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Friday, July 5, 2013

Summer Holiday Special Offer: 30% Blu-ray Ripper, Video Converter Ultimate

Summer Break is starting now. It's time to have fun: hanging out with friends, spending some quality time with family members, enjoying personal space alone. No matter whom you are with or where you are, watching movies, sharing online videos or editing video footages would be a part of your summer holiday more or less. While a great video converter would be essential in your summer break if you want to do above stuff, and Pavtube software application is a perfect choice. Great news, Pavtube is offering Up to 50% OFF on Summer Holiday Sale for its top programs, including 30% OFF Blu-ray Ripper (Win & Mac), 20% OFF Video Converter Ultimate (Win & Mac), 50% OFF Media Magician (Win & Mac), and 50% OFF DVD Creator (Win & Mac). Plus, Like Pavtube on Facebook and you would get an extra 5% off discount from above products!

Let's get familiar with Pavtube Summer Sales Directory 2013:

Pavtube BDMagic for Windows/Mac with 30% OFF

Fully backup commercial Blu-ray and DVD discs
Support adding *.srt and *.ass subtitle
Direct copy titles from BD and DVD
Rip Blu-ray and DVD to many formats, such as .MP4, .MKV, .MOV, etc.
Preserve the BD/DVD's original file structure by using "Copy the entire disc" feature.
Support NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream (AMD APP) acceleration technologies.
Support output playback on various portable devices including tablets (the new iPad 3, Galaxy Tab 3, Toshiba Thrive, Nook Tablet, Amazon Kindle Fire) and mobile phones (Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC Evo 4G, iPhone 5), HD media player such as Apple TV, WDTV, PS3, and video editing programs like Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, FCP, iMovie.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac with 20% OFF

Integrate with Blu-ray Ripper, DVD Ripper, and HD Video Converter
Support adding *.srt and *.ass subtitle
Direct copy titles from BD and DVD; Support latest BD and DVD
Support TrueHD 6.1 and TrueHD 7.1 decoding
Convert Blu-ray, DVD, HD Videos to MP4/AVI/MKV/MPG/M4V/DivX/FLV etc.
Rip the latest Movies to any Tablet/Phone without video-audio sync issues
Copy Blu-ray/DVD remaining original structure
Transcode XDCAM/XAVC/MXF/AVCHD/MTS/M2TS/MOV/Tivo/MKV/AVI/MVI etc. for editing

Pavtube Media Magician for Windows/Mac with 50% OFF

Manage/backup/convert Canon/Sony/Panasonic/JVC camcorder videos
Regarded as a nice camcorder assistant manager
Lossless output MTS/M2TS/MOD/TOD videos to original format or MKV
Output Apple Prores MOV(For Mac user), lossless MTS/MKV, MPEG-2/4, AVI/WMV/MOV/MKV
Edit timeline without rendering
Trim/split/cut videos on a timeline by accurate frame
Directly output video friendly with video editing programs or uploaded to YouTube

Pavtube DVD Creator for Windows/Mac with 50% OFF

Burn playable DVD from DVD folder and ISO image within a few clicks
Freely edit source material by trimming, cropping, adding watermark, etc.
Customize DVD menu template /style, menu text, display aspect ratio and background
Burn movies and TV shows to DVD for backup or sharing easily and quickly
Create Slide Show DVD with photos and music you designed
Create high quality DVDs from AVI, MKV, WMV, MXF, MOV, DivX, XviD, MP4, VOB, M2TS, MTS, TIVO and many other video files

Interested? Hurry up, the special 2013 Summer Holiday Sale is waiting for you.

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Mac DVD to Apple TV 3-Rip DVD movie to M4V Apple TV 3 without DVD Player

Often watch DVD movies with DVD player? You may make a change to live without DVD player; instead, you can stream your DVD movies through Apple TV 3 to your HD TV for enjoying.

For majority of us, entertainment life can never live without a DVD player where we can put our favorite DVD movies and have fun in watching the DVD movies. However, would you mind make a change and enjoy the DVD movie without the help of DVD player? With an Apple TV 3 and several easy steps, you can build a Wireless Home entertainment system based on DLNA.

Apple TV 3 is a HD media player released by Apple .Inc. From the first version to the latest one, Apple TV has been enhanced for more powerful playing features. You can even transfer up to 1080p videos for Apple TV 3 playing. And this Apple TV 3 can play videos in M4V, and music in MP3, AC3, AAC, WAV etc with 5.1 channels. Now if you have already had lots of DVD movies, you can rip your DVD collections to store on Apple TV 3, then you can take it everywhere for playing. We need a DVD to Apple TV Converter for Mac first. Below is a guide that can help you how to rip DVD to M4V for Apple TV 3.

