Solution to playback Blu-ray movies on TV via WD TV HD Media Player

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. 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

The Blu-ray ripper we will use is called Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper , which can rip and convert DVDs and Blu-Ray movies directly to any other formats, including HD video format. Now let’s have a look at its operation steps.

Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Step 2: Load Blu-ray movie, select output format and set destination folder

There are three ways to importing Blu-ray movie, namely by pressing “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder”, “IFO/ISO”. As soon as Blu-ray files are loaded, now you can click the drop-down button of “Format” to select output format. In order to keep Blu-ray in high definition, here I choose “MKV HD Video” for example, so that the ripped files can be played via WD TV HD Media Player.

At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to indicate save path, of course, you can skip this step, because this program offers a destination folder set by default, if you do not specify, it will export files to this folder automatically. Moreover, if you want to play your files without intervals, you can check “Merge into one file” to combine multiple chapters to be one file.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Besides this, you can also click “Settings” to adjust video and audio parameters to ensure the output HD quality. Changing video and audio codec, adjusting aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. are all available here.

Step 4: Ripping

Once all the above settings are completed, you can click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping, and the output HD MKV files can be found by clicking on the button “Open”. After that, you can copy these files to your USB, and plug in it to WD TV HD Media Player to enjoy via TV.

Tips:
According to some users’ feedback, the output files of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is the only format that they can smoothly fast forward at 16x regardless of the output format.

Expand capacity of Apple TV

For some reasons, I haven’t made full use of my 40GB Apple TV in the last 2 years. Recently, I have more spare time to do so, and would like to use it in my living room with my wide screen TV to enjoy its functionality fully. It works fine to playback all the files I throw at it, but 40GB is too confining for all my photos and music, not to mention my movies and other video collection. To solve this problem, once I have to make my Mac Pro and iTunes running to stream all my data to the Apple TV. It seems a bit troublesome, I dislike it. So I look for a solution to expand the capacity of my Apple TV. Via Google, I’ve found some useful articles talking about this issue, and I followed them, and finally successfully upgrade the hard drive of the Apple TV lately. Here I’d like to document my process below, but before that, I’d like to show my gratitude to people who I’ve got useful info from their articles, even though I can not remember their exactly names now.

In summary, the process is relatively simple, a small 40GB hard drive can be freely replaced, thus becomes a DIY Apple TV.

Dismantle the Apple TV, remove the hard drive, and connect it to an Intel Mac Pro via WiebeTech Forensic DriveDock or other 2.5-inch hard drive FireWire bridge. Start the Mac, and you will see that hard drive partition of Apple TV is structured as follows:

/dev/disk5

#: type name size identifier

0: GUID_partition_scheme *37.3 GB disk5

1: EFI 34.0 MB disk5s1

2: 400.0 MB disk5s2

3: Apple_HFS OSBoot 900.0 MB disk5s3

4: Apple_HFS Media 36.0 GB disk5s4

400MB of space which could be used to store the system restore data. Extract overall image via CopyCatX, and recover them to a new hard drive which you want to change back. I found lots of people like using a Western Digital 120GB WD1200VE hard drive. Install the new hard drive to Apple TV, and in the test, you will find the system continues to recognize only 40GB of space, because the partition information is the same with the original 40GB hard drive. But in fact, there are more than 70GB of space not being used.

Remove the new hard drive to re-connect to the Mac, and allocate the unused more than 70GB space to the Media partition with the help of iPartition or other partitioning software. Be careful, not to change the EFI or the other 400MB partition.

After install it back to the Apple TV, all the 107GB space will be recognized completely, you are done!

Now I’m able to store more photos, movies, music, and television shows on the Apple TV. But when it comes to video playback, Apple TV has strict formats limitation, it caused troubles again, and I have to convert all my videos to Apple TV formats .mp4 and .mov in advance. However, this does not the most important thing I’m concerned, because I have already have a video converter on my Mac Pro, and my most intention is to watch my Blu-ray on it. Fortunately, via Google again, I get an available Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to meet my needs, which is able to run on Mac independently as long as you have an external BD drive. To keep HD quality as well as compress BD size, I usually select HD video as my output option. A great product, I like it. Besides this, it seems there are also another version developed for Windows user, attached this BD ripper here, maybe it’s your choice.

Well, by the way, Apple installed Fujitsu hard drives in original, and this could be due to their relatively small power and heat consumption, so when replacing the hard drive, you can also take this factor into account. In addition, the replacement of the hard disk will let you lost product warranty, please proceed with caution.

