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DivX Codec has become more and more popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. And that’s why sometimes we need to convert DVD to Divx AVI format which is easy to play back or edit. Which program converts DVD to Divx AVI in the easiest way? Most DVD fans prefer Pavtube DVD Ripper since it converts DVD to Divx with fastest speed and perfect quality. Well, let’s come to a step-to-step guide to convert DVD to Divx AVI:

Step I. Getting Started

Download Pavtube DVD Ripper to your computer, and double-click to install it. Now run the software. The program window will appear. Insert the DVD you wish to rip into the DVD drive and click DVD ROM to load DVD from optical drive. If your DVD is saved as files on your computer, click DVD Folder and browse to the folder that contains DVD files. Now all the episodes are imported to the file list.

Step II.  Set format and output folder

Click the Format bar, and choose Common video ->Divx AVI as output format. You could specify an output folder to save converted videos. Either type save path in Output bar or click the small folder icon and browse to a suitable destination folder.

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Step III. Converting

Now everything is ready for converting DVD to Divx AVI. Simply click the Convert button at bottom right. You may check the progress on popup window. If you would like to combine all the chapters into one file, please check Merge into one file.

You can download Pavtube DVD Ripper for free trial from here. To get more information of this program, please visit Pavtube DVD Ripper.

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is a professional converter for users to convert Blu-Ray movie to almost all popular video formats and a basic tool for you to enjoy high quality videos on 3G Phone. With this program you can convert Blu -Ray movie, either in your hard drive or directly from the Blu-Ray disc to *.3gp and *.3g2 for watching on 3G Phone wherever. For more information, please visit Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.

Now please find a step-to-step guide to convert Blu-Ray to 3GP:

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Tip: Make sure you have installed Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and got your Blu-Ray disc at hand before conversion.

Step1. Add Blu-ray files

Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, click DVD ROM to extract Blu-Ray movie from disc, or click DVD Folder if you would like to add Blu-Ray files from your PC. The Loaded Blu-ray video information will be showed in the file list, and you can rename the output videos in the file list. Select the segments you would like to convert. If you are not sure which to select, try double click on a selected file so as to preview it.

Step 2. Customize the output settings

Move down your mouse to the format bar, click it to select output format. As you would like to play the videos on 3G Phone, point to 3G and select 3GP or 3G2 from the submenu.  Then you could specify an output folder to save converted videos. Just type save path in Output bar or click the small folder icon to specify the output folder.

Step 3. Start conversion

Check the file list and make sure all the required files are selected, then click Convert button on the right bottom to start converting Blu-ray videos to 3GP. A window will pop up, and you can view the progress of conversion or set auto shutdown from the window.

When the conversion completed, you are free to copy the converted videos to your 3G Phone for enjoyment.

You can download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for free trial from here.

Surfing online, often see people asking questions like this: “Does anyone know how to convert 5.1 AAC to AC3? If so, what software do I need and encoding/conversion settings. Thanks in advance for any help.” As a matter of fact, this is a normal question, because some of our usually used multimedia devices can decode or read audio codec selectively only, we have to do format conversion to meet their requirements. For example, some theatre amplifier can only decode AC3 5.1 format, while Apple TV can only deal with AAC audio, or whatever. In this post, I’d like to document a easiest way to convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1, in the near future, if I have enough spare time, I’d like to talk more about how to convert AC3 to AAC, that may be in my another post.

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To convert AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1, you just need Pavtube Video Converter only. This program is capable of reading a wide range of video and audio formats, including videos from DVs or camcorders (JVC, Panasonic, Cannon, Sony, etc.), TiVo (*.tivo), DVDs (*.vob), Blu-ray (*.m2ts,), YouTube (*.flv, *.f4v), and many other videos in common media formats, like mp4, avi, mkv, ts, tp, evo, aac,dts and so on. The detailed process is as below:

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load your video files

Step 2: Select output format and specify save path
Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select your needed format, here I choose “MKV HD Video (*.mkv) for instance. Click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to decide where to locate the output files.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to specify AC3 5.1.
Once click “Settings” button, a “Profile” window will pop up as above. Now you should select ac3 as audio codec, and select 5.1 as audio channel. By the way, you ’d better adjust audio bit rate at 448K to match the effect of 5.1 channels to full extent. All needed settings are completely showing in the above interface, you just need follow them, and this will lead you to get an AC3 5.1 surround sound successfully.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

As long as conversion is finished, you can click “Open” button to find out the output files with the converted AC3 5.1 channels.

Well, hope this helps.

