How to play 1080p Blu-ray on WD TV Live Plus Media Player

If you are just curious about how to play 1080p Blu-ray on WD TV Live Plus Media Player, get the best BD ripping tools/applications to rip Blu-ray to WDTV best supported format.

The WD TV is a hot consumer device produced by Western Digital that plays videos, images, and music from USB drives. It has been updated a few models including WD TV Live, WD TV Live Plus, WD TV Live Hub, etc. It will be a delightful experience to enjoy your Blu-ray movies on your HDTV via WD TV Live over network.

However, WD TV Live Plus doesn't support Blu-ray. In order to play your Blu-ray movies on WD TV Live Plus Media Player, you need to rip these BD to WD TV Live supported video formats.

Here Pavtube ByteCopy is such a Blu-ray & DVD backuping/coping/ripping application to help you out. Acted almost like a Blu-ray player, it’s a breeze to access and enjoy up to 1080p HD movie with AC3 5.1 surround sound out. Although full Blu-ray navigation is not supported so far, you can select desired audio track, subtitles language, and chapter to play with.  The Mac version is ByteCopy for Mac. 

The following passage shows a best way to convert a Blu-ray Disc for WD TV Live Plus Media Player with multiple subtitles while maintaining original Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.

To begin:

Launch the program and add the movie you want to encode by clicking the “Load file(s)” icon on the main interface. You can see the chapter information of your Blu-ray movies on the main interface after you loading to the program.



Then choose the output format. In order to preserve the chapter structure and subtitles, you’d better choose the “Multi-track Video”. Under this profile, you have three choices which all can preserve chapter structure.

If you choose "Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*mkv)" format, you can output the BD disc with lossless quality and allow multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitles.



One special function that makes ByteCopy stands out is you can easily select you needed tracks, subtitles.



The last thing you need to do is hit the “Convert” button to copy Blu-ray to H.264 MKV format. Just wait a moment and then you can output the mkv videos with the chapter and subtitles preserving. Then you can copy the result files onto WD TV Live Plus Media Player for watching.

Have a fun of it!

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Xbox 360 won't play DVD- Rip DVD Movies for Playback on Xbox 360

Does Xbox 360 play DVD? Many Xbox users have this question. Today, I will share the Xbox 360 DVD playback solution with everyone in this article. Keep on reading.

The new Xbox 360 devices are not only a game cansole, but also a media player that could store and play various HD movies. And the most exciting thing is Xbox 360 works as a DVD player in a pinch.

If you want to protects your precious DVDs from being scratched or damaged, back up your borrowed or rent DVD movie, or even wanna remove region code from DVD, it’s a wise idea to rip DVD to Xbox first with a DVD ripper provided. Then everything will be ok and you will not bother to insert the DVD disc every time when you planning to watch DVD on Xbox 360.

As is mentioned above, a professional DVD ripper can help you remove all embarrassments you encountered. Here Pavtube DVDAid is highly acclaimed among a mass of customers for its omnipotent DVD ripping ability and utmost video quality when ripping DVD to Xbox compatible video formats: *.wmv, *.mp4. Besides that, its build-in editor lets you touch up the DVD video as you like, which include trimming, cropping, rotate, merge and apply special visual effects, etc.  You can reach the Mac version here: DVDAid for Mac.

Follow the 1-2-3 steps, you will find the conversion from DVD movies to Xbox 360 is so easy and fast and then watch DVD movie on Xbox 360. (Here is Xbox 360 Blu-ray solution)

Step 1. Import your DVD movies

Download and install Pavtube DVDAid. Launch it and click the Load DVD button to import the DVD files that you want to convert to play with Xbox 360. Both ISO, IFO and files in DVD Folder can be loaded.



Step 2. Choose Xbox 360 preset as the output format

This DVD to Xbox ripper provides optimized presets for Xbox 360 (HD output format). So in this step, you can just choose the ready preset for Xbox 360 like "Xbox 360 Video - Windows Media Video(*.wmv)", "Xbox 360 Video (640*480)(*.wmv)" or "Xbox 360 HD Video (*.wmv)" as the output format, which will remove all the incompatibility issue.

