How to use Pavtube Mac Blu-ray Ripper rip/convert/backup your Blu-rays?
April 18th, 2010
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is a useful utility for Blu-ray movie fans. It enables you to copy, rip, convert
and edit Blu-ray movies directly from Blu-ray discs or IFO image files. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper naturally supports
DVD ripping and it is very easy to make video collections out of your DVDs. Different from other Blu-ray ripper, the
app could remove the protections of Blu-ray discs and protected DVDs without the help of any other software, so
you do not have to purchase another software to cope with the annoying protections.
Here is a step-by-step guide to show you how to rip Blu-ray movie with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac.
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* Downlod latest trial version 2.6 of Blu-ray Rippper for Mac (intel processor only).
Step 1: Load Blu-ray movie.
In the first place, make sure your optical drive (either internal or external) can read Blu-ray disc. Put the Blu-Ray
disc into BD-ROM, run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, and the main interface will pop up. Click on “BD/DVD
Folder”, browse to target drive and click on “Choose”. The program will detect M2TS
files automatically and import them to file list. Import the DVD in the same way. Clik “IFO file” and browse targert file
if your source is DVD image file. Note: Blu-ray IFO/ ISO image file is not supported by the current
version.

a. Title Mode
By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually.
For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’
contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. By default all the Titles are
selected for editing and ripping. If you want to rip the main movie and nothing more, do uncheck other sequences.
If you would like to retain everything in the Blu-ray disc, simply use the default settings. If you want to keep the
movie in sections as it was made of, uncheck all the Titles and check all the subordinate Chapters.
Tip: A fast way to select the main movie is, right-click in file list field and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut
menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). To check all the chapters, simply choose ‘Check
Titles’.
b. File Mode
Click ‘ViewMode’ if you’d like to switch to file mode. In File Mode the movie clips are listed as
they are made of. And you can check and preview each chapter.

Tip: In File mode all the m2ts files in file list are checked by default. If you want to select but the main
movie, a fast way is to right-click and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie
(longest m2ts file).
c. Quick Copy
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click ‘Full Disk Copy’. In this way all
contents in the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus and titles. After the process
completed, you may click ‘Open’ button to locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM
folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips.
Step 2. Preview and Snapshoot
Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it. You are allowed to take snapshots when
previewing the movie. Simply click ‘Snapshoot’ button. To set image format, location and size of thumbnails, please
click ‘Option’ menu. To locate the thumbnails, please click ‘Open folder’ button.

Step 3. Select Subtitle and Audio track
Right below the file list you could find ‘Subtitle’ and ‘Audio’
drop-down list, where you may set subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like. Always select the title/ chapter
before setting its subtitle and audio. In the preview window you can check the Subtitles and Audio track.
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Note: By default no subtitle is selected. Some chapters have no subtitle or audio, in that case the Subtitle
list will show ‘None’ only.
Step 4. Set output format
Click on Format bar to select an appropriate format from the profile list. Blu-ray Ripper features various output
formats for portable players, removable devices and multiple editing software. You can click the up arrow and
down arrow to view the formats. If you would like to customize video and audio parameter, click on
“Settings” and adjust advanced video/ audio parameters. For example, set H.264 MP4 as output format,
and adjust Video Size, Bit rate, Frame rate and Audio codec, Sample rate, Bitrate and Channels as you like.

Tips on selecting format:
A. If you only want to backup the Blu-ray m2ts files to your hard disc, please select Copy-
>directly copy as output format. (‘Full Disk Copy’ copies m2ts files and the BD structure)
B. If you want to rip the Blu-ray movie to portable players like iPod, Archos 5/7, Creative Zune, iPhone,
Gphone, Blackberry etc, first find the corresponding format group and then find a proper format (resolution) to fit
for the model of your player (better check the screen resolution to make sure the format be right).
C. If you would like to rip the Blu-ray movie to Apple TV, PS3, Xobx 360 etc for enjoying on wide screen TV,
you are recommended to select a higher resolution(1280*720 and above) for better effect. 5.1 sounds is available
for some formats, not all. You could click ‘Settings’ button and check if 5.1 channels is available.
D. If you would like to rip Blu-ray movie for editing, please follow Powerpoint, Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas or
Remux to transode the m2ts files to editable formats. To acquire lossless movie clip, Remux->MPEG2/TS is
recommended.
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Step 5. Set output location
Either type in save path in Output field or click the brwose button
to specify a desired output location.

Step 6. Start ripping Blu-ray disc.
Now that the settings have been completed, click on “Convert” button
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Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper will start ripping. Your waiting time is up to the output video quality and the efficiency of
your Mac. Shutting down other applications is helpful. You can set auto shutdown in progress window (it pops up
once you click Convert) or leave it there and come back later (the ripper will tell you how long it takes).

Step 7. Find output files.
Step 8. Play m2ts files on mac.
About the editing interface:
I. Crop
II. Trim
III. Watermark
IV. Effect
V. Audio Replace
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Mac Blu-ray ripper rip/convert/backup your Blu-ray directly on Mac
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