Top 4 Blu-ray rippers
Posted by wikitune in MOD Video Converter on 11 29th, 2009Trough surfing the Internet for some time, I’ve collected dozens of Blu-ray rippers developed for Windows user. With the special intention of figuring out which one is the best of all, I’ve tested nearly each of them, and finally pushed out this comment to show my own opinion about the top 4 Blu-ray rippers summarized by myself. Hope it will be of some help for you, and any criticism is appreciated. Now, let’s have a look at these 4 BD rippers one by one together.
No.1 Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is the best one among all the splitters I have tested. It is an independent DVD and Blu-Ray ripper with Windows 7 support, which is capable of decrypting unprotected and protected DVDs and Blu-ray disks without the support of third party software.
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Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper can rip and convert your Blu-ray movies and general DVDs into other popular audio and video formats like AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc., so that you can playback them on your beloved portable players like iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, Blackberry, PSP, Creative Zen, Xbox, etc., or import them to Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere to make your own movies, or do something else as you like. Moreover, it has a unique option called “Copy”, through which you can directly backup your DVD .vob files and Blu-ray .m2ts files to the hard drive of your PC or an external hard drive, and still keep the format of .vob and .m2ts without any quality loss.
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Additionally, this Blu-ray ripper allows user adjusting video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate , sample rate, aspect ratio, audio channels, etc., that means you are able to compress the file size of your Blu-ray discs according to your own requirements.
Best of all, it is really affordable, only $49 US dollars, the cheapest of all the BD rippers I’ve ever seen.
No.2: AnyDVD HD
AnyDVD HD comes with same functionality as AnyDVD, but with additional features for full Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD support, including decryption of Blu-ray (BD+ and AACS) and HD DVD (AACS) movies.
By comparison, it lacks some functions that Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper has, namely, it does not support adjusting customized settings like bit rate, resolution, etc, also changing sub-title and audio track are both unavailable.
AnyDVD HD is good at removing all sorts of BD protections, but when it comes to file size compression, it can not do anything about it.
It will cost 63 euros, equals to $92 US dollars, much expensive than Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and the later rippers.
No.3: Top Blu-ray Ripper
It is capable of decrypting blu-ray disks to all the popular video and audio formats, like FLV, SWF, MOV, 3GP, 3GPP2, MKV, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4, WMV, RM, etc. Moreover, it supports previewing the movie before ripping, clipping the movie freely, snapshot the images in the preview, automatically shutting down the computer, etc., and supports batch ripping. All these functions are all had by Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.
However, compare with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and AnyDVD HD, Top Blu-ray Ripper can not decrypt Blu-ray (BD+ and AACS), and remove region codes. Furthermore, the same with AnyDVD HD, it is unable to select Audio track language as well.
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Its price is $69.9 US dollars, higher than those of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and the later Earth Bluray Ripper.
No.4: Earth Bluray Ripper
Earth Bluray Ripper is able to rip and convert blu-ray discs and general DVDs to the format of AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, FLV, MKV, MOV, RM, 3GP, SWF, ASF, MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, OGG, , etc., and allows users previewing the movie before ripping, as well as clipping any segment from the whole movie, snapshot the moving pictures in preview, customizing video quality, video size, audio quality and audio channels, supporting batch converting, automatically shutdown the computer after ripping work is finished.
It seems that it has nearly the similar functions as Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. But why do I put it here in the 4th place? That is totally because of its inferior decrypting ability. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and AnyDVD HD can absolutely decrypt all the Blu-ray files you throw on it, while Earth Bluray Ripper sometimes can only work on some of them selectively.
Furthermore, the same with Top Blu-ray Ripper, it does not support showing all chapters, therefore, users can not split their DVD or Blu-ray movies by chapters. This is a key point that needs improvement.
It will spend you $49.99 US dollars.
read comments (0)Amazing video converters for both Windows and Mac users
Posted by wikitune in MOD Video Converter on 11 29th, 2009Are you a video lover? Have you ever looked forward to searching for a satisfactory video converter to deal with your favorite video sources, like footages shot by an AVCHD camcorder, TiVo files recorded by digital video recorder, FLV files downloaded from YouTube or other video sharing websites, etc., but have never met a proper one? If so, don’t be anxious, this guide will show you the detailed instructions of two excellent video converters, one for Windows, and the other for Mac. Just follow them and now let’s start.
Part 1: How to convert videos on Windows
Required software:
Pavtube Video Converter
This software can convert media files among various audio and video formats, including WMV, FLV, M2TS, MTS, MP4, TOD, MOD, etc, specially, it supports inputting TiVo files, the TV shows recorded by a digital video recorder.
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Following is the detailed user guide:
1. Download Pavtube video converter, install and run it.
As soon as you have launched it, the following interface will show up.
2. Import video files, set output format and destination folder
Click button “Add” to load the video files you want to convert from your PC. Then, you will see such an interface as below, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select the output format and press the output folder to decide where to place the resulted files. Moreover, if you want to combine multiple files into a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file”.
