PS3 is more than a game console and Blu-ray disc player. Just connect a compatible USB device, like a digital video camera or storage device, with saved digital video content and you can enjoy digital videos that you've filmed or saved on PS3. You can play Blu-ray disc, but when the Blu-ray is copied to removable storage, it refuses to work. This guide is to tell you how to rip Blu-Ray disc to HD MP4 for playback on PS3. Simply download and install Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and with this program you can rip Blu-Ray DVD to other video formats compatible with PS3 in an easy and fast way. Besides, the program also allows users to snapshoot the desired pictures and clip the video segment when previewing.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc. Before launching Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, hook the BD drive with your Mac and put Blu-ray disc in. Click ¡°DVD Folder¡± to import Blu-Ray movies, 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 and you can check it in preview window. You could import Blu-ray movie from folders in the same way. www.bofunk.com

Tip: you can click ¡°Edit¡± button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, add effect, add watermark and replace audio.

Step 2: Set Output format. Click on ¡°Format¡± bar to choose the output format. Point to PSP/PS3 and there are MP4 encoded with H.264 of 480p, 720p and 1080p. Click on ¡°Settings¡± and you can set the size of video to adapt your HDTV aspect ratio, for example, set pixel to 1920*1280, and frame rate to 29.97.

Step 3: Convert. Just click the ¡°Convert¡± buttonto begin the Blu-Ray to PS3 conversion. The conversion progress is faster than most other software. After conversion you can transfer the movie to removable storage and watch it with PS3 whenever you like.

If you are interested in this program, please click here to download free trail of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac.

WD TV HD Media Player enables users to watch high-definition videos from Camcorder drive and USB storage devices freely on big screen HDTV. It supports quite a number of video formats, even DVD ISO image file. Many DVD collectors would rip DVD to ISO and play them back over WDTV so as to protect their DVDs from scratching and quality loss caused by playbacks. Some High-definition fans would be disappointed to find that Blu-ray ISO file can not be read by WD TV. But there is nothing to regret, still we have other way to go through. Since MKV video is well supported by WD TV HD Media Player, a best solution is to rip Blu-ray movie to HD MKV with Dolby Digital 5.1 channels, which is compatible with WD TV HD Media Player.

The following guide focus on how to rip Blu-ray disc to HD MKV with 5.1 channels. You could download the clean trial version of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper from here. The trial version provides full access to the functions so that you could test the conversion quality. The application is proved to works stably on Windows 7. In addition, you need a BD drive, either internal or external.

Step One. Getting started.
Put Blu-ray disc in BD drive. Run Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and the interface below will pop up. Click ¡°DVD ROM¡± to load in Blu-ray disc. It takes a few seconds till all the M2TS files be loaded to file list. Check the main movie and leave unwanted M2TS files unchecked. The main movie can be distinguished by its duration---the longest one. Below the file list you could find "Subtitle" and "Audio" droplist, where you can set output subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like. An excellent MOD converter Mac OS X software to convert MOD files to all popular format files.

Step Two. Adjusting audio and video settings.
Right below the file list lays the ¡°Audio¡± option, where you could adjust the dubbing to your native language. Tracks are identified by numbers so you have to listen by yourself to make sure which is the right one you want. You could view the files in preview window. Then click ¡°Settings¡± and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Here you choose a favorable format from versatile video and audio formats. Since we¡¯re talking about 5.1 sound, it will be a nice idea to choose HD Video-> MKV HD Video. Set "Codec" to "AC3" and ¡°Channels¡± to ¡°5.1 channels¡±, and confirm your settings by clicking ¡°OK¡±.www.freaknfunny.com

Step Three. Ripping Blu-ray to MKV and get 5.1 sound.
Finally click on ¡°Convert¡± button to start ripping Blu-ray disc. Blu-ray ripping is time-consuming. 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).

Tip 1: A view log will pop up when you import Blu-ray movie to the app, simply click "OK" to confirm and close it. (or press Alt+O)

Tip 2: By default all the M2TS files are checked, you may right-click at the file list area and try "Uncheck All".

Tip 3: To eliminate the interlacing lines, you can perform "Deinterlacing" feature under "Edit"-> "Effect".

