Play DVD movies on Surface Book with DVD Drive The lightweight, portable and large display screen (15″ or 13.5″), together with the long battery life (up to 17 hours) makes the new Surface Book 2 a good partner for those people who are often travelling a lot. For DVD movie collectors, you may come the idea Continue reading →
What does “remux” mean? Remux is for those who don’t care that much about extras and want to save space while having the movie in another container so they can play them easily with any player with the same quality as that of the untouched. Benefits of remuxing Blu-ray disc Remuxing Blu-ray disc is the process of ripping Continue reading →
Have a concert recording or background music on a Blu-ray disc and wish to extract the audio from it so that you can play the music on your devices but haven’t any idea where to start. The following article will show you what types of audio you can save from Blu-ray disc and how to Continue reading →
The VideoPad Video Editor is an affordable, entry-level video editing application that’s particularly powerful for creators who want to publish their videos to YouTube or Facebook. VideoPad supports many frequently used file formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, Divx, Xvid, MP4, MOV, VOB, OGM, H.264, RM and more, etc. Sometimes, there are may be some of Continue reading →
As the third high-end laptop from Microsoft, the Surface Book 2 developed by Microsoft offers powerhouse performance with up to 4 times more power than before and up to 17 hours of battery life. What’s more, its light weight and portable design also makes it is a good partner to take with when you are Continue reading →
Your Tivo can play more than just television it has recorded, it can also play video you’ve downloaded to your computer from Internet. Your hard drive are filled up with movies, television episodes and video clips you want to watch from the couch instead of the computer chair, you can just do that if you’ve Continue reading →
For those people who wish to prevent their precious Blu-ray discs get damaged due to repeated playback or physical broken, they will often try to backup the Blu-ray disc as an ISO image file. It won’t be difficult for you to view the ISO files on computer via virtual drive or with some desktop free Continue reading →
As a free yet powerful open source software, VLC media player not only allows you to view a variety of media files but also view a DVD disc without loading any additional drivers. Launch VLC Media Player from its Start menu shortcut. Insert a DVD, and it should rev up automatically. If not, click on Continue reading →
The 2017 new Nvidia Shield TV is a big improvement over its predecessor, with a variety of video apps to watch and great-looking games to stream. For Blu-ray movie collectors who prefer local media playback to online streaming, you may wonder is there a way for you to stream and enjoy Blu-ray movies on Nvidia Continue reading →
What is AACS protection? The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) is the first level of copy protection applied to pre-recorded discs developed by the AACS Licensing Administrator, a consortium of companies including Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Warner Bros., IBM, Toshiba and Sony. It is based on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a robust 128-bit key encryption Continue reading →
What is BD+? BD+ is a sophisticated protection scheme used by some blu-ray discs. Its intent was to prevent unauthorized copies of Blu-ray disc and the playback of Blu-ray media using unauthorized devices. It is effectively a virtual machine embedded in authorized players, allows content providers to include executable programs on Blu-ray disc, such programs Continue reading →
The commercial Blu-ray discs are typically protected with some form of heave copy protection. Apart from the commonly used BD+, AACS, there are also many other copy protection such as region codes, Cinavia, UOP, Digital rights management, High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection and BD-ROM Mark adopted by Blu-ray discs to prevent unauthorized access to Blu ray Continue reading →
DVD copy protection is a broad term that covers various methods of copy protection for DVDs. These methods include DRM, CD/DVD-checks, Dummy Files, over-sizing and over-burning the DVDs, illegal table of contents, physical errors or bad sectors. Different types of DVD copy protection There are three types of copy protection that are used on commercial pre-recorded Continue reading →