For some reasons, I haven’t made full use of my 40GB Apple TV in the last 2 years. Recently, I have more spare time to do so, and would like to use it in my living room with my wide screen TV to enjoy its functionality fully. It works fine to playback all the files I throw at it, but 40GB is too confining for all my photos and music, not to mention my movies and other video collection. To solve this problem, once I have to make my Mac Pro and iTunes running to stream all my data to the Apple TV. It seems a bit troublesome, I dislike it. So I look for a solution to expand the capacity of my Apple TV. Via Google, I’ve found some useful articles talking about this issue, and I followed them, and finally successfully upgrade the hard drive of the Apple TV lately. Here I’d like to document my process below, but before that, I’d like to show my gratitude to people who I’ve got useful info from their articles, even though I can not remember their exactly names now.

In summary, the process is relatively simple, a small 40GB hard drive can be freely replaced, thus becomes a DIY Apple TV.

Dismantle the Apple TV, remove the hard drive, and connect it to an Intel Mac Pro via WiebeTech Forensic DriveDock or other 2.5-inch hard drive FireWire bridge. Start the Mac, and you will see that hard drive partition of Apple TV is structured as follows:

/dev/disk5

#: type name size identifier

0: GUID_partition_scheme *37.3 GB disk5

1: EFI 34.0 MB disk5s1

2: 400.0 MB disk5s2

3: Apple_HFS OSBoot 900.0 MB disk5s3

4: Apple_HFS Media 36.0 GB disk5s4

400MB of space which could be used to store the system restore data. Extract overall image via CopyCatX, and recover them to a new hard drive which you want to change back. I found lots of people like using a Western Digital 120GB WD1200VE hard drive. Install the new hard drive to Apple TV, and in the test, you will find the system continues to recognize only 40GB of space, because the partition information is the same with the original 40GB hard drive. But in fact, there are more than 70GB of space not being used.

Remove the new hard drive to re-connect to the Mac, and allocate the unused more than 70GB space to the Media partition with the help of iPartition or other partitioning software. Be careful, not to change the EFI or the other 400MB partition.

After install it back to the Apple TV, all the 107GB space will be recognized completely, you are done!

Now I’m able to store more photos, movies, music, and television shows on the Apple TV. But when it comes to video playback, Apple TV has strict formats limitation, it caused troubles again, and I have to convert all my videos to Apple TV formats .mp4 and .mov in advance. However, this does not the most important thing I’m concerned, because I have already have a video converter on my Mac Pro, and my most intention is to watch my Blu-ray on it. Fortunately, via Google again, I get an available Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to meet my needs, which is able to run on Mac independently as long as you have an external BD drive. To keep HD quality as well as compress BD size, I usually select HD video as my output option. A great product, I like it. Besides this, it seems there are also another version developed for Windows user, attached this BD ripper here, maybe it’s your choice.

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Well, by the way, Apple installed Fujitsu hard drives in original, and this could be due to their relatively small power and heat consumption, so when replacing the hard drive, you can also take this factor into account. In addition, the replacement of the hard disk will let you lost product warranty, please proceed with caution.

Want to find a solution to playback Blu-ray movies on your widescreen TV via WD HD Media Player? As a matter of fact, WD TV HD Media Player promises to play just about any video format you throw at it, including high definition video up to 1080p. You put the videos on any USB mass storage device, like an external hard drive or a thumb drive, and plug it into the device, WD TV HD Media Player will recognize the files on the drive and play any video, audio, or photo files it finds. However, according to the feedback provided by some users, WD TV HD Media Player does play m2ts selectively only, some are, and some are not. In purpose of solving this problem, this post will talk about how to rip Blu-ray movies to USB for playback on TV via WD TV HD Media Player.

WD TV HD Media Player supported file formats:

Video: MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264), Subtitle SRT (UTF-8)

Audio: MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital, AIF/AIFF, MKA Playlist PLS, M3U, WPL

Photo: JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG

The Blu-ray ripper we will use is called Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper , which can rip and convert DVDs and Blu-Ray movies directly to any other formats, including HD video format. Now let’s have a look at its operation steps.

Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Step 2: Load Blu-ray movie, select output format and set destination folder

There are three ways to importing Blu-ray movie, namely by pressing “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder”, “IFO/ISO”. As soon as Blu-ray files are loaded, now you can click the drop-down button of “Format” to select output format. In order to keep Blu-ray in high definition, here I choose “MKV HD Video” for example, so that the ripped files can be played via WD TV HD Media Player.

At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to indicate save path, of course, you can skip this step, because this program offers a destination folder set by default, if you do not specify, it will export files to this folder automatically. Moreover, if you want to play your files without intervals, you can check “Merge into one file” to combine multiple chapters to be one file.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Besides this, you can also click “Settings” to adjust video and audio parameters to ensure the output HD quality. Changing video and audio codec, adjusting aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. are all available here.