Tip: This Xbox 360 DVD Ripper let users control/customize output file quality. To improve video quality, simply click “Settings” and set video bitrate up.

 

Step 3. Start converting DVD movies to Xbox

Before start ripping, you can also edit the DVD movies as you like. When all settings are done, simply click the "Convert" button to begin the conversion from DVD to Xbox 360. You will get the files converted ready in a few minutes


Now you can copy this ripped DVD movies to Xbox 360 hard drive or use the MCE to steam them to Xbox via your home network to watch DVD on Xbox 360.

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MKV to iMovie Workflow - Convert MKV to an iMovie acceptable AIC .mov file

This article will explain why we often failed to import MKV to iMovie, and I will introduce a step by step guide on how to successfully import MKV files to iMovie.

Why We often Encounter Problem in Importing MKV to iMovie?

MKV (Matroska Video), an open and free container format able to keep diverse video, audio, and subtitle components in just one file, can let you enjoy high definition videos at home easily. Yet, if you download a swathe of videos with the file extension MKV and intend to convert MKV to iMovie for editing on Mac, then the problem pops up.

Solution:

So if your source MKV files can't be accepted by iMovie on Mac , you need to convert MKV to  iMovie compatible code AIC. I know a program that named iMedia Converter for Mac, is just the ideal MKV to  AIC  conversion software. It can easily transcode MKV video to AIC .mov for adding MKV to iMovie for editing. Below is a step by step guide to show you how to convert MKV videos to iMovie.

Preparation: 

Download and install the Mac MKV to AIC converter on your Mac computer, it works on Mac OS 10.5 or above.

Step 1. Run the program and load your MKV video files into it.



Step 2. Choose "iMovie and Final Cut Express>Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) (*mov)" as output format for editing in iMovie.



Step 3. Start transcoding MKV to AIC .mov by clicking on "Convert" button.

Of course, the process will take some time, please wait patiently. When it's finished, you can easily import the converted media file into iMovie for editing.

Ok then launch iMovie, click "File > Import" to load these MOV videos:



Except help you handling MKV video files, this MKV to iMovie Converter can deal with Blu-ray, DVD and other video files like AVI. Meanwhile, it's able to convert them for your tablets or smartphones with optimized presets. Overall, it's really a good helper that worth having.

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Convert DVD to mp4 for watching on iPad with multi-track or only one audio track

Look for DVD to multi-track/one-track video solution? Pavtube ByteCopy will help you rip DVD to multi-track mp4 or standard mp4 for iPad streaming via icloud with few clicks.

Question: Since I’ve seen how easy and fast it is to convert a DVD (already stored in my HD) into a single mp4 file, I’ve thought about converting all my dvd’s into mp4’s then I can directly stream them onto all my iPad via icloud. But what is important (to me) is to be able to rip some DVDs keeping at least two audio tracks in one conversion (ex: both English and French audio, or German, English and Spanish audio) and for some DVDs I only need one audio track. With VLC, I would then be able to select which audio track to hear, if any.

However, DVDFab only supports one audio track; FairUse only supports one subtitle track; AutoGK does not seem to do h.264 at all and HandBrake seems to be limited to a single subtitle track as well. So I am wondering if there is a software (free or not) that can do that? Please note that I am quite new to DVD conversion and would prefer a software that's relatively easy to use, i.e. with simplified options or some sort of pre-validated presets. 

In fact, it is easy to archive DVD to mp4 container conversion with one track or multiple audio tracks preserved. The following short guide shows you how to convert a DVD to mp4 with multiple audio track as well as one audio track. 

Software Requirement: Pavtube ByteCopy/ByteCopy for Mac

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. Not all videos output from a multi-track DVD can keep the original video effect, intact audio tracks in different languages. 

It is a pro version Blu-ray/DVD ripping program, it's not only able to remove disc encryption and rip them to iPad readable format, but also keeps the original DVD/Blu-ray multiple audio tracks, so that you can free switch the language during playback. The mac version is ByteCopy for Mac.

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

Part I: Convert DVD to Multi-track mp4 for watching on iPad 

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)". The original DVD chapter marker and audio tracks will be kept automatically. 