You might have received some absorbing videos clips from your friends, which are in MKV container, or made a favorite movie from DVD to MKV with some free tools, now how share these videos with more people on YouTube? As we all know, MKV is not a good formats for YouTube. You got to convert them to something more common, like FLV and MP4, with proper resolution, length and size. How to convert MKV to FLV/ MP4 with optimal settings for upload? Although there are too many transcoding tools to choose from, few of them would allow you to process further editing such as cutting off unwanted parts, dividing a movie into multiple chapters (each less than 10 minutes and smaller than 2GB according to Youtube), adding some watermark to each of the chapter, and adjusting the aspect ratio. Surely you can import the video to editing software and handles it easily, but keep in mind that each time you convert a video from one type of compression to another, there will be some loss in quality. The best idea is to find a tool that can convert and edit MKV file---And Pavtube MKV Converter should be your top choice. In the following guide I will show you how to convert a MKV file to FLV format for YouTube.Just check this detailed blu-ray ripping guide to copy Blu-ray DVD, and rip Blu ray movies to various audio file formats now.

Convert MKV to FLV
1. Load MKV files
Run MKV Converter. Click ¡®Add¡¯ and browse to the MKV file(s) you would like to convert, select it and click open to load in as the picture shows below.

2. Set output format and location
Click on ¡®Format¡¯ bar to set output format. For common video, you may follow Flash Video-> FLV (H.264 encoded). For HD Video, you can select HD Video-> HD MP4. If you want to combine several MKV files as one, simply select them in file list and tick the checkbox ¡®Merge into one file¡¯. But keep in mind that any video longer than 10 minutes is probably rejected by Youtube. You may click the folder icon at the opposite side of ¡®Output¡¯ to specify output location.

3. Set advanced video and audio settings
Click on ¡®Settings¡¯ button to adjust video and audio parameters including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. The default resolution of FLV format is 320*240p (4:3), which is all right for YouTube.  
 

For HD MP4, a recommended config is 1280*720p, 1500kbps, 24fps, 44.8khz, in case that you would maintain best video quality.

Note: Transcoding (conversion) can not upgrade the video quality. Please set no higher resolution than the source video. You can select a file and click ¡®Properties¡¯ button under the file list to check the original resolution. mentalfunk.com

4. Arrange chapters and sections.
When a file is too big to upload, you have to divide it to multiple chapters. To select a specific section of the selected video for conversion, you could click ¡®Edit¡¯ menu, switch to ¡®Trim¡¯ tab, and input specific time point in Start and End box, and click Set button.

5. Add watermark to the video and set effect.
Switch to ¡®Text Watermark¡¯ tab, check the ¡®Enable¡¯ box, and input desired text as watermark. You may click the dots button to set font, color, and size of the text, and set the position of watermark in ¡®Left¡¯ and ¡®Top¡¯ box. To add Image or Video as watermark, you can switch to Image/ Video Watermark tab. To set contrast, brightness and saturation, please click ¡®Effect¡¯ tab. After setting, click ¡®OK¡¯ button to save settings and exit editor.

6. Convert MKV to FLV/ HD MP4
When back to main interface, click ¡®Convert¡¯ button to start conversion. Once click this button, the ViewLog will present you all the info such as conversion progress, conversion state, elapsed and estimated conversion time, and generated and estimated conversion file size. After conversion you can click the ¡®Open¡¯ button to find the FLV files and upload them to Youtube.

WD TV Mini  Media Player supports up to 1080i resolution for crisp HD media playback,  besides this feature, it will never limit the size of your media collection,  and you just need add more drives as you like. However there is no luck with commercial  DVDs, even though you need not consider about the storage space, because these  DVDs have strict copy protections, which WD TV Mini is unable to decrypt. To  rip commercial DVDs to a compatible format with WD TV Mini on your Mac, what  you will need is Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac only. Go to find a step-by-step  instruction as below.

First off, have a look at WD TV Mini Media Player  supported media formats:

Videos:
AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4),  RM or RMVB 8/9/10

Audios:
MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, APE

You can free download  Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac here.

Step 1: Launch Pavtube  DVD Ripper for Mac, and load DVD files to it

You can click "DVD folder" or "IFO file" to load DVD files  directly from the DVD-Rom, DVD folder, or from an IFO image file.



