Wednesday, March 28, 2018

How to Make Blu-ray/DVD Playable on Samung Galaxy S9/S9+

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have been launched for several days since March 16, let's have a look at the new Android phones. You won't find a bigger and better Android phone than the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus, thanks to its oversized 6.2-inch curved screen and low-light-defeating dual-lens camera. Sure, it looks exactly like last year's S8 Plus, but it does fix the fingerprint sensor location and speakers (now stereo). 

s9

With this smartphone in hands, transferring all your Blu-ray/DVD collections to it for watching when you're out for travelling to kill the boring time. Maybe, many people will say they can purchase the BD/DVD movie form the online movie store, it will be a waste if you have already had the same BD/DVD disc in hand.

There are lots of Blu-ray/DVD ripper which can copy and convert the movies form the plastic to Samung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus playable movies. However, the point is how to get the best one in the market. You are in the right place, Pavtube BDMagic | for Mac (review) always stands out from its competitors, and recently, it has upgraded to v4.9.2, added support for Blu-ray AACS MKB v63. It allows you to convert Blu-ray/DVD to H.264/H.265 MP4, H.265 MKV, AVI, MOV, M4V, WMV, WAV and more for playback on Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus, iPhone X/8/8P/7/7P, iPad, Xbox one, PS4 Pro and other popular devices.

To get the best video and audio playback effect on Galaxy S9 (plus), you can use the "Crop" function to adjust output aspect ratio to let it fit with your smartphone screen display, flexibly tweak the output video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution or audio codec, sample rate, bit rate, channels, etc. With this perfect tool, you can also flexibly set subtitles on your own. You can select desired subtitles from original Blu-ray/DVD movies, enable forced subtitle option to disable the traditional subtitles while still preserving the subtitles that translate foreign language speaking parts. If the original Blu-ray/DVD movie doesn't contain you wanted subtitle languages, you can download a subtitle file in your first language and then add subtitles to your movie files.

Step by Step to Rip and Play BD/DVD Movies on Samsung Galaxy S9 (Plus)

Step 1: Load movie disc into the program

Launch the program on your computer, click "File" > "Load from disc" to load commercial Blu-ray/DVD disc with copy protection to the application.

load dvd

Step 2. Select output video format for Galaxy S9/S9 Plus

Press “Format” drop-down menu and then select a video container format that the Galaxy S9/S9 Plus supports like MP4, WMV, AVI, etc. You can also select HD MP4, HD WMV, HD MKV, HD FLV, etc format from "HD Video" category.

mp4

After that, click the "Settings" button to adjust the output parameters including “resolution”, “bitrate”, “frame rate”, and “codec” to make the output video play best on your Galaxy S9/S9 Plus.

adjust mp4 settings

Step 3: Start Blu-ray/DVD to Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 + ripping process

After you have finished all the settings, go back to the main interface, press the right-bottom "Convert" button to start to convert Blu-ray/DVD to Galaxy S9/S9 + with original video/audio quality.

When the conversion is completed, click "Open output folder", a window will pop out with all your converted files. Then feel free to transfer converted files to Galaxy S9/S9 Plus for playback anytime anywhere. 

Galaxy S9 vs S9+

S9 and S9+’s obvious difference is the display size. Galaxy S9’s display is 5.8 inches while Galaxy S9+’s display is 6.2 inches and with the increased size comes an increase in power. The S9+ has a 3,500 mAh battery where the S9's battery is 3,000 mAh. Additionally, the S9 will give you 4GB of RAM while the S9+ will give you more with 6GB of RAM. Don't worry both of them support microSD cards for additional storage expansion of up to 400GB.

However, the biggest noticeable difference between the two and what makes the S9+ stand out is its dual cameras. The S9 features a single lens camera while the S9+ features a dual lens camera that offers dual optical image stabilization and 2X optical zoom. Both feature super slow mo though, so we got you covered!

So what makes Galaxy S9 and S9+ better than Galaxy S8 and S8+? The S9 and S9+ have a faster processor, more memory, and larger screens to name a few of the improvements from the S8 and S8+. Want to know all of the changes, check it out for yourself.

