Digitizing Your Media Life

Monday, November 23, 2015

Solved - Can't play MKV-files with Plex on Apple TV 4

Q: I am new to Plex and I've started to figure out how everything works. When I access files from my NAS, MP4-files play nicely on the Apple TV 4. However, it seems that it cannot play my MKV-files. It loads them up just fine with meta-info and all, but when I hit "Play", it just loads for a while before returning to the main screen for the movie. What am I missing here? The files play just fine in the browser on my MacBook. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

As more and more users get the Apple TV 4, there are many Apple TV 4 about Plex related questions asked on the forums and websites, one of the hot topics is the MKV playback on Apple TV 4 via Plex. A lot of users have MKV videos and movies stored on computer, and now they want to play MKV on Apple TV 4 so that they can enjoy the videos and movies on big HDTV. But when they tried to play MKV on Apple TV 4 they get failure, the Apple TV 4 can’t play MKV videos, what’s the reason?

The MKV to Apple TV 4 playback issue is caused by the video format limitation of Apple TV 4/Plex. If you check Apple TV 4 user manual or its product page you will learn that Apple TV 4 supported video formats are limited, it can only play H.264/MPEG-4 MOV, MP4 and M4V files, for other video formats like MKV, AVI, WMV, etc. Apple TV 4 is not able to play them, so you can’t play MKV on Apple TV 4/Plex direct.

Okay, for all users, if you want to stream MKV files to the new Apple TV, Apple TV 3/2 for playback, you'll need to convert your MKV files to Apple friendly format (e.g. m4v). Along with some help from third-party software. WithPavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, a great Mac MKV Converter for Apple TV 4, you can easily achieve your goal smoothly. In addition to converting MKV to the new Apple TV, it also can MP4, H.265, Tivo, AVCHD, VOB, MPEG-2, MXF, WMV, AVI, DivX, Xvid, Flash format, WebM, and etc to Apple TV 4 video format.

Overall, this all-in-one Video Converting tool can help you to rip Blu-ray, DVD and various video files to your Apple TV 4 for watching. Furthermore, it is also equipped with advanced editing function like add subtitles, effect, text or picture watermark to MKV files, crop MKV black bars, trim or merge MKV files, compress output file size and etc. (Learn more functions in this review).

Other Download:

- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/imedia-converter-mac/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-iMedia-Converter/3000-2194_4-76177788.html

The following guide shares with you how to encode 1080p/720p MKV to Apple TV 4 for playback on Mac step-by-step.

Step 1. Install and launch the MKV Converter for Apple TV 4, and click "Add file" or "Add from folder" button to load your MKV files. The software supports batch conversion so that you can add several MKV files to convert at one time. You can also load Internet torrents movies.

Step 2. Click on "Format" boarder to set output format.

Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Apple TV 3 1080P Dolby Digital Pass-through(*.m4v)” from “Apple TV” which is the compatible format for Apple TV 4. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need.

Step 3: Adjust audio and video parameters.

Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. 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. To get AC3 5.1 auido files, you can set audio codec to AC3 and change audio channels to 5.1 Channels. Learn>> how to set up Apple TV 4.

Step 3. Finally click on "Convert" button to start converting MKV to 1080p HD M4V for Apple TV 4 on Mac.

After conversion, get converted video files for transferring to ATV 4 via Plex from Mac. In this way, you can get MKV files playable on Apple TV 4 with Mac OS X without problems. We hope this short article will bring some new multimedia life to your Apple TV 4.

Note: If you have some issues about Plex Playback, you can read : use Plex with QNAP NAS | Plex FAQ | Add Movies to Plex | Best Video Settings for Plex |

Stream MKV to Apple TV 4 via AirPlay or iTunes

Via AirPlay: Firstly, to use AirPlay, you need to prepare one of the following devices: iPhone 4 (or later), iPad, iPad mini, or iPod touch (4th generation or later). Add the converted MKV movies to iTunes and sync to your iOS device.

