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Watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on Palm Pre Plus with your desired file size
One feature of smart phones is that enables users to play back digital video and audio on the go, here we just focus on the newly released Palm Pre Plus. This little device has a vivid and bright capacitive touch screen, which is made out of hard plastic, although not as good as glass, holds up fine. The screen is 3.1 inch, at 320 x 480 pixels, with multitouch capabilities. Besides this, Palm Pre Plus has doubled internal memory from 8GB to 16GB, so you can store more videos, music, and photos on it, and access them whenever and wherever at will.
To enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies on the Pre Plus, two things you need consider: firstly, the file format, secondly, the capacity of your device. First off, let’s see the Pre Plus supported file formats:
Playback Digital Video Formats: H.264, MPEG-4, H.263 video and AMR audio
Supported Digital Audio Standards: AAC, AMR, MP3, WAV, AAC +, eAAC+
In addition to copy protections (CSS, AACS, BD+), DVD movies, especially the Blu-rays always has large file size, so we need a tool to assist us to remove protections as well as compress file size, or select a specific clip for playback. When it refers to this function, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is recommended.
Part one: About Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper:
It is an all-in-one Blu-ray and DVD ripper, converter and editor. With this application you can directly rip Blu-ray and protected DVD movie from the discs without other decryption software and convert them to compatible video and audio formats to transfer to Palm Pre Plus, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Blackberry, Gphone, 3GP, Zune, Xbox 360, Creative Zen, Archos, Nokia, DV, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas etc for playback and editing.
It supports both HD and SD output formats and allows you to customize video size, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, audio channel, etc. Movie collectors would be glad to find that Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper removes the protections of Blu-Ray movies and protected DVD when back them up for collection.
The ripper handles all versions of Blu-ray discs/DVDs, and allows you to select your desired subtitle and audio track, so you will never miss your mother language.
Part two: How to rip Blu-ray and DVD movies for Palm Pre Plus with your required file size
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and import Blu-ray/DVD files to it
There are three ways to load Blu-ray and DVD files: through “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” and “IFO/ISO”.
Step 2: Select output format for Palm Pre Plus
Since Palm Pre Plus supports playback H.264, MPEG-4, H.263 video, here I choose “H.264 Video (*.mp4)” as output format.
Step 3: Customize file quality and file size
Click “Settings” button, and then the following interface will show up, on which you are able to adjust bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, etc. to make control of the output file size and quality. To compress the file size, what you should do is changing the figures of these options to be smaller only. One more thing you must be sure that there will be some quality loss if you compress them to be a much smaller size, which means you’d better make a balance between the size and image quality. At least the output video quality should be acceptable by yourselves.
Step 4: Start Blu-ray/DVD ripping
As long as the former three steps are set well, then you can click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray/DVD ripping. Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking “Open” button. After that the generated files are prepared for playback on your Palm Pre Plus.
Additional tips:
How to select a specific video duration to rip
You can click on the “Edit” button on the main interface firstly, and then click on “Trim” icon. After that you can drag the slider bars below the preview window to mark the beginning and the end of your clip during the preview, or you can input the certain time into “Start” and “End” boxes directly to do your selections.
The method of ripping Blu-ray subtitles on Mac
Wanna figure out a way to rip subtitles of a Blu-ray movie? Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac can do you a favor. It is a powerful tool specially designed for Mac users to rip, convert, backup and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movies. The source movie could be from Blu-ray disc, DVD, Blu- ray and DVD folder, ISO and IFO file. The ripper could remove all the protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies, back up the movies to hard drive, rip and convert them into other popular audio and video formats to playback on your beloved portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, Blackberry, PSP, Creative Zen, Xbox 360, Apple TV etc. Besides, the M2TS files shot with AVCHD camcorders can be imported to Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and converted to compatible formats for editing in video editing software like iMovie, FCP, etc.
How to rip BD subtitles on Mac:
Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and load Blu-ray movies to it. You can click “DVD Folder” and “IFO File” to load BD movies into this program.
Once files are loaded, tick off the checkbox before the file which you want to rip. In general, the one with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if there is no need to rip extra files, select this one only would be ok.
Click the drop-down list of “Subtitle”, then all the subtitle info in the Blu-ray will be shown clearly, including language and stream ID, so you can select your needed language as your subtitle at will. Meanwhile, you can use the preview window to see your selection.
Afterwards, click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format, at the same time, if you want to make good control of the output file quality and file size, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, audio channels, etc.
Once all settings are done, simply click on the “Convert” button to start BD ripping as well as the subtitle ripping. After finished, you can click “Open” button to get the output files with your specified file format and subtitle.
How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP,etc
Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity expressed in “Avatar”? Have you ever wept for the extremely romantic but tragic love in “Romeo and Juliet”? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”?