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3. Set advanced settings
Suppose you are good at adjusting audio and video parameters, then you can press “Settings” to do this. You can reset all the items on the following window, like codec, bit rate, frame rate and so on.
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4. Convert
After all the necessary settings are ready, you can click button “Convert” to start the conversion. Pavtube video converter can give you an estimated size of the final generated file, so that you can know if you have enough space to save the output files. Moreover, you will see it also shows you clearly about how much time it has spent or how much time it will possibly cost to convert the rest part. The converting window is as below.
As soon as the conversion is completed, you can click “Open” button to find out your generated files easily.
PS: Some more features of Pavtube Video Converter.
1. Audio and video match very well.
2. It supports to input various video/audio formats, even image formats.
3. Fast conversion speed with excellent quality.
4. Allow you add different sorts of watermarks, including text, images, GIF animations, videos.
5. Merge multiple files into one file.
6. Take place of the original audio with your specified audio.
7. It provides lots of special effects, like simple gauss blur, aged film, invert, flip color, gray and simple laplacian sharpen.
8. Its built-in codec will not install any codec on your computer, so as to avoid the unexpected codec problem.
Part 2: How to convert videos on Mac
1. Download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, install and run it.
As soon as you have launched it, the following interface will appear.
2. Import video files.
Click button “Add” to load the video files you want to convert from your Mac. Then, you will see such an interface as below:
3. Set the output format and location.
Select the output format from the drop-down list of “Format”. Hit the button “Browse” to select the destination folder to load output files.
4. Convert
After all the necessary settings are ready, you can click button “Convert” to start the conversion. By the way, Pavtube has one more excellent feature that it can give you an estimated size of the final generated file, so that you can know if you have enough space to save the output files. The “Ripping” window is as below:
Tips:
How to replace the original audio of your video files on Mac?
Press icon “Editor”, and then click button “Audio Replace” in the pop-up window. After that, an interface as following will appear. Hit the checkbox “Enable audio replace” and click “Browse” to specify which audio file will be selected to displace the original one. In addition, if the audio file you selected is not as long as the original, you need click checkbox “Loop” to let it restart from beginning, otherwise the rest video will be left without sound as soon as the audio you specified ends off in the first round. Remember, as soon as your setting is done, click “OK” to apply it.
Once the conversion is done, you will get an amazing video file with certain special background sound which is totally directed by yourself.
Convert videos for portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, etc. (TiVo files are accepted)
Posted by wikitune in MOD Video Converter on 11 29th, 2009As a movie fans, I have tried many, many, different video converters before, and have never been completely glad like this time. Because this time Google brings me a surprise, it sends me a most wonderful video converter I’ve ever seen. This lovely gadget is called Pavtube Video Converter, which has performed beautifully for all things I’ve needed it to do, especially for it can work on the TiVo files recorded by my DVR. Its functions are so intuitive that I have not referred to the help menu once. It absolutely brings me great convenience, therefore I’d like to share its simple operation steps with all of you, and hope it can give helps to those people who are in needs.
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1. Download, install and run it
As soon as you launched it, the following interface will show up.
2. Import video files, set output format and destination folder
Click button “Add” to load the video files you want to convert from your PC. Then, you will see such an interface as below, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select the output format and press the output folder to decide where to place the resulted files. Moreover, if you want to combine multiple files into a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file”.
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3. Set advanced settings
Suppose you are good at adjusting audio and video parameters, then you can press “Settings” button to do this. You can reset all the items on the following window, like codec, bit rate, frame rate and so on.
4. Convert
After all the necessary settings are ready, you can click button “Convert” to start the conversion. Pavtube video converter can give you an estimated size of the final generated file, so that you can know if you have enough space to save the output files. Moreover, you will see it also shows you clearly about how much time it has spent or how much time it will possibly cost to convert the rest part. The converting window is as below:
As soon as the conversion is completed, you can click “Open” button to find out the generated files easily. And then put them to you iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, or any other portable devices for playback, or add to video editors for editing, or inset to PPT for presentation, etc. In brief, you can do whatever you want with the output videos as you like.
PS: Some more features I have found in the use of Pavtube Video Converter.
1. Audio and video match very well.
2. It supports inputting various video/audio formats, even image formats.
3. Fast conversion speed with excellent quality.
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4. Allow you add different sorts of watermarks, including text, images, GIF animations, videos.
5. Merge multiple files into one file.
6. Take place of the original audio with your specified audio.
7. It provides lots of special effects, like simple gauss blur, aged film, invert, flip color, gray and simple laplacian sharpen.
8. Its built-in codec will not install any codec on your computer, so as to avoid the unexpected codec problem.
Compress video size for uploading onto YouTube (TiVo files are supported）
Posted by wikitune in MOD Video Converter on 11 29th, 2009Video resources has become an absolutely necessary part of our daily lives, we can get them from various ways, such as downloading from video sharing websites, purchasing from DVD resellers, recording via digital cameras, camcorders or digital video recorders like TiVo DVR, copying from a friend, or some ways else. Besides acquisition, as well, we are willing to upload our handy video files onto YouTube for sharing with everyone else. To upload videos to YouTube successfully, we often need compress file sizes and transfer video formats, because YouTube has limitations on the two aspects.
