the movies to hard drive, rip and convert them into other popular audio and video formats to playback on your beloved portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, Blackberry, PSP, Creative Zen, Xbox 360, Apple TV etc. Besides, the M2TS files shot with AVCHD camcorders can be imported to Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and converted to compatible formats for editing in video editing software like iMovie, FCP, etc.

How to rip BD subtitles on Mac:

Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and load Blu-ray movies to it. You can click "DVD Folder" and "IFO File" to load BD movies into this program.

Once files are loaded, tick off the checkbox before the file which you want to rip. In general, the one with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if there is no need to rip extra files, select this one only would be ok.

Click the drop-down list of "Subtitle", then all the subtitle info in the Blu-ray will be shown clearly, including language and stream ID, so you can select your needed language as your subtitle at will. Meanwhile, you can use the preview window to see your selection.

Afterwards, click on the pull down menu of "Format" to select output format, at the same time, if you want to make good control of the output file quality and file size, you can click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, audio channels, etc.

Once all settings are done, simply click on the "Convert" button to start BD ripping as well as the subtitle ripping. After finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output files with your specified file format and subtitle.

Posted at 10:52PM Mar 06, 2010 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 PavtubeDVD 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 10:50PM Mar 06, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

Watch DVD movies on Nexus One – make funs on the go

On January 5, 2010, the search giant Google has launched an own-brand smart phone called the Nexus One, which has attracted lots of people's eyes. This device is manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corporation, and uses the Android open source mobile operating system. With the exception of noise canceling dual microphones, transcribing voice to text, voice directions while driving, and YouTube access, Nexus One features a 480x800 pixel, 3.7-inch display and a microSD card expandable to 32GB, which are definitely suitable for watching movies on the go.

To enjoy DVD movies on Nexus One, we should understand what the compatible formats of this device are. Actually, it has been detailed clearly about the Nexus One supported video and audio formats in the technical specifications:

Video:

H.263 (encode and decode) MPEG-4 SP (encode and decode) H.264 AVC (decode)

Audio encoders:

AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz

Audio decoders:

AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+) Mono/Stereo standard bit rates up to 160 kbps and sampling rates from 8 to 48kHz, AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz, AMR-WB 9 rates from 6.60 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s sampled @ 16kHz., MP3 Mono/Stereo 8-320Kbps constant (CBR) or variable bit-rate (VBR), MIDI SMF (Type 0 and 1), DLS Version 1 and 2, XMF/Mobile XMF, RTTTL/RTX, OTA, iMelody, Ogg Vorbis, WAVE (8-bit and 16-bit PCM)

To remove DVD copy protections and rip it to Nexus One acceptable format, you can free download Pavtube DVD Ripper to achieve your goal. 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 Google Nexus One, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Cell Phones, etc. on the go. Well, let’s together to see the operating steps in detail.

Step 1: Load DVD files

Click "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to import DVD files to this program. This utility allows users selecting their needed chapters to convert, and you can right click on a title, and then do selections on the popup window, like "Uncheck All", "Show Chapters", etc. By the way, usually, the one with the longest duration time is the main movie, so just tick off this one would be OK.

Step 2: Select output format for Nexus One

Click the pull down menu of "Format" to select output format for Nexus One, here I choose "H.264 Video (*.mp4)" as an example

Step 3: Customized output settings

Click "Settings" button, then you are able to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface. Here I set aspect ratio at 800*480 pixels, video bit rate at medium quality, frame rate at 29.97 fps, audio codec to AAC, sample rate at 48 kHz, audio bit rate at 16kbps.Do remember clicking "OK" button to confirm the settings.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start DVD ripping

Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease. And now they are prepared for playback on your Nexus One Phone.

Pavtube DVD Ripper will give you the best help, We believe that you will like it!

Posted at 10:47PM Mar 06, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

Keep video files with 5.1 surround sound for Xbox 360

Have you purchased a 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker system for the Xbox 360 to enjoy your games and movies in the center of action? Currently I have considered doing it. I have loads of HD videos, which are with the extensions of .mkv, .m2ts and whatever. Most of them have embedded 5.1 channels, but the thing is that because of format issues, my console is unable to directly play these files, so I have to do format conversion before watching them. In regard to conversion, my only requirement is keeping 5.1 channels of the source file, fortunately, with Pavtube Video Converter, I did it! Very excited! Share it here.

What you will need is only Pavtube Video Converter. You can free download it here. The detailed steps are as below:

1. Click "Add" button to load video files into this program

2. Click the pull down menu of "Format" to select output format for Xbox 360

Follow "Zune/Xbox 360 Device" – "Xbox 360 HD Video (*. Wmv)". By the way, if you wanna combine multiple files into a single file so that there are no intervals while playing, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file" to achieve it.

3. Click "Settings" button to do advanced settings and select 5.1 channels

All the items including codec, bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, sample rate and audio channels are changeable. Do remember adjust the audio as 5.1 channels. Following are my settings, which result a good playback quality on my Xbox 360 console.

4. Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Once finished, you can get the output files for your console via clicking "Open" button effortlessly.

More features of this Xbox 360 Converter I have found:

1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few minutes.

2. It does not have the audio and video out of sync issues.

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. Special effect models are provided, such as "Simple gauss blur", "Simple laplacian sharpen", "Aged film", "Flip color", and "Invert".

Posted at 10:45PM Mar 06, 2010 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, let’s 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, it’s time to end up now, hope this helps. Good luck.

Posted at 10:08PM Feb 24, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

How to add special effects to your HD videos on Mac?

People’s 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", can’t 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. Don’t 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. Don’t you think so?

Posted at 10:05PM Feb 24, 2010 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 let’s 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. What’s 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, you’d 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 10:02PM Feb 24, 2010 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, let’s 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
Click“Convert” 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, I’m using this product now and like it very much. Because its after-sales service is really perfect. As soon as I’ve 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, that’s how it goes.

What’s 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 10:00PM Feb 24, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

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 couldn’t 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 you’ve 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 09:43PM Feb 24, 2010 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 that’s 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, let’s 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.

 

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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 09:47AM Feb 04, 2010 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:

 

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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 09:44AM Feb 04, 2010 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, I’d 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, I’d like to talk more about how to convert AC3 to AAC, that may be in my another post.

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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 09:40AM Feb 04, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]

Expand capacity of Apple TV

For some reasons, I haven’t 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, I’ve 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 I’d like to document my process below, but before that, I’d like to show my gratitude to people who I’ve 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 I’m 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 I’m 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 it’s your choice.

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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 09:35AM Feb 04, 2010 by chipidsa in General  |  Comments[0]