Sunday, January 12, 2014

Encode DVD to MP4 retaining chapter marker for iPad/iPhone/iPod

Watching DVD movies on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch could be such an enjoyment; the workflow is quite common as we now have so many rippers on the marketplace. But since we are talking about DVDs, it's much important to keep the original chapter marker when playback; y'all agree? 

As myself, I own a large collection of DVDs and like to watch them on the subway to work with iPhone, stream DVD movies to my home media server so kids could watch them on iPad, etc. As languages we use German, English and Spanish, so I have to find out a workflow to rip DVD collections to MP4 with chapter marker and it's better to include at least three audio tracks in one conversion.

With such a tough task, I had spent a lot of time searching online, tried several SWs - some ok but always something that does not quite to do what I need. Luckily, I finally got this Pavtube ByteCopy (lol).

Pavtube ByteCopy is a pro version Blu-ray/DVD ripping program, it’s not only able to remove disc encryption and transfer to iPhone, iPad and iPad touch readable format, but also keeps the original DVD/Blu-ray chapter marker and multiple audio tracks, so that you can free switch the language during playback.

You can download a trial version (no time limit) firstly, you can get 30% OFF on Pavtube New Site Special offer.

Tips: 
1. Although this ByteCopy should be able to rip Blu-rays, I have no experience with it as I don’t have an external Blu-ray drive. But one of my friends had a test and said it’s quite worthy a try. (ByteCopy Review)

2. Mac version is also available: Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac

How to rip DVD to MP4 with chapter marker for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch?

Get this ByteCopy installed and let’s start the workflow easily.

Step 1. Import DVD disc, DVD folder, IFO/ISO image files.

Insert DVD disc to your ROM, click “Load files” to import DVD disc directly from ROM. If you have IFO/ISO and DVD folder, choose the corresponding option to load DVD movies from your computer.


The main title in your DVD will be checked by default; so let’s move on and choose format.

Step 2. Choose format.

Click the “Format” drop-down list and choose “Multi-track Video>Multi-track MP4(*.mp4)” as below:



Step 3. Adjust video&audio settings (optional)

Click the “Settings” button to check all video&audio settings. By default it will check all the audio tracks (languages), so if you only need some of the languages, just check the unwanted ones.

Btw, video size, bitrate and frame rate can all be changed if you are not satisfied with default settings.

Don’t forget to click OK to confirm all the changes.

Step 4. Start conversion.

Click the big red “Convert” to start converting DVDs to MP4 with multiple languages. The original DVD chapter marker will be kept automatically.

After conversion, hit the “Open” or “Open output folder” icon to quick locate converted MP4 videos, transfer it to your iPhone/iPad/iPod via iTunes. 

OK! We now can watch DVD movies on iOS devices with chapter markers and languages. 

FYI: QuickTime cannot work with all the videos with chapter markers; in case of the problem, you are suggested to download a VLC Player for IOS here.

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Friday, January 10, 2014

Play MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC/VC-1 Blu-ray Discs or ISO on PC or Laptop

Tips for Blu-ray Playback: this article will share you how to play MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC/VC-1 Blu-ray Discs or ISO on PC or Laptop, try best Blu-ray Ripper.

Nowadays, almost any computer can play DVD movies as long as there is drive provided, whatever it’s a PC or Mac, homemade DVD or commercial DVD. But what about Blu-ray movies? DVD only supports the MPEG-2 format, while BD includes MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and SMPTE VC-1. Many studios choose to use different formats for different data on one disc. Could your PC or laptop play this high definition movie formats with fuss? How to play Blu-ray on PC or laptop?

To solve this problem, the first thing you need to do is to figure out: 

Is your computer hardware ready for playing Blu-ray movies?

Below are the basic system requirements to play Blu-ray on PC or laptop. Check whether your computer meet these requirements.

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8, Window 7, Vista and XP.

Process (CPU): Pentium 4 541 (3.2 GHz), Athlon 64×2 3800+, AMD Fusion E-series & C-series or above.

Graphics Processor (GPU on Card): Intel G45, ATI Radeon HD 2400, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT or above.

Memory: 2 GB required for Vista and Windows 7; 1 GB required for Windows XP.

Hard Disk Space: 100-500 MB for Blu-ray player installation.

Disc Player: BD-ROM/BD-RE or Super Multi Blu combo disc drive.

Display Device (optional): To play Blu-ray movies, HDCP compliant TV and video cards are required. That means DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort or other connectors are provided on both sides.