Easiest way to convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1

Surfing online, often see people asking questions like this: “Does anyone know how to convert 5.1 AAC to AC3? If so, what software do I need and encoding/conversion settings. Thanks in advance for any help.” As a matter of fact, this is a normal question, because some of our usually used multimedia devices can decode or read audio codec selectively only, we have to do format conversion to meet their requirements. For example, some theatre amplifier can only decode AC3 5.1 format, while Apple TV can only deal with AAC audio, or whatever. In this post, I’d like to document a easiest way to convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1, in the near future, if I have enough spare time, I’d like to talk more about how to convert AC3 to AAC, that may be in my another post.

To convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1, you just need Pavtube Video Converter only. This program is capable of reading a wide range of video and audio formats, including videos from DVs or camcorders (JVC, Panasonic, Cannon, Sony, etc.), TiVo (*.tivo), DVDs (*.vob), Blu-ray (*.m2ts,), YouTube (*.flv, *.f4v), and many other videos in common media formats, like mp4, avi, mkv, ts, tp, evo, aac,dts and so on. The detailed process is as below:

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load your video files

Step 2: Select output format and specify save path
Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select your needed format, here I choose “MKV HD Video (*.mkv) for instance. Click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to decide where to locate the output files.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to specify AC3 5.1.
Once click “Settings” button, a “Profile” window will pop up as above. Now you should select ac3 as audio codec, and select 5.1 as audio channel. By the way, you’d better adjust audio bit rate at 448K to match the effect of 5.1 channels to full extent. All needed settings are completely showing in the above interface, you just need follow them, and this will lead you to get an AC3 5.1 surround sound successfully.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

As long as conversion is finished, you can click “Open” button to find out the output files with the converted AC3 5.1 channels.

Well, hope this helps.

How to rip Blu-Ray movie to 3GP?

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is a professional converter for users to convert Blu-Ray movie to almost all popular video formats and a basic tool for you to enjoy high quality videos on 3G Phone. With this program you can convert Blu-Ray movie, either in your hard drive or directly from the Blu-Ray disc to *.3gp and *.3g2 for watching on 3G Phone wherever. For more information, please visit Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.

Now please find a step-to-step guide to convert Blu-Ray to 3GP:

Tip: Make sure you have installed Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and got your Blu-Ray disc at hand before conversion.

Step1. Add Blu-ray files

Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, click DVD ROM to extract Blu-Ray movie from disc, or click DVD Folder if you would like to add Blu-Ray files from your PC. The Loaded Blu-ray video information will be showed in the file list, and you can rename the output videos in the file list. Select the segments you would like to convert. If you are not sure which to select, try double click on a selected file so as to preview it.

Step 2. Customize the output settings

Move down your mouse to the format bar, click it to select output format. As you would like to play the videos on 3G Phone, point to 3G and select 3GP or 3G2 from the submenu. Then you could specify an output folder to save converted videos. Just type save path in Output bar or click the small folder icon to specify the output folder.

Step 3. Start conversion

Check the file list and make sure all the required files are selected, then click Convert button on the right bottom to start converting Blu-ray videos to 3GP. A window will pop up, and you can view the progress of conversion or set auto shutdown from the window.

When the conversion completed, you are free to copy the converted videos to your 3G Phone for enjoyment.

You can download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for free trial from here.

How to rip DVD to Divx AVI?

DivX Codec has become more and more popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. And that’s why sometimes we need to convert DVD to Divx AVI format which is easy to play back or edit. Which program converts DVD to Divx AVI in the easiest way? Most DVD fans prefer Pavtube DVD Ripper since it converts DVD to Divx with fastest speed and perfect quality. Well, let’s come to a step-to-step guide to convert DVD to Divx AVI:

Step I. Getting Started

Download Pavtube DVD Ripper to your computer, and double-click to install it. Now run the software. The program window will appear. Insert the DVD you wish to rip into the DVD drive and click DVD ROM to load DVD from optical drive. If your DVD is saved as files on your computer, click DVD Folder and browse to the folder that contains DVD files. Now all the episodes are imported to the file list.



Step II. Set format and output folder

Click the Format bar, and choose Common video ->Divx AVI as output format. You could specify an output folder to save converted videos. Either type save path in Output bar or click the small folder icon and browse to a suitable destination folder.

Step III. Converting

Now everything is ready for converting DVD to Divx AVI. Simply click the Convert button at bottom right. You may check the progress on popup window. If you would like to combine all the chapters into one file, please check Merge into one file.

You can download Pavtube DVD Ripper for free trial from here. To get more information of this program, please visit Pavtube DVD Ripper.

