March 22nd, 2010
HDTV DVD Combo features a built-in slot-loading DVD player, which provides an optimum way to save space. With the slim profile, it’s really an amazing experience to watch favorites TV shows and DVD movies on this device in your bedroom. But if your TV only has a standard DVD player but not the Blu-ray disc player, what is your solution to play Blu-ray movies on it? I’d like to know your ideas. I believe my way is somewhat helpful, just convert BD to a DVD format, and then burn it to a blank DVD for playback on the TV/DVD Combo, so share it here, and also be glad to hearing from you guys.
The software I used is as below:
- Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
- ReJig (freeware)
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
- ImgBurn (freeware)
HOW-TO:
Part 1:
Firstly, use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to remove copy protections of Blu-ray movies, and meanwhile convert it to the DVD vob format.
1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.
Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.
2. Click on the drop-down menus after “Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.
3. Select VOB as output format and specify destination folder
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select VOB as output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.
4. Customize output settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to optimize the output file quality.
5. Click on “Convert” button to start BD ripping
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Part 2:
Then use ReJig to do DVD authoring.
It’s pretty simple with ReJig. Press “File Mode”; add your vob files and Demux.
When it’s finished, close that box and then select DVD Author. Add the video and audio files you’ve just created, and choose output destination folder, and click Create.
After DVD authoring is completed, you can open the destination folder to see that the output files are AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders, which are the correct structure for DVD burning.
Part 3:
Use ImgBurn to burn DVD
We have got VIDEO-TS folder in part two, so the DVD burning process with ImgBurn is pretty simple. Here give you two links to check the detailed steps:
How to write DVD Video files directly to single layer media using ImgBurn (DVD±R/RW)
How to write a DVD Video double layer disc using ImgBurn (Verbatim DVD+R DL) – just check the contents that start from adding VIDEO-TS folder of this guide.
The end! Hope this helps.
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March 22nd, 2010
HDTV DVD Combo features a built-in slot-loading DVD player, which provides an optimum way to save space. With the slim profile, it’s really an amazing experience to watch favorites TV shows and DVD movies on this device in your bedroom. But if your TV only has a standard DVD player but not the Blu-ray disc player, what is your solution to play Blu-ray movies on it? I’d like to know your ideas. I believe my way is somewhat helpful, just convert BD to a DVD format, and then burn it to a blank DVD for playback on the TV/DVD Combo, so share it here, and also be glad to hearing from you guys.
The software I used is as below:
- Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
- ReJig (freeware)
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
- ImgBurn (freeware)
HOW-TO:
Part 1:
Firstly, use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to remove copy protections of Blu-ray movies, and meanwhile convert it to the DVD vob format.
1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.
Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.
2. Click on the drop-down menus after “Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.
3. Select VOB as output format and specify destination folder
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select VOB as output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.
4. Customize output settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to optimize the output file quality.
5. Click on “Convert” button to start BD ripping
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Part 2:
Then use ReJig to do DVD authoring.
It’s pretty simple with ReJig. Press “File Mode”; add your vob files and Demux.
When it’s finished, close that box and then select DVD Author. Add the video and audio files you’ve just created, and choose output destination folder, and click Create.
After DVD authoring is completed, you can open the destination folder to see that the output files are AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders, which are the correct structure for DVD burning.
Part 3:
Use ImgBurn to burn DVD
We have got VIDEO-TS folder in part two, so the DVD burning process with ImgBurn is pretty simple. Here give you two links to check the detailed steps:
How to write DVD Video files directly to single layer media using ImgBurn (DVD±R/RW)
How to write a DVD Video double layer disc using ImgBurn (Verbatim DVD+R DL) – just check the contents that start from adding VIDEO-TS folder of this guide.
The end! Hope this helps.
