1. ripped Blu-ray directory (BDMV structure)

2. Blu-ray ISO image file created from a disc.

If you’re seeking for a tool for converting VC-1 encoded 1080p/1080i MKV to H.264 AVI/MP4/MPEG, or converting VC-1 1080p/1080i M2TS to MKV/AVI/WMV/MP4, Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate is recommended.

For ripping 1080p/1080i Blu-ray VC-1 stream to H.264 MKV, you may download a restricted trial of Pavtube ByteCopy and follow the guide below for encoding VC-1 M2TS to H.264 MKV. To directly rip 1080p/1080i movie from Blu-ray Disc, you need to hook up an external Blu-ray Disc drive with your PC and place a Blu-ray Disc (VC-1, MPEG-2 TS, MPEG-4 AVC encoded) into the BD drive.

Step 1. Load movie for 1080p/1080i VC-1 to H.264 MKV conversion.

Run Pavtube ByteCopy, and click the “Load BD/DVD” icon to import movie files from Blu-ray Disc. To load BDMV folder, choose “Load BD/DVD folder” from the dropdown list of “Load BD/DVD”. To rip 1080p/1080i VC-1 movie from Blu-ray ISO image, mount the ISO with virtual drive first and then choose “Load DVD ISO/IFO”.

Step 2. Choose output title and audio track.

The main title (the fist one) contains main movie and is checked by default. Expand main title, and uncheck the audio and subtitles you don’t want to keep. You may check other desired Blu-ray titles in file list.

Step 3. Convert VC-1 1080p/1080i to H.264 MKV video.

1. Select/highlight the whole movie (root directory).

2. Click “Edit Disc”.

3. Find “Format” box, and select “custom” from drop-down list.

4. Press “Settings” button.

5. Check the “Encode” box under “All audio streams”, set codec to H.264. Save settings and back to main interface. To rip VC-1 encoded Blu-ray movie to H.264 MKV with 1080p HD quality, just set “original” or “1920*1080” in “Size” box.

Step 4. Converting 1080p/1080i VC-1 to H.264 MKV.

When back to the main interface, click “Convert” button to start ripping VC-1 1080p/1080i to H.264 MKV format. After conversion you can click “Open” to find converted MKV file(s).

When transcoding 1080p/1080i VC-1 to MKV with Pavtube ByteCopy using the above settings, Blu-ray video streams are converted from VC-1 to H.264, while original Blu-ray HD audio streams (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM, LPCM) are retained. So you have desired titles/chapters, audios, subtitles and desired video codec in an MKV file.

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Step-by-step guide of converting DVD to Apple TV 3 with AC3 5.1 track:
Step 1. Load DVD to the software for converting to Apple TV 3.
Insert a source DVD in optical drive. Install and launch the Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac software, click “DVD Folder” and navigate to the DVD Video_TS folder, click “Choose”. When the DVD is loaded to DVD Ripper, you can select subtitles and audio track (English, French, German, Spanish…) for each chapter. Forced subtitles can be attained, too.

Step 2. Set an Apple TV 3 format that is encoded with H.264/ AC3. 
Click on “Format” bar to select output format. Here you are advised to follow “HD Video”and select “H.264 HD Video (*.mov)”. Under the tab of “Apple TV” there are Apple TV optimized formats with AAC 5.1 and stereo audio.

Step 3. Get AC-3 5.1 surround sound and proper aspect ratio.
Click on “Settings” and you could further customize video and audio parameters. For DVD to Apple TV 3 conversion, optimal settings should be Video Size- 720*432 (for a 16:9 screen) or 720*480 (for a 4:3 screen), Video Bitrate- 4000kbps at highest quality, Video Frame rate- 24fps or 30fps, Audio codec- ac3, Audio Sampling rate- 48000hz, Audio Bitrate- 160kbps, Audio Channels- 6 Channels, just as it shows in below picture. Don’t forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings.

Step 4. Start ripping DVD to Apple TV 3 video with Dolby Digital 5.1 track!
Click on “Convert” button to start DVD to Apple TV 3 conversion on Mac. The Mac DVD Ripper will bypass copy-protections and convert DVD to Apple TV 3 video with AC3 6 channels track. After conversion you can click “Open” button to get the final ripped DVD files (H.264/ AC3 MOV videos).

