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Thursday, March 12, 2015

How to Stream DVD over Plex to Roku without restrictions

Summary: Did you know you can also play DVD on Roku? Here is a simple guide on ripping DVDs for streaming over Plex to Roku 3 with supported formats.

Roku is another popular streaming player, besides Apple TV and Chromecast. It supports 1800+ streaming channels including YouTube, Netflix, HBO GO, Hulu plus, PBS, Pandora, etc. and 200,000+ movies and TV episodes. Mostly you may use the Roku as a top-up box for your Plex media center. But you may want to know how to play DVD-like sources? Because Roku only support MKV (H.264), MP4 (H.264), MOV (H.264), WMV (VC-1, firmware 3.1 only). Is there any way to workaround to fix the issue? Sure, we have a great tutorial for you, guaranteed to play DVD movies on Roku thru Plex.

You may opt for some free DVD rippers like HandBrake to rip DVD to Roku compatible formats. But such kind of DVD rippers isn't suit for copy protected DVD movies or latest DVD released, like Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, The Red Ten, Transformers 4. If you want to effortlessly rip any regular and badly encrypted DVDs to Roku, Pavtube DVDAid is a good option. After downloading and installing, you can rip and stream DVD to Roku in several simple steps. (For Mac users, Pavtube DVDAid for Mac is the way to go. Follow the guide for Mac).

Pavtube DVDAid More Features:

Edit the videos before conversion, such as trim, crop, add subtitles, video effect, etc.
Convert DVD to many other mobile devices and editing software like iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, ATV 3, iPhone 6/6 Plus, Nexus 10, Galaxy Tab 3, S5, Note 3, Sony Vegas and more.
Add srt, ass, ssa subtitles to your movies.
Backup DVD main movie to VOB format with original quality.

How to Rip DVD movies to Roku for Playing via Plex

STEP 1: Load DVD files to the converter

Click the disc button to load DVD movies to the program. The detailed information of your DVD movie will be displayed. You can then preview them and choose the chapters you want to rip.

STEP 2: Select output format

Click Format > Common Video and set output video format as H.264 Video (*.mp4). The reason mp4 is the target format is that by packing the videos in mp4, the file size will be reasonable small and the video quality remains.

STEP 3: Edit the DVD files(optional)

The DVD to Roku Converter comes with the editing functions enables you to customize your own videos in the following ways:
A. Crop - Crop the video frame size for better visual effects on the player.
B. Trim - Split the video clips to choose your favorite part of the DVD movies.
C. Effects - You can change the video parameters like brightness, saturation, contrast and more...

STEP 4: Start to convert DVD to Roku supported format

After all preparations, click the Convert button to rip your DVD movie to Roku. When the conversion completes, click Open to get the converted MP4 files and play them with Roku via Plex for freely.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 8th, 2015– Follow That Bird

Summary: There are lots of great Blu-ray movies on this week of March 8th, 2015, just like: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, The Sound of Music, The Breakfast Club,Wolfcop, White Haired Witch, The Soft Skin and so on. Here is listed a haul of newly released Blu-ray Discs. Enjoy it~

New Blu-ray Discs Releases:

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 ‘– Katniss and her crossbow are back in the latest installment of the YA dystopian-future franchise. Because it’s the popular thing to do these days, the producers have split the final book in the series into two movies. Despite that, reviews were pretty strong. The Blu-ray includes a Dolby Atmos soundtrack, making this one of the few decent movies available in that format. (Be warned that copies sold through Walmart reportedly only have lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.) Also, Best Buy has an exclusive SteelBook version.

Unlike the last installment, ‘Catching Fire’, director Francis Lawrence has forsaken the annoying alternating-aspect-ratio gimmick in favor of a traditional 2.40:1 ratio throughout. When I asked him about this, he explained: “Yeah, I totally dumped that crap just to show Freakyguy666 what’s what. LOL. PWNED!!” True story.*

‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ‘ – Notable only for the fact that it marks Robin Williams’ final film appearance, this third and allegedly last entry in the middling family franchise petered out without making much of an impression during the holiday season. It will probably still sell well on video, as these things usually do. I sat through the first two of these for the benefit of a friend’s children, but they have fortunately moved onto other things now.

