Rip Blu-ray to 720p H.264 HD movies to Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector

July 28th, 2010

Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projectors have been available through  Samsung authorized retailers since June 2010. The palm-sized Pico Projector comes  with a clean, crisp, and high resolution LED output and 1 GB of internal memory  with the ability to add external memory up to 16 GB using its microSD slot.  Apart from this, you can also hook up it with all of your multimedia devices that  have a Composite, USB, and PC port. For instance, you are able to connect your  iPhone to it by using a component to RGB adapter sold separately. Best of all, Samsung’s  built-in Document and Media Viewers enable users to do computer-free  projections of Microsoft Office documents, like PowerPoint, Excel, and Word,  Adobe PDF, common video, image, and audio files in their native file formats. For its portability,  convenience, bright HD features and multimedia playback functionality, it’s absolutely  an ideal gadget to watch movies when you travel. In the purpose of helping you  guys experience your beloved Blu-ray movies like Avatar with Samsung SP-H03  Pico Projector, this article elaborates a solution on how to rip Blu-ray to Samsung SP-H03 Pico  Projector for playback. Just feel free to check it.

Required software:
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

Before we start, you can have a look at the native file formats  supported by Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector:
Movie: AVI, MP4, ASF,  MPG, RM, FLV, WMV
Image: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF
Music: MP3, MP2, WAV, WMA, FLAC, APE, RA

Here we go.
Step-by-step guide:
How to rip Blu-ray to  Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector for playback?

Step 1: Free download Pavtube blu-ray converter, install  and launch it
Launch Pavtube blu-ray converter to rip Blu-ray to Samsung  SP-H03 Pico Projector. Once run this blu-ray ripper, you can click “BD/DVD ROM”  or “BD/DVD Folder” to load Blu-ray movie files. All  titles are checked by default when you load them. If you just want to rip the  main movie, you can right click on the file marked with “Main Title” to  ”Uncheck All”, and then only tick off “Main Title”.

Step  2: Choose your wanted subtitle and audio track
This  Blu-ray ripper is capable of reading all subtitles and audio tracks in a BD  disc, including Dolby TureHD Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, which enables you  to select whatever subtitles and audio tracks in the source movie, no matter  your mother tongue or other foreign languages. Before start ripping Blu-ray to Samsung SP-H03, you  need click on the drop down list of  ”Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to choose your wanted languages from the  list to convert.

Step 3: Select iPhone  4 720p as output format for Samsung SP-H03  Pico Projector
Click on the pull down menu of “Format”, and then  follow “iPhone” > “iPhone 4 H.264 720P (*.mp4)”.

Tips:
We have tested using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to convert Avatar to the new iPhone 4 at  720P, the result picture quality is not only spellbinding when run on iPhone 4,  but also with Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector from a microSD card in the unit. Click “Settings”  button, you will see the default settings used by this Blu-ray converter clearly. Actually,  all the parameters on the following window are changeable, and you can try your  luck to adjust them. But if you are not good at it, you’d better let them be,  because incorrect adjustments may cause audio/video out of sync issues or  artifacts on your video.

Step 4: Start ripping  Blu-ray to Samsung SP-H03
Click the big button “Convert” to start ripping Blu-ray to  Samsung SP-H03. The Blu-ray  ripper is able to guarantee audio and video in sync quality with fast  conversion speed. Once conversion is done, you can get the final movie files for  your Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector by clicking “Open” button with ease. Hope  you enjoy your movie-watching experience with this micro projector.

How to transfer and convert DVD to iPhone 4 ?

July 28th, 2010

With the release of new iPhone 4 , some are upgrading to the new phone and some who aren’t.The advertising point of the new iPhone 4 are the video recording, faster and longer battery life.With better performance and improved graphics, you can enjoy good quality DVD movie on iPhone 4 widescreen. Do you know how to enjoy DVD movie on iPhone 4 ? Here is the guide for you to keep video quality when converting DVD to iPhone 4.