Fast way to rip DVD to MP4 for Zune

There are a lot of DVD ripper tools for Zune on the internet and most of them are claimed to be the fastest and best one. You maybe do not know how to make a choice among so many DVD to Zune converters, please focus here- Pavtube DVD to Zune Converter which is a real fast DVD Zune ripper for converting DVD to Zune movies and playback on your Zune. Just follow these easy steps to accomplish this conversion in a few seconds.

Please ensure that you downloaded and installed this program, if not, please click here.

1: Run this program, and you will see this main interface.

2: Import DVD files into this program.
You can add DVD videos from the DVD disc or DVD folder with IFO and VOB files by clicking any button of “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO File”.

3: Set output format, location
Select the output format you need from the drop-down menu of “Format”. Specify the output path by clicking the folder button.
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Here I choose format [.* mp4].

4: Set advanced settings
You can change the settings like video codec, bit rate, video size, audio codec sample rate, etc by clicking button “Settings”.

5: Edit
Click “Edit” button and you can adjust video effects like brightness, contrast, audio, volume and so on; you can also trim the video clips, cut off the black edges by clicking buttons “Trim” and “Crop”. Through these ways, you can better the output profile quality.

6: Start conversion
After all necessary settings are ready; select the files you want to convert, and then click the button “Convert” to start conversion.

Only need a few seconds, the speed is beyond your imagination. You can hit the button “Open” to find your converted profiles and transfer them into your Zune.

How to extract MP3, WMA from Blu-Ray Disc?

Have you noticed that Blu-Ray disc is a new resource for your MP3 player? Just image yourself create a unique collection of fantastic music from your Blu-Ray discs! Each episode is your favorite! Is it possible? Yes, with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper you can manage that! Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper can act like a Blu-Ray to MP3 converter and extract audio files from Blu-ray disks or common Blu-Ray discs. You can easily extract a certain beautiful section of music or dialog from your Blu-Ray disc video file and save them as MP3 or WMA files. Now, you can listen to your fantastic blu-ray movies anytime anywhere.

You can find below a step-by-step guide for directly convert Blu-Ray to MP3/WMA:

Step 1. Click “DVD ROM” button to add Blu-Ray disc, or click “DVD Folder” button to add Blu-Ray files from your computer. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper supports batch conversion so just select all your favored chapters from the file list.

Step 2. Set output format from the “Format” bar. Click on the bar and choose “Common Audio”, select MP3 or WMA from submenu. Move your mouse to the output path bar and specify an output folder as you like.

Step 3. Convert Blu-Ray to MP3/ WMA. Click on the “Convert” button and Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper will extract audio from Blu-Ray files and output them to MP3/ WMA. If you would like to combine all the selected chapters into one file, simply check Merge into one box.

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

How to rip Blu-Ray movie to WMV file?

1. What is Blu-ray disc?

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) to supersede the standard DVD format. Blu-ray was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data, and offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc.

2. Key features of Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper

• Directly rip commom DVDs and Blu-ray discs with high speed and excellent HD quality.
• Directly and smoothly rip protected DVDs and Blu-ray discs without out of sync.
• Convert Blu-ray M2TS movies to WMV format and other commom videos.
• Extract audio/music from Blu-ray movie and capture wonderful movie images
• Fluently edit video by trimming, cropping, merging, adding logo, replacing audio, adjusting video effects and volume and so on.
• Support Windows XP, Windows Vista, Window 7.

Download it for FREE NOW: Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper.

3. Step by step: guide to rip Blu-ray to WMV
You will be guided to easily and quickly convert Blu-ray to WMV with Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper.

Step 1. Download for free at: Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper, install and launch.

Step 2. Make sure you have Blu-Ray disc drive to insert Blu-Ray disc, then import Blu-Ray M2TS files to the program, choose the proper output video format (.*WMV) and destination folder.

Step 3. Hit “Convert” to run! Just few minutes, the conversion from blu-ray to WMV is completed!

4. More information, please enter into: Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper.

How to rip Blu-Ray movie to WMV file?

1. What is Blu-ray disc?

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) to supersede the standard DVD format. Blu-ray was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data, and offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc.

2. Key features of Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper

• Directly rip commom DVDs and Blu-ray discs with high speed and excellent HD quality.
• Directly and smoothly rip protected DVDs and Blu-ray discs without out of sync.
• Convert Blu-ray M2TS movies to WMV format and other commom videos.
• Extract audio/music from Blu-ray movie and capture wonderful movie images
• Fluently edit video by trimming, cropping, merging, adding logo, replacing audio, adjusting video effects and volume and so on.
• Support Windows XP, Windows Vista, Window 7.