‘Life of Riley ‘ – Legendary French auteur Alain Resnais (‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’, ‘Last Year at Marienbad‘) passed away at the age of 91 last year, barely a month after the Berlin Film Festival premiere of his final feature. The movie mixes live action and animation, as well as film and theater, in telling the story of a group of friends dealing with the news that their (unseen) friend is dying of cancer.

‘Russell Madness ‘ – I gather that this is one of those ‘Air Bud’ things, or at least a knockoff. From what I can ascertain, the title is supposed to be a pun on “Wrestle Madness,” which I guess is supposed to somehow be a play on Wrestlemania. Or something. Yeah, it’s really strained, even by the standard of kids’ crap. I’m grateful that my own kids are still about a year away from becoming obsessed with garbage like this.

Source: http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-10-2015/

You can also get the other Blu-ray movies on Mar 1th, 2015. Have fun with your family!

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV to use in Xbox One with fast speed

Summary: It seems to be a great idea to play Blu ray on Xbox 360 in your leisure time. This article will just show you how to convert Blu-ray to Xbox 360 video with high speed.

Xbox One generates a DVD/Blu-ray drive, which is a great improvement, making users playing Blu-ray/DVD more conveniently. But, the Blu-ray Disc will be scratched or damaged due to repeat use. So what is the best way to get Blu-ray file into something Xbox one can stream, without losing either the quality? In this page, I will share a simplest way to play Blu-ray on Xbox one with ease.

As we know, Blu-ray provides HD video sources for playback. But if you want to have a try to watch Blu-ray movies on Xbox One, you need to rip Blu-ray to Xbox One compatible format first.To save you from the awkward situation, Pavtube BDMagic for Windows comes to give you a hand. For Mac users, you can try to Pavtube BDMagic for Mac - which allows you to copy Blu-ray movies to Xbox game console on Mac Yosemite 10.10 (including Mavericks and Mountain Lion).

This Blu-ray to Xbox One ripper offers specified video formats for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and many other game hardware like PSP, PS4, Wii and more. With it, you will be able to watch any Blu-ray/DVD movies via Xbox. Its build-in editor lets you touch up the Blu-ray/DVD video as you like, which include trimming, cropping, rotate, merge and apply special visual effects, etc. It also able to fetch and embed the metadata informatyion to the video.

Rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV to use in Xbox One with best quality

Step 1: Load Blu-ray Movies

Kick off Blu-ray to Xbox One Converter and then load source Blu-ray movies by clicking "Load BD" button.

Note: Subtitles and audio tracks could be selected after loading Blu-ray movies.

Step 2: Output settings

Here we select mp4 with H.264 codec for Xbox One. Click the Format drop-down list, and select “Xbox 360 HD Video(*.wmv)” from "Zune/Xbox 360 Device" category. You can select other Xbox360 format for watching.

Optional settings: This Blu-ray to Xbox One Converter allows you to adjust video/audio settings. Video and audio parameters of selected profile could be adjusted, including: video codec, audio codec, bit rate, frame rate, channel, etc. You could click settings button to enter the Settings panel.

Step 3: Convert Blu-ray to Xbox One with MP4/MKV

Hit the convert button on the main interface to let this Blu-ray to Xbox ripper start converting. Once the conversion is finished, you could transfer the converted Blu-ray movies to MP4/MKV to use in your Xbox One for unlimited playback. Enjoy.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

New Blu-ray Discs released for this week of March 1, 2015

While upcoming new Blu-ray movies like Avengers: Da Vinci's Demons: The Complete Second Season are gearing up to head into theaters this spring, the big Blu-ray companies are still churning out some Academy Award nominees and winners, along with some holiday favorites. From big franchises like Space Dandy: Season 1 and Foxcatcher to smaller releases, like The Imitation Game, there are plenty of great DVD/blu-ray releases this month. Check out the list, below.

Some decent looking releases this week!! Let’s get to it:

Top 1. Life Partners

Street Date: March 3rd, 2015
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody
Director: Susanna Fogel

Plot Synopsis:

At 29, the most long-term relationship Sasha (Leighton Meester) and Paige (Gillian Jacobs) have ever been in is with each other, using their co-dependent friendship as an excuse not to venture out into the dating world alone. But when Paige meets nerdy Tim (Adam Brody) and starts to get serious for the first time, the nature of their friendship begins to shift. Fearing she's being cast aside, Sasha tries to keep their relationship the same, but does growing up also mean growing apart?