Secondly, be sure iOS device and Apple TV are in the same Wi-Fi network; start play the video on your device, and then swipe up from the bottom of your device screen to access Control Center and tap AirPlay; finally, tap the name of the device you want to AirPlay to.

Via iTunes: Firstly, add the converted MKV videos to iTunes. Then, go to iTunes > Preferences, choose Apple TV, and make sure "Look for Apple TVs" is selected.

Secondly, on your Apple TV 4, choose Settings > Computers > "Connect to iTunes," and note the passcode displayed; in iTunes, select the Apple TV 4 (below Devices), and enter the passcode.

Thirdly, click the Summary button and select one of "Automatic Sync" and "Custom Sync".

Now, all content are streamed to Apple TV via Plex for enjoyment. Could you image an easier way to do this than Pavtube MKV to Apple TV 4 Converter?

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Friday, November 20, 2015

AVI to DLNA - Fix AVI and DLNA Incompatible Issues

Looking for a way to stream AVI files via DLNA? This article will quickly walk you through how to make AVI files DLNA compliant, so that you can play AVI via DLNA easily.

DLNA is a wonderful way to connect and enjoy media files via home wired or wireless network. You are able to stream films, pictures and files from your laptop to your TV, HD media players or tablet via DLNA, sharing media content with family members and friends. That must be wonderful to playback your movie collections with your family and friends in the living room.

While, not all video and audio files can be streamed perfectly over DLNA such as AVI. Luckly, this article will discuss how to stream AVI files over DLNA without incompatible issues. Actually, some DLNA compatible devices can support AVI format, but it is limited to Xvid/DivX SD. Some DivX HD AVI movies are not supported well.

To make those AVI files DLNA compliant, you’ll need to convert AVI to DLNA supported file format first. In this case you're suggested to convert AVI to DLNA sanctioned format, e.g. H.264 MP4. The following guide tells you how to convert AVI files for DLNA streaming with ease. After multiple testing, we found Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the best solution for you. This video app is professional on fast transcoding AVI to DLNA supported format without quality loss. Here is review.

In addition, it not only supports AVI videos, but also handles Blu-ray, DVD and various common video formats, like MTS, MKV, VOB, MOV, WMV .etc. Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for media players including PS4, iPad Pro, iPhone 6S, Galaxy S7, Nexus 10, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Surface Pro 4 etc to meet your different needs. If you're using a Mac OS X El Capitan, please turn to the iMedia Converter for Mac. Now, we will give a detailed guide on the whole process from converting AVI to DLNA supported video on Windows 10.

Free Download and trail:

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- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-video-converter-ultimate/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter-Ultimate/3000-2194_4-75938564.html

Stream and Add AVI movies to DLNA server for TV playback?

Step 1. Load movies

Hit “Add video” to import AVI video files (or other various digital video files). You can also Click “Load file” icon to import BD/DVD disc, ISO image files or BD/DVD folder.

Step 2. Choose DLNA supported video format

Click the format bar to select video format both compatible with DLNA and the particular DLNA-enabled device such as a PS4, Xbox 360, or Samsung Galaxy Tab. Usually H.264 is the most recommended as it’s widely compatible with most main devices now.

Now, Check the formats compatible with DLNA as follows:

Image: JPEG PNG, GIF, TIFF

Audio: LPCM AAC, AC-3, ATRAC 3plus, MP3, WMA9

Video: MPEG2 MPEG-1, MPEG-4, AVC, WMV9

Step 3. Adjust audio/video parameters (Optional)

Point to the “Settings” button near the format bar and click it to go to “Profile Settings” interface. In order not to affect the streaming process, adjust audio/video parameters like bitrate and size according to your home bandwidth.

Step 4. Start converting movie to DLNA supported video format

Click “Convert” to realize DLNA movie conversion. And then you can stream the converted movies to any DLNA-enabled devices (e.g. a DLNA-certified HDTV) within your home network.