What you need to play Blu-ray on PC or laptop

If you have a powerful enough computer on your hand, Pavtube BDMagic is such reliable MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC/VC-1 Blu-ray converter that let you experience brilliant video quality on your PC or laptop. It also supports to convert Blu-ray to any formats that your phones or tablets which make it possible to enjoy your Blu-ray movies anytime and anywhere. (Top 5 Blu-ray Ripper Programs Review)

Many Blu-ray movies have multiple audio tracks; do you want to maintain these tracks to have a vivid enjoyment of the original movie? No problem! Pavtube Bytecopy is such a converter that you can easily select your needed tracks, subtitles, as well as chapters.

How to play Blu-ray disc or ISO on PC or laptop?

Since everything is ready, it’s time to start the new era. Launch the Blu-ray converter, if the Blu-ray drive works well and the disc has not damaged, you can load the blu-ray movie smoothly and get the main interface as below:


Then the easiest and suitable way to choose the “Directly Copy” profile under the “Copy” bar. This profile is design to leave out the extras and just copy the movie content. I tried this profile which saves my conversion time and storage space.



Last but not the least, Press the “Convert” button on the bottom right corner and wait for a time patiently. When the conversion is over and finds the output folder, the output movie is over there which can be played in most native player such as Windows Media Player. Read Put Blu-ray movies in Windows Media Center/ Windows Media Player to get details. Then you can enjoy your MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC/VC-1 Blu-ray Discs or ISO on PC or Laptop!


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Watch Rental Blu-ray movie with multi-tracks on Tablet/Phone without time limitation

Do you have any rental Blu-ray movies in hand to be returned but you still have not watched yet? Do you want to watch these rental Blu-ray movies to your tablet or phone without time limitation? Read the article below can solve your problem easily.

Nowadays, there is a growing number of people prefer to watching the latest Blu-ray movies through renting instead of purchasing. Just add the Blu-ray titles you want to watch to your rental list and they will be dispatched to you when available within your monthly allocation. The convenience for people to sit back and start to enjoy the latest and greatest movies without much pay makes rental Blu-ray movies popular. However, the only disadvantage of rented movies is they have rental periods that you have to complete your watching hurrily:
“I have a Blu-ray rental plan with Netflix. Recently I rented Hunger Games and was planning to watch it for a good enjoyment. But I was very busy and had no time to watch it. Return date is coming soon. 
First question, does anyone know a way to make it possible to watch the blu-ray movie on my tablet or phone? 
I also want to keep the multi-tracks of the movies.Comments?Thanks.”
Have you meet the same problem and have the same demands with the above customer? If you got some rental Blu-ray movies, you may want to stream them to your tablets/phones for watching anywhere and anytime and no deadline should be worried about. Here this post is mainly talking about how to put and play rental blu-ray movies on tablets/phones with multi-tracks.

Required Software:
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The Reason why we choose Pavtube ByteCopy?

  • Backup BD/DVD to MKV without quality loss and keep multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitles.
  • Preserve the chapter structure in a converted movie title.
  • Edit movie by trimming, cropping, merging, etc and support adding *.srt and *.ass subtitles to BD/DVD movies.

Step by step guide to convert Rental Blu-ray to Tablet/Phone support format

PS: This application can work on Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 or Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.5 above (including Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Mountain Lion) with 1G Hz or above Intel processor.

Step 1: Install the Rental Blu-ray movies to Tablet/Phone converter, then load your rental blu-ray movies to the program.


Step 2: If you want to watch your rental blu-ray movies with multi-tracks, click the “Format” bar and choose the “Multi-track MP4(*.mp4)” format under “Multi-track Video” option which is designed for keeping multiple audio tracks.



Step 3:  Click on "Settings" to modify video codec, resolution, frame rate, sample rate etc. Of course, different settings will have different results. And you should know, the higher video quality with bigger video size, please pay attention to your storage. You can change these settings according to your own devices.

Step 4: Start ripping rental Blu-ray movies to Tablet/phone by clicking on the “Convert” button.

Once the conversion completed, transfer the result MP4 video file to your tablet/phone where you want to enjoy it.

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Rip DVDs to iTunes 11 on your Mac to watch movies freely

Maybe you just like me want to get the movies off of DVD discs to your iTunes (iTunes 11) libray on Mac so you can transfer and stream them to your iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, etc. and play them on the go. But, as we all know, iTunes doesn't support DVD format. Then how to copy DVD to iTunes library for smooth playback? Actually what you need is only a professional DVD ripper for Mac that can help you convert DVD movies to iTunes 11 on Mac OS X supported video formats fast with good video quality. 