Here are the specs:
Galaxy S8 Specs
Galaxy S8+ Specs

Galaxy S9 Specs 
Galaxy S9+ Specs

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Compress DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p for After Effects Editing

A marvel of engineering and design, the Mavic Air was built to go wherever adventure takes you. Inheriting the best of the Mavic series, this ultraportable and foldable drone features high-end flight performance and functionality for limitless exploration. The Mavic Air is the most portable DJI drone to house a 3-axis mechanical gimbal, with its angular vibration range reduced to 0.005°. Set in a triangular formation, gimbal dampeners help create even steadier shots. Best of all the Mavic Air shoots video at an incredible 4K 30 fps, recording at 100 Mbps to capture every second with UHD quality.

It is a wonderful idea to input the DJI Mavic Air captured 4K footage into Adobe After Effects for further editing. However, it will be CPU comsuming if you load DJI Mavic Air 4k into After Effect and try to render the final file. If you say you have owned a very power computer and can get this job done, okey, how about the final render file? It can be very easy to say that its size will be very very large after adding vdieo effects to it. So today what we are gonna discuss is how to compress DJI Mavic Air 4k to 1080p for better postproduction, and compress the large render files for better sharing.

Part 1. How to Compress DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p before After Effects Editing

To compress DJI Mavic Air captured 4k footage before inputting into After Effects, you have a good choice - finding a smart assistant which comes as a super compressor. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate always stands out from it competitors will never let you down. It allows you to input 4K MOV, 4K MP4, 4K AVCHD, 4K MKV and output MKV, MOV, MP4, AVI, M4V etc with 4K/2K/SD/HD resolution, moreover, customizing video parameters like video/audio codec, resoluiton, bit rate, frame rate, channels etc are available here. Apart from video rosolution, video file size also depends on video bit rate, get smaller video size by lowering the bit rate.

Quick Guide to Compress DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p before After Effects Editing

Step 1: Load DJI Mavic Air 4K video into the program.

Start the program on your computer, click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to import DJI Mavic Air 4K video.

Load DJI Mavic Air 4K video

Step 2: Define output video format

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down options, choose the best compatible uploading format from "Common VIdeo" > "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)". You also can choose other video formats according to your needs.

Output YouTube best uploading 4k formats

Step 3: Compress DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p

Hit "Settings" to open the "Profile Settings" window, here you can adjust the output video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels. To compress 4k to 1080p, just type 1920*1080 in Size blank. If you prefer smaller video size, lower the video bit rate can help you achieve this goal.

Output YouTube best uploading settings

Step 5: Start the conversion.

Start to compress DJI Mavic Air 4K video to 1080p conversion by hitting the right bottom convert button, when the conversion is over, you will have no limitation to upload DJI Mavic Air 4K video to After Effects. You will be surprise about the smooth editing process.

Part 2. How to Compress After Effects render file size for sharing

Above is the tutorials to help you compress the DJI Mavic Air 4k to 1080p for smooth editing. Almost all After Effects moive making lovers know that, although the file you input into Adobe AE is very small, the render file will be larger larger larger than what you input, cause you have done the footage's postproduction. So how to reduce the render file size? Here are two ways to help you solve the problems.

Method 1. How to reduce the render file size in Affter Effects

To reduce render file size in Affter Effects is to change the format to H.264, but how? Keep reading.

To render H.264 it's actually very easy.

  1. From your Project window, select the sequence you wish to render.
  2. Right click->Export Media (or File->Export Media)
  3. In the Video tab, select H.264 for format

Then, in the basic video settings below, you can change to smaller-than-original resolution, low bit rates, etc.

Method 2. How to reduce the Affter Effects render file size via Pavtube tool

If you are not faniliar with the operation by reducing in After Effects, this method will be very easy for you. Open Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and load the render file into it, then define the output format you like just like we just do above, then click Settings on the UI, screenshot like below.

Output YouTube best uploading settings

Now you are able to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels. Apart from changing video resolution, you also can lower the bit rate to make the render file smaller.

Up to now, you may have no trouble to play the DJI Mavic Air 4k with any devices, or upload to Youtube Facebook, Twitter for sharing with thousands of net friends.

Friday, March 16, 2018

How to Convert HD MTS to M4V/MOV for Playback on iPad Series

An MTS file is a video file saved in the high-definition (HD) MPEG Transport Stream video format, commonly called "AVCHD". MTS files are often used by Sony, Panasonic, and other HD camcoders. It is worth to say that MTS files can not be played directly by most media player or reconginized by most tablets, smartphones because of its video audio codec. So if you want to sync some MTS files to your iPad with iTunes for sharing with friends, how to do?

convert mts to m4v for ipad air apple tv 3

Converting MTS to iPad supported video formats could solve this problem, for example, converting MTS to M4V/MOV will be a good way. You can search MTS to M4V/MOV converter in Google and pop up hundreds software in the page. The point is how to get the best one. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate | Mac (review) always stands out from its competitors which could convert HD MTS to M4V, MOV with just 3 steps.

