A solution to copying Blu-ray to PC for playback on home theater via Xtreamer
A solution to copying Blu-ray to PC for playback on home theater via Xtreamer
Nowadays, people like using media centers like Xtreamer, Popcorn Hour, Tvix, Mvix, etc. to bring all the media contents from PC to living room for enjoy with the whole family or friends. As general DVD and HD DVD have given way to Blu-ray to some extent, many movie fans are turning their intention to Blu-ray instead, thus this thread aims to introduce you how to copy BD movies to the hard drive of PC for playback on your TV or home theater via Xtreamer. Please feel free to read on the detailed instruction below.
Some info you should know:
Xtreamer supported video formats:
MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)
MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
VOB
AVI, ASF, WMV
Matroska (MKV)
MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
FLV - Flash Video
Since Xtreamer supports .m2ts, we just need copy Blu-ray to HD directly, and keep its all initial data without any change, including the .m2ts format, so there is no need to worry about if the backup files will get some video loss or something else unexpected.
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and load Blu-ray files to it
Once you launch this program, the following main interface will pop up. It enables you to click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder”, or “IFO/ISO” to import Blu-ray files.
Step 2: Choose “Directly Copy”, set destination folder
After Blu-ray files are loaded, now you should click the drop-down list of “Format” to select “Copy” firstly, and then click on “Copy Directly” next to it. Meanwhile, press the folder icon in the opposite side of “Output” to specify save path of output files. Of course, you can skip this step, because this program will give you a destination folder set by default automatically. BTW, if you want to join all the files to be one file, you can tick the checkbox before “Merge into one file” to realize it.
Step 3: Convert
As soon as the former two steps are done, now you can click “Convert” button to begin conversion. Do remember click on the “Start” button after that. The ripping window will show you the conversion info including conversion progress, time elapse, time left, generated size, estimated size clearly. It also allows you to tick “Shut down computer after conversion”, so that you can go out for a walk, even take a nap, or do something else while conversion.
After copying work is over, you can find out the resulted .m2ts files by clicking button “Open”. Afterwards, connect your PC with your home theater via Xtreamer, and now you can enjoy the movie with your family or friends leisurely.
Software you need:
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is an independent DVD and Blu-Ray ripper, which is capable of decrypting all sorts of DVDs and Blu-ray disks, unprotected and protected, without the support of third party software. It can split and convert your Blu-ray movies and general DVDs into other popular audio and video formats like AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc. by chapters, so that you can playback them on your beloved portable players like iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, Blackberry, PSP, Creative Zen, Xbox, etc. with ease. Okay, now let's have a look at how to rip Blu-ray disc to various media formats via it.
Recently, I often see people asking questions about how to convert their AVCHD video files (in the format of .mts and .m2ts) which are recorded by HD camcorders like Sony HDR-SR12E, JVC GZ-HD300, Canon HF S10, etc. to AVI, a popular general video format. To help people solve this problem, this tutorial will show you how to transcode MTS and M2TS video files into AVI files via Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter.
Are you a Mac user? Do you have mountains of Blu-ray discs and want to rip them to other video formats so as to do other applications? In that case, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac can definitely do you a favor, since it can directly rip Blu-ray movies, even the CSS copyright protected ones into almost all the popular audio and video formats like MOV, FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc. on Mac. The following passages will show you how to rip Blu-ray discs to other media formats via this program in detail, read on it to see if it can meet your needs.
As people have shifted their attention from general DVD and HD DVD to Blu-ray discs, the popularity of Blu-ray movies is overwhelming. At the same time, people’s requirements of dealing with these Blu-ray files to do other use are also arising, like ripping to Apple TV for hooking up to home theater, so as to enjoy them in high quality and wide screen comfortably and leisurely with no matter best friends or family members. However, lots of people still hasn’t got a practical tool to assist them to finish this work. In purpose of meeting people’s this need, my post here will focus on this point and aim to show you how to rip Blu-ray files to Apple TV in detail.
The software I will use is named Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Okay now let’s go through its step-by-step instruction together.
As people have shifted their attention from general DVD and HD DVD to Blu-ray discs, the popularity of Blu-ray movies is overwhelming. At the same time, people’s requirements of dealing with these Blu-ray files to do other use are also arising, like ripping to Apple TV for hooking up to home theater, so as to enjoy them in high quality and wide screen comfortably and leisurely with no matter best friends or family members. However, lots of people still hasn’t got a practical tool to assist them to finish this work. In purpose of meeting people’s this need, my post here will focus on this point and aim to show you how to rip Blu-ray files to Apple TV in detail.
The software I will use is named Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Okay now let’s go through its step-by-step instruction together.
Watching Blu-ray movies has become a popular trend nowadays. Besides directly inserting them to optical drive for playing, many people have the need of copying these movies on HDD of their PC for local playback, so that they can enjoy these movies while traveling without bringing lots of crispy Blu-ray discs. In order to fit people's requirement, this post aims to introduce you how to backup Blu-ray movies on HDD of your PC via Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper in detail. Okay, now let’s begin.