Download it for FREE NOW: Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper.

3. Step by step: guide to rip Blu-ray to WMV
You will be guided to easily and quickly convert Blu-ray to WMV with Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper.

Step 1. Download for free at: Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper, install and launch.

Step 2. Make sure you have Blu-Ray disc drive to insert Blu-Ray disc, then import Blu-Ray M2TS files to the program, choose the proper output video format (.*WMV) and destination folder.

Step 3. Hit “Convert” to run! Just few minutes, the conversion from blu-ray to WMV is completed!

4. More information, please enter into: Pavtube Blu Ray Ripper.

How to convert Blu-Ray movie to FLV?

Some friends asked me a question, “I have bought a new Blu-ray movie and I want to share with my friends on YouTube website, what should I do?” Well, in that case you are in need of a Blu-Ray to FLV converter which can help you to convert Blu-Ray movies to FLV formats. Here I would like to recommend Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, as it does a good job in converting encrypted Blu-Ray disc to FLV and any other popular video formats.

Please find the step-by-step guide for directly convert Blu-Ray to FLV below:

Step 1. Click here to 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 will find the selected Blu-Ray files in the file list. Check the chapters that you would like to edit or convert to FLV.

Step 3. Click on Format bar, select “Flash Video” from the list, in the submenu there are *.flv,*.f4v and *.swf for your choice. Check the one demanded and the ripper will output Blu-Ray to the right FLV format. When you finish setting the output format, just hit the small folder icon to specify an output folder.

Step 4. Now that everything is ready, click on the “Convert” button. The software will output FLV files for you within a few minutes and then you are able to upload the favored videos to YouTube!

Tip 1: This Blu-ray to FLV converter provides divers parameters for setting, you can click “Settings” button to set various parameters for satisfying more needs.

Tip 2: You are allowed to record and output periods of video from anywhere you like. Just click on “Edit” button and choose “Trim” tab.

How to convert MOD to VOB?

Pavtube MOD Converter is one of the most popular software for MOD converting. It will help you rebuild your JVC (MOD) and Sony (MPG) hard disc camcorder movie files to DVD standard VOB file. The converter generates VOB video in a fast speed and high visual quality. What’s more, it is fairly easy to use, you can finish the conversion in a few clicks. If you are seeking an easy-to-use tool for converting MOD to VOB, Pavtube MOD Converter is right what you need. The following guide will show you how to convert MOD to VOB with Pavtube MOD Converter.

In the first place, please download Pavtube MOD Converter from here and install the program. This is a free trial version and there is no function limit so you can make full use of it.

A step-by-step guide to convert MOD to VOB:
Step One: Import the MOD files to MOD Converter.
Keep your camcorder connected to PC and run the program. See the interface? Simply click Add button and browse to the MOD files you want to convert, just leave out the corresponding MOI files. Pavtube MOD Converter supports batch conversion and combining multiple footages together.

Step Two: Set output format and correlative settings.
Click Format bar, point to VCD/ DVD/ SVCD group and then select VOB format with appropriate aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9) and right video standard (NTSC or PAL). Then type in output path in Output bar or click the small folder icon to specify a destination folder. Check Merge into one box and the selected files in file list will be combined and output as one file. Click Edit menu and enter Trim window to cut off unwanted clips and reduce the output VOB to exactly what you want.

Step Three: Converting MOD to VOB.
To start conversion, simply click Convert button. A progress window will pop up and show you the converting progress. It also allows you to set auto shutdown. After conversion you can play them whenever you like.

If you are interested in Pavtube MOD Converter, please click here to learn more information about this program.

How to make Blu-ray .m2ts streams available for your PC and portable devices

To enable Blu-ray .m2ts streams to be available for playback on a PC or some popular portable multimedia players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc., the way of Windows users is to make use of AnyDVD HD to remove Blu-ray copyright protections as well as the region codes in the first step, and then have access to an M2TS converter to do format conversion in the second step. Apart from this method, another way is also practical, that is taking advantage of a Blu-ray ripper directly to complete this process once and for all. Since not everybody is clearly about the two ways, also because I have enough spare time currently, I will present the two solutions in a detailed way in this post, and hope it would be of some help for you guys who are hunting for this info.

Solution 1: with the help of AnyDVD HD and an M2TS Converter

What you will need:

- A Windows PC with a built-in Blu-ray drive or an external BD drive.

- AnyDVD HD

- Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

How-To:

1. Insert your Blu-ray disc to the BD drive, and run AnyDVD HD to remove copyright protections and region codes of your disc, no matter what kinds of protections your BD discs adopted, BD+, or AACS, AnyDVD HD is capable of dealing with them. Then you will get unprotected.m2ts files after the access of AnyDVD HD.

