1080p/1080i movie transcoding- Blu-ray VC-1 to H.264 MKV with Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD Master Audio

This is a guide concerning ripping VC-1 encoded 1080p/1080i Blu-ray movie to H.264 MKV with Pavtube ByteCopy software, which is a Blu-ray decypter and VC-1 to H.264 encoder. By Blu-ray movie I mean movie on a commercial Blu-ray Disc or saved in Blu-ray structure, i.e.

1.commercial copy-protected Blu-ray Disc movie
2.decrypted/ripped Blu-ray directory (BDMV structure)
3.Blu-ray ISO image file created from a copy-protected disc.

If you’re seeking for a tool for converting VC-1 encoded 1080p/1080i MKV to H.264 AVI/MP4/MPEG, or converting VC-1 1080p/1080i M2TS to MKV/AVI/WMV/MP4, Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate is recommended.
For ripping 1080p/1080i Blu-ray VC-1 stream to H.264 MKV, you may download a restricted trial of Pavtube ByteCopy and follow the guide below for encoding VC-1 M2TS to H.264 MKV. To directly rip 1080p/1080i movie from Blu-ray Disc, you need to hook up an external Blu-ray Disc drive with your PC and place a Blu-ray Disc (VC-1, MPEG-2 TS, MPEG-4 AVC encoded) into the BD drive.

Step 1. Load movie for 1080p/1080i VC-1 to H.264 MKV conversion

Run Pavtube ByteCopy, and click the “Load BD/DVD” icon to import movie files from Blu-ray Disc. To load BDMV folder, choose “Load BD/DVD folder” from the dropdown list of “Load BD/DVD”. To rip 1080p/1080i VC-1 movie from Blu-ray ISO image, mount the ISO with virtual drive first and then choose “Load DVD ISO/IFO”.

Step 2. Choose output title and audio track

The main title (the fist one) contains main movie and is checked by default. Expand main title, and uncheck the audio and subtitles you don’t want to keep. You may check other desired Blu-ray titles in file list.

Step 3. Convert VC-1 1080p/1080i to H.264 MKV video

1. Select/highlight the whole movie (root directory).
2. Click “Edit Disc”.
3. Find “Format” box, and select “custom” from drop-down list.
4. Press “Settings” button.

5. Check the “Encode” box under “All audio streams”, set codec to H.264. Save settings and back to main interface. To rip VC-1 encoded Blu-ray movie to H.264 MKV with 1080p HD quality, just set “original” or “1920*1080” in “Size” box.

Step 4. Converting 1080p/1080i VC-1 to H.264 MKV

When back to the main interface, click “Convert” button to start ripping VC-1 1080p/1080i to H.264 MKV format. After conversion you can click “Open” to find converted MKV file(s).
When transcoding 1080p/1080i VC-1 to MKV with Pavtube ByteCopy using the above settings, Blu-ray video streams are converted from VC-1 to H.264, while original Blu-ray HD audio streams (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM, LPCM) are retained. So you have desired titles/chapters, audios, subtitles and desired video codec in an MKV file.

Note: the trial of Pavtube ByteCopy puts a Pavtube logo on the screen, and you need to purchase a license to get rid of the watermark logo when converting ripping VC-1 to 1080p MKV.

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When building a media-center Mac, everyone has his optimal components and different set of requirements. Now that the new Mac Mini sports the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M as its integrated graphics chip, it is finally a true contender for the home media center space. After building up a Mac mini HTPC, most folks would download music, pictures, games, music and most important of all, their movie collections to the Mac Mini HTPC immediately. If you’re HD movie lover and wish to add Blu-ray movies to the newly built Mac HTPC, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and PLEX are good combination. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac copies protected Blu-ray movie to your Mac HTPC and PLEX plays high-definition 1080p M2TS files from Blu-ray structure. In that way you play Blu-ray movie on Mac HTPC without quality loss. This following guide tells how to copy/ rip Blu-ray and DVD movies to Mac Mini HTPC with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac.

Required hardware: Mac Mini with an external BD drive; source DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.

Required software: Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac

(The software is able to back up Blu-ray movies and commercial DVDs for Mac HTPC Media Center without quality loss or compress the BD and DVD movies to MOV, MP4, MKV, M4V, etc in perfect sync. Download from here a trial version of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac )

Enrich your Mac Mini HTPC Media Library: rip DVD and Blu-ray movies to PLEX:

Step 1. Load movies (videos) to the Blu-ray/DVD to Mac HTPC Converter software.

