HD media players have become more and more popular. If you have got a HD media player like Western WD TV, PopCorn Hour, Roku 2 players (Roku XS, HD, and XD) in hand, why not backup your Blu-ray movies for playback with these HD media players? As far a i know, instead of enjoying Blu-ray movies via a Blu-ray Player or BD Drive, many folks are fond of viewing a 1080p Blu-ray movie with a HD Media Player especially when they just wanna keep Blu-ray discs from scratching, or manage their movies in a more convenient way. This article here mainly talks about how to get Blu-ray movies ready for HD Media Players for playback with 1080p video quality. Of course, we need to get some help from the third-party software.

There are many programs out there that allow you to make copies of your Blu-rays and let you watch them with a WD TV or Popcorn Hour HD media player. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but while the latest version of the software has added some support for reading Blu-Ray folder structures, it cannot yet decrypt the Blu-Ray discs the way it can with regular DVDs, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step. The software recommended here is Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper.

Specially designed for Blu-ray video zealots, the top Blu-ray Ripper for HD Media Player is the programs that can achieve all kinds of Blu-ray ripping tasks. It is easy to use for editing and conversion and makes great quality copies of my Blu-rays and DVDs. It can help you convert Blu-ray into a HD media player file with 1080p high-qualified pictures.

The following guide tells you how to rip blu-ray to 1080p DivX AVI video, which would down the file size to around 10GB and meanwhile still looks stunning on HDTV using HD media player like WD TV HD Media Player, Seagate HD media player, Netgear NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Player, video DVD player, or even your BD player.

Download and install Pavtube Blu-ray to HD Media Player Ripper(Trial).

The process is straightforward. Insert the Blu-ray disc, click on the “Format” bar to choose “HD Video -> DivX HD (*.avi)” as output format. The DivX HD format gives out video of 1920*1080, 8000kbps, 30fps, which works well with the HD media players and plays spellbinding picture on 48′ HDTV. To further improve the video quality, you may click on “Settings” and set video bit rate up to 1200kbps or 18000kps. To shrink the output file size, you may set video bit rate and frame rate down.

Once the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click the big button “Convert” button to rip Blu-ray to 1080p DivX AVI video. When the conversion task is completed, you are able to get the final output files by clicking “Open” button with ease. Now you have backed up the protected commercial blu-ray movies to 1080p AVI videos, just feel free to play/watch Blu-ray movies with WD TV HD Media Player in 1080p video quality or other players.

If you are using Windows 7, you can’t miss Windows Media Center. With Windows Media Center, your PC becomes a powerful TV, bringing your shows and entertainment to one place. While enjoying broadcast and Internet TV on PC with ease, have you ever thought of adding Blu-ray movie collections to Windows Media Center Library for playback ? Surely BD Player is the first choice for playing Blu-ray Discs with, but there’re other ways to go with when building up a home theater system. With Blu-Ray Ripper software and an external BD drive (regular optical drive will not read Blu-ray Disc), you can easily rips Blu-ray movies to Windows Media Player friendly format and watch Blu-ray movies from Windows Media Center on HDTV via HDMI cable.

Why bother ripping Blu-ray to Windows Media Center while you have already own a BD Player or PS3? Firstly, Blu-ray Discs are easy to break, but a digital copy is safe and permanent, even if the data get lost, there’re ways to recover. Secondly, ripping Blu-ray to Windows Media Center will protect your Blu-ray Discs from scratches – will you still hunt for a movie in hundreds of DVDs and BDs while you can easily search and play it with a remote control? Thirdly, ripping Blu-ray to WMP solves the problem of BD region code restriction. Commercial Blu-ray Discs could be Region A, B and C, and not a BD player will read full region Blu-ray Discs. Things happen that your BD player refuse to read the BD you BD purchased from oversea market (unauthorized region). After ripping BD to WMC, the movie clips you get is unprotected HD videos, which are acceptable for all media players as long as the codec is supported.