Step 2: Select an output  format for WD TV Mini Media Player

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to a WD TV Mini  Media Player supported format as output format. Here I select "Xvid AVI" as my choice. www.bofunk.com

Step 3: Set advanced  settings

Click on "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust  audio and video parameters on the popup window including codec, bit rate, frame  rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels. The user manual of WD TV  Min tells us that when playback .avi (Xvid) video files, WD TV Mini supports up  to 720*576 30fps or 720*480 30fps, so we need to follow the manual while  ripping a DVD.



Step 4: Set destination  folder

Click "Browse" button to specify where to export the  output files to.

Step 5: Click "Convert"  button to start ripping DVD

The following window will show you clearly about the  ripping info, such as time elapse, estimated left time, generated file size,  and estimated file size. In that way, you are able to manage your time and  storage space in a proper way. Video Converter for Mac is a professional Mac Video Converter which can perfectly convert video on Macintosh.



Once ripping work is done, you can click "Open" button to  get the output files for WD TV Mini effortlessly.

Additional tips:

1. The ripping speed of this software is 1-2 times faster  than the similar programs. Merge multiple files into one file is available.

2. Enable users to select specific subtitle and audio  track to convert.

3. Guarantee audio-video in sync.

4. 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.

5. 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.

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac is specially developed for people who are using the AVCHD digital camcorders  including Canon HF S11 and HF 21. It can help them to edit and convert their  high definition record videos (*.mts or *.m2ts) to other video and audio  formats, such as MP4, 3GP, 3G2  AVI, MPG. MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, VOB, SWF, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, MP3, WAV  etc.www.freaknfunny.com

With Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac you can:

Convert and  compress videos from Blu-ray DVD or HD camcorders.

Deinterlace,  trim, watermark to edit the videos.

Perfect  video-audio synchronization.

Multiple video  picture and sound quality optimizing functions.

Support VFW  codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.

What's New
- Date: Mar 1, 2010 (v1.8) - Added the option of automatic shutdown.
- Date: Dec 5, 2010 (v1.8) - Fixed for crashes that occur when the software works with Intel Core i5/ i7.
- Reinforced the merging feature.
- Date: Dec 31, 2009 (v1.7) - Added support for Dolby TrueHD audio codec.
- Further optimized the performance of audio video synchronization.
- Added new profiles and allow the users to customize and save profile settings.
- Made watermark function easier to use.
- Date: Oct 15, 2009 - Added function of keeping original aspect video in Crop window.
- Added options of Auto Rename, Overwrite, Skip the file for the same existed converted file.
- The output profile, folder settings converted last time will be remembered by this program when start again.
- Added new content Zune HD as output format for Zune users.

Key Features:

Intuitive interface
You are  expected to enjoy the MTS video with easy steps, with the help of the intuitive  streamlined UI.

Multi-thread technology supports faster conversion  speed
This program  optimized its conversion speed with multi-thread technology, so that you can  convert the MTS 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar programs. How to convert HD video to AVI with HD converter software.

Simple gauss blur effect
Simple gauss  blur effect is very useful to recorded file formats, since it can eliminate the  recorded videos noise. If you like, you can also add other special effects  including simple laplacian sharpen, gray, flip color, invert, aged film and  deinterlacing. What is worth mentioning is the deinterlacing, which can convert  interlaced video into a non-interlaced form so that you can enjoy a better and  clearer video effect.

Accurate trim and crop your AVCHD (*.m2ts or *.mts)
The accurate  trim and crop function allows you to trim the proper time length for MTS/M2TS  videos, as well as cut off any unwanted area. Its original video and output  video preview windows will also be convenient for you to edit.

Merge multiple videos
You can join  multiple videos into one bigger file for conversion,

Replace  original audio
To replace the  original audio is easy to be realized under the Editor sections.

Add text, image, and video watermark
This program supports to add different watermark types, including text, image (including  GIF), and video watermark. With its video watermark function, you can add a  picture-in-picture effect to your video.

Catch wallpaper or editing images
If you want to  capture video images as your wallpaper or editing elements, just click the  snapshot on the preview area.

Audio and video sync technology
The program  adopted advanced audio and video sync technology; never let you troubled by the  audio and video issues.

