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Share watching DVD movies on BlackBerry Curve 8300, Pearl 8800, Storm 9500, and Bold 9700 with you
As the leading smartphone device solution, BlackBerry performs beautifully in multimedia playback, which enables users to enjoy music, videos, photos and documents in great color and sound. What an amazing thing it is to enjoy your favorite DVD movies on BlackBerry Curve 8300, BlackBerry Storm 2, Storm 9500, Pearl 8800, Bold 9700 and so on. To make this come true, what you need to do is just transferring the DVDs to a BlackBerry workable video format, like WMV, AVI, MP4, and 3GP. As of now, it’s my pleasure to share my own experience of how to watch DVD movies on BlackBerry here.
Software you need:
Overview of Pavtube DVD Ripper
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 Blackberry, iPod, iPhone, Cell Phones, etc. on the go. If you like, you can also upload the converted DVD videos to your websites or blogs for sharing after the DVD to FLV conversion.
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Key features of this DVD to BlackBerry converter
Support almost all BlackBerry series, including BlackBerry Curve 8300, Storm 9500, Bold 9700, Pearl 8800, etc.
Customize your individual BlackBerry video, including video trimming, video cropping, adding watermarks and special effects, changing audio track and subtitle, adjusting audio and video parameters like bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio channel, etc.
Fast conversion speed and advanced audio and video in sync technology.
Support batch conversion and multiple files merging
Easy to use, within no more than 4 steps, you can finish your conversion task.
How to rip DVD for playback on BlackBerry
Step 1: Load DVD files
There are three ways to load DVD files: “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” and “IFO/ISO”.
Step 2: Select output format for BlackBerry and specify destination folder
Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select a format for your BlackBerry. There are dozens of options for BlackBerry, and you just need choose one according to the specifications of your BlackBerry. Meanwhile, if you do not want to use the default save path to store your output files, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to export the output file to.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click “Settings” button, then the popup window will enables you to adjust video and audio parameters like aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to customize the output settings of the video generated for your BlackBerry.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start ripping DVD for playback on BlackBerry
The final output files can be found out via clicking on “Open” button in the main interface.
How to play Blu-ray ISO backups on WD TV Live
To play Blu-ray ISO backups on your WD TV Live, one thing you should know is that WD TV Live can well play ISO files from a USB drive, while network shares do have problems actually.
In order to get an ISO backup, what’s your workflow? As all I know, some people use tsMuxeR to back up the Blu-ray disc, and then converted it into an ISO using Daemon Tools. Personally, I use Pavtube Blu-ray Copy to make ISO backups for my Blu-ray discs.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Within several clicks, this program can finish its task, and enables you to get an ISO image file. What you should do is just loading your BD files via “Source” option, and then choose “Image File (*.ISO)” from the pull down menu of “Target” to specify the destination folder. BTW, you’d better indicate your USB drive as the save path, or you need spend time to copy the ISO image to your USB drive repeatedly. Once the two steps finished, the backup process will begin, and then you just need wait for the resulted ISO files for your WD TV Live.
As long as copying task is completed, plug the USB into your WD TV, and connect it to your HDTV via HDMI cable, what you should do next is enjoying your BD movies on your widescreen TV leisurely.
One more thing I should mention is that some users have problems to play Blu-ray ISO files via their WD TV, but DVD ISO is working well. Not clear about the accurate reason, but another solution can be recommended. Since WD TV is able to beautifully playback HD MKV files up to Full HD 1080p, thus we just need a utility to convert BD files to HD MKV, and then everything will be OK. Because of the Blu-ray copyright issues, some discs are highly protected, we must take advantage of a powerful application to do so. In that case, the following Blu-ray ripper is suggested, it is able to remove nearly all kinds of BD protections, including BD+, AACS, and even MKB Version > 10 is supported as well.
This Blu-ray ripper allows users exporting “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” format, and also enables users to reset audio and video parameters via clicking “Settings” button. You can set the resolution at 1920*1080 to remain 1080p quality of your Blu-ray movies, as well as keep 5.1 channel of the original surround sound. All in all, all the parameters like bit rate, codec name, frame rate, sample rate are all changeable in the following interface.
After your preferred settings for your WD TV have been set well, just click “Convert” button to start conversion. Once finished, you can watch them on your TV via WD TV with ease, and the high quality of the Blu-ray movie has never been changed at all.
Is this helpful? Hope it is.
How to convert TiVo files to MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, and VOB on Mac
As we all know there is no certain software developed for Mac users to transfer and replay TiVo DVR recorded files as “TiVo Desktop” doing on Windows. But if you want to do format conversion between TiVo file and other video formats on your Mac directly, what is your method? My way is to use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to achieve my goal. Once you are sure you have the same requirement as I do, follow these steps to find the solution.
Requirements:
- TiVo recordings: they can be from your own TiVo DVR or from the DVR of your friends
- TiVo Media Access Key: it is a specific 10-digit number assigned to every TiVo account holder. If your TiVo source file are from your friends, then ask him/her for it.
- Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Video Converter for Mac and click “Add” button to load TiVo files
In the first attempt, a dialog window will pop up as below, just click “OK” button.