Pavtube Bytecopy for Mac is an powerful DVD to iTunes 11 Converter for Mac tool to help you quickly import DVD to iTunes 11 on Mac (Mavericks and Mountain Lion included) with excellent output video quality. Besides, you can crop the black bars, add special video effects, split or merge videos, etc. as you like with the built-in editor. Just get it and rip videos from DVD disc to iTunes supported videos for playback on your iPhone 5, New iPad, iPod touch, etc. in just a few mouse clicks! The equivalent Windows version is DVD to iTunes 11 Converter, which can help you transfer DVD to iTunes compatible video formats like MOV, M4V, MP4 under Windows 8.1/8/7/XP/Vista etc. Now download the program and follow the steps below to get the work done. 

Free Download DVD to iTunes Converter for Windows and Mac: 

(Support the latest Windows 8.1 and Mac 10.9 Mavericks)

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How to Copy DVD movies to iTunes 11 on Mac (Mavericks and Mountain Lion) 

After downloading the DVD ripper, install and launch it, then follow the steps below. Note that this guide takes DVD to iTunes on Mac for example. The way to rip DVD to iTunes on Windows (Windows 8 compatible) is almost the same. Just make sure you get the right version. 

1. Load DVD movies.

First, insert your DVDs into DVD Drive, and then click "Add dics" icon to load the DVD files to the program. You can also add DVD ISO, DVD folder files that you can want to rip to iTunes. 



2. Choose output format and output folder.

After the loading of DVD files, choose the output format and output folder. To encode DVD files to iTunes 11, you can choose the output format as M4V, MP4 or MOV from Common Video, which are highly supported by iTunes. You can also select iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc. as the output format to get videos with optimized settings for your iDevices. You can also click "Settings" to change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc. 

3. Convert DVD Movies to iTunes on Mac

When all the settings are finished, you can just click the "Convert" button to start transferring your DVD movies to iTunes 11 library for your iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPAD 4, iPad 3, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPod touch 5, Apple TV 3 and so on. 

After the conversion, you can open iTunes and click "File -> Add to Library" and then import the converted MP4 video you just get, and then you can enjoy and manage them on iTunes Library. 

Tips: Before the conversion, you can click "Edit" button to edit your videos by cropping, trimming, adding watermarks, etc. What's more, you can choose the subtitles and audio track for the target video on the main interface. 

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Import ISO, AVCHD & PVR recording to WDTV Live or Adobe Premiere Elements

Description: This article show you how to convert ISO image files, Sony AVCHD footage and PVR recordings to MKV/MPG format, so that you can edit them in Adobe Premiere Elements or watch on WDTV Live.

Q: “I made some family videos with a Sony CX155E this Christmas, and recorded my son’s favorite TV show in PVR; we both have something to do with the videos together with download ISO image files: I want to edit in Adobe Premiere Elements and my son wish the watch on WDTV Live in the living room. Is there a multi-task tool can help us with the format problem?”

I love make and editing videos as a hobby so I am not new to format and codec issues. Usually when you want to playback a ISO image file on computer, you should run a virtual drive to mount this file then open it. PVR recordings can be playback smoothly on the box, but it’s not the best format for WDTV – WDTV prefers MKV format. As for the Sony CX155E, I browsed and found its footage is in AVCHD file structure. 

So things become simple: to accomplish all the tasks, you need to find a tool which is able to convert ISO, PVR and AVCHD into MKV for WDTV Live, or MPG for editing in Adobe Premiere Elements.

Although there are various video converting tools on the market, dare I say the Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the simplest program to use. This all-in-one video converting tool support converting Blu-ray/DVD ISO files, AVCHD footages and PVR recordings to various formats in presets for different using; import, choose preset, convert. It’s as simple as that.

Note: its Mac version is renamed as iMedia Converter for Mac.

How to convert ISO, AVCHD & PVR recordings to WDTV Live or Adobe Premiere Elements

Step 1. Install and launch this Video Converter Ultimate; import video

Firstly you need to keep camera on and connect it to computer, then download the AVCHD from card; click the top left “plus” icon to import AVCHD file to it.

ISO image files can be dragged and dropped into it directly; so is PVR recordings.


Tick the “Merge into one file” if you want to combine several videos into one file.

Step 2. Choose format.

Click the drop-down list besides “Format”, you will find many presets sorted with different device model, editing program, etc.

For people who need to watch on WDTV, you can choose “HD Video>MKV HD Video(*.mkv)” as below:



If you want to load the video to Adobe Premiere Elements for editing, let’s hit “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas>MPEG-2(*.MPG)”:



Step 3. Adjust target file setting (Optional).

If you are not satisfied with the default video/audio settings, click “Settings” to change file size, bitrate, frame rate and other specs.

Step 4. Start conversion.

Ok now back to the main interface, find the big “Convert” and hit it; it will process the tasks in batch. After it completed, click “Open” or “Open output folder” to find the converted videos quickly.

Besides, I used to burn the final video to DVD after editing. Pavtube studio also released a DVD Creator program for this. 

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