The other day I was asked by a friend, if there is any solution that he could watch Blu-ray movie in his car. He has a brand new Pioneer In-Dash A/V receiver, and it plays DVD, Divx video, MP3, WMA etc but for Blu-ray movies. Well, actually there is some way to settle it down. Say, rip Blu-ray disc to common videos like MP4, MOV, M4V and transfer the files to iPod Classic, connect iPod with Pioneer A/V deck via the USB port, and then the movie will be ready for playback. How to rip Blu-ray disc/ file into iPod compatible video clips? Here I would like to recommend an easy and effective tool, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper. It allows you to remove the copy protections and convert Blu-ray movie to various popular video and audio formats on Mac. The following guide tells you in detail how to rip Blu-ray disc and you may download demo version of Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and have a try.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray disc/ folder.
To rip Blu-ray disc on Mac, an external BD drive is essential. Hook up the BD drive with your Mac and launch Blu-Ray Ripper. Click on “DVD Folder”, browse to the drive and click “Choose”. You do not have to open the any of the folders. When the M2TS files are imported to file list, check the main movie and leave other files unchecked. The main movie is the largest M2TS file. Double click and preview it if you are not certain. Protected Blu-ray folders can be loaded to the ripper in the same way. Right below the file list you can find Audio track option in which dubbings of different languages are listed for your choice.

(Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace.)With it, you can convert DVD to video formats like MP4, AVI, WMV etc with good quality and high speed.

Step 2: Set Output format.

Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. Point to iPod group and select an output format, for example, M4V. Click on “Settings” if you want to further customize video and audio parameters and click on “OK” to confirm after complete settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the ripped file.www.bofunk.com

Step 3: Start ripping.
Click on “Convert” button to start Blu-Ray to M4V conversion. The ripper will remove the protections and generate desired M4V file. After conversion you can sync these file to iPod for watch over In-Dash A/V Receiver.

Want to find a  solution to playback Blu-ray movies on your  widescreen TV via WD HD Media Player? As a matter of fact, WD TV HD Media  Player promises to play just about any video format you throw at it, including  high definition video up to 1080p. Your best choice to convert DVD to Nokia (MP4, FLV, WMV, MP3, M4A for playback) , is Pavtube DVD Ripper.You put the videos on any USB mass storage  device, like an external hard drive or a thumb drive, and plug it into the  device, WD TV HD Media Player will recognize the files on the drive and play  any video, audio, or photo files it finds. However, according to the feedback  provided by some users, WD TV HD Media Player does play m2ts selectively only,  some are, and some are not. In purpose of solving this problem, this post will  talk about how to rip Blu-ray movies to USB for  playback on TV via WD TV HD Media Player.

WD TV HD Media  Player supported file formats:

Video: MPEG1/2/4,  WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4,  H.264), Subtitle SRT (UTF-8)

Audio: MP3,  WMA, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital, AIF/AIFF, MKA Playlist PLS, M3U, WPL

Photo: JPEG,  GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG

Now let’s have a look at its  operation steps.

Choose MKV format, how to rip Blu-ray to MKV?

Step 1
Download, install and run this Blu-ray ripping software
After launched  it, you will see the following interface at once. There are three ways provided  to import Blu-ray files, namely through clicking on "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder",  and "IFO/ISO".

Step 2
Load the Blu-ray disc.
Click on the “DVD Rom” button to import Blu-ray movie from the disc, or click on “DVD Folder” button and browse to your target files. It takes a few seconds to load the whole movie, so be patient. A view log will pop up when loading process completes, you can simply click "OK" to confirm or press Ctrl+O to close it. Now all the M2TS files in file list are checked, right-click and choose "Uncheck All". What you need is the main movie---the one with longest duration. Check it and leave unwanted M2TS files unchecked. You can rename the output file by clicking on the file name in Destination File column. Right below the file list you could find "Subtitle" and "Audio" droplist, where you can set output subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like.



Step 3
Click on Format bar, select “Common Video” from the format list and in submenu you could find MKV video format. If you would like to maintain best quality, just back to the format list and move down your mouse to point at “HD Video”, here you can find “MKV HD Video”. www.freaknfunny.com
Check it and hit on the small folder icon to specify an output folder. Then click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. For instance, you may set Video to 1920*1080p (to fit for the wide screen), 25mbps, 30fps, and Audio to AC3/AAC codec, 192kbps, 5.1 channels. Click "OK" to confirm your settings.


Step 4. Start conversion.

Click on the “Convert” button and the program will rip Blu-ray movies to MKV video format for you very soon. You could 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). Enjoy the converted MKV videos!

Once finished, you can get the generated files for WD TV via clicking on "Open" button with ease. Afterwards, just copy the output  files to My Passport portable hard drive or other USB drive, and then connect WD TV to your TV, plug your USB drive into the player and you are ready to  enjoy the movies ripped from your Blu-rays.

That's all, Enjoy it!