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March 19th, 2010
Lots of people have been looking around for information on how to burn tivo files generated by a TiVo DVR to a DVD disc, so as to watch them on a PC or their widescreen TV via a DVD player, as well as a Blu-ray player. To give a solution to this universal problem to full extent, my post will focus on this point, and present you the method of how to author tivo files to DVD. If it is what you are looking for, just take it easy to go through with it.
What you will need:
1. TiVo Desktop
2. A video converter that can support tivo files, here I choose Pavtube Video Converter
3. A DVD burner, like ImgBurn, Nero Express, etc.
At first, you should transfer your recorded files which you want to burn to DVD from your TiVo box to your personal PC via TiVo Desktop, that is “Pick Recordings to Transfer”. Then do as the following instruction shown:
1. Run Pavtube Video Converter and add tivo files to it
Once you run it, the following wine red interface will appear, and you can click on “Add” button to load tivo files into it.
2. Select DVD format as output format, and set save path
As long as tivo files are imported, you should click the pull down menu of “Format” to select a VOB format for DVD burning. Here I choose DVD-Video Format – NTSC (*.vob) for instance. Notice that NTSC is a video format used in North America, Central America, Japan, and parts of South America; PAL is the video format used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, most of Asia, and parts of South America; SECAM is used in Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, Former USSR, and Americas. You should select one according to your geographical regions.
At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output VOB files. Additionally, if you want to combine all the tivo files you loaded to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
3. Set advanced settings
If you’d like to adjust the video and audio parameters of your tivo files before conversion, you can press “Settings” button to enter the interface as below, on which you are permitted to adjust aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc.
4. Start conversion
As soon as the above steps are finished, you can click “Convert” button to begin converting tivo files to VOB, which is the source file that can be burn to a DVD disc directly. Once conversion is done, you are able to find out the output VOB files via clicking on “Open” button.
After finished, what you should do next is just inserting a blank DVD to the DVD drive of your PC, and then use no matter ImgBurn, Nero Express or whatever to author the generated vob files to DVD. Then a new DVD that is originated from your tivo files is belonging to you right now.
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March 18th, 2010
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To avoid the original Blu-ray and DVD discs being scratched by frequent use, it is a good idea to copy and
save them as video folders, or burn them to another blank Blu-ray disc or DVD disc as backups. When it comes to
this point, a practical program written for this utility is necessary. In my article here, I’d like to take Pavtube
Blu-ray Copy for example to show you how to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies via it in detail.
If you are looking for such a solution right now, you can feel free to move on with the following paragraphs.
First of all, what can Pavtube Blu-ray
Copy do for you?
1. Make perfect 1:1 copies of Blu-ray and DVD movies
2. Support disc to disc, disc to folder, and disc to ISO backup to meet your multiple needs
3. Copy Blu-ray and DVD movies with flawless quality
4. Free you from the annoying protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies
5. Directly burn Blu-ray and DVD movies without other burning software
Okay, now let’s have a look at its simple operating steps.
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Step 1: Select Blu-ray or DVD source file
Click the drop-down list of “Source” to select Blu-ray or DVD source file. You can select from BD ROM, DVD
ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, and Image File (*.ISO).
Step 2: Select Target
Click the drop-down list of “Target” to select destination folder, your target can be BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-
Ray/DVD Folder, or Image File (*.ISO).
Step 3: Entitle Disc Label
If your target is a blank disc, then you can type your wanted disc label into the textbox after “Disc Label”
Step 4: Click “Start” button to begin copying and burning
Additional tips:
The “Options” window will pop up as soon as you press the red circle marked icon at the left. To burn a disc to a
blank disc, the program will generate some temporary files previously, and then burn them to the blank disc. The
temporary files will be saved in a default folder, if you want to save them in your specified folder, you can click the
folder icon at the end of “Work Space” to change. Furthermore, you are allowed to tick “Delete temporary files” and
“Shut down computer automatically”, so as to save your storage space and manage your time in a proper way.