Moreover, apart from converting MTS to M4V/MOV, it also allows you to import Blu-ray/DVD, MOV, AVI, MKV, AVCHD, VOB with resolution of 4K/2K/HD/SD to any formats you need including MOV, M4V, H.264/H.265 MP4, 3GP, M4V and more. For those people who want to do some postproduction to the MTS footage, video editing is also availabe here.

You are able to flip MTS video horizontally or vertically, rotate video clockwise or counterclockwise to get it displayed in the right angle, trim or cut MTS video to remove unwanted parts or segments, crop video to cut off unwanted black borders or area, personalize MTS video with video/image/transparent text watermark, split large video into small parts by file size, count or length, merge separate video clips into one, adjust picture effect like brightness, contrast, saturation or apply special rendering effects like Gray, Flip Color or Aged Flim, etc to your video or add external SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to videos. To sum up, its features are beyond your imagination. Have a try!

How to upload recorded HD MTS videos to iPad Series

Step 1. Import captured MTS videos

Download and open up recorded HD MTS videos to this MTS to M4V/MOV converter by clicking “File” > “Add Video/Aideo.”

add mts video to mts converter

Step 2. Choose M4V as output video format

All models of iPad support M4V/MOV formats, just go to the format list to find M4V option, select "M4V-MPEG-4 Video(*.m4v)" or "MOV-QuickTime(*.mov)"-->"Common Video", or "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" from "HD Video" category.

output iTunes M4V format

Step 3. Edit recorded HD MTS videos (Optional)

Go to "Video Editor" window to create your personal videos by trimming, cropping, adding watermarks and special effects.

edit mts video

Step 4. Convert MTS to M4V for iPad

One click on the red button “Convert” to start to convert recorded HD MTS videos to iPad compatible video format - M4V. After conversion, transfer the converted MTS videos to iPad .

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Play ISO on Cyberlink PowerDVD

As the world's number 1 media player software for Windows 10, Cyberlink PowerDVD allow users to watch Blu-ray, 4K, 3D, HD, MKV & DVD videos with enhanced surround sound audio. Have some ISO files backed from Blu-ray or DVD disc and wish to play ISO files on Cyberlink PowerDVD? You can follow the steps below to playback ISO file.

Steps to play ISO file on Cyberlink PowerDVD

Step 1: Browse and find the ISO file in Cyberlink PowerDVD, either in the Movie Library or via the My Computer tab.

My computer ISO file

Step 2: Select the ISO you want to play and then click on the play button.

Step 3: Cyberlink PowerDVD displays a message asking you to install the required drive

Install virtual drive

Step 4: Click on Install button and then Yes when prompted in the User Access Control dialog.

Step 5: Cyberlink PowerDVD will start playing the ISO file once the drive is installed.

Problems when viewing ISO files on Cyberlink PowerDVD

"I upgraded from PDVD 16 to 17 for my preparation of playing UHD movies. However I'm unable to play .iso files with PDVD17, it plays blu-ray dvd folders but won't reconize .iso files. I have a physical copy of PDVD 16 so I'm not worried about reverting back. I'm just wondering if there is a solution?"

"Just upgraded to PowerDVD Ultra Version 16, and the .ISO file support no longer seems to be working Is this a known bug being worked on? "

"PDVD15 fails to play any encrypted iso BD files. "

Solutions to fix Cyberlink PowerDVD not play ISO files?

Sometimes, your virtual drive might not be compatible with Cyberlink PowerDVD. If Cyberlink PowerDVD can not detect your virtual drive, your mounted ISO image cannot be played back in Cyberlink PowerDVD. Therefore, make sure to upgrade your virtual drive to make it adapt with your Cyberlink PowerDVD.

As for playing encrypted ISO files on Cyberlink PowerDVD, you will need a specific application to bypass that protection. Here, we highly recommend Pavtube ByteCopy to you. The program can assist you to powerfully bypass all protection from the Blu-ray/DVD ISO files in the background with its built-in disc decrypter. So that you can then freely convert the ISO files to Cyberlink PowerDVD playable digital file formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, MP4, MOV, MPEG, Divx, Xvid, 3GP, 3G2, etc with no limitation.