Part I. Convert DVD to iPhone 4

Step 1. Download and install Pavtube DVD to iPhone 4 Converter, and run it.

Step 2. Add DVD movie by clicking “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder”, or “IFO File” according to your preferences. “DVD Rom” is the most convenient way to load the all the chapters of a DVD.

Step 3. Specify output file. Make sure that the output format is iPhone 4 Movie or iPhone 4 Video if you want to watch on iPhone 4 , or choose MP3 if you want to extract the audio only. You can also set the output folder by clicking the browse button on “Output”.

Step 4. Click “Convert” to get DVD movie into iPhone 4 file format. The conversion begins, and you just need to wait for a while.

Part II. Keep better quality with advanced settings.

Click “Settings” button beside the “Format”, and you will face a pop-up window to change bitrate, video size, frame rate, audio bitrate, sample rate, etc. A higher bitrate will provide better video quality, but it will also larger the file size. If you don’t mind about the file size, just choose the highest one. Otherwise, keep testing to find the best one for you with the quality and size.Copy Blu-Ray/HD DVD movies to hard drive.Watch Blu-ray/HD DVD on your PC.Crack Blu-ray copy protection.

The converter also includes other editing options for you to get the video to your preferences.
Adjust video – You can change video effects like brightness, contrast, etc. to make the video better for you to watch on iPhone 4 .
Trim video – If you just want to enjoy specific episode of the DVD movie on iPhone 4 , click Edit > Trim to cut off the unwanted part.
Crop video – You can cut the black boards or unwanted board from the image. The converter offers aspect ratio for you, so that you can make it consistent with the iPhone 4 screen. Otherwise, iPhone 4 will automatically display the video.

Part III. Transfer video to iPhone 4 with iTunes.

Step 1. Run iTunes and add the output video to iTunes library.
Step 2. Connect iPhone 4 with your computer
Step 3. Click File > Sync iPhone 4 in iTunes.
Your DVD video is ready on iPhone 4 then. It is so easy to enjoy the favorite DVD movie on iPhone 4 .

If you are using Mac OS, this popular DVD to iPhone 4 Converter for Mac is the right one for you.

How to rip Blu-ray and DVD to Wii on Mac?

July 28th, 2010

This article  helps you figure out problems like “Cannot import Blu-ray and DVD movies to Wii”  and “Wonder how to play Blu-rays and DVDs on Nintendo Wii console” with a  professional Wii utility called Pavtube Blu-ray  DVD to Wii Ripper for Mac. The program is capable of ripping both Blu-ray discs and standard  DVDs to a format that is compatible with Wii console, such as Wii MOV and Wii  AVI. With full supports for BD and DVDs, it is good at cracking AACS and BD+  copy protection from a Blu-ray disc, and CSS encryption from general DVDs. Best  of all, it offers super high conversion speed and excellent output file  quality, which keep you far away from audio/video out of sync issues and image  artifacts. Go to find a detailed guide about how to rip Blu-ray and DVD to Wii on Mac from the following  contents.

Step-by-step guide: How to rip Blu-ray and DVD to Wii on Mac?

Step 1: Run Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Wii Ripper for  Mac, install and launch it.
Once run it, you can click “BD/DVD Folder” to load Blu-ray  and DVD movie files. Please notice that “IFO File” icon only enables you to  import standard DVD files, not BD movie files.

Step 2: Select output  format for Wii console
Click on the pull down menu at the opposite side of “Format”,  and then hit “Wii” preset, afterwards you will see the interface as below. All  the formats optimized for Wii are listed out. You can rip Blu-ray and  DVD to Wii MOV, or rip Blu-ray  and DVD to Wii AVI, or extract movies audios to Wii M4A or Wii MP3.

Step 3: Adjust video and  audio parameters
Click “Settings” button, then the following window will  pop up, on which you are allowed to adjust audio and video settings to optimize  file quality for your Wii console. These adjustable settings include codec  name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

Step 4: Get ready to rip Blu-ray and DVD to Wii on  Mac
Click the big button “Convert” to rip Blu-ray and DVD to  Wii with Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Wii Ripper for Mac. Once the ripping work is  finished, you can click “Open” button to get the resulted files with ease.

