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.
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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 |
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:
http://www.w3.org/
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 |
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.
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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 |
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.
http://www.google.cn/
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 |
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.
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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 09:32AM Feb 04, 2010
by chipidsa in General |