Built-in codec
Its built-in  codec will not install any codec on your computer, so as to avoid the  unexpected codec problem.

System Requirements

1G Hz or above PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor

Mac OS X  (including Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, v10.5 Leopard and v10.6 Snow Leopard) on iMac,  MacBook, Mac Pro, etc.

512 MB physical  RAM (memory) or more

1024*768 or  higher resolution display

Download Pavtube  MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac:

http://download.pavtube.com/mts-converter-mac/mtsconvertermac_setup.zip

WD TV Mini Media Player provides an easy and affordable  way to play back your digital media on your wide screen TV.  It serves  as a conduit between your TV set and USB drive storage, no matter it is a  camcorder, a humble flash drive, or an external HDD. Simply connect WD TV Mini  to your TV, plug a USB-connected storage into the player and you are ready to  enjoy all your digital media in DVD quality playback.

WD TV Mini Media Player supported media formats:

Videos:
AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4),  RM or RMVB 8/9/10

Audios:
MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, APE

From the above list we can see that VOB is a playable  format for WD TV Mini Media Player, does it mean that WD TV Mini can play all  kinds of DVDs ¨C whether home made DVDs or commercial DVDs? The answer is WD TV  can not decrypt copy protected commercial DVDs, so you have to rip them. This  tutorial aims to show you how to make it possible for you to watch commercial  DVDs on your wide screen TV via WD TV Mini Media Player. What you will need is Pavtube DVD Ripper, it not only rips,  but it encodes too. Following is the detailed operating steps:

Step 1: Click "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load  DVD files into this program.



Step 2: Select subtitle and audio track
Click on the pull down menu of "Subtitle" and "Audio"  respectively to select your needed subtitle and audio language.

Step 3: Select output format for WD TV Mini Media Player
Click on the drop-down list at the end of "Format" to  choose an output format for WD TV Mini Media Player. An easy-to-use DVD to iPhone software which enables you to convert DVD to MP4, H.264, MP3, AAC, WAV and M4A which can be played freely and perfectly on your iPhone.Your selection should be  in the range of AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4), RM  or RMVB 8/9/10. Here I select "Xvid AVI" as  an example:



Step 4: Click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio  parameters
The user manual tells us that when playback .avi (Xvid)  video files, WD TV Mini supports up to 720*576 30fps or 720*480 30fps, so we  need to follow the manual while ripping a DVD. mentalfunk.com



Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start DVD ripping
Once finished, you can get the generated files for WD TV  Mini 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 Mini to your TV, plug your USB drive into the player and you are ready to  enjoy the movies ripped from your commercial DVDs.

Apple operates an online business called the iTunes store. The iTunes store sells not only music, but also other digital media, including movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and games via download. In addition, you can also rent movies there.
To pair the iTunes store, you need software called iTunes, which can be free download on Apple website.Through iTunes, you can buy your favorite movies, songs, or other digital media from iTunes store, or rent movies from the store to sync to your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV.

Although iPod and iPhones are much more popular than Apple TV, on the contrary, I¡¯d like to say more about Apple TV here.

Apple TV is a device that allows consumers to stream iTunes data from computers to their HD TVs. The device is known as a set-top box, because it connects to the TV, and it is considered to be part of the iPod family products because it requires the use of iTunes, and can use contents purchased at the iTunes Store.

To start using your Apple TV on Mac, you need the following items:

Widescreen TV: A widescreen, enhanced-definition or HDTV capable of at least one of the below mentioned resolutions: 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 576p, 480p

Cables: An HDMI cable, or component video cables, with analog audio cables or an optical audio cable.

Network: A wired or wireless network, a broadband Internet connection (DSL, cable, LAN), your wireless network password (if you use one).An easy-to-use DVD to iPhone software which enables you to convert DVD to MP4, H.264, MP3, AAC, WAV and M4A which can be played freely and perfectly on your iPhone.