Uncountable classic movies have given us different kinds of feelings, wanna collect as many as them to be as your own collections on your home server, on your HD of PC, or enjoy them on your portable devices no matter wherever you go? If so, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac would be your suitable choice. It’s used to convert DVD movies to various video and audio formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4 (MPEG-4, H.264), MOV, MP3, etc., which are compatible with handheld devices like Motorola Droid, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Archos, PSP, Creative Zen, etc. Following is the user guide in detail.
Step 1: Download, install and run PavtubeDVD Ripper for Mac
Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.
You can add DVD files to it through “DVD Folder” or “IFO File”. After that, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select the output format according to your mobile devices accepted format. At the same time, you can hit “Browse” button to specify where to locate the output files. Moreover, if you want to join multiple titles or chapters into a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file” to realize this goal.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Clicking on “Settings” button, experienced users can set video Codec Name, Bit Rate, Video Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video, as well as setting audio Codec Name, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to make the quality of audio better.
Step 4: Convert
After all the settings are done, you can click “Convert” button to start DVD ripping. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the ripping info, including ripping progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size, estimated file size, etc.
Additional Tips:
1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.
2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.
3. Ripping by chapters is supported.
4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.
5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.
6. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove black edges or change the screen size.
7. Specific effect models are provided, such as “Simple gauss blur”, “Simple laplacian sharpen”, “Aged film”, “Flip color”, and “Invert”.
Watch DVD movies on Nexus One – make funs on the go
On January 5, 2010, the search giant Google has launched an own-brand smart phone called the Nexus One, which has attracted lots of people’s eyes. This device is manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corporation, and uses the Android open source mobile operating system. With the exception of noise canceling dual microphones, transcribing voice to text, voice directions while driving, and YouTube access, Nexus One features a 480×800 pixel, 3.7-inch display and a microSD card expandable to 32GB, which are definitely suitable for watching movies on the go.
To enjoy DVD movies on Nexus One, we should understand what the compatible formats of this device are. Actually, it has been detailed clearly about the Nexus One supported video and audio formats in the technical specifications:
Video:
H.263 (encode and decode) MPEG-4 SP (encode and decode) H.264 AVC (decode)
Audio encoders:
AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz
Audio decoders:
AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+) Mono/Stereo standard bit rates up to 160 kbps and sampling rates from 8 to 48kHz, AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz, AMR-WB 9 rates from 6.60 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s sampled @ 16kHz., MP3 Mono/Stereo 8-320Kbps constant (CBR) or variable bit-rate (VBR), MIDI SMF (Type 0 and 1), DLS Version 1 and 2, XMF/Mobile XMF, RTTTL/RTX, OTA, iMelody, Ogg Vorbis, WAVE (8-bit and 16-bit PCM)
To remove DVD copy protections and rip it to Nexus One acceptable format, you can free download Pavtube DVD Ripper to achieve your goal. Pavtube DVD Ripper provides you an easiest way to edit and convert DVDs to any other formats including MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, so that you can enjoy DVD contents with your portable devices like Google Nexus One, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Cell Phones, etc. on the go. Well, let’s together to see the operating steps in detail.
Step 1: Load DVD files
Click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to import DVD files to this program. This utility allows users selecting their needed chapters to convert, and you can right click on a title, and then do selections on the popup window, like “Uncheck All”, “Show Chapters”, etc. By the way, usually, the one with the longest duration time is the main movie, so just tick off this one would be OK.
Step 2: Select output format for Nexus One
Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format for Nexus One, here I choose “H.264 Video (*.mp4)” as an example
Step 3: Customized output settings
Click “Settings” button, then you are able to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface. Here I set aspect ratio at 800*480 pixels, video bit rate at medium quality, frame rate at 29.97 fps, audio codec to AAC, sample rate at 48 kHz, audio bit rate at 16kbps.Do remember clicking “OK” button to confirm the settings.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start DVD ripping
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease. And now they are prepared for playback on your Nexus One Phone.
Pavtube DVD Ripper will give you the best help, We believe that you will like it!
Keep video files with 5.1 surround sound for Xbox 360
Have you purchased a 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker system for the Xbox 360 to enjoy your games and movies in the center of action? Currently I have considered doing it. I have loads of HD videos, which are with the extensions of .mkv, .m2ts and whatever. Most of them have embedded 5.1 channels, but the thing is that because of format issues, my console is unable to directly play these files, so I have to do format conversion before watching them. In regard to conversion, my only requirement is keeping 5.1 channels of the source file, fortunately, with Pavtube Video Converter, I did it! Very excited! Share it here.
