Reserve TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of BD .m2ts streams on Mac

Lots of people are still looking for solutions to figure out how to reserve Dolby TrueHD audio of Blu-ray .m2ts streams while doing format conversion. Without a practical program, it’s definitely difficult to set the

movies being converted in your master language, even though your .m2ts files are not copy-protected. Normally, if your master language is English, then English audio is making use of TrueHD, and suppose

your format conversion application can not recognize TureHD audio, then it will only output the audio track it recognized, that would be French, Spanish, or some other languages instead of English. In that case,

you will encounter language troubles absolutely, so an available MTS/M2TS converter which can support TrueHD audio would provide timely help at this time.

Besides keeping Dolby TrueHD audio, some people also have the requirements of keeping DTS-HD Mater Audio during the conversion. There is no doubt that everyone needs great audio to match their great

video. To relieve the pains of Mac users, this guide will take TrueHD audio for example to show you how to retain your needed audio track of BD .m2ts files on Mac in detail.

Required software:

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac

Okay, let’s begin now.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts files

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Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio

Firstly, click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, after that a list of audio tracks will show up like “0×1100″, at the same time, the audio codec name will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, if it is TrueHD, the codec

name “truehd” will emerge like the following interface showing. What you should do is just clicking on the stream ID one by one to see which one is your wanted TrueHD audio.

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Step 3: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select whatever format you like as output format, and click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files. Meanwhile, if you want to combine multiple .m2ts files to

be as 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 name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels in the following interface, to reserve TureHD

audio to the full extent, you should select 6 channels.

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Step 5: Click “Convert” button to begin conversion

After conversion is completed, the output files can be found out via clicking “Open” button with ease.

By the way, if you do not have decrypted BD .m2ts streams, but copy-protected Blu-ray discs, then Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is your appropriate choice,

it is capable of dealing with both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio as well as let audio and video match well.

The best free Hulu Downloader you’ve ever seen

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Hulu Downloader Beta is a practical Windows application to help you capture Flash videos (.flv, .f4v), Movies, TV Shows, Movie Trailers, MTV, etc. from video sharing websites like Hulu.com, Youtube.com, Google

video, Myspace, Yahoo! Video, CBS, MTV, Megavideo, Photobucket, Dailymotion, Veoh, Demand Five, etc., and save them on your hard drive, play them back whenever you want without being connected to the

Internet.

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It is capable of downloading movies quickly and flawlessly, so as to enrich your movie collections with the most popular online video resources.

Features Highlights:
Widely support for overwhelming online videos
The app is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, PTMP, PTMPT, PTMPE, PTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh,

Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video etc.

Capture URL automatically
The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no need to add URL manually.

Enrich your A/V collection
This Hulu Downloader is capable of downloading any video and audio file you can play online so that you can turn numerous online video and audio into your own collection. What’s more, a powerful player is

inlaid for you to play back the videos in library freely.

Convert downloaded videos freely (come up soon with full version)
You are allowed to convert the downloaded videos to various video and audio formats compatible with portable devices like iPod, iPhone, 3G phone, etc. With this app, you can enjoy the online flash videos on

your portable players freely, whenever and wherever.

Free download Hulu Downloader Beta:

http://download.huludownload.com/hulu-downloader/huludownloader_setup.exe

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.

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.

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.

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”.

3. Choose the AVI format on the “Format” drop  down box.

There are several profiles with AVI as output format.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.