Computer and Software: To play content from a Mac on Apple TV, your computer must meet a Mac with Mac OS X v10.3.9, or v10.4.7 or later, iTunes 7.6 or later, an iTunes store account

Furthermore, digital media formats supported:

Video formats supported:

-H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): Up to 5 Mbps, Progressive Main Profile (CAVLC) with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps, 960 by 540 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

-iTunes Store purchased video: 320 by 240 pixels, 640 by 480 pixels, 720 by 480 pixels (anamorphic), or high-definition 720p

-MPEG-4: Up to 3 Mbps, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Audio formats supported

-AAC (16 to 320 Kbps); protected AAC (from iTunes Store); MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps); MP3 VBR; Apple Lossless; AIFF; WAV; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound pass-through

Photo formats supported

-JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG
As all the above things are paid close attention and well prepared, you can launch applications to do your purchasing or renting work at iTunes store via iTunes, and then sync your favorite contents to your widescreen TV. Apple TV has its own menu system through which you can choose movies and download them directly to the set-top box. TIP: movies rented on an Apple TV are not transferable to any other device.

What¡¯s more, if you want to copy your own DVD collections to Apple TV, and share them with your family or friends on your widescreen HDTV, it would be easy, just use 3rd party software (such as Pavtube DVD to Apple TV converter for Mac) to turn them into mp4 format or some other Apple TV supported formats, after that your expectation would come true, it has been a breeze.

Start using it in a correct way on Mac, Apple TV could make your life better.

I'm trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track,but I can understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.

First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter here.

1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click "Add" button to load MKV files

As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.



2. Click "Properties" icon to select your needed audio track

You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of "Audio Stream ID" to see which one is your needed audio track. After your selection is done,do remember clicking "OK" button to save your choice.
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3. Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3

I chose "PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" for instance. To output vob files, you can select "VOB Format" firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.



4. Click "Settings" button to do advanced settings

If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you'd better make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically. www.fhm.com



5. Click "Convert" button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob

Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Now, it's time to enjoy the movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.

The end! Hope this helps.

Trough surfing the Internet for some time, I've collected  dozens of Blu-ray rippers developed for Windows and Mac user. With the special  intention of figuring out which one is the best of all, I've tested nearly each  of them, and finally pushed out this review to show my own opinion about the  top 3 Blu-ray rippers summarized by myself. Hope it will be of some help for  you, and any comment and criticism are appreciated. Now, let's have a look at  the 3 BD rippers one by one together.

No.1 Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper



Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is the best one among all the  splitters I have tested. It is an independent DVD and Blu-Ray ripper with  Windows 7 support, which is capable of decrypting unprotected and protected  standard DVDs and Blu-ray disks without the support of third party software.

With full Blu-ray disc support, it is capable of removing copyright  protections of almost all BD discs, no matter BD+, or AACS, even MKB Version  > 12 is supported as well. With advanced audio technology, it is capable of  reading all audio tracks of a BD disc, including Dolby TureHD Audio and DTS-HD  Master Audio, which will never let you miss out your mother tongue in the movie.

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper can rip and convert your Blu-ray  movies and general DVDs into other popular HD or SD media formats, like AVI,  ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA,  M4A, etc., so that you can playback them on your beloved media devices such as  iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, Blackberry, PSP, PS3, Creative Zen, Nexus One,  PS3, WD TV, Xbox, etc., or import them to Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere to make  your own movies, or do something else as you like. Moreover, it has a unique option  called ¡°Copy¡±, through which you can directly backup your DVD .vob files and  Blu-ray .m2ts files to the hard drive of your PC or an external hard drive, and  still keep the format of .vob and .m2ts without any quality loss.

Additionally, this Blu-ray ripper allows user adjusting  video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate , sample rate, aspect  ratio, audio channels, etc., that means you are able to compress the file size  of your Blu-ray discs according to your own requirements.

Best of all, it is with the enhanced support for Blu-ray  subtitle and audio track conversion. Once you selected on the certain Blu-ray  file, it will be able to read out all the subtitle info and audio info included  in the BD file, and list them out in a detailed way as below. In that way, you  can select your needed subtitle and audio track to do conversion at will.



It is really affordable, only $49 US dollars, the cheapest  one of all the BD rippers I've ever seen.

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper also comes with a Mac version - Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac,  whose functionalities are the same with the above mentioned Windows version,  and both are in the same retail price US $49, and the only deference lies in  that one is for Windows user, and the other is for Mac user (Snow Leopard is  supported as well). Besides it, I have not found another Mac program which is better  than this one. Maybe it is time for software manufacturers to develop more  Blu-ray applications for Mac users.