All right, are you ready to put Blu-ray movie collections to Windows Media Center? If yes, follow the easy workflow below to convert BD/ DVD movies to WMC optimized videos:

Before we start, make sure you have a BD drive and Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Pavtube offers free trial of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper (click to download) for you to try out. You can use the trial as long as you like if you don’t mind a printed Pavtube logo on the screen.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray Disc or DVD to the Blu-Ray Ripper software.
Connect the external BD drive with your PC, and place the blu-ray disc in the blu-ray disc drive. Once you run the Blu-Ray Ripper, click “BD/DVD ROM” to add Blu-ray movie from BD drive. This Blu-Ray ripping software is able to convert Blu-ray and DVD movies into various video formats, such as WMV, MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, DivX, MPEG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, etc up to 1080p.

The titles in a Blu-ray movie are all checked by default, if you just wanna rip Blu-ray movies to Windows Media Center/ Windows Media Player with Main movie only, you can right click on the main title to “Uncheck All” firstly, and then tick off the “Main Title” only.

Step 2. Select an output format for Windows Media Center/ Windows Media Player.
Click on “Format” bar and to select an output video format supported by WMC/ WMP. Here you are encouraged to follow “HD Video”>> “DivX HD (*.avi)” or WMV HD (*.wmv)”. The former is widely support by DVD players and HD media players, the latter works with Xbox 360. Both create 1920*1080 HD video clips of 16:9 for HDTV entertaining.

Step 3. Start ripping BD/ DVD movies to WMC optimized videos.
Click “Convert” button to rip Blu-ray and DVD movies to Windows Media Center/Windows Media Player friendly format.

Step 4. Add Blu-ray and DVD movies to Windows Media Center.
Once the conversion task is completed, you can click “Open” button to get the final output files. Open Windows Media Center and then
add converted Blu-ray and DVD movies to Windows Media Center.

Tips for ripping BD/ DVD movies to Windows Media Center/Windows Media Player:

Select desired subtitles and audio track: Click the drop-down list of “Subtitle”, then all the subtitle info in the Blu-ray will be displayed for you to select. To select your desired audio track, just click the pull down menu of “Audio”, and then the popup drop-down list will give you the detailed information of all audio tracks, including language, audio codec, and stream ID.

Join BD/ DVD chapters into one: If you would like to rip the whole movie into one file, select all the Titles and check the box “Merge into one”.

Maintain 5.1 surround sound: Click “Settings” and select “5.1 channels” in the drop-down list of Audio Channels.

Keep audio and video sync: To get perfect A/ V synchronization, you need pay attention to frame rate when ripping BD/ DVD movies to Windows Media Center. You can click on “Settings” and try with different frame rate, like 30fps, 29.97 fps, 25fps, 24fps, etc. “Original” is not recommended.

Set auto shutdown: Once “Convert” button is clicked, ViewLog pops up. You may check “Shut down computer after conversion” in the ViewLog before conversion starts.

You may also back up the entire Blu-ray disc to hard drive or convert Blu-ray movie to MP3, WMA, AAC, and other audio files.

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Vizio Tablet VTAB1008 is a great tablet! It is so much better than a Kindle Fire in so many ways. The 8′ size doesn’t sound like such a big deal compared to the Fire’s 7″ screen but you would be amazed, it’s almost like a full size tablet. Also the fact that has a memory card slot is a big deal to me. Moreover, it keeps entertainment freedom at your fingertips with the Vizio 8″ tablet PC and watch your movies, TV shows and music in a thin, ultra-light design. Despite of the the viewing angles on its screen aren’t great, you can get nice picture when enjoying HD movies on the Vizio Tablet.

Besides starting the fun right away with Netflix and Hulu Plus pre-loaded to instantly watch HD movies & popular TV shows, we can also enrich our digital entertainment on Vizio Tablet VTAB1008 by downloading and copying DVD iso movies to Vizio Tablet. Along with the help from the third-party software.

As mentioned above, In order to put and play DVD ISO movies on Vizio Tablet, we need to use a 3rd party tool to rip and convert DVD ISO movies to Vizio Tablet VTAB1008 compatible formats such as mp4. There are many programs out there that allow you to make copies of your DVDs and let you watch them the way you want. But few can handle iso image files. A recommened one here is Pavtube DVD Ripper.