Step 4: Ripping

Once all the above settings are completed, you can click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping, and the output HD MKV files can be found by clicking on the button “Open”. After that, you can copy these files to your USB, and plug in it to WD TV HD Media Player to enjoy via TV.

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Tips:
According to some users’ feedback, the output files of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is the only format that they can smoothly fast forward at 16x regardless of the output format.

Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate is a comprehensive ripper and converter tool to help you to rip Blu-ray DVDs, common DVDs into video formats and convert almost all of videos from one to another, including common video like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, HD video like TS, ASF, MOV etc to support playback on almost all of popular mobile players like iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Blackberry and so on.

The latest version (3.3.1.841) added support to Dolby TrueHD audio codec.

Feature Highlights:
1. Powerful 3-in-one Blu-ray DVD Ripper, DVD Ripper and video Converter.
2. Output perfect sync audio and video quality.
3. Super fast speed to rip DVDs and convert videos.
4. Marvelous video editing functionalities for special needs.
5. Remove BD+, and AACS protections, MKB Version > 10 is supported
6. Support Dolby TrueHD Audio and DTS-HD Audio

Key Features:

Comprehensive 8-in-one ripper and converter
You can use this program as a Blu-ray DVD Ripper, DVD Ripper, Blu-ray Backup, DVD Backup, Blu-ray Editor, DVD Editor, Video Converter and Video Ediotr.

Import DVD and video in the same window at the same time
You can import DVDs and load videos into this program at the same time, and they can be listed in the same window.

Wonderful output quality
This program outputs super high picture and sound quality. Moreover, you can have the perfect sync audio and video quality without any out of sync problems.

Super fast conversion speed
You can completely finish the whole conversion without waiting a long time.

Support input various formats
This program supports inputting Blu-ray DVDs, common DVDs and videos formats like MTS, M2TS, M2T, TS, VOB, MP4, AVI,WMV,MOD, TOD, MKV, etc.

Powerful editing functions
Users can edit the DVD video, Blu-ray video and other video by trimming, cropping, adding watermark, choosing special effects to get the right video they like.

Support almost all of popular players
Support iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, PS3, iRiver, Archos, Creative Zen, Pocket PC, Blackberry and other portable media players, mobile phones, etc..

Support importing Blu-ray DVDs and other videos in the same window at the same time
You can import Blu-ray DVDs and videos by clicking “Add Video” or “Load DVD” button in the same window at the same time.

Merge Blu-ray video and other videos into one file
By clicking “Merge into one file” button, you can merge multiple Blu-ray video and other video files into one file.

System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7

DirectX Version: 9.0 or above

Memory: 64MB at least

Processor: Intel Pentium Ⅲ processor at 500 MHz

Hard Disc Space: 512MB or above

Optical Drive: DVD-ROM, Blu-ray Drive

Download Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate:

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Not an easy thing for Mac users to play back Blu-ray movies, even they are your personal purchasing. I’ve summarized three ways that Mac users have usually used to playback Blu-ray movies as following. Frankly speaking, the former two solutions seems a little troublesome, personally, I prefer the last one.

Solution 1: With the help of AnyDVD HD via Windows:

Requirements:

- A Windows PC with a built-in Blu-ray drive or an external BD drive.

- AnyDVD HD

- A Mac: MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, or Mac Pro

- Latest VLC media player or MPlayer

How-To:

1. Insert your Blu-ray disc to the BD drive, and run AnyDVD HD to remove copyright protections of your disc, no matter what kinds of protections your BD discs adopted, BD+, or AACS, AnyDVD HD is capable of dealing with them. Then you will get unprotected.m2ts files after the access of AnyDVD HD.

2. Copy the .m2ts files to an external drive or a USB stick, whatever, just let the Mac be able to read them.

3. Use the latest VLC media player or MPlayer to play unprotected .m2ts files.

Solution 2: Running Windows on Mac via Boot Camp

What you will need:

- A BD drive

- A Mac

- Blu-ray playback software on Windows, like Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 Ultra

How-To:

1. Install Boot Camp and Windows

I do not mention too much about this process, because Apple has already given the full direction about it here.

2. Connect BD drive with your computer, and Playback Blu-ray via PowerDVD 9 Ultra on the newly installed Windows OS.

Solution 3: Rip BD with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac

What you will need:

- A BD drive

- Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac

This ripper provides directly copy function as well as HD video output option, so there is no need to worry about the output file quality of your Blu-ray movie.