Blu-ray discs are the standard for HD video on the physical format, and as more and more of us use our PCs for home entertainment, it’s perfectly acceptable to want to play a Blu-Ray on it. But it’s not just a case of popping a disc in the drive and putting your feet up. The Continue reading →
For Blu-ray movies enthusiasts who are going to get the new iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, you may come the idea to transfer and watch your favorite Blu-ray movies on iPhone 8/8 Plus especially when you are out for travelling. The bad news is that there are no internal Blu-ray optical drive on iPhone Continue reading →
Apple’s new high-end flagship device iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus features a new six-core A11 Bionic chip which helps to offer 25% faster performance than the A10 Fusion chip in the iPhone 7. In addition, the large 4.7-inch display for iPhone 8 and 5.5-inch for iPhone 8 Plus also makes video and movie watching on Continue reading →
As a personal media server, Emby helps to bring all your home videos, music and photos together into one place. In addition, it also facilitates you to automatically convert and stream your media on-the-fly to play on any Emby apps available devices. Have a lot of your favorite movies on Blu-ray disc and wish to Continue reading →
Sometimes, we will often come the need to extract only a specific scene, clip, portion or audio clips from our favorite DVD movies for playing on portable devices like smartphone, tablets, loading into consumer or professional video editing software or burning to another DVD disc with all your of favorable parts. The good news is Continue reading →
Looking for a DVD Ripping program that assists you to rip DVD into Apple Prores HQ format for loading into FCP X for professional post editing workflow? The following article will show you a simple workaroud to get the job easily completed. Benefits of Apple Prores HQ format Before finding out the proper software to Continue reading →
As one of the popular home entertainment, DVD remains one of the dominant media formats in wide use. However, nowadays, more people choose to watch movies or TV shows on smartphone or tablets especially when they are out for traveling. The fact is that you can’t directly watch a DVD disc on mobile devices. Fortunately, Continue reading →
The new iPad 2017 is a 9.7-inch gadget which is not as feature rich as the iPad Pro, nor as thin as the iPad Air 2, but it’s the perfect mix of functionality and price. For those people who wish to watch videos or movies on the move, the new iPad 2017 can be your perfect Continue reading →
There are many different ways to play Blu-ray movies on TV, but in this article we will mainly focus on watching Blu-ray movies on TV via Blu-ray player or USB port. Part 1: How to watch Blu-ray movies on TV with Blu-ray player? Part 2: How to watch Blu-ray movies on TV via USB port? Continue reading →
The 2017 new iPad from Apple is a 9.7-inch tablet computer. It is more powerful and heavier than the iPad Air 2, its height and screen size are the same as the original iPad Air, and its design is also nearly the same as the first Air tablet. However, unlike the iPad Air 2, this generation Continue reading →
Have some Blu-ray disc movies and wish to stream and play them on Raspberry Pi 3 with the Kodi media player. The following article will walk you through the detailed steps to get the job completed. Rip Blu-ray for Kodi Playing on Raspberry Pi 3 running LibreELEC 8.0.1 Obviously, you can not directly play the Continue reading →
Review of Magic Mac DVD Copier Magic DVD Copier for Mac is a powerful software which allows you to copy DVD files even protected DVDs from DVD disc onto Mac hard drive or burn onto a new blank disc. You can use this program to backup any kind of DVD on Mac hard disc or Continue reading →
DVD is a digital optical disc storage format. About it’s structure, sometimes, we know VOB files may be accompanied with IFO and BUP files. These files respectively have .ifo and .bup filename extensions. But most DVD files format is VOB file name extension: it can contain digital video, digital audio,subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents Continue reading →
SSD, short for solid-state drive, gains its popularity in recent years for increasing computer’s system speed. Popular SSDs have Samsung 960 Pro and 960 Evo. Many people also try to copy their DVD collections to SSD for conveniently carry. If you want to save spave of your SSD, you also can choose to convert DVD Continue reading →
A hard disk drive (HDD) is a data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. So if you want to copy your large DVD collections on PC but don’t want to take up the hard drive space, Continue reading →