Why rip Blu-ray movies to 1080p HD videos? Firstly, to protect your precious Avatar Blu-ray discs from scratches and worn out; secondly, to enjoy Blu-ray movies more freely on Mac and HDTV; thirdly, access Blu-ray movies at home and abroad via network; and most important of all, 1080p leads to out highest video quality and smooth motion! To rip Blu-ray to 1080p HD video, an external BD drive and Avatar Blu-ray ripping app are required. You are suggest to try Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, which is a comprehensive Avatar Blu-ray ripping tool for backing up, ripping, converting, and shrinking Avatar Blu-raymovies. A free trial version can be downloaded from the following link:

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac (Trial)

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movies to the Blu-ray to 1080p HD Video Converter.

Connect the external BD drive with you Mac and place Avatar in BD drive. Launch the Mac Blu-ray to 1080p HD Video Converter, when the Welcome page pops up, Click “Try” to continue. In the Main interface, you’ll find “Add Video” and “BD/DVD Folder”. Click the latter to load source Blu-ray movie. By default the chapters are listed in Title Mode, select the movie chapters you’d like to copy to Mac and set subtitles and audio track for them. Leave others unchecked.

Step 2. Select desired output format for Blu-ray to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV conversion.

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac is recommended as a best tool to help you complete the Blu-ray to HD Video conversion, as it features versatile optimized formats. To rip Blu-ray to 1080p HD video, you can click the “Format” bar, and choose a favorable format from “HD Video” tab. Both “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” and H.264 HD Video (*.mov)” makes 1080p HD video with 5.1 surround sound and will play spellbinding picture on 48’ HDTV.

To further improve the video quality, you may click on “Settings” and set video bit rate up. To shrink the output file size, you may set video bit rate and frame rate down. To get 1080p M4V video, you may select “M4V –MPEG-4 Video (*.m4v) and set video bit rate to 120000kbps~ 180000kbps.

Step 3. Start ripping Blu-ray to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV videos.

Now click “Convert” button to rip Avatar Blu-ray to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV videos. When the conversion task is completed, get the final output files by clicking “Open” button. Now you have backed up the protected commercial Avatar Blu-ray movies to 1080p HD videos, just copy the HD movies to iTunes Library or any other location you like. Both iTunes 10 and QuickTime Player 7 plays the HD MP4, M4V and MOV videos well. You may also use HDMI cable to connect Mac with HDTV and watch the ripped 1080p movies on HDTV. The videos are in high quality. You can hardly tell the differences from original Avatar Blu-ray discs, but file size is one thirds or even two thirds down.

Tip 1: If you would like to combine all the chapters into one file, please check Merge into one file.

Tip 2: Due to the huge file size of Avatar Blu-ray movie, it usually takes hours to rip a Avatar Blu-ray movie to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV video. You may click “Option” and check “Shutdown computer after conversion” before conversion progress starts so that Mac will shutdown itself upon the completion of tasks.

Tip 3: To get lossless Avatar Blu-ray contents and retain Avatar Blu-ray structure and menu, you may make full copy of Avatar Blu-ray disc.
Tip 4: You can make the Blu-ray to 1080p HD Video conversion as complex as you want with the Editing facilities. You may cut off black edges, trim out unwanted ads, add watermark, replace audio, flip video, etc. Simply click on “Editor” button on main interface to enter editing panel.

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The regional lockout prevents PS3/ PS3 Slim player from playing oversea blu-ray discs? Wanna hack the region code of your PS3 BD-Player? To be frankly, a great number of PS3 fans are trying to work out a way hacking the blu-ray region codes built into their BD players, but there are rarely successes. Here’s my suggestion for those who want to have his PS3 player play blu-rays of Region A, Region B, and Region C: Use Pavtube Blu-Ray to PS3 Ripper to rip commercial blu-ray discs to region free copy on hard drive, and stream the region free blu-ray copy to PS3 for playback. The Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is capable of cracking the AACS and BD+ blu-ray copy protections and hacking region code restrictions of commercial blu-ray discs up to MKB v17. PS3 will be no longer restricted by blu-ray region code with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, as this program deals with all-region blu-ray discs, including Region A, Region B and Region C.

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper comes with two methods for blu-ray playback on PS3 BD-Player:
1. Crack AACS and BD+ protections and hack blu-ray region lock, backup the entire blu-ray contents to hard drive without quality loss for PS3 playback. The blu-ray movie clips are copied the way they are designed, resulting in M2TS stream clips and other files (menus, subtitles, etc). Creating a region free copy of blu-ray movie costs less than an hour.

2. Bypass AACS and BD+ protections and crack blu-ray region code restrictions, rip the blu-ray movie to 1080P MP4 file, which is compatible with PS3 BD-Players and bears unnoticeable quality degradation when watching on wide screen HDTV. The process of ripping blu-ray to PS3 friendly MP4 format takes much longer – ranges from 1 hour to 8~9 hours on different computers.

