Rip Blu-ray/DVD to QuickTime MOV for playback on Mac OS X Lion

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video. However, Blu-ray (.m2ts) and DVD (.vob) are out of the range of QuickTime audio or video formats. That doesn't means you are totally banned to watch Blu-ray and DVD movies in QuickTime Player. Actually, an available Blu-ray and DVD Ripper for Mac will definitely do you a favor to remove copy protections, and rip the movies to a Mac QuickTime Player compatible format. Here it mainly tells a step-by-step tutorial about how to convert Blu-ray and DVD movies to Mac QuickTime Player supported format.

The decryption software we recommended is Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac - A powerful Blu-ray to QuickTime MOV Converter tool designed for Mac users. It is capable of converting Blu-ray movies to MOV/HD MOV format, so that you can enjoy HD Blu-ray movies with QuickTime Player, or edit them in Final Cut Pro/Express on your Mac conveniently without any trouble.

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More than that, with full supports for retail BD movies, the Blu-ray to MOV Converter for Mac is good at decrypting almost all latest BD copy protections, including AACS and BD+, so you can rip the latest released Blu-ray movies to QuickTime MOV at will. See the detailed tutorial as below.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray.

Put the Blu-ray disc into the BD drive and then click the import from BD ROM button after launching the program.



Step 2. Choose QuickTime compatible formats.

Click on the dropdown menu of "Format", and then follow "Common Video > MOV – QuickTime (*.mov)" for ripping movies from Blu-ray Disc to QuickTime MOV.



Optional - Adjust video and audio settings

The Mac Blu-ray to QuickTime Ripper allows users adjusting video and audio parameters before converting bluray to mov. Click "Settings" button, then you will be able to adjust video and audio settings in the following popup window, including codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel.



Step 3: After everything is done, click "Convert" button to start ripping Blu-ray to QuickTime MOV for playback on Mac.

The program for Mac OS adopts advanced audio and video in sync technology, which will guarantee you perfect audio and video synchronization. Once the conversion is done, you can click "Open" button to get the final output QuickTime files with ease.

So there you have it. Pretty simple. Now just enjoy/play 1080p Blu-ray/DVD movies with QuickTime Player on your Mac as you like.

Tips:

1. Let's back to Step 2: You can also click on "Format" bar to determine the output format. Select HD Video and choose an acceptable format from the list (H.264 MP4 as shows above). Click on "Settings" and you could further customize video and audio parameters, for example, 1280 by 720 pixels (adaptable with 16:9 wide screen) at 29.97 fps, AAC audio at 160 Kbps, 6 Channels (Dolby 5.1 channels). Click on "OK" to confirm your settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the ripped file.
2. In "Subtitle" tab on "Editor" Window, you are able to add *.srt and *.ass subtitles you get from internet or other places to the BD/DVD movies.
3. Support Direct copy titles from BD and DVD in Original Format.
4. Support TrueHD 6.1 and TrueHD 7.1 decoding.

 
Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is the best choice if you want to play Blu-rays/DVDs on Mac with QuickTime, Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, Android/Windows 8 tablet/phone and other devices with high quality. It enables you to transcode Blu-ray/DVD to FCP, FCE/iMovie, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Aperture 3, Kdenlive, Avid Xpress Pro, Adobe Creative Suite 6, Adobe After Effects CS6 and DaVinci Resolve etc. It is also possible to backup Blu-rays to hard drive or NAS with original structure. With Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac, you can easily and quickly rip Blu-ray/DVD discs and make a backup, conversion, compression of your Blu-ray/DVD for any use.

   

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Mac OS X Mavericks: Top 5 Enhancements That Speed Up Macs Faster And Improve Battery Life

Apple unveiled the developer preview of OS X Mavericks -- the tenth major release of its Mac operating system at the WWDC 2013 on Monday -- which the company claims has more than 200 new features, including Finder tags and tabs, multiple displays tagging, a new version of Safari and more.

• Top 5 Mac OS X Mavericks's New Features 

In addition, Apple emphasized on a set of new technologies incorporated into Mavericks, which are expected to contribute toward "breakthrough power efficiency and performance" of Macs by increasing their battery life and making them run faster.