 

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. 

After conversion, hit the "Open" or "Open output folder" icon to quick locate converted MP4 videos, transfer it to your iPad via icloud. 

OK! We now can watch DVD movies on iPad with multiple languages using VLC player. 

Part II: Convert DVD to mp4 for watching on iPad with only one audio track 

Step 1. Run the program, load your DVD movies into it. DVD discs, DVD iso or ifo files are all OK. 

Step 2. Choose iPad video formats. Click on “Format” box, you can easily find the “iPad” category.  

You can select the one accroding to your device model. If this choice can’t meet your need, you can also click on “Settings” to set parameters. 

Step 3. After the above steps, start the process by converting DVD to iPad. 

Once the task is finished, locate the converted video files by clicking on “Open” and stream them to the iPad via icloud with ease. So there you have it. Pretty Simple! 

Now just enjoy and watch DVD movies on iPad the way you like (with multiple audio tracks or one audio track). Hope the article helps.

More related:

Copy DVD Disc for playback on Mac with multi-track MOV format

How to Rip and Convert DVD to multi-track MP4 on Windows/Mac Easily and Fast

Convert 3D Blu-ray Disc to multi-track mp4 for Playback by iPad Air

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Convert M2TS with DTS for Playback on PS3 with AC3 5.1 Surround

This guide shows you how to convert an m2ts file (with DTS audio) to AVI/MP4 so that it can be played on the Playstation 3 with AC3 5.1 surround sound.

I'm watching M2TS through a HDTV on my PS3. All works fine except the M2TS files with DTS audio (I can see the video, but there is no sound). Then what's the problem? Any way to make my M2TS files with DTS audio playable on PS3 correctly?

In fact, M2TS files can also be played on Sony PlayStation 3 (Learn how to convert MKV to PS3 with tsMuxeR). However, DTS audio is basically higher quality than AC3, which can't be playable on the PS3.

Therefore, the DTS audio will need to be converted to AC3. This is a lossy conversion, but it is a very acceptable sacrifice considering AC3 can have a very high bitrate. Here with Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, you can convert M2TS with DTS to playable format on PS3 much faster and easier-to-use than other similar tools with high quality AC3 5.1 audio. Besides, it integrates many presets for iPad 4, iPad Air, Amazon Fire Phone as well as the upcoming Nexus 8; many other presets waiting for you to pick up.

Here is how to encode M2TS with DTS audio to AC3 5.1 AVI/MP4 for playing on PS3

Please make sure the output and speaker setup support 5 channel audio which can be accomplished by using an optical out connection with a surround speaker system. 

1. Import source media files

Download, install and run Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Click “Add video” button to load your source MKV files into the program. The DTS to AC3 Converter is multi-task based and supports batch conversion, this means you can load in multiple video files to convert at one time.



2. Select output format

From the Format bar, navigate to “PSP/PS3” catalogue, and choose "PS3 Video(AC3 5.1)(*.avi)" which can directly output AC3 5.1 audio without settings.



P.S.

If you only want to get mp4 format, choose "PS3 Video(720p) MPEG-4(*.mp4)" or "PS3 Video(1080p) MPEG-4(*.mp4)" depending on your requirement.

Tip:
If you choose mp4 format, you need to change the settings from AAC Stereo to AC3  5.1.

Click “Settings” button, the “Profile Settings” windows pops up, on which you need to set the audio codec to ac3 and set audio channels to 5.1 Channels. This ensures your output videos encoded with ac3 and create 5.1 surround surrounds for PS3 playback.

Apart from changing audio codec and channels, you are also allowed to reset video resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, audio bit rate and sample rate on this window.



4. Start conversion

Click “Convert” button to start converting M2TS with DTS to MP4/AVI AC3 with 5.1 Channels. As soon as the conversion finished, you can click “Open” button to get the generated files with ease.

Now, you can transfer converted videos to PS3 via USB flash drive for smooth playback without any problem.

Note:

The PS3 has a filesize limitation. Files over 4GB cannot be played on the PS3's hard drive. Of course, files larger than 4GB can be played from a burned dual layer DVD or Blu-Ray. Alternatively,  you can click the split button on the main interface.