Step 5. Sync the ripped DVD movie to Apple TV 3 for playback.
Connect Apple TV 3 with your Mac. Open iTunes, find the Movies library of Apple TV 3 in DEVICES, and drag the converted DVD movies to the Movie library of Apple TV 3. Or you may copy the movies to iTunes Library and sync them to Apple TV 3 in batches. When playing ripped DVD movie with Apple TV 3, make sure an optical cable is used to pass through AC3 5.1 track to your AV receiver. Some folks find audio is missing while video plays fine. This is because they are using Analog audio ports to output audio instead of Optical digital audio port, or the connected AV receiver/amplifier does not support AC-3 decoding.

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Step-by-step guide of converting DVD to Apple TV 3 with AC3 5.1 track:
Step 1. Load DVD to the software for converting to Apple TV 3.
Insert a source DVD in optical drive. Install and launch the Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac software, click “DVD Folder” and navigate to the DVD Video_TS folder, click “Choose”. When the DVD is loaded to DVD Ripper, you can select subtitles and audio track (English, French, German, Spanish…) for each chapter. Forced subtitles can be attained, too.

Step 2. Set an Apple TV 3 format that is encoded with H.264/ AC3. 
Click on “Format” bar to select output format. Here you are advised to follow “HD Video”and select “H.264 HD Video (*.mov)”. Under the tab of “Apple TV ” there are Apple TV optimized formats with AAC 5.1 and stereo audio.

Step 3. Get AC-3 5.1 surround sound and proper aspect ratio.
Click on “Settings” and you could further customize video and audio parameters. For DVD to Apple TV 3 conversion, optimal settings should be Video Size- 720*432 (for a 16:9 screen) or 720*480 (for a 4:3 screen), Video Bitrate- 4000kbps at highest quality, Video Frame rate- 24fps or 30fps, Audio codec- ac3, Audio Sampling rate- 48000hz, Audio Bitrate- 160kbps, Audio Channels- 6 Channels, just as it shows in below picture. Don’t forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings.

Step 4. Start ripping DVD to Apple TV 3 video with Dolby Digital 5.1 track!
Click on “Convert” button to start DVD to Apple TV 3 conversion on Mac. The Mac DVD Ripper will bypass copy-protections and convert DVD to Apple TV 3 video with AC3 6 channels track. After conversion you can click “Open” button to get the final ripped DVD files (H.264/ AC3 MOV videos).

Step 5. Sync the ripped DVD movie to Apple TV 3 for playback.
Connect Apple TV 3 with your Mac. Open iTunes, find the Movies library of Apple TV 3 in DEVICES, and drag the converted DVD movies to the Movie library of Apple TV 3. Or you may copy the movies to iTunes Library and sync them to Apple TV 3 in batches. When playing ripped DVD movie with Apple TV 3, make sure an optical cable is used to pass through AC3 5.1 track to your AV receiver. Some folks find audio is missing while video plays fine. This is because they are using Analog audio ports to output audio instead of Optical digital audio port, or the connected AV receiver/amplifier does not support AC-3 decoding.

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Step-by-step instruction:
VC-1 to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 Mac – how to convert VC-1 encoded Blu-ray m2ts streams to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 on Mac?

Step 1: Getting started
Free download Mac VC-1 to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 converter, install and launch it. Once run the best blu-ray ripper for Mac, you can click “BD/DVD Folder” icon to load your VC-1 encoded Blu-ray movie files.

All titles in the BD movie are checked by default when you loaded them, if you just wanna rip VC-1 blu ray to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 with main title, you can right click on the Main Title to “Uncheck all” firstly, and then tick off the “Main Title” only.

Step 2: Select iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 format as output format
To convert VC-1 m2ts to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 on Mac by using Mac VC-1 to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 converter, you need click on the dropdown menu of “Format” to choose an iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 format under the “iPad” option. For instance, if you want to get 720p video for your iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3, you can select “iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 HD Video (*.mp4)” as target format.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio settings
Mac VC-1 to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 converter allows users clicking “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters, including codec name, size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel. In that way, users are able to customize the output file quality by their own ways. Actually, the default settings will guarantee you a well playback quality on your iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3, so if you are not good at setting advanced settings, you can totally skip this step.

