Directly Copy DVD via XBMC Media Center for playback on Mac Mini

“I have a 2011 mac mini the i5 one with separate graphics card, but upgraded RAM to 8, samsung BD rom, seagate 2TB external HD. I’m looking for an easy way to directly copy my DVD collections via XBMC Media Center for playback on Mac Mini for home media center. Is there any converter can help me do that "Directly Copy" loseless function?” This is a simple question asked frequently in yahoo answers. Now I'd like to say the answer is yes.  

When you are starting to build a collection of your favorite movies on DVD Disc, it’s wise to preserve those copies in pristine condition. With DVD directly copy software, you can do just that. Here, Pavtube Bytecopy for Mac is needed, It is a professional Blu-ray/DVD ripping program. Except Backing up Blu-ray/DVD movies on your PC/Mac hard drive, you can also use it to rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to any format you want or any tablet, smartphone or HD media players with optimized video formats. 
   
To directly copy DVD via XBMC Media Center for playback on Mac Mini, we need to know more about XBMC at first: 

XBMC Media Center is a free cross-platform media player software and entertainment system application framework for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The program's interface is very simple and easy to use. Almost all of the video files are supported, even FLV and MKV can be played without any problems. It can also play the VOB files copied from a DVD. 
  
XBMC Supported formats:

Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak.

Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus (AAC+), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD (Amiga Module), XM, NSF (NES Sound Format), SPC (SNES), GYM (Genesis), SID (Commodore 64), Adlib, YM (Atari ST), ADPCM (Nintendo GameCube), and CD-DA.
  
Now let me show you how to backup DVD movie without quality lossless in 3 steps.
  
Step 1. Download this Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac Work on both with Mac OS X 10.9 and Mountain Lion 10.8 perfectly. Then, you can launch it. Load DVD and Click “Load file” icon on the top left to import the DVD disc.



   
Step 2. Choose “Directly Copy” to backup the main content. 

Under “Format” menu, there are many formats and devices for you to choose. If you just want to backup the main content of the DVD, go to find “Copy” option and choose “Directly Copy” that can meet your demands well. 
 


Tips: With Pavtube Bytecopy for Mac, you can get the container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitlesincluded. Besides retaining multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitles in an video files without transcoding and quality loss. A simple guide about DVD to lossless MKV. 
   
Step 3. Start ripping.

Click big “Convert” button to start conversion. It won’t take much time for conversion and then you will get the main content of the DVD. Once completed, hit “Open” button you will go to location of generated files. 

After you finished all the tasks, you can transfer the converted VOB files to XBMC Media Center for playback on Mac Mini. Have fun! 

If you’re also interested in How to Backup DVD to NAS for playback with XBMC on a Raspberry Pi on TV, you can read this Full Guide. What’s more? We will show you the best solutions about How to Rip your BD/DVD disc or Enable 2D/3D Blu-Ray for using on HPC (XBMC) and Android Tablet.

Encode Blu-ray to Lossless MKV via Synology 415play on WD TV 2

Since the advent of WD TV 2 Media player, it has taken the fancy of public. WD TV 2 provides an simple and fast way to play your digital formats on your HD TV. It bridges between your TV set and USB facilities. It support regular video, audio and subtitle formats. So, users can feel free to enjoy a wide variety of most popular videos both from your download files and your camcorder. 

Nevertheless, with such a multi-functional player, why there are still some complaints and hurdles received from users? It turned out to be that those users meet the video or audio problems. They complained that some rare video formats like Blu-Ray clips you stored on Synology 415play can not be supported by WD TV 2 Media player. They want to rip the blu-ray to mkv with quality lossless. Therefore, this article is intended to help solve the problem. 
  
In order to play your Blu-ray movies to Lossless MKV via Synology 415play on WD TV 2 Media Player, you need to rip these Blu-ray discs to Lossless MKV for WD TV 2 supported video formats. Here, you need a professional tool:Pavtube ByteCopy. This software is designed to backup music DVDs or other video sources to MKV with all information including chapter markers, audio tracks and subtitle streams included. You can backup your music DVDs to lossless MKV with chapter markers preserved and store them on Synology 415play. Now I will show you how to lossless backup your Blu-ray to via Synology 415play for playback on WD TV 2. Mac version is available here: Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac; well support Mac Mavericks! 

How to convert Blu-ray to lossless MKV via Synology 415play on WD TV 2 for playback. 

