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.


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.

 Rip Blu-ray movie to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

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. 

 Rip Blu-ray movie to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

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

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 3iPhone 5Microsoft SurfaceGalaxy Note 2, Nexus 10, Nexus 7Galaxy Tab 3, Nook HD tablet, Asus Transformer Prime and other devices.



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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Convert H.264 MOV to MP4 on Mac for playing on Android, iOS, Windows 8, HD Media Player and more

Cameras are becoming more and more popular among common people, many people not only buy a DC but also buy DSLR to take photos and record high-definition videos. In the latest cameras, video recording format mainly is H.264 MOV format, like Canon DSLR and Nikon DSLR.

Maybe you have bought a DSLR or a DC that records H.264 MOV videos, MOV is not supported by many portable devices, like tablets and smartphones, it's not well for playback. In this case, you may need to convert H.264 MOV to MP4 format on Mac OS for watching or editing.

MP4, originally MPEG4, is a file format that is commonly used to store media types defined by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. Being an international standard, has more support. Especially true on hardware devices, such as Apple TViPhone, iPod, iPad, Android tablets/phones, PSP, various DVD players, etc.

Here I'll introduces a viable solutions for converting H.264 MOV to MP4 on Mac for playback on portable devices. Of course, at the very beginning of the task, you need a professional assistant - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac - to help you. The Mac program used here would do the most of work by adjusting H.264 MOV to MP4 on Mac (Mac OS X Leopard 10.5, Snow Leopard 10.6, Lion 10.7, Mountain Lion 10.8 included) so that you needn't do much but several clicks by yourself. Easy to use, efficient in conversion, excellent in quality are the three basic but necessary features of the software:

               

Just free download, install and run it, then start the trip of converting now!

How to convert H.264 MOV to MP4 on Mac OS X?

Step 1. Load H.264 MOV files into the program.

Click "Add video" or "Add folder" to load your MOV files you want to convert. Or directly drag and drop the MOV files to the Mac MOV to MP4 Converter program.

Batch conversion is supported by this Mac software, so you can convert several H.264 MOV files to H.264 MP4 at one time.



Step 2. Click "Format" column to choose the best video format for output.

You can click and choose "Common Video -> H.264 Video (*.mp4)", if you need to convert MOV files to other formats, just click and choose the corresponding formats according to your device.



Tips:

1. You can click "settings" button to customize the resolution, bitrate and other parameters as you want. If you want to play videos on tablet, you can change the resolution to the same as tablet's screen definition, what's more, higher the bitrate, you can get higher quality, but it also requires higher hardware support. such as:



The default setting works well.

2. Edit function is easy in the Mac H.264 MOV to MP4 Converter, you can trim, crop, add watermark or adjust effect to the footages before conversion. Details in the online help of Video Converter for Mac.

Step 3. Start H.264 MOV to MP4 conversion on Mac OS X.

Click the "Convert" button in the main interface, and let the rest be finished automatically by the professional Mac H.264 MOV to MP4 Converter. The converter also works on MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac.

With this Pavtube Mac Video Converter, you can easily transcode camera or camcorder H.264 MOV files to MP4 or any other formats you want. Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac will help you convert H.264 MOV video to MP4 on Mac at a fast speed, just have a try.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, A faster DVD Ripper and Converter than Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate

This Best Video Converter Ultimate Review is to help you compare Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate in fields of conversion speed and CPU usage. You will find a faster Blu-ray & DVD Ripper and Video Converter after reading it.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is an integration of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper, DVD Ripper and Video Converter. It helps not only rip/convert BDs and DVDs, but also convert all kinds of unprotected video files to any other formats for playing on portable devices like iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android tablets and phones, etc., as well as HD Media Players like WDTV, Apple TV, HDTV etc. The BD/DVD/videos can also be converted to compatible formats for further editing in non-linear editing software like Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, and more. It's very fast to convert BD, DVD and videos.

Here's a short review on conversion speed and CPU usage between Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and its competitor Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate.

Version Info:

  • Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate V4.7.0
  • Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate V6.5.0


Source for Testing:
  • Captain America (DVD)
  • Duration: 02:04:11

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

Output Settings:
  • H.264 1080p MP4 with default video bit rate settings

Round 1: Conversion Speed – Pavtube Wins!

  • Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: 01:35:36 
  • Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate: Longer than 03:06:35 

Converting the same DVD movie, Captain America with duration of 02:04:11, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate will take 01:35:36 and Wondershare will take more than 03:06:35. 

Round 2: CPU Usage – Pavtube Wins!

  • Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate 89% 
  • Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate 54% 

As is shown in screenshot below, converting the same DVD movie, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate takes 89% of CPU usage with full use of the 6 cores and Wondershare only takes 54% not fully used all cores.