Step 4: VC-1 to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 Mac
When the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click the big button “Convert” to start converting VC-1 m2ts to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 on Mac. Once the ripping task is done, you are able to click “Open” button to get the converted files for your iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 with ease.

Additional Tips:
How to select your required language as subtitle and audio track when ripping VC-1 blu ray to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 on Mac? 
Click the drop-down list of “Subtitle”, then all the subtitle info in the bluray will be shown clearly, including language and stream ID, which enables you to select your needed language as subtitles at will.

In addition, Mac VC-1 to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 converter also offers an option called “Force Subtitles”, which enables you to see subtitle only when actors are speaking a different language. For instance, if you specify English (your mother tongue) as your subtitle, and meanwhile tick off “Force Subtitles” option, then when actors are speaking English, no subtitles will show up, but when they are talking with each other in French, the English subtitle will appear accompanying with the French.

To select your desired audio track, just click the pull down menu of “Audio”, and then the popup drop-down list will give you the detailed information of all audio tracks, including language, audio codec, and stream ID.

The ability of selecting subtitle and audio track makes it possible for you to rip VC-1 blu ray to iPad/iPad 2/iPad 3 in your own language.

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First of all, let’s have a quick learn about the Nokia Lumia 900 supported media formats:
Audio: DRM Playready，MPEG-4 AAC , eAAC, eAAC+，MPEG-1 audio Layer2 (MP2)，WMA Professional 9 and 10，MPEG-1 audio Layer3 (MP3)，WMA 9, WMA Voice 9, WMA Lossless 9
Video: ASF，AVI，VC-1，WMV 9，MPEG-4，H.264/AVC，3GPP formats (H.263)

Required software
Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Nokia Lumia 900 Converter

A step-by-step guide on how to copy/convert BD/DVD to Nokia Lumia 900 supported video by using Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Nokia Lumia 900 Converter.

Step 1: Free download the trial version of Blu-ray DVD to Lumia 900 Converter software, install and launch it. Click the disc icon to load your source movie directly from your BD drive or DVD ROM, or you can click the folder icon to import the source movie stored on your computer hard drive, or you can click IFO/ISO icon to add your DVD IFO or DVD ISO file. Note that a Blu-ray ISO image file can only be loaded into theBlu-ray DVD ripping software via a virtual BD drive.

When the movie files are loaded, simply check the titles you want to convert for watching on Nokia Lumia 900. As to a Blu-ray movie, the main title will be checked by default as soon as the source movie loaded, while for a standard DVD movie, you may need manually tick off the main title. In general, the one with the longest duration time would always be the main movie. You can right-click on a title to use “Check All” or “Uncheck All” option to make your selection easier.

Step 2: Select your wanted audio track and subtitles track to be preserved in the final output files from the dropdown menus of “Subtitles” and “Audio” respectively.

Step 3: Choose output format from “Format” menu
Click on the pull down list of “Format”, then choose “Motorola Droid (X) H.264 Video (*.mp4)” as target format under “Android” preset. Although this format is specialized for smartphones powered by Android OS, it is also suitable for playing back on MeeGo-powerd Nokia Lumia 900.

Step 4:Copy/convert BD/DVD to Nokia Lumia 900 supported video
Click the big button “Convert” to start ripping Blu-ray or DVD movie to Nokia Lumia 900 playable files. When the ripping task is finished by Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Nokia Lumia 900 Converter, you can click “Open” button to get the final output files with ease. Now you are ready to add the videos to your Lumia 900 for playback. Hope this helps.

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First of all, let’s have a quick learn about the Nokia Lumia 808 supported media formats:
Audio: MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC
Video: MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV/DIVX

Required software
Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Nokia Lumia 808 Converter

A step-by-step guide on how to copy/convert BD/DVD to Nokia Lumia 808 supported video by using Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Nokia Lumia 808 Converter.

Step 1: Free download the trial version of Blu-ray DVD to Lumia 808 Converter software, install and launch it. Click the disc icon to load your source movie directly from your BD drive or DVD ROM, or you can click the folder icon to import the source movie stored on your computer hard drive, or you can click IFO/ISO icon to add your DVD IFO or DVD ISO file. Note that a Blu-ray ISO image file can only be loaded into theBlu-ray DVD ripping software via a virtual BD drive.