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Generally speaking, YouTube allows standard account holders to upload videos in length not more than 10 minutes, and in file size not more than 2GB. Hence, we need compress these files to meet the requirements before uploading.
Moreover, YouTube accepts videos uploaded in formats including WMV, AVI, MKV, MOV, MPEG, MP4, DivX, FLV, 3GP, and OGG. If your videos are out of this scope, you should convert them to these formats previously.
Personally, I usually use Pavtube Video Converter to transfer and compress the file size of my videos. Now I will give a detailed guide here to show you how to compress video file size via this converter, hope it helps.
1. Download Pavtube Video Converter, and then install and run it.
2. Import video files, set output format and destination folder
Click button “Add” to load the video files you want to convert from your PC. This converter allows importing a wide range of video files, the TiVo files is specially included. Then, you will see such an interface as below, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select the output format, do remember choosing one in the range of WMV, AVI, MKV, MOV, MPEG, MP4, DivX, FLV, 3GP, and OGG. Then, you should press the output folder to decide where to place the resulted files, otherwise, the program will export them to the folder set by default automatically. Furthermore, if you want to combine multiple files into a single file, you can tick checkbox “Merge into one file” to achieve it. Here I add my m2ts files as an example, and select AVI as the output format.
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3. Compress file size by setting advanced settings.
This step is the key point of this guide. Press button “Settings”, and then the following interface will show up, you can adjust the video and audio parameters like image pixels, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate to change the output file size. The smaller values produce the smaller file size.
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4. Convert
After all the above settings are done, you can click “Convert” button to start conversion. The following interface will give you an estimation of the output file size, so that you can ensure whether your files are surpassing the limitation of 2GB. If not, you can cancel the conversion, and go back to “Settings” to reset the parameters, until the output files are suitable for uploading onto YouTube.
Download and import YouTube videos to iMovie for editing
Posted by wikitune in MOD Video Converter on 11 29th, 2009YouTube always provides people with raw video materials on all sorts of things happened worldwide in real time. Video lovers are fond of downloading these files as private collection, even using video editors like iMovie to do further editing of their favorite ones, so as to import them to portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, etc. for playback, or upload to their own websites to share with others, or do something else as they like.
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However, not all the people have found a proper way to download YouTube videos, not to mention how to add these files to iMovie for editing. YouTube videos are in the format of FLV, which is not a workable format in iMovie, so if you want to import YouTube videos to it without trouble, you should convert FLV files to iMovie compatible formats such as MPEG-4 and MOV in advance. With the special intention of solving these two problems, this guide will show you how to download YouTube videos and import them to iMovie for editing step by step. If you are in need, just feel free to go along with it.
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac
This converter can process downloading and conversion simultaneously. Once you launch it, the interface below well pop up.
Step 2: Add URL, select output format and set save path
Press tag “Add URL” in the above interface, and then the following window will appear. Just copy and paste the URL of the YouTube video file which you want to download and convert to the text box after “URL”. Then select a supportable format for iMovie by clicking the drop-down list of “Convert To”. Here I choose MOV for example.
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Afterwards, you can insert the storage file name in the text box of “Save As”, if not, the program will generate one automatically. Here I save my file as “mycollection”. Meanwhile, you are allowed to hit “Browse” in the opposite side of “Save To” to specify the destination folder. By the way, if you want to save the original FLV files, you are allowed to tick the checkbox “Save FLV File” to achieve this goal.
Step 3: Custom
This program enables you to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and channels, so that you can change them randomly according to your own demands. Generally speaking, the options which refer to values are always in condition of the larger values, the larger file size, but better quality. Do remember click “OK” to save your custom settings.
Step 4: Download and convert
Once all the settings are done, you can click “OK” button to start. The following window will show you the progress of downloading and conversion.
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Step 5: Import the output MOV files to iMovie
As soon as the YouTube video files have been downloaded and converted to MOV or other iMovie workable format, you can click “Open” at lower right corner of the above interface to find out the output files. Afterwards, launch iMovie, and click File>Import to add the output files to iMovie for editing.
Tips:
1. This program supports batch tasks so that you can download multiple YouTube video files in batches at a time.
2. Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac adopts multi-threading technology, which makes its download speed is faster than any other similar YouTube downloader.
3. Besides YouTube.com, it can also automatically detect and download online videos in the format of .flv, and f4v from many other video-sharing websites, like Yahoo Video, Myspace, Google Video, Fox and more.
4. It also provides users with conversion function, with which you can convert any YouTube FLV/F4V files to other formats like MP4, MKA, WAV, AC3, MKV, FLV, MP3, M4A, 3GP, AVI, MOV, MPG, etc. at will.
5. If you only use it as a YouTube downloader without format conversion, you can take it as a piece of freeware.
All right, this guide is ending up now; hope it will do you a favor while downloading video files from YouTube as well as importing them to iMovie for further editing.
