Keep Blu-ray Chapters for WD TV — Lossless Blu-ray to MKV Backup

In this short guide I want to share with you a plain way to rip Blu-ray Disc with chapters for playing back in WD TV Media Player, a consumer device which is capable of playing High-definition video through an HDMI port, in addition to standard video through composite cables. Find below a detailed guide of ripping Blu-ray for WD TV with chapters and playing ripped Blu-ray movie by chapters.

Pavtube ByteCopy is the a Blu-ray ripping software i recommended here .It will converts your BD Movies to MKV with chapters for WD TV.Moreover,Pavtube ByteCopy is a professional tool to rip and convert commercial Blu-ray movies and DVDs to MKV container format with multiple audio tracks/subtitles.Pavtube ByteCopy is also able to encode the original soundtracks into DTS 5.1 channels, AC3 5.1 channels, AAC 6 channels, PCM 6 channels, etc. with your wanted languages. ( ByteCopy for Mac is the alternative tool for Mac Users )

The Last Complete Blu-ray/DVD Ripping Solutions 2– The perfect Blu-ray/DVD 1:1 Backup with all audio tracks and subtitles streams preserved

To protect the expensive Blu-ray Discs from scratching, more and more people are tending to make a backup of their Blu-ray collections. As an experienced user of various Blu-ray ripper tools, the author of this post is pleased to help beginners to make a perfect 1:1 copy with lossless quality

Maybe you have read many reviews like top 10 Blu-ray rippers, 6 ways ripping Blu-ray to PC and so on, but you’ll find Pavtube ByteCopy the best fit for making 1:1 backup of Blu-ray movies after comparing and testing by yourself.

Lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup on Mac: keep all audio/subtitles tracks and chapters

The following guide shows how to do lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup on Mac with all audio/subtitles tracks and chapters preserved. If you are looking for such a solution, just feel free to check it.

Playing Blu-ray with Popcorn Hour A-200 (BDMV/MKV/M2TS playback solutions)

Is it possible to play Blu-ray with Popcorn Hour A-200?

The answer is YES. But don’t take for granted that the NMT A-200 will read Blu-ray Disc from a Blu-ray Disc drive via USB connection. You can connect a BD drive with PHR A-200, but it will play DVD only, not Blu-ray. This is an issue of licensing rather than manufacturing, so do not blame the device. In fact, the Popcorn Hour A-200 is good enough for Blu-ray contents playback- both home-made AVCHD videos and ripped Blu-ray files can be played without hassle.

What will I need for playing Blu-ray with Popcorn Hour A-200?

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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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

How to rip/convert Blu-ray Disc and movie to MKV and keep chapter markers?

Are you still looking for a BD ripper that have Blu-ray contents sealed in MKV format and keep the chapter structure in a converted movie? Choose Pavtube ByteCopy then. Pavtube ByteCopy was developed to help users copy Blu-ray and DVD movies to MKV format with 1:1 high quality for playback on PC and HD media players. Other than keeping multiple subtitles and audio tracks, creating chapter markers is important for those who like to watch their movie file on media players. Pavtube ByteCopy not only lets you keep desired audio tracks and subtitles in MKV file, but also have the chapters of the movie included.

Highlights of Pavtube ByteCopy:
Decrypting the latest Blu-ray Discs;
Backing up Blu-ray Disc to MKV in 2 steps;
Passing original video and audio quality through into an MKV file by default, up to 1080p HD lossless video and TrueHD 7.1 and DTS-MA audio can be retained;
Including more than one audio stream in the converted video (both the main audio and the director’s commentary are included);
Using original chapters structure from the Blu-ray Disc/DVD media;
Copying several subtitle languages that can then be turned on and off at will during viewing.

Software availability
You may download a trial of Pavtube ByteCopy to set multi-audios and subtitles for backing up BD movie. But note that the trial works 3 times only. You have to purchase the software ($42) for further use.

Guide: How to rip Blu-ray Disc and movie to MKV and keep chapter markers?
Step 1. Click “Load Disc” button
to import movie files from DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

Step 2. Select the whole movie, and click the “Edit Disc” button
to select desired subtitles and audio tracks for all chapters. The software keeps all subtitles and audio streams, and uses original chapters’ structure from the DVD/Blu-ray media by default. Choose “Lossless” in dropdown list of “Format” box if you’d like to backup Blu-ray video stream without quality loss.

Step 3. Click the “Convert” button to start ripping and converting Blu-ray movie to MKV files with chapter markers in the file. After conversion, just press “Browse Export Path” to find generated videos. You can set auto shut down by checking the box of “Shut down computer after conversion”.

When “Lossless” quality is set as output mode, Pavtube ByteCopy extracts the main movie with selected subtitles and audio tracks from disc and seals the contents into MKV container without transcoding, and use original chapters structure from the DVD/Blu-ray media, which means you get lossless quality MKV videos and keep chapter markers to be uses in playback software.

Refer to below how to select chapters when playing ripped Blu-ray movie in VLC Media Player.
Open ripped Blu-ray movie: Run VLC Media Player, press “Media”>> “Open File” and browse to the ripped BD movie.

Select chapters: Press “Playback”>> “Chapter” to view all chapter markers and select the chapters you want to play.

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