Software Download: Pavtube ByteCopy. (Windows 2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1) 

Step 1. Run this best Blu-ray to lossless MKV converter and launch it. Click “Load Disc” to import movie titles from Blu-ray with BD drive.
  
Step 2. Choose MKV format as output, here “Format > Multi-track Video > Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)” is recomended for you. 
 

Step 3. Select audio codec for output. Click “Settings” button on the main interface; you are brought to Multi-task Settings. Here detailed parameters of multiple audio and subtitle tracks are listed and you can change any of them at will. In default system setting, every track is checked for lossless MKV output. If you want to remove one of them, just uncheck it from the list. 
   

   
Note: If you change audio parameters under “Encode” option, you will get a encoded multi-track MKV file, not lossless multi-track MKV. Recoding Blu-ray to MKV will take a little more time for conversion than lossless output. 
 

 
Step 4. Backup Blu-ray to lossless MKV to WD TV 2.

When everything is ready, you can click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray to MKV conversion. Once finished, go to “Open” the generated multitracks MKV. 

The running process will be finished in a few minutes. After that, you can drag the converted files to your Synology 415play and then connect it to your WD TV 2 Media Player for enjoying. 

Learn more about ByteCopy guides:
  
Rip Blu-ray to MKV with AC3 5.1/DTS 5.1 audio toWD TV 
How to play Blu-ray and DVD movie on WDTV

Enjoy DVD & ISO/IFO image files to Kindle Fire HDX

If you have a large DVD and ISO/IFO files collection, it should be such a cool thing to enjoy them on Kindle Fire HDX anytime and anywhere. But how to make it? What should we do to transfer DVD and ISO/IFO image files to Kindle Fire HDX for playback? After read this article, you will get the best answer. 

  

Perfect-color display, plus powerful quad-core processor for fast, fluid performance and immersive entertainment, the new Kindle Fire HDX is a really good device for us. However, just like other Android tablets, the new Amazon’s tablet doesn’t have a DVD-ROM for playing DVD movies and it also can not play the ISO/IFO files. So, no matter you use ImgBurn or Disk Utility to create DVD ISO/IFO image file, or download the ISO/IFO file from sites like BitTorrent to your computer, they all can not work. To get your favorite DVD and ISO/IFO files onto Kindle Fire HDX for amusement, you need to convert DVD and ISO/IFO files to Kindle supported video format first and then transfer the result videos to the Fire HDX. 
  
I usually use Pavtube DVDAid and would like to recommend it to all of you, a powerful and simple tool including DVD Ripper and ISO/IFO File Converter, which can rip latest DVD to Kindle Fire HDX friendly playback format in few steps. I’m surpised to find it is on sale with 30% off at Pavtube Summer Holiday special offer here is our customer’s experience. 

Tutorial: How to play DVD & IFO/ISO image files to Kindle Fire HDX

Step 1. Run this DVD Ripper; click “Load files” to import DVD, DVD IFO/ISO or DVD folder. ISO image files would be recognized by Pavtube DVDAid directly, so there’s no need to run virtual drive to mount them. 



Step 2. Click “Format” menu to find the “Android” option in the dropdown list, choose “Amazon Kindle Fire HD(*.mp4)” for output. It is the most compatible format, which is especially made for Kindle Fire HDX. 
  

    
Step 3. Customize video specs (Optional).
Click “Settings” to enter Profile Settings interface. Here you can free choose video size, bitrate, frame rate and other settings, all at your needs. Here 1280*720 video size and 1500~2000kps video bitrate are recommended on this Android tablet.
   


Step 4. Start Conversion.

Now hit the big red “Convert” to start converting DVD & ISO/IFO files to MP4 format for Kindle Fire HDX. After conversion, you can click “Open output folder” to quick locate the converted video then transfer the converted video files to your Kindle Fire HDX Tablet. 
   
Tips:
1. Select your preferred subtitles keeping with your output movies by clicking the Subtitles option. Or you choose to only show forced subtitles if you want. 


   
2. Before the conversion, you can click “Edit” button to edit your videos by cropping, trimming, adding watermarks, subtitles, etc. What’s more, you can choose the subtitles and audio track for the target video on the main interface. 

There, now you know how to get DVDs and ISO/IFO image files onto your Amazon Kindle Fire HDX for playback. you could get an amazing movie enjoyment on it wherever you go. 