Related article: Rip DVD to PowerDVD 16 | Best ISO File Converter | ISO to MKV with AAC

Pavtube ByteCopy is pretty simple to use, no matter experienced user or fresh could handle it very well. In addition, it has perfect compatibility with the new Windows 10/8.1/8/7. What's more, it supports to produce high quality conversion results, you can't tell the difference between the ripped video and the original Blu-ray/DVD ISO image file.

Step by Step to Rip Encrypted ISO Files for Cyberlink PowerDVD Playing

Step 1: Load ISO files into the application.

Initiate the program on your computer, on the main menu bar, click "File" > "Load IFO/ISO" to import ISO files to the program. 

Load ISO files

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of Cyberlink PowerDVD supported digital file formats such as "Divx AVI - Audio Video Interleaved(Divx)(*.avi)" under "Common Video" main category.

Output Cyberlink PowerDVD supported digital file formats

Tips: Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, here, you can flexibly adjust the output 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 3: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the ripping process from ISO to Cyberlink PowerDVD supported playback digital file formats.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can directly view the converted digital files on Cyberlink PowerDVD without any limitation.

Friday, February 23, 2018

Backup Blu-ray Movies with Chapter Markers Preserved

As a standard feature in Blu-ray disc, chapter markers can let viewers and listeners quickly skip through sections of a program using the Previous and Next buttons on their playback app or device to quickly jump to these points in the movie. The chapter markers can be recognized during playback by various portable devices, media players and also most standard DVD and Blu-ray players.

For people who plan to backup movies to protect it from being damaged or for convenient playback on different devices without flipping through the whole Blu-ray disc collection, you may wish to preserve your chapter markers when you perform the Blu-ray disc ripping or copying process. The good news is that here comes Pavtube ByteCopy, which can assist you to rip Blu-ray movies with chapter markers well preserved in the following 2 two ways:
- 1:1 full disc copy of Blu-ray disc with original file structure including chapter markers, audio tracks and subtitle streams and also special features/bonus contents/extras well preserved.
- Make a lossless multi-track MKV copy from Blu-ray with all your desired audio streams, subtitle tracks and chapter markers well preserved.

Related article: Extract SRT Subtitles from Blu-ray | Encode Blu-ray to H265 with GPU Acceleration | Digitize Blu-ray/DVD on Mac

Pavtube ByteCopy can powerfully bypass all Blu-ray copy protection and region code, in addition, it also keeps constant update with perfect support for the new MKB63/MKB62 used on many recently released Blu-ray disc. Apart from chapter markers, you can also get best sound quality when ripping Blu-ray with 7.1 surround sound when using above 2 methods to copy or backup Blu-ray movies.

For your great convenience, Pavtube ByteCopy is available on both Windows and Mac platform. For Mac users, you can switch to download Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac to perform Blu-ray chapter marker ripping process on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite and Mac OS X Yosemite.

Step by Step to Backup Blu-ray Movies with Chapter Markers Well Preserved

Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc.

Insert the Blu-ray disc into your computer's Blu-ray drive. If your computer doesn't ship with a drive, you will need to purchase an external USB Blu-ray drive to read the data on Blu-ray disc. Then press "File" > "Load from disc" option on the main interface, alternatively, you can also import Blu-ray folder or Blu-ray ISO files with the program.

Load Blu-ray disc

Step 2: Rip Blu-ray with chapter markers.

Full disc copy of Blu-ray with chapter markers

On the top tool bar of the main interface, use the  option to make an entire disc copy of original Blu-ray structure with chapter markers well preserved.

Lossless MKV copy of Blu-ray with chapter markers

From "Format" bar drop-down list, select "Lossless/encoded multi-track MKV(*.mkv)" under "Multi-track Video" category to backup Blu-ray with your chapter markers and your wanted subtitle languages and audio tracks.

Lossless MKV copy of Blu-ray with chapter markers

Step 3: Adjust multi-task settings.

When you output the lossless/encoded multi-track MKV format, all the subtitle languages and audio tracks in original source file will be preserved. If there are some subtitle languages or audio tracks you don't like, you can click Settings button and go to Multi-task Settings window to uncheck and remove them under Audio tab and Subtitle tab.

Adjust multi-task settings

Step 4: Start Blu-ray chapter marker ripping process.

Click the button "Convert" on bottom right to start entire Blu-ray disc copy or Blu-ray to lossless MKV conversion with chapter markers. After conversion, just press "Open Output Folder" to find generated videos. You can set auto shut down by checking the box of "Shut down computer after conversion".