To be honest, the DVD ISO to Vizio Tablet Converter is easy to use for conversion and editing. It exceeded my expectations and I am very happy with it. It makes great quality copies of my DVDs and DVD iso/ifo images and the audio/video synchronization is very good. Good news is that the program is on sale at the company’s New Year Promotion if you choose this option. But I’m not a lucky dog! So you never miss the chance.

Simple Guide – How to Rip/Convert DVD iso files for playback with Vizio Tablet VTAB1008 in best HD video quality. Follow the steps to achieve it.

Step 1. Install and run the top DVD to Vizio 8″ Tablet Converter. Load your DVD files.

Step 2. Choose video format for Vizio Tablet VTAB1008. You can follow “Format > Common Video > H.264 Video(*.mp4)”. If you want to get the better video quality for Vizio Tablet, just click on “Settings” to set

Bitrate(kbps): 1000~3000,

Resolution[Size(pix)]: 1280*800 or 1280*720 (HD)

Frame Rate(fps): 30

Tips:

1- To cut off black edges of DVD video files, you just need to click on the Editor icon and then choose “Crop” function to make it. Meanwhile, you can raise the sound level of DVD files as you wish in the pop-up editor window.

2- To convert DVD ISO movies with your preferred subtitle or audio track, you can select any subtitle or soundtrack from your source BD files with the options “Subtitle” and “Audio”.

Step 3. Click the “Convert” button to start DVD to mp4 conversion. Its advanced encoding technology will definitely optimize the conversion speed. With this DVD Ripper for Vizio Tablet VTAB1008, you can rip/convert DVD 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.

Once the conversion completes, transfer the result video to Vizio Tablet. Then you can watch DVD movies on Vizio Tablet VTAB1008 with high-qualified picture as you like. Hope this article helps.

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This is just a quick guide to help out those who would like to back up the protected commercial blu-ray movies to blu-ray ISO image files on the hard drive and want them to work in PowerDVD or WinDVD. To create free-region blu-ray ISO image files from commercial blu-ray discs, you can first copy the blu-ray contents from protected blu-ray discs using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, and then create blu-ray ISO image files from the source blu-ray contents.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movie to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.
Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and you will see the below interface. Click the “BD/DVD” icon to load Blu-ray movie from external/internal Blu-ray Disc Drive. Ensure your computer network unblocked in order to crack Blu-ray Disc copy-protection.

Step 2. Decrypt and back up blu-ray contents to hard drive.
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click ‘Full Disk Copy’ button. In this way all contents of the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus, titles, ads, etc. Full Disk Copy aims to help users to backup the whole contents of a blu-ray disc or standard DVD in the easiest and fastest way. The backup costs much less time than ripping movie to other format. With the Blu-ray and DVD structure, you do not have to create new menu when burning the blu-ray movie to blank blu-ray disc for backup. Once it’s finished ripping check the folder structure by adding in the following folders (even if they are empty)

1. BDMV

2. CERTIFICATE

Step 3. Load BDMV and CERTIFICATE Folder to imgburn.
Once that’s done then using imgburn choose ‘Create Image from Files & Folders’, drag in the BDMV and CERTIFICATE Folder along with any extra files that in your root folder outside of those two folders.

Step 4. Create blu-ray ISO image file using the source blu-ray contents.
In imgburn on the ‘Options’ tab set to UDF and 2.5. On the ‘Labels’ tab type the name of the film in the UDF box. Then choose the destination where you want it to build the ISO and set it going.

So far using this method all my Images play back perfectly in PowerDVD using Virtual Clone Drive to mount them with. You may check for further information in How to play blu-ray ISO image file on HTPC.

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With the development of Android, Google Android OS seems to compete with Apple iOS. And as a result, Android tablet has grown rapidly in popularity nearly two years. With the coming New Year, Android tablets have come into a crazy shopping period. Actually, buying a tablet PC ships Android OS for the passed Christmas and the coming New Year is a rather good idea. With the big screen, watching DVD movies on Android tablet anytime anywhere is a nice choice. But it seems impossible to play DVD movies on Android tablet.

