Popcorn Hour A-210, the succssor of PCH A-200, is a leading network media jukebox (NMJ) for the time being. It pumps out virtually any video format, including various video, audio container formats and ISO, IFO file and support for more than 100Mbps bitrate- that’s meet the specification of Blu-ray movies. However, Popcorn Hour A-210 does not naturally support Blu-ray Disc playback due to licensing. To get the Popcorn Hour NMT A-210 play Blu-ray movies, you have to crack the Blu-ray copy-protections and rip Blu-ray to HDD first.

There are different ways for backing up Blu-ray- you can rip a Blu-ray to BDMV, BD ISO, MKV or .m2ts streams without degrading the Blu-ray quality. The Popcorn Hour A210 and A-200 are capable of playing all of them. Actually the A-210 is a very good BDMV media player. And they perform even better when playing MKV files.

Here I’d show you how to rip Blu-ray to ISO for NMT A-210/A200 Playback:

Yes. The A-200/A-210 boxes can down-mix both TrueHD and DTS(MA) to stereo for playback when connected directly to a TV (a review FYI). In fact the Popcorn Hour NMT boxes provides considerate support to multichannel audios.

PopCorn Hour A-200/A-210 supported audio formats:

AAC, M4A
MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
WAV
WMA
FLAC
OGG

PopCorn Hour A-200/A-210 supported audio codecs:

Dolby Digital
DTS
WMA, WMA Pro
AAC
MPEG-1 Layer 1,2,3
MPEG-4 AAC-LC, HE-AAC, BSAC
LPCM
FLAC
Vorbis

PopCorn Hour A-200/A-210 pass-through audio codecs:

DTS
DTS-HD MA
DTS-HD HR
Dolby Digital
Dolby True HD
Dolby Digital Plus
DTS
DTS-HD MA
DTS-HD HR
Dolby Digital
Dolby True HD
Dolby Digital Plus

According to the Blu-ray Disc Format Specifications, a Blu-ray disc could contain LPCM as well as Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Lossless, DTS digital surround and DTS-HD audio formats. And you can see that all the audio codecs can be decoded or passed-through by the PopCorn Hour A-200. So when rip a Blu-ray to PopCorn Hour box, just remain any audio tracks you like (except LPCM in MKV).

To play a Blu-ray on PopCorn Hour, follow any of these guides(all let you keep HD audio when ripping a Blu-ray):

Rip a Blu-ray to MKV

Rip a Blu-ray to BD ISO

Rip a Blu-ray to BDMV

Blu-ray Ripper tools: AnyDVD HD, Blu-ray Ripper, ByteCopy, MakeMKV.

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

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

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

Now that you’ve been enjoying Netflix movies and tons of Internet videos with Roku box, have you noticed that your Roku streaming player can do more than that? If you’re watching movies and shows with a Roku XDS, HD-XR or the latest Roku 2 XS model, you can play media on my from USB hard drive with the Roku USB Media Player channel. Click here to learn how to set up Roku USB Media player channel. With a USB stick connected Roku plays up to 1080p videos in MP4, M4V, MOV, WMV and MKV format. Although Roku box does not directly decode AC3 or DTS 5.1 audio, it allows for audio pass-through, which means you can still enjoy 5.1 sounds with a standalone audio receiver connected. To maximize movie experience with Roku streaming media player, it is advised to put together DVD and even Blu-ray movie collections onto USB hard drive, so that Roku plays not only Internet TV channels, but also local movies. The following guide tells you how to get movies off DVD and Blu-ray to hard drive for playback with Roku 2 XS, Roku XDS, and Roku HD-XR (other models do not support USB channel).

How to put/play ISO movie files on iPad 2 under Mac OS?

In order to manage a mass of Blu-rays and DVDs, many folks are fond of backing up their disc movies into ISO image files. ISO images are stored in an uncompressed format. You can enjoy the ISO movies with VLC media player(freeware) on the Mac. However, things come different when you want to get the iso images playback with iPad 2. ISO files is too huge and uncompatible with iPad. So how to play ISO movies on iPad 2? Don’t fret! The article here mainly talks about how to get ISO images ready for iPad 2.

To make Blu-ray or DVD iso image files work on iPad 2, we need to do some work in advance. As far as I know, the best solution is to convert the iso images to something that iPad 2 can recognize. I mean we need to get some help from the third-party software. There are many programs out there that allow us to make copies of our Blu-rays and DVDs and few can handle the ISO image files. It seems we are not alone and Pavtube provides us Blu-ray DVD Ripping software for Mac users, the application that converts Blu-ray/DVD iso to fit for iPad 2.

In order to keep Blu-ray discs from scratching, or manage their movies in a more convenient way, many folks choose to rip/back up Blu-ray Disc video to different storage mediums including backing up blu-ray collection to NAS, backing up blu-ray library to home sever, backing up BD movie to HDD, backing up bluray content to PC, and more, to fit different uses. But is there a way to make lossless digital copies of your BD movies at all? I mean “lossless backup of Blu-ray main movie, with 1080p video, HD audio(e.g. TrueHD, DTS-MA), and multi-subtitles preserved“. Absolutely Yes. Along with some help from third-party software. The article here mainly tells how to do a lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup with TrueHD/DTS-MA audio pass-through while keeping the Full-HD video quality. If are looking for this, please read the article carefully.

As you see, in order to keep best audio quality when ripping Blu-ray Disc to PC, we need a Blu-ray processing tool. There are many programs out there that allow you to make copies of your Blu-rays and let you watch them the way you want to view them. Yeah, BD Ripping Software varies. When it comes to backing up Blu-ray with lossless video output and multiple audio & subtitle options, Pavtube ByteCopy stands out from the rest. It is an alternative to MakeMKV but performs better. For movie enthusiast and audiophiles that purse best quality, the Blu-ray Ripper with TrueHD offers easy, quick and lossless BD/DVD to MKV backup solution. The ideal software pays special attention to lossless video and audio output. It lets you pass through and package HD audio with video and subtitle streams so that high quality audio track encoded with TrueHD, DTS-MA, LPCM, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 can be retained without quality loss. As to video and subtitle steams, you can either choose lossless pass-through or re-compression.

“Is there any way I can take a chapter from Blu-ray Disc and bring it into iMovie/Final Cut Express? My ultimate goal is to take some clips (without too much manipulation) and burn it onto my own personal DVD using iDVD…”

The answer is YES, and below is a complete solution. If you’d like to clip some frames or extract music from a favorite BD movie and feel like to make them into your own short film with iMovie/Final Cut Express, the following tools are essential:

1. Your Mac computer with iMovie or Final Cut Express

2. An external Blu-ray Disc Drive to read contents from BD

3. A Blu-ray ripper/converter app that exports video in iMovie/Final Cut Express formats, like Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac.

Let’s see how to rip and import a Blu-ray clip to iMovie/FCE for editing.