Samsung 960 PRO SSD is ideal for high-end PCs and workstations, the 960 PRO boasts a cutting-edge 48-layer Samsung V-NAND-based architecture that delivers next-generation performance in a compact M.2 form factor. If you want a big place to store your DVD backups, Samsung 960 PRO SSD is an ideal choice. How to Copy DVD to Samsung Continue reading →
Welcome to 4K UHD Blu-ray era. After Blu-ray beats DVD to become the main physical media. It is gradually replaced by UHD 4K Blu-ray now. It’s the latest generation of Blu-ray discs which, as the name suggests, supports Ultra HD – aka 4K. 4K Blu-ray playback is a headache right now for many people cause Continue reading →
Having a hard time converting 16:9 .mts files to 4:3 in DVD? Have you been struggling for almost 8 hours to figure this out but still didn’t get the way? Many people like to record some video with camera/camcorders. When they want to take the .mts files shot and burn them to a disc, some need to Continue reading →
Disney movies sttract people using its unique charm. No matter children or adults like Disney films. Many parents love to buy and collect some Disney DVD discs and then load them to kids tablet for their children watching. Some like to copy their Disney DVD movies to NAS so that they can view Disney movies Continue reading →
BluRip is a lightweight and portable video conversion tool designed for creating MKV files from BluRay items. It primarily address users with some background in video conversion apps. The program is pretty low-demanding concerning the CPU and system memory, has a good response time, and takes a decent amount of time to finish a conversion Continue reading →
Like most people you have probably amassed a pretty good DVD library of film over the years, but are now looking for a way to have them backed up in digital form so that should the physical disk get damaged you will still have a copy of the film. MakeMKV is a software app which shreds the Continue reading →
MakeMKV is the hottest Blu-ray ripping tool for Blu-ray and DVD collectors. Normally, it is easy to rip Blu-ray using MakeMKV but sometimes, it is unhindered to get the process cause you may get "No Disc" error. “No disk” means MakeMKV asked the operating system about the status of the drive, and the OS said Continue reading →
In the early days of region coding, DVD drives adopt a RPC-1 which is referred to “regional playback control” system. The PC software such as VLC enables to play DVDs and ignore RPC-1. However, VLC can’t access to the DVD’s raw data because of DVD DRM protection such as CSS encryption and some drive with Continue reading →
Blu-ray gives people high resolution video quality and excellent DTS, Dolby Digital audio enjoyment. But Blu-ray streaming replies on heavy Blu-ray Player, which drive many people to rip Blu-ray to digital files. In Blu-ray ripping, many people want to keep original video and audio quality. To get Blu-ray rips with lossless quality, uncompressed MKV is Continue reading →
The M2TS is a filename extension used for the BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream container file format, which is used for multiplexing audio, video and other streams. This container format is commonly used for high definition video on Blu-ray Disc. When people directly backup Blu-ray to hard drive, media often is save in .m2ts extension. However, M2TS Continue reading →
Many people choose to VirtualDUB to rip DVDs to AVI. When copying DVD with VirtualDUB, you don’t need installing, just extract the archive and run ‘VirtualDub.exe’. In addition, there are some disadvantages to use VirtualDUB to rip DVDs: 1.You do need to separately download the MPEG2 plugin (required to decrypt DVDS); 2. VirtualDUB needs a Continue reading →
Although shiny silver platters have as much of a future as videotapes, they’re still a desirable option for car DVD players, Blu-ray home theaters, laptops with optical drives, and so on. Apart from purchasing DVD discs, you also can rent DVD online. Netflix, featuring exclusively a movies-by-mail service, drives consumers to get wanted DVD movies in a pretty Continue reading →
The Dell Venue 11 Pro is a flexible slate tablet built for business. It comes with many work-oriented features, including Windows 8.1, a removable battery, and a variety of docking solutions. It comes with a 10.80-inch display with a resolution of 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels, watching movies and videos on your tablet is an Continue reading →
Mac OS Sierra and Mac OS X El Capitan are out today. It looks good? After you have updated this great new system. You may fall into trouble: how do you deal with your various DVDs and Blu-ray discs? Meanwhile, if you are a senior editor, then do you have the demand to look for the best Continue reading →
