Backup 3D Blu-ray Discs on Mac (macOS Sierra Included)

The main source of high-quality 3D is via 3D Blu-ray discs. But one of the popular 3D streaming devices - VR Headsets can't play 3D Blu-rays, which leads lmany people to want to copy 3D Blu-ray to 3D MP4. What's more, considering the Blu-ray discs fragile, some are trying to backup 3D Blu-ray on Mac to prevent Blu-ray discs from scratching for over-time using.

There are many Blu-ray Ripping tools in the market that can help you decrypt Blu-ray and copy Blu-ray on Mac, however, not all of them can keep 3D effect when ripping 3D Blu-ray. Even some Blu-ray copy software can preserve 3D effect, they often convert 3D Blu-ray to 3D MKV, 3D MP4. Few of these applications can directly backup 3D Blu-ray on Mac hard drive with 3D effect retained.

Fortunately, Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac works. It helps you easily copy the main movie only from a 3D Blu-ray with original 3D effect on Mac (macOS Sierra Included) and leave out unwanted menus or other extras. On one hand, it can extract 3D M2TS directly from 3D Blu-ray on macOS Sierra, El Capitan, etc, while on the other hand, it can convert 3D Blu-ray to 3D MKV, 3D MP4, 3D AVI, 3D WMV, 3D MOV with excellent 3D effect.

Except backing up 3D Blu-ray movies on your hard drive, you can also use it to rip and convert 3D Blu-ray movies to any 2D/3D format you want or any tablet, smartphone or HD media players, 3D players with optimized video formats. If you’re Windows users, you can turn to Pavtube ByteCopy  to help you directly copy 3D Blu-ray on PC.

The step-by-step instructions below will help you get started using ByteCopy for Mac to directly copy 3D Blu-ray with 3D effect retained on Mac (macOS Sierra Included). Wizard instructions, format presets & batch conversion is provided for easier operation, better output quality & more time saving.

Free download and install: 
 

How to Copy 3D Blu-ray Discs on Mac (macOS Sierra Included)?

Step 1. Import 3D Blu-ray source. 

Click “Load file” button to import the inserted 3D Blu-ray disc from Blu-ray drive. After few second, it will be imported successfully and you can preview the whole movie in the preview window. 

 

Note: Mention to Blu-ray to computer copy, there are two ways typically – backup and copy 3D Blu-ray movie from the original Blu-ray disc, 1:1 backing up 3D Blu-ray to a folder, and copying 3D Blu-ray movie to a file with only the main movie title. Ane it is wise to choice the later one – 3D Blu-ray main title copy since it helps you get rid of all the unwanted titles in 3D Blu-ray and saves a lot of hard disc storage. 

Step 2. Choose the copy mode. 

A: Now go to “Format” menu to select “Copy” > “Directly Copy For 3D Bluray” from the “Format” menu to copy the . m2ts files only which contains the main movie on your 3D Blu-ray disc. 

 

For wide streaming choices, you also can choose to rip Blu-ray to 3D MP4, 3D MKV, etc. Click Format and select “MKV Side-by-Side 3D Video(*.mkv)” under 3D Video. In general, mkv is a well-accepted file format for tv, media players or plex and keep up the video quality. Of course, 3D video in .mp4, 3D video in .avi are supported as well. 

 

Note: Let’s take the 3D Blu-ray Beauty and Beast for instance, the full disc copy containing all titles takes up 40GB, while the main title file only takes up 23462MB. That’s the difference! 

Step 3. Start directly copying 3D Blu-ray disc on Mac

Finally, click “Convert” button to start lossless 3D Blu-ray Backup for Main Movie on Mac. When the copying work is done, you are able to click “Open” button to get the output .m2ts files without any other extra contents. 

With the best 3D Blu-ray Backup and copying tool, you can keep your 3D Blu-ray discs from scratching, manage movies in a more convenient way and watch 3D movies freely at home instead of going to cinema. Just try it now! 

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Rip DVD to Kodi on Windows PC

Q: “ Ripping DVDs with Kodi? Just wondering if there's an addon that will allow me to rip a dvd to my library with Kodi. It's not all that hard to rip a DVD and put the video on my server, but if I could find an easy to use DVD ripper addon, it would be great to be able to do it from within Kodi (XBMC).”



Kodi has its supported video formats like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265 (as from Kodi 14) HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak, but DVD is not one of them. You need transfer DVD to Kodi accepted files like MKV, and then stream movies to play with Kodi via network. BTW, Pavtube DVDAid is the tool I used to save all my DVD to MKV.

Learn more >> The most powerful software of comparative

I searched widely, and many guys recommend Pavtube DVD ripping software, it will bring the best audio / video for watching on Kodi. Unlike some free DVD ripping tools like Handbrake and MakeMKV, Pavtube DVDAid is an easy-to-use yet professional software to help you to solve the issue by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical DVD discs to Kodi(XBMC) for smoothly playback in HTPC on Windows.  For those who're using a Mac OS X machine, please try its Pavtube DVDAid for Mac.