Guide: How to convert DVD to Apple TV 3 M4V on Mac?

Read More: Convert Blu-ray movies to iTunes 11 for streaming to Apple TV 3 with AC3 5.1 surround sound

Recommend you use Pavtube DVDAid for Mac. It is really a powerful Mac DVD to Apple TV 3 Converter. This Mac DVD to Apple TV converter can assist you rip DVD to Apple TV 3 video including Apple TV H.264 and Apple TV MPEG-4. Plus, with it, you can freely select your wanted subtitles or show the forced subtitles as you need for your favorite DVD movie. It also displays a pleasing interface with a self-explanatory option-set placed in it.

Free Download and install the Mac DVD to Apple TV 3 Converter.

Step 1: Load DVD resource to Pavtube DVDAid for Mac.

Insert and Import DVD from DVD-ROM. This DVD Ripper for Mac does support DVD folder or DVD ISO/IFO image files.

Step 2: Choose output format.

In order to airplay DVD movies to Apple TV 3, you need choose a compatible format for Apple TV 3 playing. Here I recommend you click the format bar and choose "Apple TV > Apple TV 3 1080P Dolby Digital Pass-through(*.m4v)". Then you can set the output folder by clicking "Browse" icon as you need.

Step 3. Click "Settings" icon, you can adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.

Note: An AC-3 encoded audio track will also be included for Apple TV to pass-through Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, so that it will work in surround sound when Apple TV is connected to audio receiver, and also in stereo when Apple TV is connected with TV only.

Step 4: Finally you need hit the "Convert" button to start to rip DVD to Apple TV 3 M4V for playback.

After the conversion, you can copy DVD movie to your NAS and then be able to enjoy DVD movies through Apple TV 3.

Now you can stream DVD movie to Apple TV 3

Tips: If you're new to Apple TV, the below guide will help you get started with Apple TV setup:

How to set up Apple TV for streaming HD videos with Dolby Digital 5.1 sounds?

Blu-ray Ripper Review: Leawo Blu-ray Ripper vs Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate

This article is to help you compare the latest versions of Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate and Leawo Blu-ray Ripper, and help you find out the winner.

Test Comparison Review on Leawo Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate

Leawo Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate are two nice Blu-ray Ripper and converter toolshelping not only ripping latest Blu-rays and DVDs, but also converting them into other formats for playback on portable devices or other players. This article is to help you compare some main functionality in the latest version of the two Blu-ray Ripper tools and help you find out the winner.

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Short note:

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate (also known as Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate) is the integrated version of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Video Converter and here we only compare its Blu-ray Ripper features with Leawo Blu-ray Ripper. And all Blu-ray and DVD related features with Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate are same with Pavtube BDMagic, except the multi-disc import feature.

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate VS Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

Version Info:

Leawo Blu-ray Ripper V4.1.0.0

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate V4.3.0.4818

Source for Testing:

Lord of War (Blu-ray)

Machine for Testing:

Lenovo 64-bit Win 7 PC
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 19090T Processor 3.21 Ghz
8GB RAM

Round 1: Import Blu-ray DVD and DVD

Ease of Use:

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate: 10/10
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper: 4/10

To import Blu-ray DVDs and DVDs with Leawo, you need to make sure if your disc is BD or DVD, click the right import button, and spesify where the disc is placed, and import. It's a little bit confusing if you are not familiar with it. And it's easy to make mistakes if you select a wrong directory.

While with Pavtube, it's much much easier. Just click the load disc button and choose if you want to import from optical drive, IFO/ISO, or folder, and you can wait for the result. It's really easy and time-saving.

And you can even import multiple DVDs or BDs with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate if you have multiple optical drives. You can either click the load disc button or use the file menu to import the second disc.

Round 2: Auto Detect Main Movie of the BD or DVD

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate: Yes
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper: No

Importing the same Blu-ray disc, Lord of War, into both Leawo Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate, you can easily find the result.

In Leawo, all titles are checked, no matter it's the main movie or not. Users must choose the right title with the main movie to convert, and uncheck the useless titles manually. Besides, as shown in picture below, there are two titles detected as main title, Title_6 and Title_7. And actually there should be only one as Main Title.

While in Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, the Main Title with main movie is automatically detected and checked. And there's only one Main Title. Users don't need any knowledge about which one is the main movie, just leave it as default, and convert. So Pavtube wins again.