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March 17th, 2010
Even though it is announced that Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus software has added
AVCHD camcorder support and users can import and edit high definition footage from AVCHD camcorder discs, and convert to standard definition formats, but I still met troubles while importing the HD .m2ts files captured by means of a HD Sony Handycam type HDR-CX11E (PAL), I guess it is not as powerful as it claims.
I have to look around for a practical and affordable program to help me out. My only objective is to convert these .m2ts files to .avi files, so that I can edit them with Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus, and burn them into a SD DVD for playback on the DVD player connected to my TV, as well as computer DVD Player software on computers. Fortunately, I came across Pavtube HD Video Converter, it is easy to use and helpful, I finally successfully converted .m2ts files to .avi format, and the output files are in good quality, without any problems while editing in MovieFactory 6 Plus. It is my pleasure to share this HD Video Converter here. Following is the detailed steps, absolutely easy enough:
1. Click “Add” button to load .m2ts files to this application
2. Select AVI as output format and specify destination folder
Click the drop-down menu of “Format” to select AVI format for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus. Meanwhile click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output AVI files. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
There are “Common Video” and “HD Video”, both have AVI options, you can choose one according to your own needs.
Common AVI:
HD AVI:
3. Set advanced settings
Click “Settings” button, then the following window will enables you to adjust all video and audio parameters on it, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel. That means you can customize the settings in your own ways.
4. Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output AVI files via clicking on “Open” button. After that, Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus will be able to recognize these files. You can now edit the files and author them to a new DVD.
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March 17th, 2010
To avoid the original Blu-ray and DVD discs being scratched by frequent use, it is a good idea to copy and save them as video folders, or burn them to another blank Blu-ray disc or DVD disc as backups. When it comes to this point, a practical program written for this utility is necessary. In my article here, I’d like to take Pavtube Blu-ray Copy for example to show you how to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies via it in detail. If you are looking for such a solution right now, you can feel free to move on with the following paragraphs.
First of all, what can Pavtube Blu-ray Copy do for you?
1. Make perfect 1:1 copies of Blu-ray and DVD movies
2. Support disc to disc, disc to folder, and disc to ISO backup to meet your multiple needs
3. Copy Blu-ray and DVD movies with flawless quality
4. Free you from the annoying protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies
5. Directly burn Blu-ray and DVD movies without other burning software
Okay, now let’s have a look at its simple operating steps.
Step 1: Select Blu-ray or DVD source file
Click the drop-down list of “Source” to select Blu-ray or DVD source file. You can select from BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, and Image File (*.ISO).
Step 2: Select Target
Click the drop-down list of “Target” to select destination folder, your target can be BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, or Image File (*.ISO).
Step 3: Entitle Disc Label
If your target is a blank disc, then you can type your wanted disc label into the textbox after “Disc Label”
Step 4: Click “Start” button to begin copying and burning
Additional tips:
The “Options” window will pop up as soon as you press the red circle marked icon at the left. To burn a disc to a blank disc, the program will generate some temporary files previously, and then burn them to the blank disc. The temporary files will be saved in a default folder, if you want to save them in your specified folder, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Work Space” to change. Furthermore, you are allowed to tick “Delete temporary files” and “Shut down computer automatically”, so as to save your storage space and manage your time in a proper way.
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March 15th, 2010
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”.
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March 15th, 2010
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.
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March 14th, 2010
Are you still frustrated to look for a practical Blu-ray ripper for your Apple TV on sorts of search engines? In fact, there are numerous different Blu-ray rippers in the market, but unfortunately, not all of them are easy-to-use and powerful while ripping BD movies to do other use, especially for people who are using Mac OS. To relieve the troubles of Mac users, this thread will present you how to rip Blu-ray movies to Apple TV via the available software Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac in detail. Just check its step-by-step instruction as below freely.
Click here to download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, then install and run it.