How to play Blu-ray Disc? You may choose play Blu-ray movies on HD TV/Smart TV via Blu-ray Player, or play it on computer with Blu-ray Drive. Whatever, Blu-ray bringing us more and more surprise. Want to stocking your Blu-ray collection on a large hard drive? Or Mainly to rip blu-ray discs to M2TS files for Continue reading →
Blu-ray Movie lovers may be delighted because the newest Sony’s PlayStation 4, has added Blu-ray functionality to make it a snap to play Blu-ray on PS4 a snap. With it, you can play the latest games on HDTV’s big screen. And if you happen to have a collection of Blu-rays, you can also convert them for Continue reading →
“Can I upload a bunch of old DVD’s onto Google Drive or Google’s new Photo? I have a bunch of old movie DVD’s I’d love to get rid of but still have access to on the cloud.” – Question from Quora. Google Drive is Google’s new cloud storage services, like Dropbox, Apple iCloud, SkyDrive. It allows Continue reading →
“I’m skillful at using Handbrake so I don’t know much about it yet. I’ve ripped 720×480 VOBs using DVD Decrypter and I’m now trying to convert these huge VOBs into more size-friendly MP4s with Handbrake. However, when I check “Keep Aspect Ratio”, it locks the dimensions to 720×304.” If the DVD VOB to MP4 aspect ratio distored Continue reading →
Summary: People always try something new. Such as watching DVD on TV via NAS instead of via DVD drive. If you still have problem about keeping the main titles or chapters on your NAS and watching them on TV, this article will help you a lot. As a DVD collection owner, you will choose to Continue reading →
My question is can I play DVD Movies on Zeiss VR One directly? If not, any workable workaround to help me get 3D movies onto Zeiss VR One? Here, you will find the best solution. The ZEISS VR One currently has two trays available – Samsung Galaxy S5 and the iPhone 6 (4.7″). Currently compatible with iPhone 6, Continue reading →
Q: “Does anyone have any tips for extracting subtitles from a blu-ray disc? I tried used eac3to. I first selected the main movie. I then selected 2 different audio tracks. After selecting the english track I tried to save both files off to .sub files. I tried to open these .sub files in Subtitle Creator Continue reading →
Q: “ Hello, I just recently bought a superdrive for my 2013 Macbook Air (Yosemite) and I’ve been using it for burning CD’s, but when I put a DVD in (brand new), it shows up on my desktop, but just gives me a bunch of audio files and won’t allow me to play it. Is Continue reading →
Are you a big fan for Fast & Furious series? If you have collected Fast & Furious: 6-Movie Collection, you may want to put those movies to computer, iPad, iPhone, Galaxy Tab and more other media devices for enjoying at home or on the go. To do this, you should rip Blu-ray and DVD to Continue reading →
With the coming of Mother’s Day 2015, have you had any good idea of your gifts for your dear Mummy? Great news for all multimedia software users for the upcoming Mother’s Day: Pavtube launches a big Mother’s Day Promotion for all multimedia software users to celebrate Mother’s Day until May 14th. To commemorate Mother’s Day, Continue reading →
Furious 7 has been released on 3 April 2015 and movie fans swarm into theater to watch the last movie Paul Walker has filmed. Wake up and realize that “Fast & Furious 7” movie is approaching? Can’t wait to pre-ordered the much-anticipated movie in Blu-ray and expect to backup Furious 7 movie on Blu-ray onto latest Continue reading →
Transferring some videos stored on the PC/Mac to iPad and iPhone can definitely add more fun to our journey and help us to kill the time. However, it is always a time-consuming task to sync video files via iTunes. This is exactly why StreamToMe comes. StreamToMe is a media player application for Macs and iOS Continue reading →
Apple TV offers its users with full HD 1080p output as well as AirPlay functionality. Talk about the latest technologies Apple TV does not disappoint in this area, it comes with iCloud backup of the TV, and iTunes Match, Photo Stream, among other evident technologies. Of course, most of us are not to pay iTunes Continue reading →
How to Rip and Stream my Blu-ray and DVD Movies to play over home network? I’d like to convert my Blu-ray and DVD into a format that is compatible on a home network for streaming. What can I do have a backup before I can share my BD/DVD on computers, hard drives, TV and media Continue reading →