If you just want to watch the .m2ts files on your PC, you can use VLC media player, KMPlayer, or whatever to open these files for playback. If you need import them to your portable devices for playing, you should go on with the following step to do format conversion. Additionally, according to my own experience, VLC and KMPlayer sometimes are choppy while playing .m2ts files, suppose you want to watch them smoothly, format conversion is also recommended.

2. Convert .m2ts files to your wanted format (fit for your media players or portable devices)

In this step, Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter will fully perform its functionality.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to input .m2ts files to this program

Step 2: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the pull down menu of “Format” to choose an output format according to your end use, this application provides a wide range of HD and SD formats output:

HD formats including .mkv, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .mpg, .ts, .wmv, etc.

SD formats including .avi, .mp4, .mkv, .mov, .wmv, .3gp, .flv, .f4v, .swf, .asf, .m4v, .vob, etc.

The output files can be added to iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360,Apple TV, Blackberry, Gphone, Zune, , Creative Zen, Archos, Nokia, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, etc. for playback or editing.

Meanwhile, if you dislike using the default save path to store the output files, you can click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify where to locate them.

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters

Codec name, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels are all changeable in the popup window.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

Once finished, the generated files can be found out while clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. And then you can do whatever you like with the output files.

Solution 2: with the help of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper:

What you will need:

- A Windows PC with a built-in Blu-ray drive or an external BD drive.

- Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is an independent and professional utility to rip both Blu-ray discs and general DVDs to your wanted HD or SD media formats. With full Blu-ray disc support, it is able to remove copyright protections of your BD disc, no matter BD+, or AACS, even MKB Version > 10 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 the mother tongue of the movie.

1. Insert your BD disc to the drive, and then run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

2. Rip BD files to your wanted formats, directly copy is supported.

Step 1: Click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load Blu-ray .m2ts files

Step 2: Select output format and set save path

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select your needed output format, and click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify the destination folder.

Step 3: Adjust audio and video parameters

Click “Settings” button, then you will be able to adjust bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel in the popup window.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping

Once the ripping task is completed, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button.

The second solution seems more convenient, but if you already have an AnyDVD HD, you can consider adopting the first solution certainly. If you have none of them, then the second one would be a better choice. Compare with AnyDVD HD, this Blu-Ray Ripper is more powerful, taking removing copy protections aside, it allows users ripping BD disc to whatever format they want, as well as supports adjusting customized settings like bit rate, frame rate, resolution, audio track, etc to downsize your Blu-ray movie. Also, it’s much less cost is also a consideration, no more than $45 USD. Well, hope this helps.

How to play Blu-ray movies on HDTV via WDTV HD Media Player

It’s an amazing experience to watch HD movies on a home theater system in the living room with your friends or family. WDTV HD Media Player is a reliable gadget to realize this goal, since it can play just about any video format you throw at it, including Full HD video up to 1080p. With this little box, you are able to set free all of your collected photos, videos that stuck on your PC, and play them back on your HDTV. As we all know, Blu-ray disc is a pop medium to store high definition movies, but because of copyright issues, it’s a troublesome thing for users to have access to BD movies at will. Now I would like to share my own experience about how to play Blu-ray movie on HDTV via WDTV HD Media Player, and if you are interested in it, you can feel free to check the following content.

First of all, you should have a brief understanding of WDTV HD Media Player supported file formats:

Audio – MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS

Video – AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9

Playlist – PLS, M3U, WPL

Subtitle -SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI

Photo – JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG

As you can see in the above list, M2TS is included, which is the file extension of Blu-ray streams, so if we want to playback BD .m2ts files, we just need remove BD protection in advance. In that case, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper would be a good assistant, it is able to remove almost all kinds of copyright protections of BD discs, no matter BD+, or AACS, even MKB Version > 10 is supported as well.

To enable Blu-ray movies to playback on HDTV via WDTV HD Media Player, you can select “Directly Copy” from output format profile. This process will remove BD protections only, and the output .m2ts files will fully match the original files, which will keep high definition totally, but your removable disk should have enough space to save the output files, because the generated file size would be as same large as the original.

Additionally, if you want to save your disk space as well as keep HD quality, you can totally select other format that can be read by WDTV as output format. For instance, here I choose “HD Video” .mkv as output format, through clicking “Settings” button, and then I can set video and audio parameters in the popup window, including setting aspect ratio at 1920*1080, AAC 5.1 channels and something else like bit rate, frame rate, sample rate.