After that, the following window will allow you to enter your Media Access Key, just insert it, and click “OK” button to confirm. What you should do next is clicking on “Add” button to load your TiVo files again. Or you can directly drag and drop the file into this program. Meanwhile, suppose you want to let it alone and do something else during the conversion, you can tick “Shut down the computer after conversion”.
Step 2: Select output format
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Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select output format. This utility supports a wide range of output format, including MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, VOB, and customized formats for iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, BlackBerry, etc.
Step 3: Do advanced settings
Click on “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If you are not good at this step, you can totally skip it. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” in the main interface.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Take the place of Elgato Turbo.264 – Convert copy-protected DVDs on Mac without audio and video out of sync issues
To convert HD camcorder clips and other videos to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and shared on the web, some Mac users have purchased the not cheap Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Encoder to realize their format conversion goals. Turbo.264 HD is not only an encoder, but also an accelerator to convert all popular video formats (including HD camcorder video) to a high-quality H.264 file in standard or HD resolutions. It is incredibly fast and comes with an easy-to-use software application.
Everything seems good, but when it comes to deal with copy-protected DVDs, it usually gives users CSS errors, because it can only convert DVDs that are not copy-protected. Aside from the copyright issues, according to some users’ review, Turbo.264 HD has one worse problem that sometimes the exported files are all out of sync. We can have a look at some reviews on this point together. Written by PF from Ventura, 5-Nov-2009: “This product is a joke … most of the files generated using this product have audio that is completely out of sync and are unwatchable”; Written by AM from San Jose, 16-Nov-2009: “This product does exactly what it says on the box; it makes Apple TV format movies in a very short time. The issue is they’re unwatchable. I’ve ripped 15 movies in the last 10 hours, and not one of them has the audio in sync with the image.”
Well, how to fix the two problems? At this time, change your eyes on another affordable program would be a better choice. Absolutely, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is for you to give solutions to the two problems.
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Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is able to read all copy- protected DVDs from DVD ROM, DVD Folder, or IFO/ISO image files directly, and rip VIDEO_TS folders to playback on popular multimedia players like iPhone, iPod, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, etc. The output format is wide ranging from MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, etc. to HD video up to 1080p. It also supports DVD chapter selection, and enables you to pick the audio track, subtitle, and camera angle you want to go with the main feature when converting DVD files.
Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac easily enables you to rip copy-protected DVDs fast and smoothly on Mac with excellent output quality, and previewing, trimming, cropping, combining DVD clips, and adding text, image or video watermarks to DVD files are all available within a few clicks. The advanced audio and video sync technology it adopts will never let you be troubled by audio and video out of sync issues. Best of all, it is definitely cost-efficient, only $28, much cheaper than $179.95 of Elgato Turbo.264. Consider having a try? Good luck.
Convert MKV to vob or mp4 for playback on PS3 with your needed audio track
I’m trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.
First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter here.
1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click “Add” button to load MKV files
As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.
2. Click “Properties” icon to select your needed audio track
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to see which one is your needed audio track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking “OK” button to save your choice.
3. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3
I chose “PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance. To output vob files, you can select “VOB Format” firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.
4. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings
If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you’d better make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.
5. Click “Convert” button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob
Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now, it’s time to enjoy the movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.
The end! Hope this helps.
How to convert Blu-ray, standard DVD and various videos to a compatible format with iPad
Apple’s iPad features a 9.7-inch high-resolution 1024×768 multi-touch display, which not only makes it convenient and comfortable for users to read newspapers, magazines, and books, view photos, experience the web, see and touch emails, but also makes it perfect for watching any kind of video, from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts, music videos and more. Since iPad is without distracting keypad or buttons, you will totally concentrate on this big screen, and feel completely immersed in whatever you’re watching.
As of March 12, 2010, Apple fans in the U.S. are able to pre-order the iPad. The iPad is scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. on April 3. Are you ready for watching video and Blu-ray or DVD movie collections on your iPad? If not, this tutorial will give you a solution to the problem of how to play iPad incompatible video files in a detailed way with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate.
Before that, go to see the iPad supported video formats as below:
TV and video playback:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
Well, if your movies are out of the above categories, then please follow the following guide to do format conversion before your playback.
Step 1: Add videos, Blu-ray or DVD movies into this program
Click “Add Video” to import video files, and click “Load DVD” to import Blu-ray or standard DVDs.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Step 2: Select “iPad” as output format
Click the pull down menu at the end of “Format” to select an output format for iPad. Here I choose “iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” as an example.
Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Do remember following Apple’s recommended settings I’ve mentioned in the above contents:
Video:
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second
Audio:
Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion.
Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly.
How to enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies on iPad?
We all pretty much knew it was happening, and Steve Jobs didn’t let us down: Apple introduced a tablet device called the iPad in San Francisco on January 27. As Jobs said, the iPad is a creative product. It can perform a perfect performance in E-mail, enjoying photos, music and videos, and playing games. The one hundred forty thousand application in the utility store will enable to you do lots of things conveniently. The online iBook store can allow you to enjoy millions of books anywhere and anytime. Smart design and powerful function will make iPad App fans’ favorite in the near future.