According to Apple, every level of the OS was looked at by the developers - "from the foundation up to the apps themselves" - to save more power and boost responsiveness.


OS X Mavericks is claimed to have more than 200 new features, including Finder tags and tabs, multiple displays tagging, a new version of Safari and more.

"The power technologies in OS X Mavericks were built with the capabilities of modern processors and the demands of modern apps in mind. The new power technologies work together to achieve substantial power savings, while maintaining—and in some cases even improving—the responsiveness and performance of your Mac," Apple said in an official document.

Let's have a look at 5 new enhancements to the OS X Mavericks that will make Macs go faster and last longer on a single charge:

1. Timer Coalescing: "Timer Coalescing" minimizes the amount of system maintenance and background work that is performed while the Mac is running on battery power. The new technology assembles low-level operations and creates small periods of inactive moments that allow the CPU to enter a low-power state more frequently. It helps reduce CPU activity by 72 percent, resulting in less energy consumption and increased battery life.

2. App Nap: "App Nap" helps save power when a user works with multiple apps simultaneously. The technology puts unused apps into a low-power state that slow them down and helps conserve valuable battery life. However, whenever the user starts an unused app, it quickly shifts back to full speed. App Nap does the same trick with Safari tabs, meaning that only the visible tab runs at full speed. Apple claims that App Nap can reduce CPU energy by up to 23 percent.

3. Safari Power Saver: With "Safari Power Saver," Apple has made the browser clever. Whenever a user visits a website to view a particular video, Safari Power Saver recognizes automatically what is necessary and pauses all other videos and animations that are off in the margins. On the other hand, the content located front and center plays as usual. Other animations won't play until the user clicks on them. Apple claims that with Safari Power Saver, browsing websites with plug-in content will consume up to 35 percent less CPU power.

4. iTunes HD Playback Efficiency: Apple claims that OS X Mavericks improves the energy efficiency of iTunes HD video playback. The video playback engine takes greater advantage of the efficient graphics hardware in the Mac and reduces the frequency of disk access. Apple said that together with more energy-efficient audio playback, the CPU will use up to 35 percent less energy while playing videos.

5. Compressed Memory: In OS X Mavericks, "Compressed Memory" frees up memory to make the Mac faster and more responsive. When the Mac reaches maximum memory capacity, the new technology automatically compresses the least used items in recent memory, compacting them by more than 50 percent. Compressed Memory also improves total system bandwidth and responsiveness, Apple says, allowing the Mac to handle large amounts of data more efficiently.

Apple conducted tests for all the aforesaid enhancements by using 1.8GHz Intel Core i5-based 13-inch MacBook Air systems with 4GB of RAM and pre-release versions of OS X v10.9 (Mavericks) and OS X v10.8.4. For the testing of "Compressed Memory," Apple also used MacBook Air systems with 256GB of flash storage.

Take a look at the Mac models that are compatible with the new OS X Mavericks:

• iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

 
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Convert Blu-ray, DVD, MKV/AVI/VOB/Tivo/Flash to Surface RT/Pro for watching

Description: If you wanna take any Blu-ray, DVD, MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG, WMV, MTS, MXF, WebM, Flash video with for entertainment during your traveling, pavtube will give you the solution. The following article will show you how to convert all HD Videos and Movies onto Surface RT/Pro.

With the arrival of summer vacation, more people go traveling in this time. Surface RT/Pro, a laptop in tablet form, becomes a necessary companion for killing the boring time on railway. You could use them to watch movies for entertainment. But you cannot take lots of DVDS and blu-ray disks in your package, because it will increase the extra burden. Or you cannot enjoy many MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo and Flash videos on Surface RT/Pro as they cannot be played directly on Surface RT/Pro.

However, Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate can provide you a solution to watch them on Surface RT/Pro. It is a integrated program bundled of BDMagic, DVDAid, Video Converter. And it will help you to convert Blu-ray, DVD, MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG, WMV, MTS, MXF, WebM, Flash video to video/audio in any formats you wanna enjoy on your portable device. Besides you will enjoy converted movies without any audio and video out of synchronism issue and a faster conversion speed with CUDA Acceleration.