What you will need is only Pavtube Video Converter. You can free download it here. The detailed steps are as below:
1. Click “Add” button to load video files into this program
2. Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format for Xbox 360
Follow “Zune/Xbox 360 Device” – “Xbox 360 HD Video (*. Wmv)”. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple files into a single file so that there are no intervals while playing, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” to achieve it.
3. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings and select 5.1 channels
All the items including codec, bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, sample rate and audio channels are changeable. Do remember adjust the audio as 5.1 channels. Following are my settings, which result a good playback quality on my Xbox 360 console.
4. Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output files for your console via clicking “Open” button effortlessly.
More features of this Xbox 360 Converter I have found:
1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few minutes.
2. It does not have the audio and video out of sync issues.
3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.
4. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain video clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove black edges or change the screen size.
5. Special effect models are provided, such as “Simple gauss blur”, “Simple laplacian sharpen”, “Aged film”, “Flip color”, and “Invert”.
How to enjoy DVD and Blu-ray movie clips on ARCHOS 7
ARCHOS 7 impresses us with a variety of excellent features including full web browsing, full email application, Web TV and Web Radio, Widgets application, TV recording, content playback and Web surfing on TV, as well as watching Flash web-videos full screen, playing videos, music, photos, games, and content streaming from your PC. The video experience is great with this 800 pixel-wide resolution and 7″ screen.
While the technical specifications unveils that neither VOB nor M2TS format are incompatible with the smart phone. So if you want to enjoy DVD and Blu-ray movie clips on ARCHOS 7, you need a Blu-ray/DVD ripper to help you do format conversion.
First off, let us have a look at ARCHOS 7 supported files:
Video playback:
MPEG-4 (ASP@L5 AVI, up to DVD resolution)
WMV (MP@ML, up to DVD resolution) including WMV protected files
M-JPEG (Motion JPEG Video) in QVGA resolution
With optional plug-in (downloadable from your tablet on www.archos.com):
HD support: MPEG-4 (ASP 720p) & WMV HD (MP 720p)
H.264 up to DVD resolution with AAC
MPEG-2 MP@ML up to 10 Mbps (up to DVD resolution) and AC3 stereo sound (5.1)
Audio playback:
Stereo MP3 decoding @ 30-320 Kbits/s CBR & VBR, WMA, Protected WMA, WMA pro 5.1, WAV (PCM/ADPCM)
AC3 stereo audio and 5.1 sound files (via SPDIF output of DVR Station)
Flac and OGG Vorbis audio files
With optional software plug-ins (downloadable from your tablet on www.archos.com):
AAC, AAC+ stereo audio files
The following contents will share you a solution to remove the copy protections of DVD and Blu-ray movies, as well as rip them to video clips suitable for ARCHOS 7.
Required software:
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper: It is capable of ripping both Blu-ray disc and standard DVDs. The most important thing is that it allows you to select subtitle and audio track of any language of the movie, as well as ensure audio video in sync. Now find a step-by-step instruction below:
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray ripper and import Blu-ray/DVD files to it
There are three ways to load Blu-ray and DVD files: through “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” and “IFO/ISO”.
Step 2: Select output format for ARCHOS 7
Click on the drop–down list of “Format”, and then follow “Archos” – “Archos 5/7 WMV Video (*.wmv)”, also, you can choose the .avi format customized for Archos.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click on “Settings” button, and then the following interface will show up, you can adjust all the audio and video parameters on it. Generally, the default settings can basically satisfy your ARCHOS 7.
Step 4: Start ripping
Click on “Convert” button to start ripping. You can view the progress info on the ripping window, and you can choose “Shut down computer after conversion” to avoid waiting around. After conversion is completed, the output files are ready to be played on your ARCHOS 7.
Blu-Ray Ripper is your best choice !
How to get MKV files imported to Windows Movie Maker
I wanna make an animate music video, but my Windows Movie Maker only accepts a few types of video files, it is bad that my source file MKV is out of the supported range. This is a troublesome problem, I just want to know if there is an easy way to convert my MKV files to AVI so I can import and use them and not have to re-download the entire anime. After searching online and reading some software reviews, and trying out a large number of video converters, I end up with one called Pavtube MKV Converter, which is user friendly, reliable and stable. Best of all, it is able to ensure HD output and audio/video in sync. Share it here, hope this helps.
My MKV is in HD quality, so my requirement is keeping HD as well, following is my process of using this MKV Converter to realize my goal. Definitely simple steps:
1. Click “Add” button to import MKV files into this program
2. Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select AVI as output format for Windows Movie Maker
To keep HD quality, I selected “AVI HD Video (*.avi)” as output format.
3. Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
This program allows users to customize audio and video parameters. Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel are all changeable in the following window.
4. Click “Convert” button to start converting MKV to AVI
As long as the conversion is finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button, and WMM will recognize them without trouble.