If you want to Play MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, MPG, FLV, F4V on Kindle Fire HDX 7, you can read this Full Guide. If you have lots of Blu-ray movies and want to enjoy them on your Kindle Fire HDX with subtitles, you can read this Full Guide. 

2016 Top 5 Mac Blu-ray Ripper Review

As a movie fan, you may have stored lots of Blu-ray/DVD collections at home. In order to avoid the your favourite Blu-ray movie is scratched by Naughty children, it’s necessary for you to purchase a Blu-ray Ripper. what's more? this Blu-ray Rippers also can backup and convert your Blu-ray/DVD discs to a proper formats for playing on all Android, iOS and Windows 8 Tablets/Smartphones. The article gives you Top 5 best Mac Blu-ray Ripper programs for Mac review in 2014. You can according the reviews to choose a best Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. 

   
Top 1. Pavtube BDMagic for Mac -Excellent
   
Price: $49 (Now $34.3, save 30%). 
   


Here, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, It should be your first choice for ripping newly released Blu-ray/DVD movies from physical discs to Android, iOS, Windows 8 tablets and smartphones, stream to various Media players and TVs and backup to hard disk, etc. With the Best Blu-ray Ripper for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks software which makes blu-raybackup a matter of capturing a disc image and saving it on your hard drive. Whether you prefer to back up your blu-ray collection with physical copies or with compatible formats for various devices, it leaves the choice up to you. So, the Pavtube BDMagic for Mac are more popular and listed it Top 1. 

Users review:

This program could handle a great number of BD/DVD sources and conversion possibilities for a good price-performance ratio. I really like it for the straight-forward, clean interface. Let alone the plenty of presets that can be customized as necessary.

Did a lot of research before zeroing in on Pavtube. This is an all in one package. There are other rippers but some were slow, some ripped only non-protected media, some ripped in specific formats, but after giving pavtube a try, it had all the qualities I needed. Speed, conversion formats from various media and also from protected media.
   
The good: You can import all kinds of Blu-ray and DVD sources: BDMV folder, physical DVD, Blu-ray ISO, VIDEO_TS folder, DVD ISO and IFO file, protected Blu-ray Disc and unprotected Blu-ray Disc. Using the "Full Disc Copy" feature, you can preserve the Blu-ray's original file structure, buakup Blu-ray disc to PC with one click. Using "Directly Copy" feature, you can backup Blu-ray/DVD main movie in original format(m2ts or vob) without quality loss.

While Pavtube BDMagic for Mac also support convert Blu-ray/DVD to Android, Apple and Windows 8 device friendly formats (iPad 4, iPhone 5S, Apple TV 3, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Tab 3, Kindle Fire HDX, Surface Pro 3, Google Nexus 7, HTC One, etc.), it takes longer. Supporting Dolby Digital 5.1/AAC 5.1 audio as a plus. Moreover, it allows you to trim a specific duration from a movie while allowing you to split movie/divide a movie evenly into multiple segments. Moreover, Pavtube programs support adding *.srt and *.ass subtitles into video and merge into one file for output. 
     
The bad: It lets you trim a specific duration from a movie, but not allows you to split movie/divide a movie evenly into multiple segments.

The bottom line: With decent decrypting capability, high quality video output and considerate backup solution and specific format templates for versatile PMP devices, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac ranks top on the Mac Blu-ray ripping application list.

Editors' note: Pavtube provides excellent customer support service, including lifetime free upgrade of product and technical support. Users can contact the support staff via email for help and suggestion.
  
Top 2. Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac – Good

Price: $49 

   
When it comes to decrypting/hacking Blu-ray discs and DVDs, Aiseesoft is about as good as it gets. Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac well deserves its high reputation in decryption, and it handles not only AACS, BD+, Region code restriction, but also Cinavia protected Blu-rays. If you want to rip a Blu-ray to MKV and keep 2 audio language and external subtitles, Aiseesoft would be your choice.
    
Top 3. DVDFab Blu-ray Copy for Mac -Good 

Price: $60
   


DVDFab Blu-ray Copy for Mac is the first full-featured Blu-ray copy software for Mac OS, which is powerful enough to copy any Blu-ray to any Blu-ray/DVD/AVCHD disc or to your Mac with just one or a few clicks. This powerful Blu-ray copy for Mac has 4 copy modes and multiple settings, you are free to customize and personalize your own Blu-ray according to your specific needs. The speed is so fast, the output images and audio quality so good that you'll definitely have happy experience to copy Blu-ray. And it's newly updated to create protected ISO in Clone mode.
  