After conversion is finished, just plug your external hard drive or your thumb drive which has stored the output files into WDTV, and then connect the device to your HDTV via HDMI cable. Once done, you are able to enjoy your BD movies now. Well, hope it would be of some help for you guys who are looking around for this info.

How to play Blu-ray ISO backups on WD TV Live

To play Blu-ray ISO backups on your WD TV Live, one thing you should know is that WD TV Live can well play ISO files from a USB drive, while network shares do have problems actually.

In order to get an ISO backup, what’s your workflow? As all I know, some people use tsMuxeR to back up the Blu-ray disc, and then converted it into an ISO using Daemon Tools. Personally, I use Pavtube Blu-ray Copy to make ISO backups for my Blu-ray discs.

Within several clicks, this program can finish its task, and enables you to get an ISO image file. What you should do is just loading your BD files via “Source” option, and then choose “Image File (*.ISO)” from the pull down menu of “Target” to specify the destination folder. BTW, you’d better indicate your USB drive as the save path, or you need spend time to copy the ISO image to your USB drive repeatedly. Once the two steps finished, the backup process will begin, and then you just need wait for the resulted ISO files for your WD TV Live.

As long as copying task is completed, plug the USB into your WD TV, and connect it to your HDTV via HDMI cable, what you should do next is enjoying your BD movies on your widescreen TV leisurely.

One more thing I should mention is that some users have problems to play Blu-ray ISO files via their WD TV, but DVD ISO is working well. Not clear about the accurate reason, but another solution can be recommended. Since WD TV is able to beautifully playback HD MKV files up to Full HD 1080p, thus we just need a utility to convert BD files to HD MKV, and then everything will be OK. Because of the Blu-ray copyright issues, some discs are highly protected, we must take advantage of a powerful application to do so. In that case, the following Blu-ray ripper is suggested, it is able to remove nearly all kinds of BD protections, including BD+, AACS, and even MKB Version > 10 is supported as well.

This Blu-ray ripper allows users exporting “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” format, and also enables users to reset audio and video parameters via clicking “Settings” button. You can set the resolution at 1920*1080 to remain 1080p quality of your Blu-ray movies, as well as keep 5.1 channel of the original surround sound. All in all, all the parameters like bit rate, codec name, frame rate, sample rate are all changeable in the following interface.

After your preferred settings for your WD TV have been set well, just click “Convert” button to start conversion. Once finished, you can watch them on your TV via WD TV with ease, and the high quality of the Blu-ray movie has never been changed at all.

Is this helpful? Hope it is.

Keep Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of a Blu-ray movie

About Dolby TrueHD audio

Dolby TrueHD, the next-generation lossless compression technology, is intended primarily for high-definition home-entertainment equipment such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. The technology provides an excellent high-definition audio, which is identical with master tapes of a recording studio, so that giving users a true high-definition entertainment experience.

About DTS-HD Master Audio

DTS-HD Master Audio is a lossless audio codec created by Digital Theater System, which is an optional audio format for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. It is able to deliver all of the information from the original master recording, allow a bit-to-bit representation of what the sound engineers laid down.

Since Dolby TrueHD technology and DTS-HD Master Audio deliver unprecedented home theater experience, there may be no one willing to loose the wonderful audio while backup a Blu-ray movie. The thing is that most Blu-ray rippers in the market can not recognize the two stunning audios at all, and this may be the probable thing that troubles you a lot. With luck, I found an available Blu-ray converter via Google by chance, and my pleasure to share its detailed operating steps here, sincerely hope it will be of some help for you folks who are feeling headache about this problem.

Software I will use is called Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, it is able to read TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio, and output them as 5.1 channels. Here I will take keeping Dolby TrueHD audio for instance to show you how to retain the original attributes during the course of Blu-ray ripping.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

There are three ways to import Blu-ray files: “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder”, and “IFO/ISO”.

Step 2: Select Dolby TrueHD audio, output format and set destination folder

Now you just tick off on what you want to copy. Normally select the .m2ts video stream with the longest playing time, because it is usually the main movie of the Blu-ray. If in doubt, you can preview the selected stream in the video pane to the right to check it. You can also tick several .m2ts files, if you want to copy the extras of the Blu-ray movie. Note that you can also combine everything into one file via ticking the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Look at the “Audio” option, usually a Blu-ray movie has several audio tracks, Dolby TrueHD audio is among them. Generally speaking, the first one should be Dolby TrueHD, or you can play it to check if it is what you want.