Screenshots showing the comparison of Conversion Speed and CPU Usage:

Pavtube Video Converter Ulatimate


Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate


Conclusion:

According to this review on which one is faster, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate or Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate wins, since Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is 50% faster than Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate with much more CPU usage. And give it a try, and you can experience the faster DVD Ripper and Video Converter personally.

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

MakeMKV vs ByteCopy vs DVDfab - Top Blu-ray Ripper/Backup Review

For a beginners, The following passages take a brief review of 3 top Blu-ray Rippers: MakeMKV, DVDfab and Pavtube ByteCopy.

Hello, the Blu-ray/DVD Backing up & Ripping Review will show you on how to lossless convert/backup hundreds of Blu-ray/DVD movies to MKV, keep exactly same video and audio quality with original disks, moreover, retain multiple audio tracks and subtitles...


Top 1. Pavtube ByteCopy Review

Pavtube ByteCopy

You might have heard Pavtube ByteCopy - It is absolutely a top choice for those who wanna put Blu-ray/DVD to HD media players like WD TV Live and NMT A-210 for playback. So what can it do for you? 

Basically, the ByteCopy is similar to MakeMKV when it cracks and copied Blu-ray Disc and DVD movie to MKV. However, this app does not only everything (selection of forced subtitles is excluded from the "everything" ) MakeMKV does, but also converts/encodes Blu-ray contents. This feature is a lifesaver for HD media players, as not a HDD player plays 100% of Blu-ray features. E.g. When a BD movie is packed into MKV, WD TV Live can not read the Blu-ray subtitles inlaid. 

At this moment ByteCopy plays an irreplaceable role- it is the exclusive Blu-ray Ripper that converts Blu-ray .sup subtitle to .sub without hurting video and audio quality. When it trans-codes and shrinks Blu-ray contents, CUDA acceleration is employed by default when possible.
  • Export file format: .mkv
  • Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1, MPEG pass-through; H.264, Xvid, MPEG, VC-1 encoded
  • Audio: Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS Digital, DTS-HD high-def, DTS-HD MA pass-through; Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, AAC, MP3 encoded.
Read more: ByteCopy Review

Trial and Download


ByteCopy for Windows
  • Requires Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 (32bit and 64bit).
ByteCopy for Mac OS X
  • Requires x86 Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Pavtube ByteCopy rips Blu-ray in 2 ways, lossless copy and lossy conversion. In trial version lossless backup runs 7 times only; for loss conversion, a watermark is put on the screen. A full version is offered at $42. The purchase includes a lifetime license and unlimited upgrades.
Added July 9, 2013: Pavtube ByteCopy is upgraded!It’s now a much more powerful Blu-ray/DVD ripper/converter, and BD/DVD multi track preserver. 
New features:
  1. Automatically detect Blu-ray/DVD main movie
  2. Full disc copy Blu-ray/DVD by chapters without quality loss
  3. Rip/convert/backup BD/DVD to any other format for playback on any iOS/Android/Windows tablets and phones
  4. Backup BD/DVD to MKV format with multi audio/subtitle tracks and chapter markers without any quality loss.
  5. Convert BD/DVD to MP4/MOV with multi audio (language) tracks
  6. Add SRT, ASS, and SSA subtitles to BD/DVD movie
  7. Edit BD/DVD movies: trim off commercials, crop off black bars, merge several chapters into one, split one movie into several pieces, and more
  8. Support TrueHD 6.1 and TrueHD 7.1 decoding
  9. Support latest BD and DVD (BD/DVD/Ultimate/iMedia)
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Top 2. MakeMKV Review

MakeMKV

MakeMKV is a nice choice for those who feel like to make lossless copy of their Blu-ray and DVD collections. The software does one thing- converting the video clips from encrypted disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way- and does it well. It is very easy to remove unwanted audio or subtitle tracks and pretty fast to back up a Blu-ray. The copying of Blu-ray Avatar took only 86 minutes. All video streams, audio tracks and subtitles are included in resulting MKV file.

Import source: Blu-ray Disc/folder/ISO, DVD

Export file format: .mkv (with original codecs)

To add- MKV (also known as Matroska) is a container file format, in which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie in a single file. Practically this means that it is possible to put entire movie with multiple sound and subtitle tracks, chapters and movie thumbnail into single file.

MakeMKV 1.6.8 for Windows
  • Requires Windows XP, Vista or Win7, x86 or x64.
MakeMKV 1.6.8 for Mac OS X
  • Requires x86 Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
MakeMKV 1.6.8 for Linux

MakeMKV allows for a 30-day trial, and $50 is all you pay for lifetime Blu-ray ripping feature. Its DVD ripping feature always stays free, so let's say thank you to the generous developer of MakeMKV.

