What’s Blu-ray ?

Why Called Blu-ray ?
The name Blu-ray Disc refers to the blue laser ( hence the name Blu-ray) used to read the disc while current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD-RAM rely on a red laser to read and write data, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs.The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) is

Lossless Back up/Copy/convert Blu-ray DVD to MKV with all subtitle and audio streams retained

When creating backup of Blu-ray movie, many guys choose to copy m2ts streams from Blu-ray Disc to retain lossless quality and all the audio streams and subtitles. I want to point out that it is not an ideal solution for watching BD movies. In the first place, most media players do not play the .m2ts file type. What’s more, the m2ts streams are usually not in numeral sequence and you have to sort them out before playing back. A better solution has come up with the release of Pavtube ByteCopy software, which lets you have all the BD contents (video, audio and subtitle streams) in one MKV file without degrading the original quality. The software is very flexible for multi-subtitle and audio solutions. You can either have all audios and subtitles or just keep the ones you choose.

Keep both English and French audio tracks when ripping Blu-ray Disc movies to MKV

New released Pavtube ByteCopy lets you rip commercial Blu-ray Discs and DVDs into MKV files with all contents retained without quality loss. A most important feature is to encode video files with more than one audio stream. You can select two ore more audio streams to the output file or encoded the selected audio streams into desired codec (AC-3, DTS, PCM with 6 channels, MP3, MP2 stereo). The software captures audio streams by language. You can set desired language for once and all, as it is able to remember your preference and select the audios of preferred languages when a new Blu-ray Disc is loaded. Pavtube Studio guarantees that the software will always keep pace with the latest BD copy-protections to read all commercial Blu-ray Discs on market. The following guide tells you how to keep English and French audio tracks all the time with Pavtube ByteCopy software.

You may download a trial of Pavtube ByteCopy and follow the short guide below to backup Blu-ray Disc to MKV with English and French audio tracks.

Pavtube ByteCopy — A professional and best Blu-ray to MKV Converter–Make lossless MKV with muti-audio,subtitles

1. Set English and French for audio language output

Back up Blu-ray disc and movie to play in MPlayer
As a free and open source media player, MPlayer has become one of the most popular and satisfactory video players in people’s multimedia life. Doubtlessly, with high definition and a wide variety of media formats supports, MPlayer has been providing people with great convenience when watching no matter DVDs, SD videos or HD movies on their computer. Till now, the bottleneck of MPlayer lies in that it is unable to directly play BD movies. Fortunately, people have figured out a solution to back up BD movie to play in MPlayer. Following is a detailed workflow of how to copy Blu-ray disc and movie to play on computer using MPlayer, if you are interested in it, just feel free to read on.

What you will need:
An internal or external BD drive
Pavtube Blu-Ray Disc Ripper

HOW-TO: How to back up Blu-ray disc and movie to play in MPlayer?

Blu-ray playback with VLC player: M2TS or 1080p HD MKV/AVI/MP4?

You do not always need a Blu-ray player to enjoy Blu-ray movies on HDTV. With the assist of a BD drive and proper BD ripping software, your PC plays the role of BD player without a hitch. This guide tells you how to play Blu-ray from PC with VLC Media Player.

What you need for playing a commercial Blu-ray on PC
Commercial Blu-ray Discs are copy-protected and will not let you access the Blu-ray contents (mainly m2ts streams) other than playing with a BD player. In order to use the BD movie freely, get yourself a BD drive and Blu-ray decrypting software first. A BD drive is a Blu-ray disk drive, which reads Blu-ray Discs (unprotected) and DVDs. DVD-ROM will not read Blu-ray Disc as BD-ROM does. Blu-ray Ripper software helps you backup Blu-ray contents from a protected BD. As for playing Blu-ray m2ts streams, VLC Media Player is one of the top choices.

Software Accessibility:
Pavtube Blu-ray Disc Ripper (free trail version)
VLC Media Player (freeware)

About VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is considered one of the best players since it can play almost any audio and video format, including AVCHD standard mts and m2ts video clips. This media player most outstanding feature is that it brings its own codecs pack which makes it compatible with all media files you may come across. Its interface is very simple and intuitive with easy handling but advanced features such as client-streaming service that lets you send a video signal over the Internet. VLC Media Player also offers the possibility to add/change subtitles and to handle multiple audio tracks.