At the same time, you should select output format from the drop-down list of “Format”, here I choose “MKV HD Video (*.mkv) for instance, or if you just need copy Blu-ray movies without any loss, you can select “Copy” and then “Directly Copy”. After that, click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output files, if not, the program will export the output file to the default save path automatically, and these files can be easily found via clicking “Open” button.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters

Click “Settings” button, and then you can adjust audio and video parameters like codec, image pixels, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels, to keep Dolby TrueHD audio to the greatest extent, you should select 5.1 channels.

Step 4: Start Blu-ray ripping

Once the above mentioned settings are finished, now just click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping, the ripping info including ripping process, ripping time, and generated file size will all be shown clearly on the following window, and if you do not want to wait around, you can tick “Shut down computer after conversion”.

A practical tool to help you reserve TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio of a Blu-ray disc

Blu-ray video has 5 times the resolution of standard DVD video, therefore, to match the high definition video quality of a Blu-ray movie, major BD movies encoded with Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio to let viewers have this amazing experience just like being in the front row of a concert hall, with voices, instruments, and background music placed in different locations in your room.

To make it convenient to watching and storing, BD owners always need make BD backups via some Blu-ray software. Besides keeping the HD video quality, one more thing they care about is how to reserve the stunning TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio of a Blu-ray disc, so as not to downgrade the watching experience. In that case, Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate would be a good solution to realize this goal, because it is professional at handling the two audio tracks, as well as removing BD+ and AACS Blu-ray copyright protections.

With the special intention of showing you guys how to make use of this application to keep your wanted audio track while doing Blu-ray copying, the following content will take Dolby TrueHD audio for example in a detailed way.

Your source file can be a Blu-ray disc, a BD ISO image file, or .m2ts streams from a BD movies.

Once you launched this Blu-ray converter, you can load your BD files to it in the following interface. “Add Video” allows you to load .m2ts files directly, and “Load DVD” allows you to add BD files from a drive or a folder.

As soon as BD files are loaded, right-click on the .m2ts video clip which you need convert, and then hit on the option “Properties”. BTW, usually the video with longest playing time would be the main movie, if you do not want to convert extra contents, you can choose this one only.

After “Properties” window pops up, you can now click on the pull down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to check which audio track is TrueHD. As long as you select an audio track, the audio codec will be shown in the textbox after “Format”. All are the same with the following marked parts showing. Here the audio track “0×1100″ is TrueHD. Afterwards, you need go back to the above window to select “0×1100″ in the drop down list of “Audio” to set the conversion settings.

Well, this is all the procedure to select TrueHD audio, to keep audio quality to full extent during the conversion, you need select 5.1 channel as output settings as well. This step can be done via clicking “Settings” button in the main interface.

Additional tips:

Why this Blu-ray Video Converter is entitled Ultimate?

Actually, it is a 3-in-one program, which has integrated a Blu-ray Ripper, a DVD Ripper and a Video Converter together as a standalone application. That means it can not only deal with Blu-ray discs and DVD discs, but also handle other video files in a wide range of formats, including *.avi,*.divx, *.wmv, *.wma, *.asf, *.dvr-ms, *.wav, dts in wav, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.ra, *.mov, *.qt, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv, *.m4b, *.m4v, *.m4a, *.aac, *.flv, *.f4v, *.dat, *.mpg, *.vob, *.mod, *.m2v, *.tod, and so on.

Method of reserving TrueHD audio and DTS Master Audio while backup blu-rays on Mac

Because of their wonderful and excellent acoustical properties, Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio can always provide people with amazing high-definition surround sound experience and put you right in the middle of the action. To experience the full potential of Blu-ray discs, people prefer to reserve the two terrific audio tracks while backup Blu-ray movies. The thing is that most Blu-ray programs are not good at recognizing both of the special audio tracks, fortunately, there are also some Blu-ray rippers have successfully added powerful support for Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio , Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is one among them. If you are a Mac user, and looking for a program to help you keep TrueHD audio or DTS-HD Master Audio of your Blu-ray movie, as well as let audio and video match well during the process of copying, then this one is a nice choice.

Following contents will take TureHD audio as an example, and show you how to have access to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac to reserve your preferred audio track in detail. Hope you can get what you need from it with satisfaction.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

Click “DVD Folder” or “IFO File” to import Blu-ray files.

Step 2: Select Dolby TrueHD audio, output format and specify save path

Tick off whatever .m2ts streams you want to copy. Generally speaking, select the .m2ts video stream with the longest playing time will be OK, because it is the main movie of the Blu-ray. Of course, if you would like to copy the extras of the Blu-ray movie, you can select several .m2ts files at a time, and check “Merge into one file” to combine them all to be as a single file.