In order to help you better enjoy DVD movies on Android tablet, Pavtube offers the Christmas and 2012 New Year Best Gift for you with best DVD to Android tablet converter on Mac, this article shares the methods of how to rip DVD to Android tablet on Mac.

Step 1: Free download Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac and launch it as the best DVD to Android Mac video converter. Click the button “Add” to import DVD resources to the DVD to Android Mac video converter.

As a great DVD to Android ripper on Mac, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac allows you import DVD resources from DVD ROM, DVD ISO/IFO files and even DVD folders that have been copied to your Mac hard drive.

Step 2: To convert DVD movies to Android tablet on Mac, you need choose the output format. Click on the format bar and then choose “Android”, you can find numbers of formats for all kinds of Android tablet in the list such as Motorola Droid (X) H.264 Video (*.mp4), Acer Iconia Tab A500 H.264 Video (*.mp4), HTC Droid Incredible H.264 Video (*.mp4), etc.

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters. You are recommended to set the video size according to your Android tablet’s resolution. Thus, you will probably get the output videos that can be played on your Android tablet with high quality.

Step 4: Start converting DVD to Android on Mac. Click the convert button and wait for the conversion finished. After that, you can transfer the converted videos to your Android tablet for playing.

Christmas of 2011 has just been past; however, the crazy shopping will last more than half a month. If you a Blu-ray movie lover, you must like to play Blu-ray movies on your tablet PC like Nook Tablet. There is no doubt that Nook Tablet is one of the most attractive tablet products this year with its low price and unquestionable Android OS.

In order to make Blu-ray compatible with Nook Tablet, you need to rip Blu-ray movies to Nook Tablet for playing. Pavtube Studio developed a useful Blu-ray to Nook Tablet Converter for you and it is on sale now with 20% off discount.

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To convert Blu-ray to Nook Tablet, you should take care of below tips:

1: Ensure your PC is connected to the Internet during the conversion.

2: You can click to turn CUDA on to make the conversion faster if the computer is NVIDIA graphics card.

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Pavtube offers you the best DVD to Kindle Fire Converter and from now on to Jan 16th, 2012, this DVD to Kindle Fire Converter is on sale with 20% off discount for 2011 Christmas Crazy Promo. Pavtube DVD to Kindle Fire Converter, also known as Pavtube DVD Ripper, can not only help you copy/rip DVD movies from DVD disc, DVD folder or DVD ISO/IFO files, but also convert/ transcode DVD to Kindle Fire for playing.

With this powerful DVD to Kindle Fire Converter, you can convert DVD movies to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, etc, and transfer DVD movies to Kindle Fire for playing. To convert DVD to Kindle Fire, you need do below steps to ensure that you can get the best videos for playing on Kindle Fire.

1. Import DVD resource to Pavtube Kindle Fire DVD Ripper.

2. Select output format for Kindle Fire playing.

3. Set advanced settings.

4. Start to rip DVD to Kindle Fire compatible videos.

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Travel with Kindle Fire – need help

I’m on a flight to the UK soon and want to get some of my movies (mainly blu-ray movies) on Amazon Kindle Fire for the flight. Tried some Blu-ray rippers but all creates HUGE files- 10GB+ for one movie. Would some one please advise a easy-to-use yet suitablet ripper for Kindle Fire? I would be pleased if I can compress a Blu-ray to 1.5-3GB and still keep 720p HD quality. Any suggestions?

As far as i know, it’s not the Blu-ray Ripper, but the preset format that affects file size. Below is the best format settings per my experience for ripping Blu-ray to Kindle Fire:

Video
Codec- H.264
Resolution- 1280×720 (HD)
Bitrate- 1500kbps
Framerate- 30fps

Audio
Codec- AAC
Sampling rate- 44.1khz
Bitrate- 96kbps
Channel- stereo

With the above settings a Blu-ray movie can be compressed to 1.5-2.5GB depends on the movie length. As to Blu-ray ripper, I recommend Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Kindle Fire mainly because it allows you set format settings to get desired file size and quality. And other Blu-ray rippers let you rip Blu-ray only but this one rips both Blu-ray and DVD. I tried four Blu-ray video encoders and it is the only one that converts h.264 video without sync issues. If you have CUDA compliant graphics card installed, the ripping speed could be fairly fast.