Friday, February 16, 2018

Merge 4K Video into One File

Now, more and more devices can record video in 4K resolution. It's likely that you have shot some 4K video in cameras or mobile devices and you may want to merge separate 4K video into one contiguous clip into one file for making a complete film or uploading and sharing on popular video sharing sites. When you are searching on the Internet, you may find that there are many programs on the market can assist to combine 4K video into one file. Have no idea which one to choose, the following article will show you the important standards to pick the 4K video merger.

Important standards to pick the best 4K Video Merger

- Full support for all 4K video wrapped with different container file formats and compression codec.
- Batch conversion mode to load multiple 4K video into the application at one time
- Merge various separate 4K video clips into one file
- Fast merge 4K H.264/H.265 video into one file
- Merge 4K video into various different file formats or with no quality loss
- Available to work on both Windows and Mac platform and has perfect compatibility with the new Windows and Mac OS.

Review of best 4K Video Joiner/Combiner

Based on above listed standards, we have picked the best 4K Video Merge software - Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate to you. The program has full importing support for all 4K file formats such as 4K AVI/WMV/MP4/MOV/MKV/TS/XAVC/XAVC S/MXF and compression codec such as H.264, H.265, Prores, etc.

The batch conversion mode allows you to load multiple 4K video with different container file formats and compression codec into the application for conversion at one time to save your precious time.

Different from some free video merge software such as Windows Movie Maker which only allows you to merge contiguous clips into one, this program lets you to arrange all the 4K video in the right order and then merge all the separate 4K video clips into one file simply by checking "Merge into one file" option on the main interface of the application.

For those people who wish to merge 4K video into H.264 or H.265 format, you can get up to 6x H.264 codec encoding speed as long as you run your computer on Graphic cards that supports Nvidia CUDA or AMD App technology or up to 30x H.265 codec encoding speed as long as you run your computer on Maxwell (GM206) or Pascal based Graphic cards that supports NVENC technology.

The program offers various output format options, so that you can join 4K video while export to any of your desired 4K/HD/2K/HD digital file formats as you like. If you don't want to suffer any quality loss, you can also choose to direct produce the same file format as original file format while keep other profile parameters unchanged.

For your great convenience, the program is available to download and install on both Windows and Mac platform (get Mac version). In addition, it also has perfect compatibility with the new Windows 10 and macOS High Sierra.

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Step by Step to Merge/Join/Combine 4K Video into One File

Step 1: Import 4K Footages.

Launch and start the 4K Video Merge program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to import source files to the program. Click the "Move up" or "Move down" arrow under the video file displaying window to adjust your source video file order according to your own needs. You also can directly drag and drop your multiple 4K clips into the Video Joiner.

For Mac users, please use the equivalent Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac which can make you join 4K footages to a single one file on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, etc.

Load 4K video into the application

Step 2: Choose output file format.

From the "Format" bar, select your desired output file format from "Format" drop-down options. Here, you can choose to produce one of the two popular 4K file formats such as "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)" or "H.265 Video(*.mp4)" under "Common Video" main category.

Output 4K H.264 MP4 video

Output 4K H.264 MP4 video

Output 4K H.265 MP4 video

Output 4K H.265 MP4 video

Tips: Enable GPU Encode Acceleration.

Click "Tools" > "Options", in the opened "Options" window, click "Acceleration" menu, then check "Enable GPU Encode Acceleration" otpion so that the program will accelerate converion speed when encoding 4K video to H.265/H.264 codec.

Enable GPU Encode Acceleration

Step 3: Merge several videos into one.

On the main interface, check  option to combine all your separate video clips into one single file.

Step 4: Start separate 4K video clips joining process.

Press the right-bottom "Convert" button, a window will pop out with the conversion progress.

When the conversion is completed, you can find your converted files by clicking "Open output folder" with all merged 4K files into one for further usage.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Solve MakeMKV No Disc Issue

The "No Disc" issue of MakeMKV to Rip Blu-ray/DVD

"I've ripped over 40 blu-rays and DVD's so far, however I have stumbled upon a few of them giving a "No disc" error. I have searched and found that it could be an issue with the drive, but some of the movies have been just out of the foil and the drive still rips other Blu-rays without issues. The issue is only regarding the blu-ray discs. Specs below:
OS: Win10 Build 14393
BD-ROM: USB3.0 Slim drive ECD008-SAU3
Movies affected: Expendables, Martian, Bourne series + some other movies.
MakeMKV version: 1.10.2 Beta

Not sure if the pc specs are necessary but the rig is with a 5960x cpu and 32g of memory. I don't have any other BD-ROM's, but I've thought of getting another "real brand" one to verify with. Just not entirely sure why it wouldn't read some specific discs? Could it be the encryption? Neither MakeMKV or the OS sees this."