Top 4. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper for Mac – Good

Price: $44.95 


   
Leawo Blu-ray Ripper for Mac comes with the popular feature to convert 2D to 3D. It can load multiple Blu-ray and DVD movies at a time. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper for Mac has stunning trim and crop feature- it trims movie more accurate and crops video more considerate than its competitors. If you have tons of movies waiting to rip and feel like having a Blu-ray Ripper queue them several movies for running overnight, Leawo is recommended.
  
Top 5. Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac – Poor

Price: $49.95
   

   
Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac can convert both standard Blu-ray videos and 3D Blu-ray videos to SD and HD video formats such as MKV, AVI, WMV, TS, etc. And it can preserve 3D effects when your source is 3D Blu-ray movie.
  
Conclusion:

After review this article, you can choose the top 1 for rip or backup your large Blu-ray/DVD collection and put the great movies to your Android, Apple and Windows Tablet/Phone. Enjoy it! 

Two ways of Backup DVD Discs on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Whether you have music DVDs, latest fantastic DVD movies and other DVDs, it’s worth your time to make sure that your investment doesn’t become scratched, lost, stolen, or otherwise useless. As we know, Commercial discs are encrypted to make copying them a little more difficult. The first part of this guide will show you how to bypass that encryption and maintaining original structure without loss, second part is Directly Copy only DVD Main Movie and Leave Out Extras. Hold on reading...

   
So what should we do, if we want to backup DVDs to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite? What we need only, is a DVD drive in your Mac, and a DVD Copy software. Here, We suggest you this Top Blu-ray/DVD Backup tool to achieve your goal smoothly. Overall, it can make a 1:1 copy of BD or DVD movies to your computer with all subtitles, audio streams and chapter information included. You could download it to take a try right now. 

How to Backup DVD on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite with Ease?

Option 1 - "Full Disc Copy" maintaining original structure without loss. 
  
Step 1. Directly download Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, Then install and drive it on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
    
Step 2. Launch it and load your DVD movie from discs to the app, Click the quick button "Copy the entire disc" to start copying Blu-ray with original structure. 
 

     
Step 3. Click the “Browse” button to set output folder where you want to save the copied DVD movies. 
  

Step 4. Hit the copy the entire disc icon on this Top Blu-ray/DVD Backup tool main interface and start DVD backing up process.

Option-2: Directly Copy only DVD Main Movie and Leave Out Extras. 
   
Step 1. Load DVD movies.

Load DVD Disc to this Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, Launch it and click "Load from disc" button to import DVD movies.
 

 
Step 2. Choose Directly Copy DVD disc. 

Click "Format" bar, choose "Copy" > "Directly Copy" from the Format menu and then specify a folder to save the VOB files from DVD disc.
 

   
Step 3. Start DVD backup on Mac. 

Hit "Convert" button to start copying your DVD discs. When the copying work is done, you are able to click "Open" button to get the output .VOB files without any other extra structures or contents. 
  
Now, you don't need to worry about how to save the DVD discs' life even if they are terminally unusable. Hope you can find it more useful and helpful. Well worth a shot, in one word.

Transcode Blu-Ray library to NAS media server for playback on Smart TV

"I want to make a copy for backup my Blu-ray library to NAS server. And then I will stream them for watching on Smart TV. How to make it?"
   
Recently, there are lots of wonderful Blu-ray discs has came out. Just like: X-Men, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Godzilla, Transformers, etc. After you viewed in theatre, you may want to collect these discs and store them to your NAS. The aim is to save the time looking for Blu-ray discs from the cardboard, desk or the tons of collections. But, how to transcode Blu-ray library to NAS media server for playback on Smart TV? This article will give my own experience about it and it may provide some reference for you.
 

Through Google search, a special writing Blu-ray Ripper review site will show in front of you, you will find no matter from the actual price, or functional contrast, Pavtube BDMagic are very worth buying software. With it, you can fast rip and convert any latest Blu-ray discs to Smart TV friendly format with the original quality. In addition, the top Blu-ray Ripping & Copying software also allows you to backup any Blu-ray and DVD movies to Cloud Storage, Plex Server, E-library Server, etc.

Now, I will show a simply way: 

How to transcode Blu-ray movies to NAS server supported MKV format for streaming . 
  