Main features:

• Best DVD ripping software on the market
• Rip DVD to Kodi supported file formats
• Rip and convert DVD movies to MP4/AVI/MKV/WMV,etc with high quality.
• Makes 1:1 copy of original DVD Disc without quality loss with all audio streams, subtitle tracks, extras, etc.
• With CUDA/AMD GPU acceleration, and you will take short time of converting and get hours of enjoyments.
  It’s simple to use and well worth the investment.
• Support latest DVD
• Features with adding *.srt and *.ass subtitle 

Hot Search: MOV to Kodi | MP4 to Kodi| M2TS to Kodi | WMV to Kodi

Note: Today, we're just going to show you the simplest steps to convert DVD to XBMC Kodi file. 

Step 1: Launch DVD Ripper, click "File" to import DVD file into the program.

One of the great things about this DVD to XBMC Kodi file converter is the fact that it can be used to convert multiple files at a time. You can add multiple DVD files to the conversion queue.



Step 2: Select MKV/MP4 as the output format

Click "Output Format" option to reveal the format drop-down list. In the "Format" > "Common Video" column, find "MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)" or "H.264 Video(*.mp4)" or H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4) and choose it as the output format for using on Kodi (xbmc) and playback on android tablet.



Step 3: Click on "Convert" on the lower right corner to launch the ripping process of DVD to XBMC Kodi. Wait for all the DVD files to be converted.

The two status bars show estimated time about the process. If you plan on walking away from the computer for sleep, tick the "Shut down computer when conversion completed" option. Default is unchecking.

After the conversion complete, simply put the movie from DVD onto XBMC for play back. Enjoy the movie!

If you want to backup your Blu-ray/DVD without quality loss AC3 5.1 audio for HTPC Media center, you can use Pavtube ByteCopy and refer to this guide.
Src： http://techmovieshare.blogspot.com/2015/05/rip-dvd-to-xbmc-kodi.html
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Install Plex Media Server Raspberry Pi 3 + Image

Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 3. Thanks to the work of uglymagoo on the Plex forum it is very easy to install Plex using the Synology armv7 package (now it uses the ReadyNAS package).  The previous Raspberry Pi 2 guide became quite long and cluttered, this one aims to be cleaner.

There is a Plex Media Server Raspberry Pi 3 image based on the minimal Raspbian distro Minibian at the bottom of this post with the required modification to force Plex transcoding if you just want to test if Plex on the Raspberry Pi 3 will suit your needs. This tutorial assumes you are running Raspbian Jessie. This how-to also has a section on fixing Plex permissions so if your Plex can’t see your folders then you will be able to solve that problem here.

Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 3

Installation Checklist

For the best performance for Plex Media Server on the Raspberry Pi 2 refer to this checklist

• Verify you have the en_US locale
• Make sure you have libexpat1 installed
• Do not use WiFi if you want the best result
• Monitor Plex Media Server and restart it automatically with this guide.
• Do not use Plex.tv instead use Dynamic DNS and a reverse proxy with this guide to avoid transcoding problems.
• If you are having transcoding issues try using an older transcoder with this guide.

Pre-Install Requirements

Generate Locales

First we need to verify the en_US locale is enabled

This command lists current locales

locale -a

My output looks like this

C C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 POSIX

If you don’t have en_US.utf8 you can generate it

To generate the locale edit the locale generator configuration file first to enable the locale

sudo nano /etc/locale.gen

Uncomment this line by deleting the #

# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to save

Now generate the locales

sudo locale-gen

If you get the locale-gen cannot be found error this should solve it

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin" >> ~/.profile

Now generate the locales again if locale-gen wasn’t found

sudo locale-gen

Reconfigure locales for good measure (source)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Now run locale to list them

locale

If you see these errors (on Jessie Lite) follow the next step

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Open your environment file

sudo nano /etc/environment

Add these lines

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to Save

Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 3 using Repository

Enable https transport or you will get this error: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https binutils -y --force-yes

Grab uglymaoo’s gpg key for his repository

wget -O - https://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

Add uglymagoo’s repository

echo "deb https://dev2day.de/pms/ jessie main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list

Update your package lists

sudo apt-get update

Install Plex Media Server

sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver -y

Upgrading Plex is as easy as running this command

Note: The repository contains the latest non-Plex Pass version. If you want the Plex Pass version you will have to build it yourself using the manual method 3 outlined here.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Check out additional hard drives for your media

Transcoding Tools

Plex Media Server requires a new libc6 module that you can pull from the jessie repo (thanks again to uglymagoo). This part may not necessary if you used the precompiled deb package at the top. Sometimes, if your end devices are low, your Plex can't pass-through some videos to play, you can transcode the video in advance with some video transcoders and put the converted video in sharing folder of Plex in advance.