Part 1: Convert Blu-ray movies to MPEG

Want to enjoy your Blu-ray movies with Windows Media Player in your PC? Long to watch wonderful Blu-ray movies on your iPod, iPhone, PSP? Try converting Blu-Ray to MPEG with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper! The widely used Blu-Ray Ripper will help you to realize all these wishes. It is a useful tool to remove Blu-Ray AACS encryption, region codes and BD+ copy protection, and copy Blu-ray to MPEG movie with fast conversion speed.

Please find below a step-by-step guide for directly convert Blu-ray to MPEG:

Step 1. Prepare for the conversion. Click here to download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, install and run it.

Step 2. Load the Blu-ray disc. Insert Blu-ray disc and click on the “DVD Rom” button to import Blu-ray movie from the disc, or click on “DVD Folder” button and browse to your target files. Now the selected Blu-Ray files are in the file list. Check the chapters you would like to rip to MPEG. You can rename the output file by double click on the file name in Destination File column.



Step 3. Set output format. Click on Format bar, select “Common Video” from the format list and in submenu you will find MPEG video formats. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper provides you with MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats. Select the proper one and then hit on the small folder icon to specify an output folder.

Step 4. Start conversion. Click on the “Convert” button and the program will rip Blu-ray movies to MPEG video format in very soon. And then you could play or edit the converted MPEG files.
Tip: You are allowed to record and output periods of video from anywhere you like. Just click on “Edit” button and choose “Trim” tab.

Note: If you are using Mac OS, you can download the Mac version here: http://www.pavtube.com/blu-ray-ripper-mac

Part 2: How to convert Blu-ray movies to AVI

This guide is written to introduce a useful tool to convert your own Blu-ray Disc video to AVI format that can be played on computers and media players like Blackberry and Archos. How to copy and convert Blu-Ray to AVI? Pavtube Blu ray Ripper is the best choice. It is more than a Blu-Ray to AVI converter and can help you to remove Blu-Ray AACS encryption, region codes and BD+ copy protection, and copy Blu-ray to AVI movie with fast conversion speed.

Please find below a step-by-step guide for directly convert Blu-Ray to AVI:

Step 1. Download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, install and run it.

Step 2.Load the Blu-ray movie files that you would like to rip by clicking on the “DVD Rom” or “DVD Folder” button. Now you could find the selected Blu-Ray files in the file list. Check the chapters that you would like to edit or convert to AVI. mentalfunk.com



Step 3.Click on Format bar, select “Common Video” from the list, you will find AVI format in the submenu, check it so that the ripper will output Blu-Ray to AVI video format. If you would like to generate HD AVI files, please select HD from the format list and then hit on “AVI HD Video”. After set the output format, you could hit the small folder icon to specify an output folder.

Step 4.Now click on the "Convert" button.

Tip : Keep your preferred chapters selected and check “Merge into one” on the right bottom of the interface, you can output these Blu-Ray video segments into one MP4 file for your AVI.

Magix Movie Edit Pro 14 is quite popular among DV cam lovers and film amateurs due to its flourish video effects and powerful editing and burning features. Yet it does not work with all the footages created by HD camcorders, even if you have activated MPEG-4/H.264 codec.www.greenshines.com

For instance, when you try to import the HD MOV footages (H.264 MOV, 1920*1280p) took with Canon EOS 7D or MTS (MPEG-4 MTS) shot with Sony HDR SR10 to MEP14, an error message will definitely pop up to tell you it is not a valid AVCHD format. Actually footages taken with AVCHD and some other HD camcorders cannot be transferred to Movie Edit Pro 14, as the app does not recognize them. What you need is to transcend the files (HD MOV, MTS, TOD etc) into something more editable for MEP14, like AVI and WMV. Here I would like to recommend an easy-to-use but powerful converting tool to you, Pavtube HD Video Converter. It focuses on HD Video conversion and will enable you to handle videos of any formats in MEP. A step-by-step guide is displayed below for your reference:

Step One. Getting started
Transfer the footages you’d like to edit from camcorder or memory card to PC. Install and launch HD Video Converter, click “Add” to load the HD video clips, or directly drag the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. You could view the files in preview window, simply highlight the file and click play button.

Step Two. Adjusting audio and video settings
Click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Now that we are converting HD files(MTS, MOV, TOD) to edit in Magix Movie Edit Pro, it will be just ok to set output format as Common Video->AVI/ WMV, 720*480p, 25fps. For the users who are unwilling to degrade the HD video quality, a recommended configuration could be HD Video-> DivX HD (*.avi), 1920*1080p, 25mbps, 30fps or HD Video-> WMV HD (*.wmv), 1920*1080p, 25mbps, 30fps. You may set audio channels to 5.1 in order to get surround sound.

Step Three. Converting HD footages to editable formats
Finally, click on “Convert” button to start converting HD footages to editable files for MEP 14. You could set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later. YouTube video converter for Mac is a powerful YouTube converter for Mac users, and supports to download and convert any YouTube videos.

