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Mar 8, 2010 at 02:43 o\clock

How to rip DVD to AVI on Mac

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Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is specially developed for Mac users to remove DVD copy protections, as well as rip DVDs to almost all other popular video and

audio formats including AVI, MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, etc., so that the generated files can be played on various media players or mobile

devices, or imported to some video editors to make your own movie works.

Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to AVI on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Load DVD files

You can click "DVD folder" or "IFO file" to load DVD files directly from the DVD-Rom or from an IFO image file.

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Step 2: Select AVI as output format

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to choose AVI as output format

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click on "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels. Do remember

clicking "OK" button to save your settings.

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Step 4: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to specify where to export the output files to.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to AVI

The following window will show you clearly about the ripping info, such as time elapse, estimated left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. In that way, you are able to manage your time and storage

space in a proper way.

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Once ripping work is done, you can click "Open" button to get the output AVI files effortlessly.

Additional tips:

1. The ripping speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar programs. Merge multiple files into one file is available.

2. Enable users to select specific subtitle and audio track to convert.

3. Guarantee audio-video in sync.

4. 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.

5. 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.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:39 o\clock

Remove BD+ protections from Blu-ray movies on Mac

BD+ is a technology used to prevent unauthorized copies of Blu-ray discs and the playback of Blu-ray media using unauthorized devices, which is more powerful than the former AACS protections. This article

aims to provide a solution for removing BD+ protections from your Blu-ray movies. Follow this way, and then you can take full advantage of your own purchased BD movies in your own ways.

Required software:

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is a powerful tool specially designed for Mac users to rip, convert, backup and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movies. The source file could be from Blu-ray disc, DVD, Blu-ray and

DVD folder, ISO and IFO image file. The ripper is capable of decrypting region codes, and almost all copy protections, including AACS, BD+. Besides backup movies to hard drive, it also supports output 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.

Well, following is the solution:

1. Download and install Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, after that, launch this program and click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to load BD movies into this program.

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2. If you just want to rip the main movie, you can tick the file with the longest duration time only. Afterwards, click on the pull down menu of "Subtitle" and "Audio" to select your wanted language. The preview

window is able to show the effect of your dynamic switching on subtitle and audio track in real time.

3. Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select output format, and if you want to retain the original quality to full extent regardless of the output format, you can choose "Copy", and then "Directly Copy".

4. Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.

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5. Click "Convert" button to start BD ripping and BD+ copy protection removing. As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output files which are in your desired format and

without neither AACS nor BD+ copy protection.

Additional Tips:

Generally, Blu-ray media has a large file size because of its high definition quality, so the ripping time will be longer than that of standard DVDs. To avoid waiting around, you can click "Option" button to tick off

the checkbox "Shut down the computer after conversion". Do remember clicking on "OK" button to save your settings.

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If you are a Windows user, you can free download this Blu-ray ripper to remove BD+ protections on your PC.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:36 o\clock

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.

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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".

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Step 2: Select output format

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.

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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.

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Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:32 o\clock

How to convert DVD to AVI for further editing with Windows Movie Maker

 

 

DVD movie still plays essential role in our audio/video daily life in spite of prosperity of online video and handheld devices. The problem is that DVD movie is not editable and you can only watch the movie the

way it is presented on the disk. This is a time of individual customization and showing your own style, why not tries to edit a movie and watch it whatever way you like. To edit the DVD movie, you need to

convert DVD to AVI firstly and then import the exported AVI videos to Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, and Sony Vegas etc. First let us start from what is AVI.

About AVI
AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave Which is defined by Microsoft, it can work as a container to be embedded with different codec, such as DivX, XviD, etc. The AVI video generally brings high quality, but

occupies larger disk space. It is suitable for further video editing.

To edit DVD with Windows movie maker, you need a DVD Ripper to convert DVD to AVI. This popular DVD Ripper offers AVI formats with various codec, which will

certainly meet your needs to play, and edit video etc

1. Run Pavtube DVD Ripper

If you have not installed it yet, please download the free trial version of Pavtube DVD Ripper.

2. Add DVD video by clicking "DVD ROM ", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO".

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3. Choose the AVI format on the "Format" drop down box.

There are several profiles with AVI as output format.

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Pavtube DVD Ripper offers several options for AVI with uncompressed codec and less compressed codec. The uncompressed codec is available for the profile

"Losseless raw video". The profile is set with recommended settings, and you can also change the output settings by clicking the "Settings" button. There are four video codecs for uncompressed AVI: BGR24,

RGB555, YUY2, and RGBA32.

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There are 5 profiles for AVI with less compressed codec, in "Common Video" profile, there are AVI MSMPEG4-V3, Xvid AVI, and Divx AVI, in "HD Video" profile, there are AVI HD Video and Divx HD AVI.