No.2: AnyDVD HD



AnyDVD HD comes with the same functionality as AnyDVD, but  with additional features for full Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD support, including  decryption of Blu-ray (BD+ and AACS) and HD DVD (AACS) movies.

By comparison, it lacks some functions that Pavtube  Blu-Ray Ripper has, namely, it does not support adjusting customized settings  like bit rate, resolution, etc, also changing subtitle and audio track are both  unavailable. Additionally, when it comes to multiple output formats and file  size compression, it nearly can do nothing about them. So to some extent, it is  not as powerful as Pavtube, and that is why I put it in the second place.

Of course, the good thing is that AnyDVD HD is expert in  removing all sorts of BD protections, which is the most important feature that  some other BD rippers lacked.

It costs 63 euros, equals to $92 US dollars, much  expensive than Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.

The pity is that AnyDVD HD does not have a Mac version, so  Mac users can not find an identical solution from it like that of Pavtube  Blu-Ray Ripper.

No.3: Top Blu-ray Ripper



It is capable of decrypting blu-ray disc s and general  DVDs to all the popular video and audio formats, like FLV, SWF, MOV, 3GP,  3GPP2, MKV, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4, WMV, RM, etc. Moreover, it supports previewing  the movie before ripping, clipping the movie freely, snapshot the images in the  preview, automatically shutting down the computer, etc., and supports batch  ripping. All these functions are all had by Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.

It seems that Top Blu-ray Ripper has nearly  the similar functions as Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. But why do I put it in the third  place? That is totally because of  its inferior decrypting ability. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and AnyDVD HD can  absolutely decrypt all the Blu-ray files you throw at it, while Top Blu-ray  Ripper sometimes can only work on some of them  selectively. In another word, Top Blu-ray Ripper can not decrypt all Blu-ray protections, especially BD+, and MKBV  > 10.

What¡¯s more, it only supports customizing  video size, and audio channels, but not supporting adjusting bit rate, frame  rate, sample rate, and other audio and video parameters to allow user  optimizing their conversion, and also, changing/selecting subtitle and audio  track language are unavailable as well.

The price of Top Blu-ray Ripper is $79.99 US  dollars, much higher than that of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, but cheaper than that  of AnyDVD HD.

Among the Blu-ray ripping tools, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is favored by most movie lovers for its high success rate of ripping and free switchover of languages and subtitles. It removes BD+ and AACS protections, and handles Blu-ray discs up to MKB version 10 and above so that the Blu-ray movies are attainable freely. Recently Dolby TrueHD codec had been added to the app, which enables users to access any of the audio tracks in Blu-ray discs. It is ¡°able to open, copy, and watch every¡¡Blu-ray, irrespectively whether the Blu-Ray was bought in Europe, Japan or USA (i.e. all the three zones)¡±. (commented by Markus Nolff, a user of Blu-ray Ripper). This guide shows you how to select subtitles and tracks of different languages when ripping Blu-ray discs. A step-by-step guide is displayed below:

Step 1. Load Blu-ray disc.
Make sure you have had an external Blu-ray drive connected with your PC. Insert the desired Blu-ray disc and run Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper. (A free trail version of Blu-ray Ripper can be downloaded from here.) Now when you see the interface, click on ¡°DVD ROM¡± and the app will import Blu-ray movie from the BD-ROM. Check the directory and click ¡°OK¡±. Do not expand the folders and try to look for certain M2TS files, since the ripper will detect and put all the M2TS files in file list. You can load DVD in the same way, the ripper is able to cope with any DVD, either protected or not. If your source movie is in folders, click ¡°DVD folder¡± to import the folders.How to convert HD video to AVI with HD converter software.

Step 2. Set subtitles and audio tracks.
One Blu-ray disc usually comes with multiple audio tracks and subtitles of different languages. Right under the file list you could find Subtitle and Audio option from where the subtitle and dubbings are set. The dropdown list shows you the detailed information, such as the subtitle language, audio language, codec, channels etc. Here you check the main movie (with longest duration), set the subtitle and audio track, and double-click the file to preview your settings.

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