Here we will go with the first way: crack region code restrictions and create a region-free copy of the blu-ray movie for PS3 (Slim) playback with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Note that optical drive will not read blu-ray disc, you got to place the disc in a BD drive (mostly an external one). Download and install a free trial of Blu-Ray to PS3 Ripper (works with Windows 7, Vista and XP) and follow the steps below for streaming free region blu-ray movie to PS3.

Step One. Click “BD/DVD ROM” Load blu-ray disc to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
Step Two. Click the small folder icon in Output to field to specify an output folder on your hard drive. Make sure there is enough free space for the blu-ray.
Step Three. Click the “Full Disk Copy” button to start creating a region-free blu-ray copy on your hard drive. Once the process complete, you can click “Open” to find the hacked blu-ray movie. (Tip: “Full Disk Copy” feature can be used three times only in the trial version. )

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To learn detailed process of converting blu-ray to PS3 friendly HD MP4, please refer to Ripping Blu-Ray Movie to PS3 for playback. The Blu-Ray Ripper also provides with other formats (MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, M4V, TS, VOB, etc) and presets for Xbox 360, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, iPad, iPhone and versertile Android smartphones. You may also stream DVD to PS3 for playback with Pavtube DVD Ripper. If you’re Mac fan instead of PC guy, please find Pavtube Mac Blu-Ray to PS3 Ripper instead.

Movie lovers can easily find how delicate and brittle the blu-ray disc is. It is almost impossible to protect blu-ray discs from scratches caused by frequently uses. And that’s one of the most important reasons why so many people would like to have a copy (backup) of their blu-ray discs. Blu-ray contents, as we know, take ups much more space than DVDs. How to seek a balance between video quality and file size? This article may give you some hint.

How to back up an unprotected blu-ray disc?

In order to back up blu-ray disc, you should have a BD drive that can read the blu-ray disc. Backing up an unprotected blu-ray disc is as easy as copying video files from a data disc. All you need is to connect BD drive with PC, place the blu-ray disc in the BD drive, open its root directory, find BDMV>> STREAM, and copy the *.m2ts clips to your hard drive. If you’d like to burn the disc to another blank blu-ray disc, just copy both the BDMV and BDAV folder to your hard drive and use blu-ray authoring software like Imgburn (freeware) and Nero 10 (shareware) to burn the data to a blank blu-ray disc.

How to back up a commercial blu-ray disc?

Backing up a commercial blu-ray disc is much difficult. As we all know, commercial blu-ray discs are copy-protected. AACS copy protection scheme was initially used to protect commercial blu-ray movies, but soon AACS was cracked, so the Blu-ray Disc Association turned to BD+ technology. BD+ is extra DRM on top of AACS and had not been fully penetrated prior to this. To copy movie from a copy-protected blu-ray disc to your hard drive, blu-ray ripping tool that is able to crack AACS and BD+ protections is required. Among the top blu-ray ripping software, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is favored by movie lovers for its intuitive interface, excellent decrypting ability, and multiple blu-ray backing up solutions. Users can either make full back up of a commercial blu-ray disc with one click or copy blu-ray movie to MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, DivX, Xvid, H.264 video at 1080p, 720p, 480p and more.

Copy an entire blu-ray disc to hard drive with one click

Launch the Pavutbe Blu-Ray Ripper, click “BD/ DVD ROM” to load blu-ray disc, then you can copy all the contents on the blu-ray disc to your hard drive with one click on the “Full Disk Copy” button. The free trial version of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper can help you complete 3 blu-ray disc/ DVD backing up tasks. (Download a free trial version for backing up Blu-Ray discs right now)

Blu-ray backing up: Seek a balance between video quality and file size

Provided that you have a 2TB Seagate external hard drive or Windows Media Server, you may copy all the blu-ray movies to the hard drive using “Full Disk Copy” facility and enjoy the blu-ray movie without any quality loss. TrueHD and DTS-MA audio can be retained as well. Notice that a very powerful PC/ HTPC/ media player is required for playing decrypted M2TS files. If the videos play jumpy, try cutting down video bit rate when ripping the blu-ray disc.

For those who want to save storage, a useful tip is converting the blu-ray movie to H.264 encoded MP4/ MKV/ MOV videos. The H.264 is the most efficient method for compressing data so far and it creates video of smaller size and relatively high quality. To further shrink the output file size, you may click “Settings” button and set video bitrate down. Output file size is displayed at the bottom of the interface so you can try different settings till you get a desired file size. For instance, while backing up a 20GB blu-ray movie to hard drive, I select MPEG-4 encoded HD MP4 (1920*1080) as output format, and the file size is 16GB. When I select H.264 encoded HD MP4 (1920*1080) instead, the file size is reduced to 12GB, when I set video bit rate down to 6mbps, the file size is cut down to 8G, and the output video is still at high definition quality.