After conversion the videos can be easily loaded to Magix Movie Editor Pro 14 and above version for editing. To locate the converted files, click the “Open” button next to output path. Enjoy editing and burning your own DVDs!

This tutorial intends to list out all the video formats  supported by the Xbox 360, and explains all the available ways to play videos  on Xbox 360 in HD quality or  stream videos to Xbox 360. The videos include Blu-ray movies, standard DVD  movies, and various other videos, such as ISO image file, Camera footages, MKV,  MTS, VOB, M2TS, TS, TP, FLV files, etc.
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Let's Get Started.

Part 1: The details of Xbox  360 supported file formats

1. AVI:

File Extensions: .avi, .divx

Containers: AVI

Video Profiles: MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple & Advanced  Simple Profile

Video Bitrate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 x 720 at  30fps.

Audio Profiles: Dolby Digital 2 channel and 5.1 channel,  MP3

Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.

2. H.264:

File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov

Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime

Video Profiles: Baseline, main, and high (up to Level 4.1)  profiles.

Video Bitrate: 10 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at  30fps. Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)

Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.

3. MPEG-4:

File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .mov

Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime

Video Profiles: Simple & Advanced Simple Profile

Video Bitrate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 x 720 at  30fps.

Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)

Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.

4. WMV:

File Extensions: .wmv

Container: asf

Video Profiles: WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3),  VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main, and advanced up to Level 3

Video Bitrate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at  30fps.

Audio Profiles: WMA7/8, WMA 9 Pro (stereo and 5.1), WMA  lossless

Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.

Notes: You can not  mix and match the video and audio codec outside of the above defined lists  randomly.

Part 2: Different ways to play videos on  Xbox 360



With regard to playback videos from a USB storage device,  please note that the Xbox 360 will support as big of  a storage device as you can format using FAT32, and the maximum size of any  single file on FAT32 is 4GB. Besides that, the maximum file size for an AVI, MPEG-4  Part 2, and H.264 file that can be played is 4 GB as  well. To play a file greater than 4GB on  Xbox 360, you can use Windows Media  Player 11 and the Zune software to stream videos from your PC to Xbox 360 console, and  notice that the file format must be WMV only. Why is it so special with a WMV file? That maybe WMV is a  codec developed by Microsoft.

Well, that is to say, to  some extent, we can consider WMV as the optimal format to play or stream to  Xbox 360. When you are gonna watch a Blu-ray/DVD movie, or an MKV video, or  some files else that are out of the range of Xbox 360 workable formats, what is  your solution? We usually make use of Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate  to do format conversion. Why do we choose it? Mainly because of its splendid  output quality and its feature of an all-in-one application: a Blu-ray ripper,  a DVD ripper, and a versatile video converter.

Part 3: How to convert Blu-ray/DVD and videos to WMV for  play/stream on/to Xbox 360

We have mentioned in the above contents that the  program we will use is Pavtube Blu-ray Video  Converter Ultimate. Go to find a step-by-step instruction from the  following part.



STEP  1: Load Blu-ray, DVD or other video files into this  program

Click "Add Video" to import video files, and  click "Load DVD" to import Blu-ray or DVD files.

STEP  2: Select subtitle and audio track

Click on the pull down menu after "Subtitle" and "Audio"  respectively to select your needed subtitle and audio track as your choice.  Your selection can be reviewed in the preview window to the right hand of the  main interface.

STEP  3: Select WMV as output format for Xbox 360

Click on the drop-down list at the opposite side  of "Format", and then choose "WMV3 (WMV9) (*.wmv)" as output format.



STEP  4: Do optimal settings for the output WMV files

Click on "Settings" button, and afterwards you  can adjust audio and video parameters including video/audio codec, resolution,  video/audio bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel on the popup  window. To make it excellent for playback on Xbox 360, you can follow the  optimal settings as below:

Video  codec: wmv3 (the default one)
Resolution: 1920*1080
Bitrate: 150 kbps
Frame  rate: 30 fps

Audio  codec: wmav3 (the default one)
Sample  rate: 48 khz
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: 5.1 Channels



Do remember clicking "OK" button to confirm your  settings.

STEP  5: Click "Convert" button to start BD/DVD ripping or video  conversion

Once finished, click "Open" button at the bottom  to get the output WMV files for Xbox 360, which now is prepared for playback or  streaming.

Part  4: How to stream videos to Xbox 360

Well, as we have mentioned in Part 2, there are  at least four ways to stream videos to Xbox 360, from Windows Media   Center, Windows Home  Server, Windows Media Player 11, and Zune Software. Actually, lots of online  articles have detailed the setups and operating steps, just check the following  links to find the one which is most suitable for you:

How  to stream videos to Xbox 360 via Windows  Media Center

How to stream videos to Xbox  360 via Windows Home Server

How to stream videos to Xbox  360 via Windows Media Player 11

How to stream videos to Xbox  360 via Zune Software