It took me a while to find the settings but all turned out fine. The Blu-ray Thor results in a .mp4 file of 1.8GB, and the converted Blu-ray videos plays stunning pictures on my Kindle Fire. The Blu-ray to Kindle Fire Converter is on sale at the Pavtube’s Christmas Promo Coupons through Dec. 5, 2011 if you choose this option.

The process is straightforward. Insert the Blu-ray(or DVD) disc, run and load Blu-ray movies to the Blu-ray Ripper for Kindle Fire, then click “Format” bar and select a MP4 format for Kindle Fire playback. After everything’s set down, click the big “Convert” button to start Convert Blu-ray/DVD to H.264 mp4 video for Kindle Fire.

Customize best settings for Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire plays MP4 and VP8 video only, so you’re suggested to choose “Common Video>> H.264 Video (*.mp4)” format (or “Nook Color(*.mp4)” from “Android” category) . The format exports 480p .mp4 video with pretty good picture and compresses a 100min Blu-ray movie to 2-3GB. In that case the Kindle Fire holds only 3 or 4 movies only. To down-size output file, you can click “Settings” and set lower bitrate as mentioned at the beginning of the article.

If you’d like to put 10 movies to Kindle Fire, set video bitrate down to 1000kpbs so that a 100min movie would be reduced to around 800M. Note that when you lower bitrate, you lower video quality meanwhile.

Pretty Simple. After transfer and copying the converted Blu-ray movies to Kindle Fire, you can experience and view Blu-ray 1080p movies on Kindle Fire with 720 HD quality anytime and everywhere. Have fun!

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As we all know, Apple’s popular iPad, iPhone 4, and other digital media players like iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV are all using iTunes to manage the digital music and video files on them. That is to say, to watch a Blu-ray movie on your iPad, iPhone 4, iPod and Apple TV, you need to rip Blu-ray to iTunes previously. Some of you may have not figured out a proper way to rip Blu-ray to iTunes, so to help you out of this problem, this guide is going to show you a detailed way on how to rip Blu-ray to iTunes for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod and Apple TV. Just feel free to see if it is what you are looking for.

What you will need:

Pavtube Blu-ray to iTunes Converter

This Blu-ray to iTunes Converter is capable of converting/ripping Blu-ray to iTunes compatible file formats, such as MP4, MOV, M4V, MP3, and M4R. Then you are free to experience your beloved BD movies on anyone of your Apple products, on iPad, iPhone 4, iPod or Apple TV? It’s your choice.

Step-by-step guide:

How to rip Blu-ray to iTunes for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod and Apple TV?

Step 1: Run Pavtube Blu-ray to iTunes Converter.
Once launch it, click “BD/DVD ROM”,”BD/DVD Folder” or “BD/DVD ISO” to load your Blu-ray movie files. The main movie is checked exclusively by default. Check other titles if you need them.

Step 2: Select output format for iTunes.
To rip Blu-ray to iTunes, you need make sure the end use of the final output files. For instance, if you wanna sync them to iPhone 4 for playback, you can choose “iPhone” preset, if you want to add them to iPad for entertainment, you can select “iPad” format, or you can choose “iPod” or “Apple TV” according to your own needs.

Step 3: Adjust audio and video parameters.
This Blu-ray to iTunes Converter allows users setting audio and video parameters to their own needed ones. Click “Settings” button, then the following interface will show up, you can adjust all the video and audio parameters on it, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel.

Step 4: Start converting/ripping Blu-ray to iTunes.
Click “Convert” button, then the Blu-ray to iTunes Converter will start converting/ripping Blu-ray to iTunes immediately. With multithreading technology and advanced audio and video in sync technology, this application is able to complete converting/ripping Blu-ray to iTunes at super high speed without any audio and video out of sync issues. So you need not wait around for the conversion or worry about audio and video going separate ways. When the conversion is finished, you can click “Open” button to get the result files for iTunes to sync to your iPad, iPhone 4, iPod or Apple TV.

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