Have lots of 2D/3D Blu-ray discs to rip in your collection, and want to put them in iTunes DB so that you can view at will on any of the screens via Apple TV? Yet, a general Blu-ray is in MTS format with copy protection. To put a 2D/3D Blu-ray onto iTunes for Apple TV syncing, Continue reading →
Question: “I want to transfer my Blu-ray files to my computer in HD MKV format, but can not find the way I can have it in different audio (English and Hebrew) and also have subtitles (Hebrew and English) so family members from different countries can enjoy movies with their own native languages. Is there a Continue reading →
Archos, the technology company that seems to diversify each time we hear from it, has entered the virtual market with its Archos VR Glasses. The headset is similar to the GearVR in that it requires a smartphone with a screen size of up to 6 inches to provide the display, but it isn’t just reliant Continue reading →
It’s fairly pleasure to view movies in virtual cinema mode with Samsung’s Gear VR headset. Besides preparing 3D movies for watching, you can also try to convert your backed up ISO files from Blu-ray or DVD on computer into 3D video for playback on Gear VR in Oculus Cinema. In this article, you are going Continue reading →
“Hey guys, I have around 50 .iso files on my server, which unfortunately Plex does not support. So I want to convert all of them to MKV files but don’t want to lose any V/A quality as well as the subtitles, switchable audio tracks. Any help with a step by step guide?” For HD movie Continue reading →
As a Blu-ray collection owner, I am trying to play my Blu-ray movie files off a NAS drive via WDTV. It’s really freaking cool! Any way to rip my Blu-rays into digital format and save to my NAS and playback on big screen in home cinema. Has anyone done this? What are the formats we Continue reading →
Do you have a lot of Blu-ray collections? Have you found that the Blu-ray discs are easy to break or have scratches? Have you had the poor experiences that hunt for a Blu-ray movie in hundreds of Blu-ray discs? Well, the good way to solve these troubles is that convert your Blu-ray to Plex, which Continue reading →
Has anyone ripped their DVD collection to a work with all of hardware including PLEX? I have about 200 DVDs and it seems like it’d be very time consuming and tedious. Is there a good piece of software that I can just take a few minutes to get set the way I want to rip Continue reading →
Sitting on a pile of DVD movies and don’t know what to do with them? Well, you are certainly not alone. Wouldn’t it be great to digitize all of your DVD movies for moving them to your Cloud Storage. And in that way, you can easily access your DVD movies while you are traveling, on Continue reading →
I am going to make a highlight film for my football team and I have all the game films on Blu-ray. Now, how do you import the film from Blu-ray to Windows Movie Maker? Need to edit Blu-ray movies in Windows Movie Maker but just find Windows Movie Maker doesn’t even recognize the Blu-ray files? Continue reading →
Q: I’m looking for a program to allow me to convert my DVDs to play on my computer using Stereoscopic Player in 3D effect. The programs I have purchased to directly play my DVDs through the computer in 3D have always been very difficult to use and some DVD were not playable at all. Any Continue reading →
Now it’s almost time to back to school, have enjoyed a color and meaningful Summer break? Let’s get ready and be excited for another great term! Meanwhile, after a long summer holiday, are you looking forwared to see everyone and prepare some cool gifts for your classmates or teachers? Welcome to the Pavtube 2014 Back to Continue reading →
Q1: Can my xbox 360 play blu ray? Q2: Is the Xbox 360 kinect a blu ray player too? Q3: does xbox 360 play blu ray discs Many users want to know if the Xbox 360 can play Blu-ray movies. Actually, Xbox 360 does not have a Blu-ray player installed in it. Gamers are able Continue reading →
PS 3 is a great video game console. It was the first console to use Blu-ray Disc as its primary storage medium. Many people have such a question, can i use PS3 to play Blu-ray movies? Now, let’s have a look at a specific issue about this. Hi there, I’m trying to do a straight Continue reading →
Is it possible to play movies on iPad with several audio tracks? The answer is yes. As a matter of fact, we need to use a special player, such as HLS Multitrack Player. You can find it from AppStore. Besides, we also need to make the movie keeping the original audio tracks and subtitles. Here Continue reading →
