The King’s Speech Blu-ray Review
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On Blu-ray/DVD: Apr 19, 2011 In Theaters: Nov 26, 2010 Limited
Running Time: 118 min Distributor:The Weinstein Company Directed By: Tom Hooper Written By: David Seidler
Summary
[Tips]Fastest rip/stream/backup/convert Blu-ray Disc and DVD on a slow computer with CUDA implementation
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Movie lovers rip Blu-ray movie from BD to HDD for various reasons: to protect original BD from scratches, to copy the BD movies to home server, to compress Blu-ray to iPad for travel or whatever. The biggest problem comes up with Blu-ray ripping must be the BD copy-protection. Long processing time seconds it. Yet there is a fastest way for backing up Blu-ray movie to PC without quality degradation—simply decrypt and copy the BD movie to HDD without transcoding. This takes less than an hour on an average computer. However, most media players prefer common video formats and will not play Blu-ray .m2ts streams properly. That’s why most users create BD backup by converting BD to HD MP4/MKV/AVI/WMV videos. The problem is BD transcoding process is time-consuming. Considering the file size of Blu-ray movie (20GB- 50GB), it is reasonable for a high horsepower computer with Intel CORE i5/i7 processor and 6GB of RAM to complete Blu-ray ripping in 1-2 hours. For an average computer, the ripping time could be 3-9 hours when an effective Blu-ray/DVD ripping/converting tool is run exclusively. Suppose it takes 10+ hours to rip a 90min movie to 1080p video, you are encouraged to use a faster computer for faster BD ripping speed instead. Anyway, that’s not the focus of this post. Let’s get down to our point- how to fast rip/stream Blu-ray Disc to H.264 HD video on a slow computer by taking advantage of NVIDIA GPU acceleration. In order to use the CUDA implementation, a NVIDIA CUDA enabled graphics card is required.
The computer info I use for BD ripping:
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium (R) Dual CPU E2140 @1.60GHz
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Drive: External Sony BD drive with USB 2.0 USB cable
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, latest NVIDIA CUDA drivers installed
Operation System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
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.
People spend on-board time in different ways when traveling. Some guys would buy a piece of newspaper before getting on board, some prefer to enjoy the scenery out of the window, some sleep all through the flight, some keep on talking with neighbors, some just put handsets on without a word… How do kill the boring time during travel? Read a book? Or do something different– Like surfing on the Internet through iPad or a smartphone? That’s nice, but I have a brilliant idea with the tablet: watching ripped DVD and Blu-ray movies on iPad (or the handy Galaxy Tab as long as you like)! Movies always help you pass the time easier. As to ripping Blu-ray and DVD to iPad, there are many tips and tricks. What’s the best format for DVD to iPad conversion on Mac? How to compress the Blu-ray movie to reasonable size while keep favorable quality? Read through the following guide to learn an optimal way ripping Blu-ray/ DVD to iPad for traveling on Mac.
Before converting Blu-ray/ DVD to iPad on Mac OS, make sure you have all of these: source Blu-ray disc/ DVD, Mac computer with an external BD drive, and Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac software (Download a trial of Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac from here). A BD drive is a must for ripping Blu-ray disc on Mac.
A simple step-by-step guide of BD/ DVD to iPad H.264 720p MP4 conversion for trip:
Step 1: Click to “BD/DVD Folder” to import Blu-ray disc from external BD drive, DVD from in-laid optical drive.
Step 2: Click on the pull down menu at the end of “Format”, and then choose “iPad” profile. To produce 720p video for iPad, you can directly select “iPad”>> “iPad HD Video (*.mp4)” preset, because the default size of it is 1280×720 at 4000kbps, you needn’t change it anymore. This is the best quality for iPad video playback when compressing Blu-ray movie to iPad. Alternative formats are iPad Video H.264 (*.mp4) and iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4), both are good for DVD to iPad conversion.
Step 3: Click “Browse” button to look for and set a save path to store the output iPad HD videos.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray to iPad ripping on Mac. When the ripping work is finished, click “Open” button to find out the ripped iPad HD videos with ease.
Now you can transfer the generated iPad HD movie to your iPad, and enjoy wonderful high quality Blu-ray movies on train, ship and aeroplane freely. With the company of iPad, your trip will not be boring any more.
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The Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac helps you watch blu-ray movies freely whenever you are. The software can not only bypass blu-ray copy-protections and copy blu-ray movies from the commercial disc to Mac, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch and other portable devices, but also allows users to cut and save their favorite episodes from a series, crop out black bars, and extract audios from blu-ray movies. With the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, blu-ray movies such as Avatar, Iron Man, Beast and Beauty, Toy Story 3 can be easily converted to MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, DivX, MPEG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, MP3, etc for playing back on portable media players and smartphones like iPhone 4, Motorola Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S, Nokia N8, etc. Pavtube offers you free trail version of Mac Blu-Ray Ripper, you may click the link to download and afterwards install the powerful and easy-to-use movie ripper. Find below a step-by-step guide rip blu-ray Toy Story 3 to iPad, iPhone 4, Droid X, Galaxy S videos with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac:
Step 1. Run the Mac Blu-Ray Ripper and load blu-ray movie Toy Story 3.
Note that you an external BD drive is required for ripping blu-ray on Mac. Connect the external BD drive with your Mac/ MacBook, and place the blu-ray disc in the blu-ray disc drive. Once you run the Mac movie converter, click “BD/DVD Folder” to add Blu-ray movie Toy Story 3 from BD drive. This Mac Blu-Ray ripping software is able to convert blu-ray and DVD movies into various video formats, such as MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, DivX, MPEG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, MP3, etc. If you would like to rip the whole movie, select all the chapters and check the box “Merge into one”.