Click the drop-down list of “Audio” option, then a list of audio tracks will be presented, and normally, the first one should be Dolby TrueHD, if in doubt, you can play them one by one to check which one is the proper Dolby TrueHD audio track you want.

Meanwhile, you should select output format from the drop-down list of “Format”, here I choose “MKV HD Video (*.mkv) for instance, or if you just need copy Blu-ray movies without any quality loss and changing video format, you can select “Copy” and then “Directly Copy”. After that, click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files, if not, the program will export the output file to the default save path automatically, and these files can be easily found via clicking “Open” button as soon as copying work is completed.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, and then you can adjust audio and video parameters such as video and audio codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels on the interface showing below. To keep Dolby TrueHD audio to full extent, 6 channels is your choice.

Step 4: Start Blu-ray ripping

As soon as the above mentioned settings are finished, now just click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping, the ripping info including ripping process, time elapse, estimated left time, estimated file size, and generated file size are all shown clearly on the following window. In that way, you can make good control of your disk space as well as your time during the ripping process.

Reserve TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of BD .m2ts streams on Mac

Lots of people are still looking for solutions to figure out how to reserve Dolby TrueHD audio of Blu-ray .m2ts streams while doing format conversion. Without a practical program, it’s definitely difficult to set the movies being converted in your master language, even though your .m2ts files are not copy-protected. Normally, if your master language is English, then English audio is making use of TrueHD, and suppose your format conversion application can not recognize TureHD audio, then it will only output the audio track it recognized, that would be French, Spanish, or some other languages instead of English. In that case, you will encounter language troubles absolutely, so an available MTS/M2TS converter which can support TrueHD audio would provide timely help at this time.

Besides keeping Dolby TrueHD audio, some people also have the requirements of keeping DTS-HD Mater Audio during the conversion. There is no doubt that everyone needs great audio to match their great video. To relieve the pains of Mac users, this guide will take TrueHD audio for example to show you how to retain your needed audio track of BD .m2ts files on Mac in detail.

Required software:

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac

Okay, let’s begin now.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts files

Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio

Firstly, click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, after that a list of audio tracks will show up like “0×1100″, at the same time, the audio codec name will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, if it is TrueHD, the codec name “truehd” will emerge like the following interface showing. What you should do is just clicking on the stream ID one by one to see which one is your wanted TrueHD audio.

Step 3: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select whatever format you like as output format, and click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files. Meanwhile, if you want to combine multiple .m2ts files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 4: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should select 6 channels.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to begin conversion

After conversion is completed, the output files can be found out via clicking “Open” button with ease.

By the way, if you do not have decrypted BD .m2ts streams, but copy-protected Blu-ray discs, then Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is your appropriate choice, it is capable of dealing with both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio as well as let audio and video match well.

Solutions to keep TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of Blu-ray .m2ts files

If you have tons of .m2ts streams from your Blu-ray discs, which are copyright protections removed, and want to convert them to other video formats and keep TrueHD audio or DTS-HD Mater Audio of the original files, and then what’s your idea to realize this goal? Actually, I know some of you do not have any idea about this, because it’s not an easy thing to get a program to recognize the two special soundtracks at all.

Fortunately, Pavtube Studio has upgraded its MTS/M2TS Converter recently, which has added supportS to both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, is able to convert M2TS files to whatever formats you need, such as MP4 format supported by iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Gphone, Blackberry, etc., 3GP format supported by most cell phones, FLV format which is suitable for online transferring, MPEG-4 format which is workable for importing to iMovie and Final Cut, and many other video formats like AVI, MPG, MOV, MKV, VOB and so on.

The following part will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance, and will show you how to keep your wanted audio track while doing format conversion.

A step-by-step instruction will be starting in the following part, which will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance. If you want to follow this guide to have a try, you can download Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter here.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts streams

Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio

Click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, and there are several options, select each one to see which one is TrueHD audio, if it is, “truehd” will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, just like the following window showing. Do remember clicking “OK” button to save your selections.

Step 3: Select output format and specify save path

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select your wanted output format, and click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify where to locate the output file. Moreover, if you have the needs of combining multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 4: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should set soundtrack as 5.1 channels.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

More related features of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

1. Fast conversion, excellent output quality, and perfect audio and video synchronization.

2. Convert, compress and edit videos from Blu-ray DVDs or HD camcorders.

3. Trim, crop, add special effects and different watermarks

4. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.

5. Enjoy the output videos online, on portable devices, or backup on computer.