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1. When launched it, let's load the original files (Blu-ray, DVD, MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, Flash videos, etc)

 

2. Having loaded original files, you are allowed to select Subtitles, Forced subtitles and Audio according to your own requirements. However, If original video has no subtitles and you cannot read it exactly, "Subtitle" option under "Video Editor" menu allows you to add download subtitle files (*.srt, *.ass,*.ssa) to converted videos.

3. Click "Format" menu to choose the output video format for Surface RT/Pro. Let's click "Windows" option to find "Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)"

 

4. Click "Settings" button, which allows adjusting parameters for output video and audio, such as codec, bitrate, size (pix) and so on. Besides, keeping the original default setting can provide you a high-quality output video too.

5. Just click "Convert" button to start conversion. After completed, click "Open" button to find the converted files.

How to transfer converted video in PC to Surface RT/Pro, pls refer to Full Guide.  

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Dear students, Summer Vacation has already come, when you are existed to get ready for summer get-away trip, have you considered what to do on the way? Sleeping, chatting? Quite boring, don't you think? How about spending some quality time and enjoy movies? BTW, many new movies has released a Blu-ray version on disc, such as An American Girl, Upside Down, The Call, and Phantom and if you want to backup Blu-ray movies and watch them on the going, get 30% OFF Blu-ray Ripper (Windows/Mac) on Pavtube Unique Crazy Summer Sale 2013 to backup/rip Blu-ray discs for viewing on your portable devices When you're traveling.

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1. Launch Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper, and load Blu-ray disc from disc driver.

2. Click the Format button, and choose optimized profile for output.

PS: Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper provides dozens of profile presets for almost all mobile devices, including some new tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Google Nexus 7/10, iPad 3, iPad 4, Surface RT/Pro, Kindle Fire HD, etc.) and new smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S4, iPhone 5, HTC One, Nexus 4, etc.), so don't worry that you cannot find your device's friendly profile. Plus, Pavtube software application supports HD media players and video editing programs for output.

3. Click Settings button to set up profile parameters to get better video quality.

4. Click big "Convert" button to start backup/rip Blu-ray disc for playing on Tablet/Phone.

Learn more: How to Free Rip a Blu-ray disc?

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An ultimate program which integrates All Video Converting, Blu-ray Ripping, DVD Ripping and video/audio extracting feature.

With it, you can easily convert your MTS/M2T/TS/MXF/MKV/MOV/AVI/Tivo/WMV/F4V/M4V/VOB/Flash videos to FCP, FCE, iMovie, Avid, Premiere Pro, Apple Aperture 3, Kdenlive, After Effects CS6, DaVinci Resolve compatible format for further editing, or convert summer videos to compatible formats on portable devices like Apple iDevices (iPhone 5, iPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Mini, iPod 5 and more), Android devices (Samsung Galaxy S4/S3, Galaxy Tab 3/Tab 2, Galaxy Note 2, Kindle Fire HD, Google Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nexus 4, Ausu Infinty 700, Transformer Prime, Acer Iconia Tab A700, Sony Xperia Tablet Z, HTC One and more), Windows 8 devices (Microsoft Surface RT/Pro, HTC Windows Phone 8, Acer Iconia W700, HP ElitePad 900, Lumia 925, Toshiba WT310 and more), BlackBerry 10, Playbook, Apple TV, WDTV, PS3 and so on.

Click the top left two icons to load your video file or disc, click the third icon to edit them including crop, trim, effect and audio editor. 

Then click "Format" to choose best video format for your editing program or devices; click the red circle to star conversion.



More Tips:

1. If you need to take a long flight on the way heading for your destination, it'll be a good idea to free rip Blu-ray movies or free rip DVD movies for watching. In addition, you can choose more top tools, such as: iMedia Converter for Mac - it is able to do this within a few clicks. Feel free to have a try!

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A footage-focus program with lossless output, multi-trim out, smoothly transcoding and uploading to youtube features. It's a nice camera/camcorder assistant to help you convert HD videos in MXF, MOV, MTS, M2TS, TS, MKV, AVI, VOB, MPG, Flash formats to MTS/M2TS/MOV/MKV/AVI losslessly etc.

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