Step 1. Run this Pavtube BDMagic , load Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray folder, Blu-ray ISO image files. This program will help you analysis ISO files automatically so that there’s no need to run virtual drive to mount ISO image files any more.  
  

   
Step 2. Click the “Format” menu, here you are suggested to choose “Common Video > MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)”.



Tip: If you want to backup your blu-ray movies with keeping multiple audio tracks and subtitles, ByteCopy will be you ideal tool. Here take MKV as an example, and follow the easy guide below to rip Blu-ray for Smart TV Streaming with mkv format. Above all, If you choose ByteCopy as your assistant, just select “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*mkv)” format to output the Blu-ray with keeping multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitles. 

Step 3: If you like, modify profile settings such as video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get optimized video and audio playback. Here you can choose the 

Step 4: Return to BDMagic main interface, and hit the “Convert” button to start encoding Blu-ray to mkv format. 
  
Once it finshes, open output folder, locate the created mkv file and you can transform the converted files to NAS media server. Or you can play movies on Smart TV via USB flash drive.

Watch “Rio 2” DVD to InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus for kids

“My daughter liked this movie, but she did think that the first one was better. As an adult, I loved the movie.”

“my son was hooked on Rio at only a year old..We have been to see Rio 2 twice now. Can't wait to own it. It was so funny and Hunter loved it just the same as the first! Rio 2 was so much funnier than the first, and the first was HILARIOUS!”
   
When Does "Rio 2" Come out on DVD? The official US DVD release date for "Rio 2" has been set for July 15, 2014. What are you waiting for? Just buy it now and enjoy it with your kids. If you have no time with kids, why not try to play “Rio 2” on Vtech InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus for them. Beyond your imagination, they will be so quiet and seriously. 
  

   
As we know, The VTech InnoTab 3 Plus/3S is especially for Kids which is convenient and easy to carry out for watching movie or playing game with your children. If you have one and want to play your large DVD collections, You are in the right place, this article will show you the easiest way to enable “Rio 2” playback on Vtech InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus. Hold on reading...

What we need to know:

As Vtech InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus can't play DVD movies directly for the lack of DVD drive. To watch DVD movies on InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus, you need to convert DVD to InnoTab compatible format, to get this target, a professional DVD to InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus ripper is necessary. Here, Pavtube DVDAid can help you complete this goal with fast ripping speed and high output video quality. The most important is that this InnoTab3 Plus/3S Plus DVD Ripper can handle any new protected DVDs, such as CSS, region code, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs and even the latest as well as most sophisticated Disney X-project DRM. The audio/video synchronization is very good, the size of the subtitles too. 
  
Follow the steps below to put “Rio 2” DVD movie to Vtech InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus for smoothly playing! 

Step 1: Download the trial version of Pavtube DVDAid, or buy it now to enjoy Summer Holiday special offer. 

Step 2: After you insert the DVD into DVDAid, launch it and load “Rio 2” DVD moviewith “Load file” icon. It also supports IFO image files. Below is the screenshot of the main interface after you load DVD movie. 
  

    
Step 3: Then you need to choose the output format. Although Pavtube does not have the specific profile for InnoTab 3 Plus/3S as iPad, you could choose “H.264 Video (*.mp4)” format under “Common Video”. 
 

 
Step 4: Customize the profile settings. You can adjust the video bitrate, frame rate, audio channels, etc. According to video testing result, for watching videos on the Android tablet, 720p with 1500~2500kbps is just all right. 
   
Step 5: Click the “Convert” button to start the conversion. Just waiting for a while and then you will get the output videos. 

Step 6. After conversion, you can transfer the converted videos to InnoTab 3 Plus/3S Plus from PC. 

Tips: 
 
1.How to add some simple subtitles for kids to learn words?
    
If your children begins to learn words, you could add some subtitles for the output videos so that they can review the simple words when enjoying the movies. But you will feel vexed that you don’t know how to do it. Don’t worry we will show you an easy way: Find a suitable subtitle and then get iMedia Converter for Mac to add SRT/ASS/SSA subtitle to MP4.
  
2. How to make a copy of DVD movies?
If you want to make 1:1 copy of original DVD disc without quality loss with all audio streams, subtitle tracks, extras, etc, you can click the "Copy the entire disc" icon to meet your needs.
  
3. Is it possible to move MKV/AVI/VOB/M2TS/Tivo/MPG/WMV videos to the three new tablets for kids? Follow this guide.