Why no disc when using MakeMKV to rip Blu-ray/DVD disc?

"No disk" means MakeMKV asked the operating system about the status of the drive, and the OS said "No disk". While encryption issues give different errors - either that the access key used to read the disk was not acceptable (Key exchange failure), or debug errors because unexpected results were returned. Since MakeMKV relies upon the operating system telling it there is a disk in the drive, and allowing it access to it. If the operating system says "no disk", it will block MakeMKV's access to the drive.

Solution to fix MakeMKV no disc issues

Apparently that the Blu-ray drive that you are using is suffering incompatibilities with your OS, it would be much ideal for you to buy the latest BD drive which will let formerly unmountable BD disks now mounted rapidly and rip without problem.

Best MakeMKV alternative to fix the no disc issue

Some users reflects that they downloaded Pavtube Ripper application and the disk mounted immediately since Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper software doesn't depend on the system to mount the Blu-ray/DVD disc. It can automatically detect the Blu-ray/DVD disc inserted on your DVD/BD drive, and then scan the disc and select the main Blu-ray/DVD title for you.

If you are looking for a combo function of Blu-ray/DVD Ripper as best MakeMKV alternative, we highly recommend Pavtube ByteCopy (get Mac version) to you. This cross-platform application has perfect compatibility with the new Windows 10/8.1/8/7 and also macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite and Mac OS X Mavericks, etc. It features built-in powerful disc decrypter to assist you to automatically bypass all Blu-ray/DVD copy protection in the background. In addition, it also keeps constant update with perfect ability to bypass the new encryption used on many recently released Blu-ray/DVD disc.

Unlike MakeMKV that only allows you to produce a lossless MKV file from Blu-ray/DVD disc, this powerful application also assists you to make a 1:1 full disc copy of Blu-ray/DVD with original file structure, fast main Blu-ray/DVD copy without unwanted comments, ads or trailers. You can also choose to rip Blu-ray/DVD to any of your desired digital file formats or hot devices and applications preset profile formats.

Apart from the core Blu-ray/DVD disc ripping function, the program also offers advanced profile parameters settings functions to allow you to flexibly adjust output video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc. The versatile video editing function can facilitate to trim/crop/watermark/apply effect/add watermark to video. The beneficial subtitle function such as selecting desired internal subtitles, enabling forced subtitles  or adding external subtitles to Blu-ray/DVD, etc also assists you to better understand Blu-ray/DVD movies after the ripping process.

How to Fix MakeMKV No Disc Issue with Best MakeMKV Alternative?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray/DVD disc with the program.

Insert DVD into your computer's optical DVD drive, for loading Blu-ray disc, you will need an external Blu-ray drive. The run the program on the computer, click "File" > "Load from disc" to load Blu-ray or DVD disc into the program. When both Blu-ray or DVD disc exists, the program will load DVD disc first.

Load Blu-ray/DVD disc into the application

Step 2: Copy/Rip Blu-ray/DVD disc in different ways.

Full disc copy

Make a full disc copy by hitting the entire disc copy icon on the top tool bar of the main interface.

Main movie copy

From "Format" bar, select "Copy" > "Direct Copy" to copy the main movie of the Blu-ray/DVD disc.

Main movie copy

Lossless Multi-track MKV copy

To preserve all your wanted audio tracks and subtitles streams in the source movie, you can use the program to rip Blu-ray/DVD to " Lossless/encoded multi-track MKV(*.mkv)" under "Multi-track Video" category.

Lossless Multi-track MKV copy

Output digital file formats or device preset profile formats

From "Format" bar drop-down list, select one of your desired file formats or device preset profile formats according to your own needs.

Output Blu-ray/DVD to popular digital file formats

Step 3: Start final conversion process.

After finishing all the settings, go back to the main interface, press the right-bottom "Convert" button to start to copy or rip protected Blu-ray/DVD movies to any of your desired file formats.

When the conversion is completed, click "Open output folder", a window will pop out with all your converted files. Then feel free to copy your favorite Blu-ray/DVD to external hard drive, play with VLC on computer, transfer to portable devices or stream Blu-ray/DVD movies to TV via home media server or from USB drive.