The above two methods are all depending on the assistant of Windows, while the third one is not, thus I’d like to show the detailed operating steps about this one in detail.

Easy-to-use steps:

1. Load BD files through “DVD Folder” or “IFO File”.

2. Select audio track from the pull down menu of “Audio”, both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio are supported.

3. Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select output format. Directly copy, HD video, iPhone, iPod, PS3, and many other devices and formats are all supported.

4. Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ration, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels(5.1 channels is included).

5. Click “Browse” button to specify save path.

6. Click “Convert” button to start conversion.

Once the conversion is done, you are able to find out the output files via clicking “Open” button. If you choose directly copy, you can use VLC or MPlayer to play the output .m2ts files, if you converted to other usual formats, like mov, mp4, then you can use QuickTime player or whatever to play back them.

Via the Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac mentioned in solution 3, you can also absolutely realize playback BD movies on your HDTV with WD TV. Both WD TV Live HD Media Player and WD TV HD Media Player are all workable with .m2ts files, and they also support Full HD resolutions up to 1080P in common. In order to reserve the HD audio and video quality of your BD movie, you can completely select “Copy”> “Directly Copy” to just get the .m2ts files as the original as long as your USB device has enough space to store the output files. If not, you can also consider converting BD to a HD video format to save space as well as keep HD quality of the source file.

Well, hope the above contents are helpful.

If you have tons of .m2ts streams from your Blu-ray discs, which are copyright protections removed, and want to convert them to other video formats and keep TrueHD audio or DTS-HD Mater Audio of the original files, and then what’s your idea to realize this goal? Actually, I know some of you do not have any idea about this, because it’s not an easy thing to get a program to recognize the two special soundtracks at all.

Fortunately, Pavtube Studio has upgraded its MTS/M2TS Converter recently, which has added supportS to both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, is able to convert M2TS files to whatever formats you need, such as MP4 format supported by iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Gphone, Blackberry, etc., 3GP format supported by most cell phones, FLV format which is suitable for online transferring, MPEG-4 format which is workable for importing to iMovie and Final Cut, and many other video formats like AVI, MPG, MOV, MKV, VOB and so on.

The following part will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance, and will show you how to keep your wanted audio track while doing format conversion.

A step-by-step instruction will be starting in the following part, which will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance. If you want to follow this guide to have a try, you can download Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter here.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts streams

Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio

Click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, and there are several options, select each one to see which one is TrueHD audio, if it is, “truehd” will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, just like the following window showing. Do remember clicking “OK” button to save your selections.

Step 3: Select output format and specify save path

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select your wanted output format, and click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify where to locate the output file. Moreover, if you have the needs of combining multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 4: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should set soundtrack as 5.1 channels.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

More related features of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

1. Fast conversion, excellent output quality, and perfect audio and video synchronization.

2. Convert, compress and edit videos from Blu-ray DVDs or HD camcorders.

3. Trim, crop, add special effects and different watermarks

4. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.

5. Enjoy the output videos online, on portable devices, or backup on computer.

Lots of people are still looking for solutions to figure out how to reserve Dolby TrueHD audio of Blu-ray .m2ts streams while doing format conversion. Without a practical program, it’s definitely difficult to set the movies being converted in your master language, even though your .m2ts files are not copy-protected. Normally, if your master language is English, then English audio is making use of TrueHD, and suppose your format conversion application can not recognize TureHD audio, then it will only output the audio track it recognized, that would be French, Spanish, or some other languages instead of English. In that case, you will encounter language troubles absolutely, so an available MTS/M2TS converter which can support TrueHD audio would provide timely help at this time.

Besides keeping Dolby TrueHD audio, some people also have the requirements of keeping DTS-HD Mater Audio during the conversion. There is no doubt that everyone needs great audio to match their great video. To relieve the pains of Mac users, this guide will take TrueHD audio for example to show you how to retain your needed audio track of BD .m2ts files on Mac in detail.

Required software:

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac

Okay, let’s begin now.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts files

Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio

Firstly, click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, after that a list of audio tracks will show up like “0×1100″, at the same time, the audio codec name will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, if it is TrueHD, the codec name “truehd” will emerge like the following interface showing. What you should do is just clicking on the stream ID one by one to see which one is your wanted TrueHD audio.

Step 3: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select whatever format you like as output format, and click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files. Meanwhile, if you want to combine multiple .m2ts files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 4: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should select 6 channels.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to begin conversion

After conversion is completed, the output files can be found out via clicking “Open” button with ease.

By the way, if you do not have decrypted BD .m2ts streams, but copy-protected Blu-ray discs, then Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is your appropriate choice, it is capable of dealing with both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio as well as let audio and video match well.