Install libexpat1 for help playing in the Android app

sudo apt-get install libexpat1 -y

Fix Plex Permission Issues

If Plex isn’t reading your drives or folders you can do one of two things, change the permissions of your external storage or change the user Plex is running as (which could mean you need to rescan for metadata).

First try adding your plex user to your regular user’s group that owns the mount point for your hard drive

sudo usermod -aG pi plex

Then add your regular user to the plex group if the plex group exists

sudo usermod -aG plex pi

Then set the permissions for the folder containing your media to 775 so the plex in the user’s group can read them

sudo chmod -R 775 /folder/with/media

If that still fails you can change the permissions where /mnt/usbstorage is your mount path for your hard drive so everybody can read, write and execute

sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/usbstorage

Alternatively you can change the user Plex runs as to your pi user

To change which user Plex runs as, open this file

sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver

Change this line, replace plex with your username you use to log on or the owner of the mounted drive, most likely pi

PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=pi

Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to save

Change the owner of your Plex folders to the user you are changing

sudo chown -R pi:pi /var/lib/plexmediaserver

Then restart your Plex server

sudo service plexmediaserver restart

If Plex still isn’t working see the manual installation guide.

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For the Plex Media Server image, login with root, password htpcguides and use raspi-config to expand the file system, you can install WiFi drivers if they are not included in the kernel

apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree -y

Enjoy Plex Media Server on your Raspberry Pi 3

Source

If you want to stream Blu-ray with Plex on your Raspberry Pi 3 based multimedia devices, here are some tutorials:

• Rip Blu-ray to Plex with Dolby TrueHD Audio
• Rip Blu-Ray To Plex With 5.1 Surround Sound

Below are some video tools that help you get more entertainment on Plex:

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Watch DVD on Apple TV 4 or Coming Apple TV 5

The easy ways will aid you to fluently watch DVD on Apple TV 5/4 or the coming fifth-gen Apple TV 5/4 , how the new Apple TV  5/4 works in the DVD disc?

TV is a major part of people’s daily lives. People gather together around the big screens to watch big shows and big events. But traditional television cannot meet people’s growing demand. The pace of life is getting quicker and quicker, and people require some innovative ways to connect the big screens. Integrating apps with television is a popular trend right now.

Note: The Apple TV 5/4 content story, like every set top box content story, remains a U.S.-centric one. So, for a complete picture of how the new Apple TV works in the DVD disc. 

Apple TV is a digital media player and a micro console developed by Apple Inc. and it is a small network appliance and entertainment device that can receive digital data from a number of sources and stream it to a capable TV for playing on the TV screen.

To play a DVD on an Apple TV 5/4 you need to load the DVD into another computer then‘stream’it to the Apple TV 5/4 . You can do this with movies you have hired or purchased from the Apple store, but when you try to view a DVD, it comes out grey. If you want to set up your Apple TV 5/4  that when played a DVD from your Mac book. It came out all grey on the Apple TV 5/4 . DVD on Apple TV 5/4 due to copyright. Here are two ways to get around Apple’s DVD viewing protection. 

The way to watch a DVD on Apple TV: 

1. Instead of using the Apple DVD player to watch the movie, use VLC. (VLC is free.) VLC does not have the greyed out problem. You can do this live.

2.If you to purchased or rented DVD. Rip the DVD to your computer using a converter. In Pavtube BDMagic for Mac   (Windows) select‘Apple TV’as the preset. You can then drop the DVD movie and access it from your Apple TV 5/4. You need to do this before you watch the movie and it can take up to an hour or two. Alternatively you can copy the ripped DVD to a thumb drive and stick the thumb drive into the Apple TV USB port. Reviews.

Free download and install:

 

Other Download:
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- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-BDMagic/3000-7970_4-76177782.html

The Ways to Rip DVD to Apple TV Using DVD Ripper 

Step 1: Load Source DVD File

Click “Load DVD” or “File” > “Load DVD folder” to choose your DVD-ROM in the pop-up window and click the button to import the files. As you can see, you can either convert the whole DVD or just choose the chapters you want to convert. 

Step 2: Select Subtitles, Audio Tracks and Output Format

Normally, DVD movies have several subtitles like English, Chinese, French, Japanese, and so on. You can click “Subtitle” to choose the one you need or select “No Subtitle”. For the audio tracks, simply click “Audio Track” and select the one you want. After that, click “Profile” and choose”Apple TV” as the output file format from the drop-download format list for your Apple TV 5/4 . 

Step 3: Start converting

Finally, click the “Converter” button to rip DVD to Apple TV 5/4 . In a few minutes, you will get the converted movies. And then, just use iTunes to stream the files to Apple TV 5/4 and enjoy them! 