Top 3. DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper Review

DVDfab

DVDfab used to stand for an excellent free DVD ripper. Now we know they can do more (and ask for more too). DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper decrypts and rips Blu-ray title to various video files playable on next generation consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360, HD player like WD TV Live, or mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. Unlike MakeMKV, it exports a lot of video codecs and formats:

Video: MPEG-4, H.264, MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, M2TS, TS etc.

Audio: MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, WAV, AAC, AC3, DTS, etc.

So you see the differences here. With MakeMKV you get lossless Blu-ray backup but only in MKV format; while with DVDfab you lose original Blu-ray quality but get much smaller movie clips in desired format. A preferred feature of DVDfab is their "Lighting speed", i.e., multi-core CPUs and NVIDIA CUDA support. By taking advantage of CUDA accelerating, the conversion time is greatly shorted.

Trial and Download

DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper
  • Requires Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 (32bit and 64bit).
DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac
  • Requires x86 Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Everyone can evaluate the trial for 30 days before it stops work. To continue using the software, you can buy a one-year license of DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper at $60 and $105.6 for lifetime license. If you purchase Blu-ray Ripper and DVD Ripper in bundle, it'll be $93.5 for one-year use and $154 for lifetime. Pretty high price, isn't it? Especially when you can get a similar Blu-ray Ripper at much lower price?

Compare: MakeMKV vs. DVDfab vs. Pavtube ByteCopy

MakeMKV and ByteCopy are good for lossless Blu-ray and DVD backup, while DVDfab focuses on Blu-ray trans-coding to portable devices like PS3, Xbox, etc.

Q: Which Blu-ray ripper keeps Blu-ray movie structure (including chapters)?
A: MakeMKV and ByteCopy

Q: Which Blu-ray ripper keeps multiple audio tracks and subtitles?
A: MakeMKV and ByteCopy

Q: What about the ripping speed of the three Blu-ray Rippers?
A: MakeMKV = ByteCopy (lossless copy) > DVDfab

Q: Which en-decodes Blu-ray with NVIDIA's CUDA support (GPU computing)?
A: ByteCopy and DVDfab (Tip: CUDA works only when exporting H.264 encoded videos)

Q: Which does better on Blu-ray hacking/cracking?
A: Not a Blu-ray ripper is able to crack all the Blu-ray Discs as decryption always falls behind encryption. So it's a question of upgrade and tech support. All the three updates their software along with the come up of new BD+ keys. MakeMKV and Pavtube ByteCopy charge free for updates while DVDfab asks you pay extra money for the updates.
  
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Quick convert DVD Movies to Galaxy Tab 3 and remain great video quality

"My family is going on a trip and I want to convert some DVD movies for our new Galaxy Tab 3. I tried some DVD Rippers and they surely extracted great videos, but it takes quite a long time to finish conversion. I expect one converter can do quick conversion while remain great video quality."

Did you get any video card like Nvidia or ATI equipped to PC? If so, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate applications now take full advantage of the NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD ® Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) to largely accelerate video encoding speed. The GPU acceleration saves users time when transcoding/converting/ripping video files from one format to another by using H.264 codec. With a PC running on a CUDA-enabled Graphics card, or an AMD graphics card with AMD APP technology, the conversion speed of Pavtube software is about 6X faster than before.


Meanwhile, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the best all-in-one application that combines a best Blu-ray Ripper, DVD Ripper and Video Converter, it guides you to rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD movies and almost all kinds of videos to universal video and audio file types with super fast conversion speed and excellent image and sound quality. The updated Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate works better on converting regular videos without video/audio sync issues.
  
Let's get deeper: How to get this program work and how to convert DVD for portable devices, e.g. Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Tab 2, Galaxy S4, S3, Galaxy Note II, etc.

Step 1: Free download the Pavtube Galaxy Tab 3 Video Converter Ultimate, install and launch it.

Click "Load from disc", "Load from folder" or "Load IFO/ISO" icon to load DVD movie.


DVD Movies to Galaxy Tab 3

Step 2: Select "Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Video(*.mp4)" as output format.

Click the dropdown list of "Format" and you can find alt least one profile for your device and we recommend you to choose "Samsung > Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Video(*.mp4)" as output format for transferring DVD to Galaxy Tab 3



Tips: If you cannot find that particular profile preset for your own device, don't worry, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate offers several common profiles for Android tablets/phones as well as Windows 8 tablets/phones or iOS devices, etc.

Step 3: Customize profile settings (optional)

Click "Settings" button next to Profile box to change output profile parameters like video codec, audio codec, video size, bit rate, framerate, etc.



Step 4: Start conversion.

On the main interface, click the "Convert" button to begin to convert DVD movies to Galaxy Tab 3 optimized formatwithout video/audio sync issues.

After successful conversion, click "Open" button on program main UI, locate the converted videos and transfer video files from PC to Samsung Galaxy Tab with Kies.

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