Round 3: CPU Usage While Converting

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate: 93% (full use of CPU cores)
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper: 31%

If you want to make better use of your computer while converting, Pavtube wins again.

As shown in screenshot below, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper only takes 31% of the CPU usage and not fully used the CPU cores.

While with Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, you can steadily take more than 90% of CPU usage with fully use of the 6 cores. And you can still do other things on your PC.

Round 4: Trial Experience

Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate: 9/10
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper: 3/10

With Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate Trial, you can fully evaluate all functionalities. The only difference between the trial version and full version is that you will get Pavtube logo on output video with the trial.

With Leawo Blu-ray Ripper Trial, you can only output 5 minutes video. You will never know if there's other bugs, problems, or conversion speed and time for the whole movie with the trial.

Conclusion: Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate Wins!

As shown in reviews and comparison between Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate and Leawo Blu-ray Ripper above, you will find Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate much better than Leawo Blu-ray Ripper in fields of ease of use, cpu usage, BD/DVD main title (main movie) detecting, and trial experience.

Did you decide to buy which one? Leawo Blu-ray Ripper or Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate?

Added: July 9, 2013,

Up to 50% Off Summer Holiday Sale 2013 Starts: Rip/backup/convert your BD/DVD/Videos for iOS/Android/Windows Tablets/Phones with much lower price now!

Free DVD Ripper (Windows/Mac)  is coming soon

Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate is coming soon

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50% OFF DVD Creator (Windows/Mac) - Save $17.5

50% OFF Media Magician (Windows/Mac) - Save $22

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Friday, June 28, 2013

How to Free Rip a DVD movie with MakeMKV and Handbrake?

Hollywood wants you to buy its movies on DVD and Blu-ray, but it also wants to control what you do with them once you get home. That doesn't sit well with us, so we're going to show you how to do something that Hollywood most definitely does not want you to do: Rip movies and copy them to your computer's hard drive so you can enjoy them without ever having to get up off your couch to drop a disc in the DVD player.

Once you've got a movie onto your hard drive, you can do all kinds of other cool stuff with it: Transcode it into a different format so that it'll play on your smartphone or gaming console, or maybe just delete those annoying FBI warnings that tell you how much trouble you can get in for doing exactly what we're about to show you.

While we fully acknowledge that the movie industry has the right to protect it's intellectual property, we also believe that consumers have the right to enjoy the property they purchase. It's called fair use - if you buy a movie on a disc, then you should have the right to make a back-up copy, or transfer the content to another medium, like a hard drive. Of course, you don't have the right to distribute or sell copies of the movies you buy, but you probably knew that already.

How to Free Rip a DVD disc with MakeMKV and Handbrake?

Jump to: How to Free Rip a Blu-Ray Disc

What you'll need:

1. DVD-ROM drive. Most modern PCs will come equipped with optical drives that can read DVDs, but many of the newest ones (ie, ultrabooks) have ditched them to save space. If you don't have a DVD-ROM drive, you can pick up an external one that connects to your PC via USB up for around $30 on Newegg.

2. MakeMKV. You'll need this program to break the disc's copyright protection and perform the initial rip. It's free, open source.

3. HandBrake. After the initial rip, you might want to make the file smaller or change its format so you can watch it on your phone or media center. Handbrake is a free video encoder that lets you tweak just about everything after you've got the movie on your hard drive.

Read More: 2013 Top 3 Best DVD Ripper Tools Reviewed

Step 1: Defeat copyright protection with MakeMKV

There are a lot of other software programs out there that make this a very involved process, but MakeMKV makes it extremely simple. Just open the program and pop your DVD into the disc drive. Once the program recognizes the disc, click on the big "Open Disc" button and MakeMKV goes to work.

Step 2: Rip the movie with MakeMKV

After you've vanquished the AACS encryption, MakeMKV will return a list of chapters and segments that you can rip. Find your movie (usually the longest title or biggest file) and uncheck all the other boxes. Next, designate an Output Folder where you'd like the file to end up once it's been ripped. When you're all ready to go, hit the "MakeMKV" button. This process can take anywhere from two minutes to half an hour depending on your computer's processing power, but when it's done you should have a nice big MKV file waiting for you in the folder you specified.