Tips: Streaming DVD to Apple TV 5/4

To play DVD on Apple TV, you need a Mac computer with an external USB DVD drive or a third-party DVD player because Apple DVD player doesn't support playing most of DVDs due to copyright. Hence, you are suggested to use VLC for instead.

Now, you can begin to stream DVD from Mac to Apple TV: 

1. Go to "File > Open Disc…" in VLC to play your DVD.

2. Enable AirPlay Mirroring on Mac: Open "Settings" on Apple TV to turn on AirPlay > Check "AirPlay Display" settings in system preference on Mac to make sure it is enabled > Click AirPlay button and select Apple TV > Tap the AirPlay button again and choose "Mirror Built-in Display".

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Merge and Play MTS/M2TS Files on VLC Media Player

MTS and M2TS are both file extensions for the high definition digital video camera recorder format, AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition). Many popular HD camcorders, like Canon VIXIA HF200, Canon FS200, Canon VIXIA HFS100, Canon VIXIA HG21, Panasonic HDC-HS300, Panasonic HDC-HS20, Sony HDR-CX100, Sony DCR-SR47, JVC GZ-HD40, JVC GZ-HD10 etc. record videos in MTS/M2TS format. But this format is not well compatible with Windows and Mac. That means you barely play MTS/M2TS files on VLC directly. If you have encountered problems when playing and converting MTS files with VLC, this page will provide an alternative way on how to convert MTS/M2TS to AVI with VLC program. Just have a look to learn more.

After Googled that Why cannot playback MTS/M2TS Files on VLC

You may find there two reasons as below:

Most common reason: Have older version of VLC- Update version.

Another common issue. "Possibly your computer is to slow to playback HD streams without GPU hardware support?"

Hot Search: VLC to MP4 | AVCHD Files to VLC Player | Youtube Videos to VLC | VLC No Sound Problem |

Maybe you can play some M2TS/MTS video files on MPlayer, BSPlayer, Windows Media Player, ALL Player and some other players, which rests with compression formats in a M2TS/MTS video file. For some players, they may need to install a proper codec, component or plug-in unit. Thus, if you want to play MTS/M2TS videos on different platforms, the once and for all method is converting MTS for Win/Mac. By doing so, you can effortlessly play your cam video on QuickTime, manage in iTunes, edit in iMovie and more. To play MTS/M2TS on VLC Media Player without any limitation, here we offer you two methods.

Part I: How to Play MTS Videos with VLC Media Player

Playing video with VLC is very simple; follow these easy to follow steps to be able to play any videos including MTS files with VLC whenever you want.

Step 1: Download the Software



You can download the software absolutely free! However, this is only available for PC users, other OS like Mac can't be supported by this software.

Step 2: Launch the Software and Open File



When the downloading and installation is done, simply launch the software and click Media button at the upper left side of the window, a menu option will appear from there choose Open File…

Step 3: Select the MTS File You Want To Play



A file folder will then appear. Find the location of the MTS file you want to play on the VLC media player. Take note that you can only play one video in a window at a time.

Step 4: Enjoy the Movie



Simple as that! You can now enjoy the movie you want to watch whenever you want!

Alternative Method: You can also play easily play you MTS file by finding directly the file you want to play, right-clicking it and choose Open with > VLC media player.



Tip: You can also add subtitles on it if you please by going to Subtitle > Add Subtitle File…



Part II: Get the Best Alternative: Convert MTS/M2TS to VLC Media Player

In order to add MTS/M2TS files to VLC Media Player for playback, the most effective and easy way is to convert MTS/M2TS to VLC playable format. Along with some help from third-party software. With Pavtube Video Converter/Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, a great MTS/M2TS Converter for VLC, you can easily achieve your goal smoothly. Read the Review.

Free Download Best MTS/M2TS to VLC Converter:

 

Other Download:

- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.com/video_converter/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-75734821.html

Step Guide: Help Converting MTS/M2TS (Windows screenshots) to AVI for VLC

Step 1: Download, install and run the trial version of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter, click "Add videos" or "Add From Folder" icon to import your source AVCHD files to the software.



Step 2. Set output format

Click on "Format" bar to select output format. Here you can choose to encode multiple .mts files to .avi, .mov, .mp4 for playing with VLC.



Tip: By clicking "Settings" icon, you can enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 4. Start converting MTS/M2TS to VLC format

In the end, you just need to click the "Convert" button start the conversion. After the conversion done, you can get the output videos played in VLC easily with HD quality.

Conclusion:

Pavtube Video Converter obviously offers more functionality than VLC by filling its application with a lot of other extra features that significantly improve its efficiency that VLC media player doesn't have. So that you can enjoy any videos on VLC for playback.

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