Step 1: Load BD files, select Apple TV format and specify save path
You can press tag “DVD Folder” or “IFO Folder” to input Blu-ray files. If you like, you can tick checkbox before “Merge into one file” to combine all the .m2ts files into one file. Also, you are allowed to specify a path to store the output files for your Apple TV through clicking “Browse” button; otherwise, this program will export the output files to a destination folder set by default automatically. No matter you use your indicated path or defaulted path, you can finally get the ripped files via hit “Open” button.
Do remember clicking the drop-down list of “Format” to select an Apple TV workable format. Once you click this button, you can do your selection from the following interface:
Step 2: Adjust video and audio parameters
Suppose you need change some video and audio parameters to manage the output file size and quality, you can totally achieve it by clicking “Settings” button. All the parameters in the following panel can be adjusted as you like.
Step 3: Convert
After the above settings are done, what you should do next is just hitting “Convert” button to start BD ripping for your Apple TV. Conversion interface is as below, you can get ripping info from it as much as possible, such as the ripping progress, elapsed and left conversion time, generated and estimated file size, so that you can know accurately about the time expenditure and space occupation.
See, only three simple steps, you can finish ripping your BD movies to your Apple TV successfully. Why not have a try about Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac?
Tips:
1. This program also supports editing DVD and Blu-Ray clips. It provides editing functions like trimming video duration, cropping video area, adding watermark, adjusting special effect, replacing audio, and more.
2. It adopts advanced audio and video sync tech which enables you to have a high quality output video without any audio/video out of sync problems.
3. This program has its own built-in codec, so it will not install any codec to your computer, which avoids the unexpected codec problem.
4. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is at super high ripping speed. Its advanced coding technology quickens the conversion speed. With this Mac Blu-Ray Ripper, you can convert DVD, Blu-Rays 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.
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March 14th, 2010
As a matter of fact, Blu-ray rippers specially developed for Windows operating system are much more than the applications designed for Mac OS, thus Mac users often feel troublesome to search for such a program, especially for one that is easy-to-use and practical, to deal with their tons of Blu-ray collections, not to mention how to add these BD files into portable devices for playback. Fortunately, a powerful utility called Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is released recently in purpose of relieving Mac users’ trouble. It is capable of ripping BD files into many other common video formats, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc., so that you can do whatever you like with the ripped files, adding to media player for local playback, importing to iMovie, Final Cut Pro for further editing, sync to iPhone 3GS for entertainment, or do something else at will. Now I am going to focus on one aspect only, and will be glad to show you how to use this application to rip Blu-ray files for playback on iPhone 3GS via Mac OS.
Step 1: Load BD files
There are two ways to do it, namely, through “DVD Folder” and “IFO File”.
Step 2: Choose a format for iPhone 3GS
Click the drop-down list of “Format”, and then click the option “iPhone”, after that select an output format according to the specification of your iPhone 3GS. All are as the following interface showing, and here I choose “iPhone 3G H.264 640×480(*.mp4)” for instance.
Step 3: Set destination folder
Click “Browse” button to decide where to load the output files for your iPhone 3GS. If not, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper will export the ripped Blu-ray files to a save path set by default automatically.
Step 4: Adjust video and audio parameters
This program allows users resetting video and audio options like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, etc., in that case, you can take charge of the output file size and image quality in a proper way.
Step 5: Start Blu-ray ripping
Once the above steps are completed, then you can click “Convert” button to begin ripping your BD files. After finished, the generated files for iPhone 3GS can be found by clicking “Open” button with ease.
Additional tips for Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper:
1. Tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”, you can combine all the Blu-ray files to be as a single file, so as to enjoy them on your iPhone 3GS without intervals.
2. Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper adopts advanced audio and video sync tech, which enables you to have high output quality without any audio/video out of sync problems.
3. It enables users to select subtitle, audio track as well as camera angle.
4. It provides users with simple editing functions, such as crop, trim, add watermark, add special effects, take place of the original audio, etc.
5. The multithread technology makes it 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.
6. Besides ripping BD files into other media formats, it also supports directly copying Blu-rays and general DVDs to the hard drive of your Mac.
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