Top 2. Innocence

Street Date: March 3rd, 2015
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Sophie Curtis, Kelly Reilly, Graham Phillips
Director: Hilary Brougher

Plot Synopsis:

Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a Montauk surfing accident, 16-year-old Beckett and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to Manhattan and attempt to piece together their shattered life. Now enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton preparatory school, her psychosis and hallucinations intensify with the dubious suicides of current and past students, as does her first love for Tobey Crawford. The discovery that her new school may be run by a coven of beautiful and seductive women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins becomes the ultimate challenge of Beckett and Tobey s young lives.

Top 3. Believe Me

Street Date: March 3rd, 2015
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Alex Russell, Zachary Knighton, Nick Offerman, Johanna Braddy, Miles Fisher, Sinqua Walls, Max Adler and Christopher McDonald
Director: Will Bakke

Plot Synopsis:

Sam (Alex Russell) stands on stage as thousands of fans go wild. Smart, charismatic, handsome, he moves them with his message, and when he calls for donations to his charity, the money pours in. Only thing is, Sam doesn't believe a word he's saying.

Just months earlier, Sam was a typical college senior focused on keg stands, hookups and graduation. But when a surprise tuition bill threatens his dream of law school and leaves him thousands of dollars in the hole, he's forced to think outside the box. Convincing his three roommates they can make a killing exploiting the gullible church crowd, the guys start a sham charity and begin campaigning across the country, raising funds for a cause as fake as their message.

For Sam, embezzling money is easy compared to getting attention from the person he cares about the most. When Callie (Johanna Braddy), the tour manager and Sam's love interest, finally uncovers the guys' ruse, it's Sam's moment of truth.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Can the iPad Air 2 play 720p or 1080p MKV files on Mac natively?

Summary: Chances are you need an effective way to play 1080p, 720p MKV files on iPad Air 2 by converting MKV to iPad supported video formats.

With 9.7-inch low reflectivity Retina screen, iPad Air 2 is a great tablet which allows you to enjoy the vivid images beyond the limits of your eyes. <Review: Apple Leaks the New iPad Air 2 >.

After you got the iPad Air 2 tablet, you may want to copy some 1080p or 720p Videos to iPad Air 2 for watching. But how to watch 1080p and 720p HD videos like MKV, WMV and AVI on iPad Air 2 smoothly and make them perfectly match the premium screen of iPad Air 2? Here, check out this top iMedia Converter for Mac and convert 1080p/720p MKV movies to your iPad Air 2 with supported format.

Tip: For Windows users, Pavtube offers freeware MKV to iPad Air 2 Converter to convert MKV to iPad Air in lossless quality.

Steps on: How to Play 1080p/720p MKV movies on iPad Air 2 on Mac with perfect quality

Step 1: Import 1080p, 720p MKV

Run the iPad Air 2 MKV Converter for Mac. Click "Add File" to load one or multiple .mkv file(s) into the program. Besides MKV, you can also load FLV, AVI, WMV, VOB, TiVo, MPG, MOV, etc.

Note: You can also use this iMedia Converter for Mac to help you rip Blu-ray/DVD or ISO files to iPad Air 2. Enjoy it!

Step 2: Choose the right file format for iPad Air 2

Click “Format” bar, you can get the optimized videos for iPad Air under iPad > iPad Air HD Video(*.mp4). To get 1080p video quality, just choose iPad>iPad Air Full HD Video(*.mp4).

Tip: If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish.

best settings for iPad Air 2

What’s point? The supported resolution of iPad Air goes up to 1080p, though video playback and most apps never break out of 720p. For watching videos on iPad Air, 720p with 1500~2500kbps is just all right. I found bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.

Step 3: Start 1080p/720p MKV Videos to iPad Air 2 Conversion

Tap the Conversion button, it will start 720p/1080p videos to MP4 conversion for iPad Air 2 on Mac immediately. Click “Open” to find the result MP4 videos after the conversion and transfer them to your device with ease.

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