With an Intel Pentium processor and massive capacity, My Cloud Pro Series NAS offers space to save your media collection. With built-in hardware transcoding and the Plex Media Server installed, My Cloud Pro Series NAS products deliver video streaming in the right format and quality for optimal playback on your favorite devices. Plex detects what device you are using, its screen resolution, and your network connection speed to automatically adjust video quality to make sure you get the best streaming experience.
Have a considerable big collection of Blu-ray and DVD disc and wish to backup them to My Cloud Pro Series NAS with a Plex Media Server running on for conveniently streaming to any devices you own such as iPhone, iPad, Android Phone/tablet, PC, Mac or a host of other devices. The problem here is that both Plex and the built-in hardware transcoding of My Cloud Pro Series NAS lacks the ability to deal with commercial Blu-ray/DVD disc with copy protection. To copy or backup Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Pro Series NAS for Plex streaming, you will need a specific application.
Copy/Backup Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Pro Series
Here, you can get the job easily completed with our powerful disc ripping application – Pavtube ByteCopy. The application can not only assist to powerfully and automatically bypass all Blu-ray/DVD copy protection in the background, but also efficiently rip or convert Blu-ray/DVD to various devices or applications playable digital file formats, so that you can then directly stream Blu-ray/DVD on My Cloud Pro Series via Plex to different devices fluently without any codec transcoing process.
To get the best playback effect, you are allowed to flexibly adjust output profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc.
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For Mac user, you can switch to download the Mac version – Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac to perform the conversion on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, etc.
Step by Step to Copy/Backup Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Pro Series for Plex Streaming
Step 1: Load Blu-ray or DVD disc.
Install and launch the free trial version of the program. Insert your Blu-ray or DVD disc into your computer’s optical drive. If your computer is not equipped with built-in optical drive, you will need an external USB Blu-ray or DVD drive. When both Blu-ray and DVD exists, the software will load DVD.
Step 2: Define the output format.
Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of your devices playable digtial file formats such as “H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” under “HD Video” main category. You can also choose other formats according to your own needs.
Step 3: Adjust output profile settings.
Click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, here, you can flexibly choose or specify exactly the profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.
Step 4: Begin the final conversion process.
After all setting is completed, hit the “Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Pro Series NAS backup or copying process.
When the conversion is finished, click “Open Output Folder” icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then feel freely to stream converted files to any devices you own via Plex Media Server.