Uesers Questions: Q1. How to make vlc media player play blu rays? Is there an alternate way to play Blu-ray movies with either vlc. I heard there is an advantage of playing blu-rays but i don’t know what Q2. Can VLC play Blu-ray films? I just tried to play a Blu-ray disc and VLC says Continue reading →
Assuming a backup rip from a brand new 3D blu-ray movie, using lossless codecs would mean that the most important questions at hand would be: Which lossless codec is widely used and compatible? Since the original Blu-ray movie in .m2ts format and the best way to get 1:1 copy of original BD movie is to Continue reading →
Marvel announced that Iron Man 3 will be coming to DVD and Blu-ray on September 24th, 2013! If you don’t want to wait that long to watch it again, it will be available to watch on digital download three weeks earlier on September 3rd. But, it doesn’t matter. After you get your Iron Man 3 Continue reading →
Question 1: Hello, I am completely new to this field. I recently bought a WD-TV HD Player. I thought it is a very good way to convert all my DVDs to digital files and have everything ready in a hard drive. Somewhere I read that if I convert DVDs to .MKV files, it will carry Continue reading →
Question: How can I copy Blu-ray disc to my computer and rip to avi format? I want to copy Blu-ray to my computer and watch it on Windows media player, is there any way to change Blu-ray to WMP formats? Generally, we watch Blu-ray movies on HDTV via a Blu-ray player. And some people may Continue reading →
When you get a Blu-ray disc, what do you want to do? Watch it in your Blu-ray Player? Back up in hard drive for easy searching or protecting from physical damage, or burn a new one to share with friends? Or want to enjoy them on your iPad, iPhone 4 anywhere and anytime? Yes, there Continue reading →
Question 1: I want to convert a Blu-ray movie file to a format that my computer can handle. I know it can handle 720p mkv files. I’m not too concerned about maximizing quality. I am just looking for a simple process that will (1) prevent audio sync problems and (2) preserve mkv-style subtitles. Question 2: Continue reading →
Samsung has announced a trio of Galaxy Tab 3 devices. In addition to the 7-inch version we’ve known about since late April, the company also announced an 8-inch and a 10.1-inch variant of the Galaxy Tab 3. Both the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 and 10.1 are equipped with a display with resolution 1280*800, and both Continue reading →
Dune HD is recognized as a global leader in high-performance digital media players. Dune HD products support the widest number of digital formats in use. It support the widest number of digital formats in use today, from Internet-based digital streaming and downloadable content, to disc based formats such as Blu-ray, DVD and CD. The Dune Continue reading →
Question: Hello. The last two attempts at converting two different DVD Discs using a free program output black bars at the top and bottom of movies. I tried to enlarge and disappear blackbars, but video would be stretched to wrong aspect ratio. Please advise me what to extract videos without black bars but in correct Continue reading →
An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, a type of disk image composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system.ISO image files usually have a file extension of .iso. The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system Continue reading →
Some people expected a Blu-ray Ripper because they want to rip their collection of blu-rays in another format to use on the Galaxy Tab 3. By reading this article about how to stream Blu-ray DVD HD video to Galaxy Tab 3, you can easily make it. But, for people who just need to handle Blu-ray Continue reading →
The Galaxy S4 looks something like a cross between the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note 2. It comes in ‘black mist’ and ‘white frost’ colours which look pretty standard but still stylish. It has 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display that has 441ppi. This maybe a great highlight to attract more people spending money Continue reading →
Question: Hello, Is there a media player app for Android that will play .ISO files? If no, I was curious if you know of any software products that convert my movies (DVDs and ISO images of DVDs) to single files like MP4 so I can watch them on my Android Tablet like NOOK Color and Continue reading →
Q: Main purpose for me is to copy the DVD/blu rays I purchased to portable storage devices where I can better organize the movies and watch them later on via media-players on TV. Additionally I can store movies on my ipad or smartphone. Any recommendation would be appreciate. For those who are running into Blu-ray/DVD Continue reading →