Step 2. Set subtitle and audio track for loaded blu-ray movie.
By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. If you want to rip the main movie only, do uncheck other sequences. Right below the file list you could find ‘Subtitle’ and ‘Audio’ drop-down list, where you may set subtitles and dubbings to the languages.
Step 3. Set output format for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4th Gen, Motorola Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S, Nokia N8, etc.
Click on the “Format” bar, and choose an appropriate format for your device. There are preset formats for these devices. For instance, if you’d like to rip Toy Story 3 to iPad, just find the “iPad” group and choose an output format in sub-list.
If necessary, you may further adjust video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate, sampling rate, channels, etc.
Step 4. Start compressing blu-ray movie Toy Story 3 to customized videos for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4th Gen, Motorola Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S, Nokia N8, etc.
Click the “Convert” button at bottom right to start ripping blu-ray movie to desired format. A popup progress window will show you detailed information of the task. After conversion, you can find the ripping files via clicking “Open” button and later Sync movies to iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4th Gen, Motorola Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S, Nokia N8, etc.
More features of Pavtube Mac Blu-ray converter:
1. Support ripping both Blu-ray discs and standard DVDs.
2. Capable of removing different copy protections of commercial DVDs and BD discs, including CSS, AACS, BD+ and the new released MKB V17.
3. Capability of recognizing almost all subtitles and audio tracks in a BD/DVD movie, including Dolby TureHD Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio.
4. Support “Full Disk Copy” to remain the original Blu-ray and DVD file structure.
5. Support output multiple file formats to satisfy your different end uses. Besides exporting files for HTC Evo 4G, it also supports output files for Motorola Droid X, iPad, PS3, and more.
Many people walked away from Inception impressed. Some were confused, some were even feeling like they had their brains woken by the most exciting and thought-provoking movie experience to come along all year.
I realize that most people who saw Inception have already made up their minds about what they perceived the film to be (and Nolan will undoubtedly be proud of that). However, for those of you still looking for an Inception explanation, we like to offer a few thoughts.
We’ve organized things by category for you, in case you’re more interested in one facet of the film than another.
The Rules of the Dream World
So, the first thing to talk about are the rules of the dream world Nolan created for the film. With all the action that happened onscreen, it was easy to forget some of the finer details – but once the lights came up, and people had time to think, I know the question of who was dreaming which dreams certainly came up (among others questions as well).
Remember the basic premise: Cobb (the extractor) and his team are con artists, and like any con artists their job is to construct a false reality and manipulate it in order to confuse and/or fool a mark (in this case industrialist Robert Fischer, played by Cillian Murphy). Nolan takes the classic concept of a con man a step further by making Cobb and his team dream thieves, but in the end, the basic concept is still your classic con/heist movie.
Dream Levels and Dream Time
Nolan throws a lot of fancy math at you but it’s all really inconsequential. All you need to really know are the basic concepts:
The dream within a dream process puts you into a deeper state of dreaming. The deeper you go, the further removed your mind is from reality. We all know what that’s like: the deeper you sleep, the harder it is to be woken up and the more vivid and real-feeling a dream becomes. If you’re in a deep enough sleep, not even the usual physical ques to wake up effect you, such as the sensation of falling (“the kick”) or even, say, having to go to the bathroom.
By the time you reach the Limbo state it can be so difficult to wake, and the dream can feel so vividly real, that the mind stops trying to wake at all – the mind accepts the dream as its reality, like slipping into a coma.
When you wake up in Limbo you don’t remember that there is such a thing as a “real world” – as in any dream, you wake up in the middle of a scene and simply accept it for what it is. Breaking yourself out of this cycle is extremely difficult, which is why Cobb and his wife Mal were trapped in Limbo for what seemed like decades.
Time is the other factor. The deeper you go into a dream state, the faster your mind is able to imagine and perceive things within that dream state. We’re told the increase is exponential, so going deeper into dreams turns minutes into hours, into days, into years. This is why Cobb and his team are able to pull off the Fischer job while the van is still falling through the air, before the soldiers break into the snow fortress, before Arthur rigs the elevator, and all within the span of a flight from Sydney Australia to LA.
In Limbo, the mind works so fast that actual minutes can be interpreted as years gone by. When Saito “dies” from the gunshot wound he received on level 1 of the dream, his mind falls into Limbo, and Saito remains there for the minutes it takes Cobb and Ariadne (Ellen Page) to follow him into Limbo – those minutes in one dream state feel like decades to Saito in his Limbo state. By the time Cobb deals with expelling Mal’s “shadow” from his subconscious, Saito has begun to perceive himself as an old man.
Mal’s shadow stabs Cobb during the film’s climax, which throws Cobb back out into Limbo and onto the shores of Saito’s limbo house. When Cobb has to “wake” again in Limbo, his mind is muddled just like old man Saito’s brain. Through Saito’s memory of Cobb’s totem and some shared dialogue that included key trigger phrases – “Leap of faith,” “Old man full of regret, waiting to die alone,” etc. – Cobb and Saito are able to remember the meaningful conversations they had and that there is a reality they existed in before Limbo, where both of them had deep desires still waiting to be fulfilled . Once they remember that limbo is limbo, they are able to wake themselves up .
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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.