4. Check the "Convert" button to start converting

After conversion, just click the "Open" button, and you will find the output AVI files.

Now you have got the output AVI videos, and the rest of the work goes to video editing software. Let’s take Windows movie maker for example.

Step1: Import your video. Get your video onto your computer any way you need too. Open Windows Movie Maker.

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Step2: Edit your AVI video. Open your storyboard by clicking "View storyboard". Your storyboard will be your timeline and where you will do most of your editing. For you movie folks we can call it your

"cutting room floor". To put your video in the storyboard, drag it from your library to the storyboard. Click the plus sign on your timeline so you can see video and audio lines. If you want to add extra audio to your

piece, import it the same way you did your video.

Step3: Play your AVI video and watch for where you want to cut and delete the extraneous video. Place your timeline cursor (the blue line that crosses perpendicular to the timeline) where you want to cut

your video and split it by choosing "Edit split". Split your original video as many times as you want. Once you split the video you see the rest of the original video in your library. Delete the video you don't want by

pressing "Delete" on your keyboard.

Step4: Add video by dragging it to the storyboard. Make sure your cursor is where you want it on the timeline because the program will automatically place your audio track where your cursor is. You will

notice your audio track goes into the audio space on your timeline. To edit audio follow the same steps as the video.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:28 o\clock

Solution for editing H.264/MOV footages shot by Canon EOS 7D camera

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Before its release, lots of Canon fans have been waiting for the Canon EOS 7D camera. I have just bought one recently, but it captures videos in H.264/MOV format, which is not a workable format in my editing

software Magix Edit Pro 14. So I have to find a video converter to help me out. Through taking a whole weekend to do Google searching and trying out many programs, I end up with Pavtube HD Video Converter.

I am very pleased with this program as it does an excellent job of conversion, which converts my videos into any format that I could possibly need. Share its detailed steps here, and hope it will be of some help for

you guys who have a Canon 7D as me.

First off, download Pavtube HD Video Converter, install and run it.

Step 1: Launch this program and load MOV files into it

You can click "Add" button to import .mov files, or you can directly drag and drop the files into this program.

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Step 2: Click the drop-down menu of "Format" to select output format

With multiple output formats, Pavtube HD Video Converter is able to output proper formats for numerous video editing software and portable devices like iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple TV, etc. I select "AVI HD

Video (*.avi)" as output format for my Magix Edit Pro 14.

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BTW, if you wanna combine multiple mov files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters

To make good control of the output file size and quality, you can adjust all the items in the following interface, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. Generally

speaking, the larger input values, the better output quality, but accompanying with the larger output file size; the smaller input figures, the smaller output file size, but accompanying with inferior output quality.

That is to say if you want to do advanced settings, you need make a balance between the file size and the file quality.

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Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Once begin, the following window will show you clearly about the conversion information, which will help you to manage your time and storage space in a proper way. If you do not want to wait for the whole

conversion process through, you can choose "Shut down computer after conversion" to leave it alone.

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As long as the conversion is completed, you can click on "Open" button in the main interface to get the generated files.

Well, several simple steps, hope it helps.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:23 o\clock

Have fun with Blu-ray and DVD movies on your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10

XPERIA X10, the first Android device from Sony Ericsson, is delivering a consistent user experience where communication truly becomes entertainment. The UX platform builds on top of the Open OS and creates a

unique Sony Ericsson user experience by combining best-in-class entertainment features with signature applications, unrivalled integration of social media services and a rich graphical user interface. And an

important lightspot of XPERIA X10 is the Sony Ericsson Mediascape which is the smart way to get all the music, photo and videos you want from your favourite friends and artists. It accesses content from

everywhere—your phone, YouTube, PlayNow—and presents everything for you. In addition, the SanDisk supports up to 16GB for you to store anything.

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One more thing, as Blu-ray and DVD movies are more and more popular, enjoying such HD movies anywhere will be a trend in the near future. It will be a nice experience to watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on

XPERIA X10, especially on its huge and high resolution and pixels touchscreen. However, XPERIA X10 will only accept MP4 and 3GP video format, how can we put the dvd files into a phone for playback. That’ s

what I wanna share with you. Here we go:
Required software:

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Once launched it, you can load BD files to it through three ways-"DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" and "IFO/ISO".

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Step 2: Select subtitle and audio track

Click pull down menu of "Subtitle" and "Audio" to select your needed subtitle and audio track respectively. The drop-down list will show you all the info clearly, including language and stream ID of subtitle,

language, audio codec, audio ID, and audio channel of audio. You can choose one at will, and the preview window will show you the changes in real time.

Step 3: Select output format

Click the drop-down menu of "Format" to select "Common Video"> "H.264 Video (*.mp4) as output format.

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Step 4: Start Blu-ray ripping for X10

Once all settings are done, you can click "Convert" button to start Blu-ray ripping.