Guide for Blu-ray playback with VLC Media Player on PC

Pavtube Blu-ray decrypter, the best Blu-ray ripping software, aims to help users process Blu-ray ripping task in an easy and convenient way. With powerful decryption ability, the Blu-ray ripping software is able to remove Blu-ray AACS and BD+ copy protections up to MKB v20. More than that, it supports ripping/converting commercial Blu-ray movies to a wide range of media formats that supported by Home Theater System, portable devices, media players, video editing software and more, including WD TV, Popcorn Hour, iPhone 4, iPad, Apple TV, PS3, Xbox 360, Galaxy Tab, HTC Evo 4G, Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S, Nokia N8,Dell Streak, Archos 101/70/7/5, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, and more. The following guide shows the details on how to do Blu-ray ripping with the best Blu-ray ripping software. Just feel free to see if it is helpful for you.

Detailed instruction:
How to do Blu-ray ripping with the best Blu-ray ripping software?

Step 1: Free download Pavtube Blu-ray decrypter, install and run it

This year Apple has brought for the fans pleasantly surprises: the iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4 and more. All these devices are beautifully designed devices equipped with Retina display, creating crisp and vivid picture, which is perfect for movie playback. Many folks have taken advantages of the Retina display by copying their DVD and blu-ray movie collections to iTunes and transferring them to their iPad, iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4 for playback. Here a question comes up with some Apple fans: Is there a general format that is compatible with iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4? No one would be pleased to rip one movie twice just because he owns iPad and iPhone 4! Luckily there is optimal format for ripping DVD and blu-ray movies to iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV. And this format is H.264/AAC MP4.

Let’s take a look at supported video formats by iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV:

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

H.264/AAC MP4 – the best format for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV

We choose H.264 codec over MPEG-4 and M-JPEG due to H.264 can compress video into smaller size and maintain the same video quality. As to AAC? Apple has picked it out for us. Why use MP4 instead of M4V and MOV? Because MP4 ranks among the most popular video formats, and is supported by various other devices, for instance, PS3 and HTC droids.

720P – wide screen, HD quality and acceptable file size

There are three reasons we choose 1280*720 over 640*480pix: firstly, 720P brings better image quality; secondly, 720P allows you to keep correct and wide screen aspect ratio for blu-ray and most DVD movies, you’ll have movies at 16:9 instead of 4:3, the picture will not be stretched when playing back; lastly, even 720P does not mean huge file size, you can still adjust other parameters to reduce file size.

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac – an all-in-one pack to rip DVD and blu-ray movie to H.264/AAC MP4 720P for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac is recommend to assist you rip DVD and blu-ray movie to H.264/AAC MP4 720P for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV. This program integrates a Blu-ray ripper for Mac, a DVD ripper for Mac and a video converter for Mac together to be as a single piece of software, which means users can use this program to rip or convert their commercial or home made Blu-rays, DVDs, and video files in format of TiVo, AVI, MTS, MKV, M2TS and more to iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV playable file format.

Guide - rip DVD and blu-ray movie to H.264/AAC MP4 720P for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV

Tip: Get a free trial of Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac from here (Mac OS X 10.5, Intel processor only). The trial is clean, safe, with no plug-ins or ads. Note: If you are about to rip from a Blu-ray disc, an external Blu-ray drive is required.

Step 1. Load blu-ray and DVD for ripping to iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV

Step 2. Set 720p H.264/AAC MP4 for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV

Click the drop down list of “Format” and select “HD Video”>> “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4).

Now we can further customize the H.264 MP4 to be suitable for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV. Click “Settings” button to let the following window pop up.

Recommended settings for iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV:

Step 3. Start ripping BD/DVD to iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV compatible format

Click “Convert” button, and the ripping task will be processing immediately. This converter will guarantee you an excellent playback quality on your iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV. When the conversion work is finished, click “Open” button to get the final files, and sync them to your iTunes Library. Then you can transfer them to iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, and Apple TV for watching. Hope this helps.

If you wanna do further editing of your Blu-ray/DVD, or videos, you can see the detailed manual of iMedia Converter for Mac.

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