When the movie files are loaded, simply check the titles you want to convert for watching on Nokia Lumia 808. As to a Blu-ray movie, the main title will be checked by default as soon as the source movie loaded, while for a standard DVD movie, you may need manually tick off the main title. In general, the one with the longest duration time would always be the main movie. You can right-click on a title to use “Check All” or “Uncheck All” option to make your selection easier.

Step 2: Select your wanted audio track and subtitles track to be preserved in the final output files from the dropdown menus of “Subtitles” and “Audio” respectively.

Step 3: Choose output format from “Format” menu
Click on the pull down list of “Format”, then choose “Motorola Droid (X) H.264 Video (*.mp4)” as target format under “Android” preset. Although this format is specialized for smartphones powered by Android OS, it is also suitable for playing back on MeeGo-powerd Nokia Lumia 808.

Step 4:Copy/convert BD/DVD to Nokia Lumia 808 supported video
Click the big button “Convert” to start ripping Blu-ray or DVD movie to Nokia Lumia 808 playable files. When the ripping task is finished by Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Nokia Lumia 808 Converter, you can click “Open” button to get the final output files with ease. Now you are ready to add the videos to your Lumia 808 for playback. Hope this helps.

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Copy Blu-ray to Mac HDD with Pavtube Mac Blu-ray Converter/Decrypter

Required hardware: Mac Desktop/ Mac Book/ iMac with external Blu-ray drive

Required software: Pavtube Blu-ray Disc Ripper for Mac

Download a free trial of Pavtube Blu-Ray Disc Ripper for Mac (compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and above, Intel processor oriented), install the software to your Mac and follow the steps below for copying Blu-ray movie to Mac hard drive.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray Disc to the Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac.

Hook the external BD drive to your Mac, place in source Blu-ray Disc. Run the Mac Blu-ray Disc Ripper, click “BD/DVD Folder” to load Blu-ray streams from Blu-ray disc for ripping to Mac HDD. The following shows the main interface of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac when loading the latest Blu-ray movie Toy Story 3.

Step 2. Set a copy method for copying Blu-ray Disc to Mac HDD.

A. Copy entire Blu-ray Disc to Mac HDD

This is an easiest and fastest way for backing up full Blu-ray data, you just click “Full Disc Copy” button and wait till it completes. After the copy completed, click “Open” button to locate the Blu-ray directory. Recommended media center software PLEX plays Blu-ray structure. BDMV folder can be imported to the app for playback. Basically it takes about 1 hour to copy a 20GB Blu-ray to Mac HDD.

B. Copy Blu-ray M2TS streams to Mac HDD only

Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format, select “Copy>> Directly Copy” and the software will copy M2TS streams to Mac HDD only, ignoring menus, titles, etc. Then just click “Convert” to start copying Blu-ray M2TS streams to Mac HDD. After the process completes, click “Open” button to find all the m2ts movie clips. For playing these 1080p m2ts files, you may use VLC player or Mplayer.

C. Shrink Blu-ray Toy Story 3 to 1080p MP4/MOV/M4V/MKV

Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format, follow “HD Video” and there are 1080p video formats including H.264 MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, Divx AVI, MPEG-TS. Select a desired preset as output format and click “Convert”. The Mac Blu-ray converter will shrink M2TS streams and convert them to 1080p MP4/MOV/M4V/MKV streaming videos in 2-8 hours. Generally a faster Mac converts Blu-ray data at faster speed. This is also a considerable BD playback solution for Mac computers that are not nearly enough to meet the demands of Blu-ray playback.

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Step 1: Free download Pavtube Mac VC-1 to H.264 converter, install and launch it

Once run the program, you can click “BD/DVD Folder” to load your VC-1 encoded Blu-ray movie files. As you can see, all the titles in the BD are checked by default after loading, you can right click on a title to uncheck all firstly and then choose your wanted title to convert.

 

Step 2: Select an H.264 encoded format as output format

No matter you wanna transcode BD VC-1 to H.264 encoded MOV, MKV, MP4 or other formats, you need click on the dropdown menu of “Format” to select an output format in advance. To rip/convert VC-1 to H.264 in HD quality, you can choose “HD Video”, to transcode BD VC-1 to H.264 MOV, MKV, MP4 in SD quality, you can select “Common Video”. We pick “HD Vedio”> “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” for instance.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Pavtube Mac VC-1 to H.264 converter allows users clicking “Settings” button to customize audio and video parameters. The adjustable settings include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.  