The output MP4 files can be found out via clicking "Open" button effortlessly, what you should do next is uploading the videos from your computer to the memory card of your X10.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:19 o\clock

How to back up Blu-ray and standard DVD movies to your hard drive

 

 

Until now, all my three TV cabinets have been full filled with a large number of DVD and Blu-ray discs. I believe it is time to digitize them and back up some of them to the hard drive of my PC, and others to a large

capacity external hard drive, so as to manage all the movies in a tidy and orderly way.

I just did a simple search for a blu-ray ripper and reviews on Google, and found the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Almost every guide or website review either rated Pavtube as the No.1 ripper or as being highly

recommended. I also read some user reviews from different websites that convinced me to download the trial version of this application. It worked perfectly on both standard DVD and Blu-ray conversion. Best of

all, I was able to open, copy, and watch every Blu-ray movie, irrespectively whether the Blu-ray was bought in Japan, Europe, or USA. Share this utility here, and hope this helps.

You can free download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper here.

How-To:

1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load DVD and 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.

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2. Click on the drop-down menus after "Subtitle" and "Audio" respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.

3. Select output format and specify save path

Click on the pull down list of "Format" to select output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of "Output" to specify destination folder.

To backup your DVD and Blu-ray movies without any quality loss, you can choose "Copy"-"Directly Copy", this will retain the output files in the original .vob and .m2ts format.

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If you’d like to convert them to other video formats, then you can choose one according to your needs.

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4. Click on "Settings" button to do advanced 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, 5.1 surround sound is supported as well.

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5. Click on "Convert" button to begin backing up your DVD and Blu-ray movies

Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease.

Mar 8, 2010 at 02:15 o\clock

Convert DVD to good quality MPG or VOB

I have been looking for a program to help me convert some of my DVD movies to MPG or VOB formats with good output quality, so that I can make use of them to do other use. After spending an entire weekend Google-ing the Web and trying different packages I decided to purchase Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate, since it works with not only DVDs, but also Blu-ray discs and almost all video files, which provides one-stop service and versatile functionalities. The most important thing is that it works well, without audio and video out of sync issues and guarantees an excellent output quality to meet my needs. Suppose you are having the same requirements like me, please find the step-by-step instruction I shared as below:

BTW, you can free download Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate here.

Step 1: Launch this program, and click "Load DVD" to add DVD files.

This program will tick all the imported files by default, but generally, the one with the longest duration time would be the main movie, so you can right click on the file to uncheck all, and then tick off this one.

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Step 2: Select your needed subtitle and audio track

This program is capable of recognizing all the subtitle and audio track information, which enables you to select your desired languages to convert.

Step 3: Select MPG or VOB as output format

Click on the drop-down menu of "Format", and then the output formats profile will pop up. To output MPG format, there are "Common Video" and "HD Video" to choose from. I’d like to output good quality files, so I select "HD Video"-"MPEG-S HD Video (*.mpg)" as an example.

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There are also vob formats customized for different regions. Notice that NTSC is a video format used in North America, Central America, Japan, and parts of South America; PAL is the video format used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, most of Asia, and parts of South America; SECAM is used in Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, Former USSR, and Americas. You should select one according to your geographical regions.

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Step 4: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters

You are allowed to adjust codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to customize the file quality and file size.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to MPG or VOB

Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease.

Additional tips:

How to adjust Brightness, Contrast, and do Deinterlacing

One more reason I prefer to this DVD to MPG or VOB converter is that I also love the way to make the video quality brighter or darker and adjust the contrast and do deinterlacing. Go to "Edit" icon, and then the following editor window will show off. Hit on "Effect" button firstly, and then drag the slider bars under "Brightness", "Contrast", and "Saturation" to do adjustment. Meanwhile, you can click on the pull down menu of "Effect" to add special effects to your videos, and tick off the checkbox "Deinterlaing" to remove the obvious lines that go across the image.

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Mar 1, 2010 at 07:14 o\clock

The method of ripping Blu-ray subtitles on Mac

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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.

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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.

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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.

Mar 1, 2010 at 07:10 o\clock

How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

Mar 1, 2010 at 07:07 o\clock

Keep video files with 5.1 surround sound for Xbox 360

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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

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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.

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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.

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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".

Mar 1, 2010 at 07:05 o\clock

How to enjoy DVD and Blu-ray movie clips on ARCHOS 7

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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

Mar 1, 2010 at 07:01 o\clock

How to get MKV files imported to Windows Movie Maker

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

Mar 1, 2010 at 06:58 o\clock

How to convert MKV files to WMV for Xbox 360

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

Mar 1, 2010 at 06:54 o\clock

Convert M2TS files to AVI for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Mar 1, 2010 at 06:46 o\clock

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.