Video actually played a big role during the announcement, with Job’s saying that a new device only made sense if it was better at watching video, among other tasks, than current laptops and smart phones. And the fact is that iPad can do a good job in HD movies and TV shows playback. The 9.7— inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology will make you enjoy a more wonderful visual experience than ever. However, it is pity that there is no built-in optical drive, and the external drives are very expensive. So, how can we watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on iPad in an easy and cheap way? Here I will share the best solution with you all.
To rip Blu-ray disc and DVD, Blu-ray Ripper and BD drive are required. You may download Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper from here. It is naturally support DVD ripping and allows you to select audio track of any language of the movie. Now find a step-to-step guide below:
Step 1: Click “DVD ROM” or “IFO/ISO File” to import Blu-ray files.
Step 2: Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select an output format. Here I follow iPad-> MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance.
Step 3: Click “Browse” button to look for and set a save path to store the output HD videos.
Step 4: Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings.
After clicking this button, you will enter the window shown below, on which you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters like codec name, bit rate, image pixel, sample rate, etc., in that way you can take charge of the output file size as well as image quality on your hands freely.
Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping.
As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click “Open” button to find out the ripped HD files with ease. Then, you can transfer the generated file to your iPad to enjoy wonderful high quality Blu-ray movies.
Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/guide/rip-blu-ray-to-ipad-compatible-format.html
Convert MKV to vob or mp4 for playback on PS3 with your needed audio track
I’m trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.
First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter here.
1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click “Add” button to load MKV files
As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.
2. Click “Properties” icon to select your needed audio track
You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to see which one is your needed audio track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking “OK” button to save your choice.
3. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
I chose “PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance. To output vob files, you can select “VOB Format” firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.
4. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings
If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you’d better make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.
5. Click “Convert” button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob
Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now, it’s time to enjoy the movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.
The end! Hope this helps.
Play Blu-ray movie with HDTV DVD Combo – Burning Blu-ray to DVD
HDTV DVD Combo features a built-in slot-loading DVD player, which provides an optimum way to save space. With the slim profile, it’s really an amazing experience to watch favorites TV shows and DVD movies on this device in your bedroom. But if your TV only has a standard DVD player but not the Blu-ray disc player, what is your solution to play Blu-ray movies on it? I’d like to know your ideas. I believe my way is somewhat helpful, just convert BD to a DVD format, and then burn it to a blank DVD for playback on the TV/DVD Combo, so share it here, and also be glad to hearing from you guys.
The software I used is as below:
- ReJig (freeware)
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- ImgBurn (freeware)
HOW-TO:
Part 1:
Firstly, use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to remove copy protections of Blu-ray movies, and meanwhile convert it to the DVD vob format.
1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.
Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.
2. Click on the drop-down menus after “Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.
3. Select VOB as output format and specify destination folder
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select VOB as output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.
4. Customize output settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to optimize the output file quality.
5. Click on “Convert” button to start BD ripping
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Part 2:
Then use ReJig to do DVD authoring.
It’s pretty simple with ReJig. Press “File Mode”; add your vob files and Demux.
When it’s finished, close that box and then select DVD Author. Add the video and audio files you’ve just created, and choose output destination folder, and click Create.
After DVD authoring is completed, you can open the destination folder to see that the output files are AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders, which are the correct structure for DVD burning.
Part 3:
Use ImgBurn to burn DVD
We have got VIDEO-TS folder in part two, so the DVD burning process with ImgBurn is pretty simple. Here give you two links to check the detailed steps:
How to write DVD Video files directly to single layer media using ImgBurn (DVD±R/RW)
How to write a DVD Video double layer disc using ImgBurn (Verbatim DVD+R DL) – just check the contents that start from adding VIDEO-TS folder of this guide.
The end! Hope this helps.
How to convert MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to the format of AVI on Mac?
Often heard Mac users grumbling about the troubles they’ve met while searching for a MTS and M2TS converter. That not means they are unable to find such a converter, but means they can not find a satisfactory one to work well for them. Because almost all the MTS converters they’ve tried always bring problems one or another, like complex user interface, terrible conversion speed, audio and video out of sync issues, etc. But I’d like to say it’s time to throw all the troubles away from now on, since recently I’ve found a nice MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac via Google with luck, which has totally won my appreciation for its beautiful performance. Because of this, I’ve specially written this post to share it to you people, as well as express my gratitude to it. In my thread, I will only take how to convert MTS and M2TS files to AVI for instance to show its easy-to-use operation procedures. If you have this need, strongly recommend you trying about it.
Well, you can download it here:
Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac
Step 1: Click “Add” button to load MTS and M2TS files generated by AVCHD camcorder.
Step 2: Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select AVI as output format.
Step 3: Click “Browse” button to specify a destination folder.
Step 4: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters.
Parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, etc. in the following interface are all changeable.
Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
After finished, you can find out the output AVI files via clicking on “Open” button.
See, finished, isn’t it simple enough? Personally, I usually tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” to combine all the MTS and M2TS files I loaded to be as a single file. About its editing functions, I have not tried, but for its well performance in conversion, I’m sure they will performance beautifully in the same way.