[Tips]Convert/rip Blu-ray DVD movies to Apple TV 2 720p video on Mac

Apple TV 2, the revolutionary streaming home theater device of Apple, powered by the Apple A4 processor, has been redesigned to be small in size but big on entertainment. It lets you rent new movies and TV shows, stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to your HDTV. Have you ever thought of converting Blu-ray DVD movies to Apple TV 2 720p video for watching on your HDTV? If you haven’t found out an available way, the following guide aims to show you how to stream your Blu-ray DVD collection to your HDTV for watching via the Apple TV Second generation in detail, just feel free to check it.

What you will need?
Pavtube Mac bluray to Apple TV 2 Converter
An external BD drive

Step-by-step instruction:
How to convert/rip BD DVD movies to Apple TV 2 720p video on Mac?

Step 1: Run Pavtube Mac Blu-ray to Apple TV 2 Converter

[Tips]Fastest rip/stream/backup/convert Blu-ray Disc and DVD on a slow computer with CUDA implementation

Wanna Experience the fastest Blu-ray/DVD conversion speed with a slow computer ?
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

Pavtube Toy Story 3 Mac BD ripper is specially designed for Mac users to rip toy story 3 blu-ray DVD on mac, and convert toy story 3 BD to mp4, MKV, AVI and more file types to meet your different end uses. With full supports for retail Blu-ray movies, it is able to remove AACS and BD+ encryptions up to MKB V19 from your purchased BDs. In that way, it sets you free from BD copy protections and format restrictions, so that you can download toy story 3 for droid x, iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S, and more similar portable devices for free enjoyment.

Detailed instruction:
How to rip toy story 3 bluray on mac/convert toy story 3 BD to mp4, MKV, AVI, etc.?

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube Toy Story 3 Mac BD ripper

Ever thought of putting your DVD collections to Apple TV? Why not? With digital backups on Apple TV, you will never have to hunt for a movie in hundreds of DVDs and then bother to place it in a DVD player. Instead, you just sit on the bed and select desired movie with a handy remote control. Apple TV does not play surround sound? No worry about that. The Apple TV itself can not decode AC3 5.1 codec, but it is able to optically pass through the AC3 audio to your AV receiver that output 6 channels to your speakers. By that means you can still get DVD movie with AC3 surround sound from Apple TV with the help of a Dolby Digital supported receiver. The question is, how to copy DVD movie to Apple TV supported video while keeping the AC3 track? Let Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac help you. The Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is able to convert DVD to Apple TV, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, PS3 and many other devices on Mac OS X for playback. Feel like watching DVD movie on Apple TV with AC3 surround sound? Just download a free trial of Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac and follow this guide to rip DVD to Apple TV meanwhile extract the AC3 audio track!

Step-by-step guide of converting DVD to Apple TV with AC3 5.1 track:

Step 1. Load DVD to the software for converting to Apple TV.

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.

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.

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Although most of the time I feel like watching blu-ray movies on HDTV, I’d prefer ripping all the DVD collections to NAS for playing back on wide screen TV as well.  Ripping regular DVD for 16:9 screen playback, however, is not as easy as ripping blu-ray to HDTV. Luckily the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper did help me get rid of the black bars off the DVD movies. And I’d share with you the best fit for cropping out black bars when ripping DVD to 16:9 wide screen display.

Generally, commercial DVDs are made in a way that is suitable for playing back on a 4:3 TV. So you get black bars added at top and bottom of the picture. When playing DVD on a 16:9 wide screen TV, we tend to display movies at full screen in order to make full use of the wide screen display. In that case the image is slightly stretched, but stills look fine. This is because the original aspect ratio of DVD is 2.35:1 or 1.85:1 instead of 1.78:1 (16:9).

However, when copying or converting DVD movie to video for playback on 16:9 PC or wide screen TV, you may get black boarders around the movie image or serious squeezed picture, like snapshoot A and B in the below image. I suppose you want a perfect fit on 16:9 screen (snapshoot C) or movie at original aspect ratio (snapshoot D)? Pavtube Video DVD Converter Ultimate can help you through. The software rips DVD to MKV, AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, etc and meanwhile crop DVD at custom size (pix) / aspect ratio. You may also load stretched video files to the software to correct the aspect ratio. A trial version of Pavtube Video DVD Converter is free of access.

Follow the guide below to crop DVD at correct size when ripping DVD movie to PC.

Step 1. Load DVD and decide which chapters to convert.

Place the DVD you’d like to rip into optical drive first. Both commercial DVD and self-made DVD are OK. Run the trial of Pavtube DVD Ripper software, and click “DVD ROM” to load DVD from source drive. If your DVD is saved as files on your computer, click “DVD Folder” and browse to the folder that contains DVD files. Now your movie is now loaded as source. Expand the folder and select the chapters to keep, and set subtitles as long as you like. If you would like to combine all selected DVD videos into one file, please check “Merge into one file”.

Step 2. Set an output format for playback on 16*9 display.

Click the Format bar, and choose a desired format in “Common Video” group. HD Video formats (1280*720, 1920*1080) are not recommended for common DVD (720*480 for NTSC, 720*576 for PAL). Here I select H.264 Video (*.mp4) in “Common Video” as output format.

Step 3. Crop out the black bars on the top and below and adjust aspect ratio.

Let’s see how to get rid of the black edges. First, you select a chapter, and click “Edit” to enter the Video Editor. Here you see the Original Preview and Output Preview area. The original video is put in green frame. Drag the dotted frame to crop out black bars.

To use the original Cinema Scope aspect ratio (snapshoot D), just check the box “Keep original aspect ratio” and click “OK” button to confirm. To play DVD movies without any black edges (snapshoot C), click “OK” and back to the main interface, then click “Settings” button to set a video size of 16:9 in the “Settings” panel, for instance, 720*405, 800*450, 960*640, or 1280*720 (leave the “Keep original aspect ratio” unchecked).

Step 4. Start copying cropped DVD to hard drive.

When back to the interface, click the “Convert” button to start cropping and converting DVD movie to hard drive. After conversion completes, click “Open” to find converted movie.

Other related products for ripping DVD and cropping movies:

Pavtube DVD Ripper

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate

Source:

http://www.pavtube.com/guide/crop-dvd-for-wide-screen-display.html