Step 3: Transcode with HandBrake

Once you're done using MakeMKV to subvert the DVD's copyright protection and save the movie to your computer, you'll probably want to transcode the file to make it smaller and ensure that it's in the format you want. This is where HandBrake comes in. It's got TONS of settings and tools you can use to tweak your video, and comes with an extensive collection of presets (displayed in the right-hand column) that make the ripping process relatively foolproof. The developers have already created presets for most Apple products, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and Apple TV; the PS3 and Xbox 360 gaming consoles; and several other platforms. You can also modify any of these presets and save them with new names or create custom presets from scratch.

Play around with the settings until you've got everything just right, then go ahead and click Start. This part will take a while, so sit back, relax, and let HandBrake do its thing.

Source: Digitaltrends

Did something go awry?

Don't worry, there are still many top DVDAid tools used to rip DVD discs on Windows or Mac. Refer to the guide for beginners:

If you have any problems, we highly recommend hitting www.multipelife.com, here's the right place to share ideas, ask questions, report problems, and give feedbacks. Or you can contact their customer service Support Center, believe that can solve your any problems.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Rip Blu-ray movie to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 without audio and video out of sync issues

"I purchased a blu ray version of The Hobbit - An unexpected Journey and tried to rip it for having a copy on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but get the message that the source disc cannot be loaded. Ripping the blu ray with MakeMKV beta was no issue. But can't use mkv on my Galaxy Tab 2 10.1.

Really terrible experience, can anyone shed me some light on this?"

The above issues from a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 user's email. Are you having the same problem? Can't watch Blu-ray movies on your Galaxy Tab 2 10.1? Ok, let's together to reveal the answer.

As far as I know, all purchased and commercial Blu-ray and DVD disks are encrypted and you cannot easily play them anywhere else except your BD player. Then how to break this kind of protection for old and newly released disks? Pavtube BDMagic (Top 5 Best Blu-ray Ripper Programs Reviewed) comes to help us out. It features great ability to handle the latest Blu-ray releases without neither crashing issues nor importing errors, in adopting of advanced audio and video in sync technology, the DVD Ripper for Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 guarantees the output files without audio and video out of sync issues. Best of all, it offers optimized format preset for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 to generate best videos suitable for viewing on your tablet.

Moreover, this program has multiple profile presets for different mobile devices including Android OS, Apple iDevice, Windows 8 devices and more, output movies from either profile perform well on my Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Read More: Free Convert DVD to Galaxy Tab - Make Galaxy Tab Smoothly Play DVD movies

For your reference – video and audio files compatible with Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

Audio

Music: MP3, AAC/AAC+/EAAC+, WMA, OGG (Vorbis), FLAC, AC-3
Sound: AMR-NB/WB, WAV, MID, XMF, iMelody, SP-MDI, RTTL/RTX, OTA

Video

Video Codec: MPEG4, H.264, H.263, VC-1, DivX, VP8, WMV7/8, Sorenson Spark
Format: 3GP (MP4), WMV (ASF), AVI (DIVX), MKV, FLV, WEBM

Here comes up a step-by-step workflow of ripping Blu-rays to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for playing freely.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray content.

Connect external Blu-ray drive with your computer. Install and open Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper, click "Load file(s)" icon to load Blu-ray directly from the disc. The Main Title of a Blu-ray disc is checked by default.

Select wanted subtitles and audio track if necessary.

Note: For Mac users, refer to the Blu-ray Ripper Review: 2014 Top Mac Blu-ray Ripper Review for Android, Apple iOS and Windows 8 Devices

Step 2. Choose the output format.

Click "Format" bar and move mouse to "Samsung" column, you can easily find the video preset of "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1(*.mp4)". The output videos could fit on Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 perfectly.

Step 3. If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video codec, resolution, bitrate, frame rate, etc. as you wish. According to my experience, the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa. For watching videos on Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, 720p with 2000kbps is just all right.

best video settings for galaxy tab 2 10.1

best video settings for galaxy tab 2 10.1

Step 4: After above settings, click on "Convert" button to rip Blu-rays to MP4 for Galaxy Tablet 2 10.1.

Once the process completes, Click on "Open" button to get the converted MP4 files for viewing on Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

P.S. Samsung provides a guide to describe the existing data transfer methods that are already available to you. For more information, visit How to Transfer Media to Your Android. What's more, if you have no idea about Galaxy Tab file transfer on Mac, you can follow How to Sync with Mac using Kies to learn more.

Not an Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 user? Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper also supports "common" video formats like MOV, M4V, and MP4, so you should be able to create files compatible with your iPad Mini, iPad 3, iPhone 5, Microsoft Surface, Galaxy Note 2, Nexus 10, Nexus 7, Galaxy Tab 3, Nook HD tablet, Asus Transformer Prime and other devices.