Step 4: Rip/convert VC-1 to H.264

Click “Convert” button to transcode BD VC-1 to H.264 MOV, MKV, and MP4. Once the VC-1 to H.264 conversion is finished, you click “Open” button to find the final output H.264 files effortlessly.

More features of Pavtube Mac VC-1 to H.264 converter

- Convert DVD, Blu-ray movie to MOV, MP4, M4V, for editing in iMovie, Final Cut Express/Pro.

- Rip DVD and Blu-ray movie to iTunes Library and Quick Time Player for playback.

- Guarantee audio and video in sync with fast conversion speed.

- Feature powerful editing options like trim, crop, merge, deinterlace etc.

- Tracks and subtitles of different languages are available.

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As movies in Blu-ray format are not compatible with Thrive, actually, you need do something before successfully playing Blu-ray movies with Thrive. The best way is to Mac convert Blu-ray to Thrive compatible format. Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is the most suitable Blu-ray to Thrive Mac Ripper for you to rip Blu-ray movies on Mac.

To Mac rip Blu-ray movie for Thrive, you should follow these steps and then you can freely enjoy your Blu-ray movies on Toshiba Thrive.

Step 1. Run the Mac Blu-ray to Thrive Converter and import source media.

Click “BD ROM” to load your source Blu-ray movie. It usually takes a few seconds to load your Blu-ray movie from BD drive. The program also allows you import from Blu-ray ISO/IFO files. When all the movie clips are loaded to file list, check the main movie and leave the unwanted files unchecked. You could preview the movie in preview window.

Step 2. Select and set subtitle/ audio track for the movie.

For Blu-ray to Thrive conversion on Mac, you need set audio track and subtitles. Click on the Audio box and select an audio track with desired language to set the audio track. And setting subtitles is in the same way.

Step 3. Set the output format for ripping Blu-ray movies to Toshiba Thrive.

To play Blu-ray movies on Thrive, you need to set a compatible format for it. Pavtube Mac Blu-ray to Thrive Converter provides many output formats for you. You may click on the format bar to choose a format for the Thrive.

Step 4. Start converting Blu-ray movie to Thrive compatible video.

Now click “Convert” button to start ripping Blu-ray movie to Thrive compatible video on Mac. When the conversion is finished, you can click “Open” button to get the output files and bring Blu-ray movies for Thrive playing.

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For some people, they often go outside that they don’t have enough time to watch a whole movie in the house. So, they want take Blu-ray movies with them and enjoy movies whenever and wherever. Let’s take Asus Eee Pad Transformer for example, how can we load Blu-ray videos to Eee Pad and play Blu-ray movies on Transformer? I suggest to transcode Blu-ray movies to Transformer, because you can not directly play Blu-ray movies on the Transformer.

The first reason is that Eee Pad does not have BD ROM for you to read and play Blu-ray movie files. And the second reason is that the video decoding capability of your Transformer is not powerful enough to decode the Blu-ray HD video codec. So, you need Mac convert Blu-ray movie to Transformer with your MacBook or iMac.

What do you need? Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is supposed to be the most useful Mac Blu-ray to Transformer converter. It combines Mac Blu-ray movie player and Mac Blu-ray movie edtor with the function to rip Mac Blu-ray for transformer playing. Besides, the program allows you batch rip Blu-ray movies on Mac.

Guide on how to rip and load Blu-ray to Transformer:

Step 1: Getting started and select HD MP4 as output format.

The Blu-ray to Transformer ripper on Mac allows users clicking the format bar to select output format. To Mac rip Blu-ray to Transformer, you need follow “HD Video”> “MPEG-4 HD Video (*.mp4)”.

Step 2: Customize video and audio settings.

The program enables users to adjust video and audio settings when converting Blu-ray movies. Click “Settings” button, then you are able to adjust video and audio parameters on the following popup window, including codec, size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

Step 3: Convert Blu-ray to HD MP4 video.

Click “Convert” button to start converting Blu-ray to HD MP4 video. When the Blu-ray ripping task on Mac is finished, you can click “Open” button to get the converted HD MP4 files for Transformer playing with ease.

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