After that, you can stream AVI files over DLNA to your TV, HD Media Player, tablets, smartphones or other DLNA-compliant devices without any hassle.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Backup Blu-ray to U Disc for MP018 Full HD Media Player

MP018 Full HD Media Player is with full 1080p player, which will give your extraordinary video experience. Moreover, it supports Ypbpr output, external HDD or U disk, SD card and HDMI and various audio and picture format, all these functions will help you to enjoy your HD movie at home. If you have plenty of Blu-ray disc collection, ripping these Blu-ray to U disc for MP018 Full HD Media Player is a nice idea.

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Backing up Blu-ray to U disc not only can make you play Blu-ray movies on MP018 Full HD Media Player freely, but gives you the carriage convenience so that you can take your favorite Blu-ray movies with you. Then you can watch them in hotel with HD TV or in the caravan when you are going on a trip. To achieve the goal, you need a Blu-ray ripper.

Here, I want to recommend Pavtube BDMagic to you. This top-ranked Blu-ray ripper can rip and convert any commercial and region-locked Blu-ray to U Disc for MP018 Full HD Media Player in MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, FLV, etc. It offers you H.264, DivX codec for video and DTS, MP3, ACC codec for audio. Besides this, it also allows you to add srt/ass/ssa subtitle to your Blu-ray video.

Its equivalent Mac version is Pavtube BDMagic for Mac which has updated to support Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

Free download and install:

Other Download:

- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-ripper/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-BDMagic/3000-7970_4-75922877.html

How to Rip Blu-ray to U Disc for MP018 Full HD Media Player?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movie on PC

Run Blu-ray to MP018 Full HD Media Player converter on your PC, and click “File” ＞ “Load from disc” to load Blu-ray movie to the app. You can choose your desired subtitle and audio below the chapter list. And this app supports batch conversion so that you can add more than one Blu-ray movies at a time.

Step 2: Choose format for MP018 Full HD Media Player

Since MP018 Full HD Media Player support H.264 and DivX video codec, so you can choose AVI or “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” from “HD Video” as the target output format.

Tip: If you want to add subtitle in your foreign Blu-ray for watching on MP018 Full HD Media Player via U Disc, you can go to the video editing interface by clicking“Edit”. Then hit on “Subtitle” to add your external SRT/ASS/SSA subtitle.

Note: The subtitle must be named as the movie title.

Step 4: Start to rip Blu-ray to U Disc

After everything is set down for video conversion, choose your video output destination folder and click the big red button “Convert” to convert your Blu-ray to H.264 MP4 for MP018 Full HD Media Player . If you’re tired of waiting the whole converting process, tick off “shutdown computer after conversion” and take care of other business or entertainment.

That’s all for the Blu-ray ripping. See, this app is so easy to use. What’s more, you can get a up to 40% discount during Pavtube Thanksgiving Coupon activity or like Pavtube Facebook to get a FB special offer.

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DVDAid for Windows/Mac - Capacity of ripping copy-protected and homemade DVD to iPhone 6S, iPad, Surface Pro, Synology NAS, Seagate Wireless Plus, etc with suitable format.

ByteCopy for Windows/Mac - It can rip Blu-ray/DVD to lossless MKV keeping multi-track subtile/audio and all chapter markers.

Pavtube Video Converter for Windows/Mac - Function of converting Blu-ray/DVD, 4K/SD/HD video in any format to nearly all popular video format you have ever seen.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

How to Extract Contacts from iTunes Backups to iPhone 6S

If you need to extract contacts from iTunes to new iPhone 6S like the following question, this article will be a nice solution:
“I need help. How can I import contact list from my iTunes backup to iPhone 6s? I don't want to restore the whole iTunes backup data to iPhone 6s, for I have some other important data on my iPhone 6s. So how can I import only contacts from iTunes backup to my iPhone 6s? Thanks.”

iTunes backup is unreadable on computer.so you need a iPhone Data Recovery program which can extract your iTunes backups on PC/Mac.

Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS for Mac is a top-ranked iPhone Data Recovery tool, which can extract the iTunes backup on your Mac and get contacts out of it. Actually, it allows you to preview and selectively recover whatever you want from iTunes backup. You can finish the process in only 2 steps: scan and recover. Read its review to learn more.

For Windows users,please turn to Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS Windows.

Free Download and Install Mac iPhone Data Recovery

How to selectively extract contacts from iTunes backup to new iPhone 6S

Step 1:Run the program and choose "Recover from iTunes Backup Files". Then choose the backup file to scan it.

step 2: Once the scan process ends, all the data will be listed on the left according to the data categories. You can tick the “Contacts” and hit “Recover” to save them on Mac.

Once you have selective backup the contacts from iTunes to Mac, you can transfer them to iPhone 6S.

Related Software:
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android for Mac - First aid to recover deleted or lost contacts, text messages, photos, videos, audio files, documents, WhatsApp history, call history, etc from Android phones and tablets.
Wondershare MobileTrans for Mac - One click and risk-free solution to move contacts, text messages, call logs, calendar, photos, music, video and apps between iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia(Symbian) phones.
Wondershare TunesGo for Mac - Transfer and copy music, videos, playlists and other media files from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to iTunes and PC with no difficulty.
Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac - Convert any 4K/SD/HD and Blu-ray/DVD to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch with suitable format.

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How to Retrieve Message on Broken iPhone 6S via Mac El Capitan

I have dropped my new iPhone 6S for several times. Do you also have the situation like me? If so, you’d better sync your iPhone 6S to iTunes in case you lost the data on your iPhone when you broke it. However, the iTunes backups are unreadable on your Mac. So if you really broke your iPhone 6S, how can you recover the most important message on it?

If you can’t prevent the situations from occurring, you have the need to learn how to recover the message of broken iPhone 6S. Here shows you three methods to recover message of broken iPhone 6S with a third party software callediPhone Data Recovery Tool. Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS for Mac is a good choice, which allows you to directly scan your iPhone 6S, iTunes/iCloud backups and get the message out of your iPhone selectively. This app has updated to support Mac OS X El Capitan. (review)

For Windows users,please turn to Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS Windows.

Free Download and Install Mac iPhone Data Recovery

Method 1: Recover message from broken iPhone 6S directly

Step 1. Choose the recover mode and extract message

Launch the program on Mac once you've installed it. Then go to "Recover from iOS Device" on the top of the primary window. Then click on the "Start Scan" button. The program will begin scanning your broken iPhone 6S.

Step 2. Peview and recover message

Once the scan process ends, you can check all found data in the scan result generated by the program, such as photos, contacts, notes, call log, whatsApp conversations, and more. Select “message” and click “Recover”. Then your message on your broken iPhone 6S will be restored on Mac.

Method 2: Recover broken iPhone 6S message from iTunes backups

Step 1:Run the program and choose “Recover from iTunes Backup Files”. Then choose the backup file to scan it.

step 2: Once the scan process ends, you can preview and tick the “Message”you want to save them on Mac.

Method 3: Recover broken iPhone 6S message from iTunes backups

Step 1: Run the program and choose “Recover from iCloud Backup Files”. Then log in your iCloud account. After that, choose the backup you want to download and scan it.

Step 2: Afterwards, you can preview and tick the “Message” to recover them to your Mac.

You can use any method to recover your message of your broken iPhone 6S. Each method is so easy to operate.

Related Software:
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android for Mac - First aid to recover deleted or lost contacts, text messages, photos, videos, audio files, documents, whatsapp history, call history, etc from Android phones and tablets.
Wondershare MobileTrans for Mac - One click and risk-free solution to move contacts, text messages, call logs, calendar, photos, music, video and apps between iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia(Symbian) phones.
Wondershare TunesGo for Mac - Transfer and copy music, videos, playlists and other media files from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to iTunes and PC with no difficulty.
Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac - Convert any 4K/SD/HD and Blu-ray/DVD to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch with suitable format.

Source site: http://onebestsoft.com/recover-message-from-broken-iphone6s/

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