If you just want to back up blu-ray movies to Apple TV, iPad, PS3, Xbox 360, iPhone, Android phone for playback, I would say you’re lucky, as Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper has taken it into consideration when developing the software. You can find optimized formats for copying blu-ray to iPad, Apple TV, PS3, Xbox 360, iPhone, Android phone, etc.

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The Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is able to rip blu-ray movies straightly from commercial blu-ray discs, DVDs, folders that contain blu-ray and DVD contents, and DVD ISO image files. We received emails from some users of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper that want to rip blu-ray ISO files using the program. There is another program that can directly rip blu-ray ISO files to flawless M2TS files and burn the blu-ray ISO image onto blank blu-ray discs, i.e., the Pavtube Blu-Ray Copy. Yet you can use the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to shrink blu-ray ISO image files to MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, DivX, etc, provided that you have already had a virtual drive installed on your PC. The following guide is written for users who would like to rip blu-ray ISO files using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. It focuses on how to run virtual drive DAEMON on PC and how to load blu-ray ISO to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.

Step by step guide: import Blu-Ray ISO image file into Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Step 1: Run free virtual drive DAEMON Tools Lite on PC.

Download and install the free virtual drive “DAEMON Tools Lite” from below link:

http://download.cnet.com/3001-2248_4-10063543.html?spi=0e5e48eadf307896cfcc7d28b235bd26

After the installation finishes please run DAEMON Tools Lite.

Step 2: Add blu-ray ISO image.

Click to add the blu-ray ISO file into virtual drive: select the ISO file and then click “Open”.

Step 3: Mount blu-ray ISO image to virtual drive.

Right click on the file name and select “Mount” à “Device 0”.

After the blu-ray ISO image file is mounted into virtual drive please click close. Now the ISO image file will show in your BD-Rom Drive.

Step 4: Load blu-ray ISO file to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click “BD/DVD Folder” to import the ISO file (now it is recognized as a BD-ROM disc file by the virtual drive) and then click “OK”.

Step 5: Rip blu-ray ISO file to 1080p MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV and other desired file formats.

The blu-ray ISO image file is loaded into Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper successfully and you can rip/convert it as a normal blu-ray disc. Click “Format” and follow “HD Video” to choose an 1080p HD format from MKV, AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, and TS. Then click “Convert” to start ripping blu-ray ISO to 1080p videos.

Tip: Blu-ray ripping is time-consuming, and could takes 1 hour to 5 (or 6) hours based on the data processing speed of your computer.  Some forks would have several blu-ray ripping tasks queue up and get the computer run all through to complete the tasks. In that case Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate is recommended, as this program is able to arrange multiple blu-ray tasks at one time (batch conversion).

You may find more details about ripping blu-ray discs at How to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper?

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Have you ever tried to rip a Blu-ray  disk for the hard disk of your PS3, or have you ever found that the Blu-ray disk can be directly played via PS3, but the ripped  clips in the format of .m2ts are not workable on PS3? In this case, you’ve come  to the right place, for this guide will show you how to rip Blu-ray  disk for your PS3 via Pavtube Blu-ray ripper, which is capable of removing Blu-ray  AACS encryption, region codes and BD+ copy protection, and ripping Blu-ray disk to PS3 compatible video format with fast  conversion speed. Just check the following detailed guide now.

Some info you should know:

PS3 supported video and audio formats:

Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PS, TS), H.264/MEPG-4 AVC, and  MPEG-4;

Audio formats: ATRAC (.oma .msa .aa3), AAC (.3gp .mp4), MP3 (.mp3), WAV (.wav).

1. Download Pavtube Blu-ray ripper,  install and run it.

2. Load the Blu-ray movie files  that you would like to rip by clicking on the button “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder”,  or “IFO/ISO”.

3. Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select an  MP4 format for PS3. Meanwhile, you should click on the folder icon in the  opposite of “Output” to specify the save path of the output files.

4. Using this powerful Blu-ray  ripper, you can join the selected files to be a single file during conversion,  just tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”, if not, the program will save  them as separate files respectively.

5. Click on the “Convert” button. After a while, the  software will finish ripping Blu-ray movies to MP4  for your PS3.

By the way, if you have some Blu-ray  clips that are ripped by other Blu-ray rippers, like AnyDVD, for this ripper can not convert video format while  processing ripping, its generated files must be kept in the format of .m2ts,  which is not workable if directly adding to the hard disk of PS3 for playback,  you have to use another video converter to do second conversion. Factually, if  you consider putting AnyDVD away, and using Pavtube Blu-ray ripper to rip  your Blu-ray instead of AnyDVD,  you need not do the second conversion at all, because it can convert Blu-ray to MP4, the compatible format of PS3, while  converting, so that you can play the ripped Blu-ray movie with PS3 hard drive successfully.