How to convert MKV files to WMV for Xbox 360
I have some MKV anime files that I want to play them on my Xbox 360, but every time I try, my console does not work at all. Then a friend of mine told me to convert them to WMV with a video converter called Pavtube MKV Converter, I tried the trial version, and asked their support team what are the best settings for my Xbox 360, they gave my following suggestions:
Xbox 360 supports the following for WMV:
Video Profiles: WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3), VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main, and advanced up to Level 3
Video Bitrate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps.
Audio Profiles: WMA7/8, WMA 9 Pro (stereo and 5.1), WMA lossless
Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
I followed these settings, and the output files actually worked on my console, and the trial version just has Pavtube logo stands in the center of the image. I think it is well worth buying. I would like to share its detailed operating steps here, hope it will be of some help for you guys who are having headaches about this issue.
Following is its intuitive UI, and only within several steps the conversion will be finished flawlessly.
Step 1: Click “Add” button to load MKV files
Step 2: Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format for Xbox 360
Step 3: Click “Settings” button to set optimal settings
I just do the settings as their support team suggested:
Size: 1920*1080
Video bit rate: 1500kbs
Frame rate: 30 fps
Others I use the defaults
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
This converter not only has fast conversion speed, but also lets audio and videos match very well. I’m satisfied with it.
Step 5: Click “Open” button to get the output WMV files
Once conversion is completed, you can get the converted WMV files for your Xbox 360 via hitting “Open” button with ease.
An easy and reliable application, hope it helps.
Convert M2TS files to AVI for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus
Even though it is announced that Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus software has added
AVCHD camcorder support and users can import and edit high definition footage from AVCHD camcorder discs, and convert to standard definition formats, but I still met troubles while importing the HD .m2ts files captured by means of a HD Sony Handycam type HDR-CX11E (PAL), I guess it is not as powerful as it claims.
I have to look around for a practical and affordable program to help me out. My only objective is to convert these .m2ts files to .avi files, so that I can edit them with Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus, and burn them into a SD DVD for playback on the DVD player connected to my TV, as well as computer DVD Player software on computers. Fortunately, I came across Pavtube HD Video Converter, it is easy to use and helpful, I finally successfully converted .m2ts files to .avi format, and the output files are in good quality, without any problems while editing in MovieFactory 6 Plus. It is my pleasure to share this HD Video Converter here. Following is the detailed steps, absolutely easy enough:
1. Click “Add” button to load .m2ts files to this application
2. Select AVI as output format and specify destination folder
Click the drop-down menu of “Format” to select AVI format for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus. Meanwhile click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output AVI files. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
There are “Common Video” and “HD Video”, both have AVI options, you can choose one according to your own needs.
Common AVI:
HD AVI:
3. Set advanced settings
Click “Settings” button, then the following window will enables you to adjust all video and audio parameters on it, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel. That means you can customize the settings in your own ways.
4. Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output AVI files via clicking on “Open” button. After that, Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus will be able to recognize these files. You can now edit the files and author them to a new DVD.
Solutions to keep TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of Blu-ray .m2ts files
If you have tons of .m2ts streams from your Blu-ray discs, which are copyright protections removed, and want to convert them to other video formats and keep TrueHD audio or DTS-HD Mater Audio of the original files, and then what’s your idea to realize this goal? Actually, I know some of you do not have any idea about this, because it’s not an easy thing to get a program to recognize the two special soundtracks at all.
Fortunately, Pavtube Studio has upgraded its MTS/M2TS Converter recently, which has added supportS to both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, is able to convert M2TS files to whatever formats you need, such as MP4 format supported by iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Gphone, Blackberry, etc., 3GP format supported by most cell phones, FLV format which is suitable for online transferring, MPEG-4 format which is workable for importing to iMovie and Final Cut, and many other video formats like AVI, MPG, MOV, MKV, VOB and so on.
The following part will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance, and will show you how to keep your wanted audio track while doing format conversion.
A step-by-step instruction will be starting in the following part, which will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance. If you want to follow this guide to have a try, you can download Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter here.
Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts streams
Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio
Click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, and there are several options, select each one to see which one is TrueHD audio, if it is, “truehd” will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, just like the following window showing. Do remember clicking “OK” button to save your selections.
Step 3: Select output format and specify save path
Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select your wanted output format, and click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify where to locate the output file. Moreover, if you have the needs of combining multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
Step 4: Set advanced settings
Click “Settings” button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should set soundtrack as 5.1 channels.
Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
More related features of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter
1. Fast conversion, excellent output quality, and perfect audio and video synchronization.
2. Convert, compress and edit videos from Blu-ray DVDs or HD camcorders.
3. Trim, crop, add special effects and different watermarks
4. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.
5. Enjoy the output videos online, on portable devices, or backup on computer.