When the Video Split window pops up, tick off Enable > Split file size (MB), and either enter the desired maximum size of each file chunk or choose an appropriate size from the available drop down option. In my case I entered 3900 MB for each chunk of file. 4 GB is equal to 4,096 MB, so if you want your file size less than 4GB, just enter/choose the maximum size under 4,096 MB.



Click Ok and back to the main interface to click Convert. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate will convert the source file to your desired format and split it into several files with your desired file size. Special function, so simple to use!

See also:

Convert MKV to PS3 - How do I make MKV files playing on my PS3?
DVD to PS3 - Convert DVD to PS3 Compatible AVI Video with AC3 5.1 channel

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Best 4K Ultra HD Video Converter to Convert/Compress 4K Videos on PC or Mac

If you've got some 4K Ultra HD videos, this article will give you the best 4K Ultra HD Video Converter to Convert/Compress 4K Videos on PC or Mac in a simple way.

4K is the hottest buzz word in the tech world right now, and it's rewriting the rulebook when it comes to image quality. It affects not just the world of 4K TV and cinema, but also cameras and image capture, smartphones and tablets, computer monitors and PC games - practically anything that displays images or records video.

4K Ultra HD is a much more intimate viewing experience than Full HD. In many respects, the best way to view 4K is analogous to the way we view films in a cinema. Old style cinemas were shoe-box shaped and most patrons sat typically 3-5 screen heights away, because that was the most comfortable viewing distance.

However, it is also costly to achieve 4K Ultra HD, for the data amount of each frame is as big as 50MB. That is to say, the facilities of top configuration are required for both decoding, playing and editing a 4K Ultra HD video.

The optimal tool I prompt here is Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Just like the way it is dealing with 1080p HD videos, this all-in-one converting tool is surely in the support of converting 4K UHD videos in any formats faultlessly. As the best 4K Ultra HD Video Converter, it can 4K Ultra HD videos in MP4 (AVC coder) or other extension not only for playing on portable devices like iPad, iPhone, Galaxy Tablet, Surface Tablet, Kindle Fire HDX, but also for editing in Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Pinnacle Studio, Cyberlink Powerdirector, etc.. 

Follow the steps below, and you can get the easiest way to edit convert/compress 4K Videos on PC or Mac with the top 4K Ultra HD Video Converter. And the mac workflow it here. First, download or buy Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate as the 4K Ultra HD Video Converter.

Notes:

1. The free trial version is provided for you to see if it would be able to convert your 4K UHD to your required file type with expected quality.

2. The trial version will create videos with PAVTUBE logo standing in the center of the output image. To bypass the watermark, you should purchase its full version.

Step 1. Follow the installation wizard to install the program onto your computer. After transferring 4K Ultra HD Video files to hard disk, run Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Click the "Add video" icon. button to import 4K UHD video to the program.



Step 2: Choose an output format on a smaller window of this 4K video converter which accords the format you want the output 4K Ultra HD video to become, be it AVI, MOV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, etc.



Step 3: Make any other personal settings you need and click the "Convert" button under the preview window, and the 4K Video Converter will start converting any 4K YouTube Ultra HD videos. When the conversion is finished, you enjoy the compressed 4K Ultra HD video easily.

P.S. Can 4K UHDTV play original HD videos? The answer is yes. The principle is almost similar to that of playing a standard video on an HD TV. 4K UHDTV is 2016p and 3840 pixels wide, having an aspect ratio of at least 16:9. 

Good News is that Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate allows you to change video resolution, as well as the aspect ratio, from 4:3 to 16:9, to faultlessly fit the 4K Ultra HD TV. After converting ,you can freely transfer the video to 4K UHDTV for watching by use of HDMI or the like. Now just have a try. 

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Convert MXF files to MKV/VOB/AVI/MOV/MP4/MPEG/WMV/FLV on Windows/Mac
How to enable VLC to play Blu-ray movies by chapters

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2014 Summer Holiday Coupon Starts, 20% OFF BD/DVD Coping Tool comes!

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