Additional info:
How to select your desired subtitle and audio track when  rip Blu-ray and DVD to Wii on Mac?

1. Select subtitle
Click the drop-down list of “Subtitle”, then all the  subtitle info in the Blu-ray will be shown clearly, including language and  stream ID, so you can select your needed language as your subtitle.
This Blu-Ray To MP4 Converter offers a wide range of optimal ripping solutions for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Xbox, Zune, Wii, and other mutimedia devices

In addition, Pavtube Blu-ray DVD to Wii Ripper for  Mac also offers an option called “Force Subtitle”. When you check “Force  Subtitle”, you will see subtitles only when actors are speaking another language  that is not your mother tongue. For instance, if you specify English (your  mother tongue) as your subtitle, and meanwhile tick off “Force Subtitle”  option, then when actors are speaking English, no subtitles will show up, but  when they are talking with each other in French, the English subtitle will  appear accompanying with the French.

2: Select audio track
Click the pull down menu of “Audio”, and then the list  will give you the detailed information of audio tracks, including language, audio  codec, stream ID and audio channel. TrueHD audio and DTS-Master Audio are both supported.

Source: How  to rip Blu-ray and DVD to Wii on Mac?

How to convert Lumix AVCHD Lite to MPEG-4 MP4 and H.264 MP4 formats?

July 21st, 2010

This article helps you work out issues like “Cannot import AVCHD Lite from Lumix” and “Wonder how to play the AVCHD Lite contents” with Pavtube HD Video Converter, a professional high-definition video converter that converts AVCHD MTS videos as well as HD videos of other various formats to editable and playable video and audio formats. High definition video is far superior in color and resolution over SD video, but we do need to convert HD video to SD video from time to time, since SD video occupies less space than HD video, and it is much easier to play and edit SD than HD video.When you are going online with it, or when you’d like to play it back on your portable player, you have to reduce the HD quality to SD.

How to play AVCHD Lite?

AVCHD Lite is a subset of AVCHD format, which was brought up by Panasonic in Jan 2009, with the release of Lumix DMC-FS7, DMC-LS85 and DMC-FS15, which are capable of 720p/30fps recording. The AVCHD Lite is an essential AVCHD format, saving files in *.mts onto SD/SDHC/SDXC card. Users of Lumix cameras may insert the card into the VIERA Image Viewer (SD/SDHC/SDXC card slot) on a VIERA TV or DIGA Blu-ray Disc? Player to enjoy the AVCHD Lite contents on wide screen TV. In order to play MTS file on PC, Mplayer and VLC player are your first choice. If you insist playing Lumix AVCHD Lite contents in Windows Media Player, would like to transfer the AVCHD Lite video to iPhone 4, iPad, iPod, PSP, Zune etc for playback, or feel like enjoying the AVCHD Lite videos on HDTV via media players, MTS Converter is a must. In order to play the AVCHD Lite video files generated by the Panasonic Lumix cameras more freely, you can convert AVCHD to MP4, for MP4 is widely supported by portable media players, devices and video game consoles.

How to convert the Panasonic AVCHD Lite video to MP4 for playing back?
In order to convert the AVCHD Lite video files generated by the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 to MP4, you need Pavtube HD Video Converter. Using this powerful AVCHD video converter, you can convert AVCHD from camcorder to various video and audio formats. A free trial version is available, only watermark of Pavtube logo will appear on the screen of converted videos. You may refer to below guide of how to convert the AVCHD Lite to MP4 with Pavtube HD Video Converter.

Step 1.Load AVCHD Lite video to Pavtube HD Video Converter.
Once you run it, click “Add” to load the source AVCHD Lite MTS files. When the files are loaded into the program, you could view file information such as codec, bitrate,frame rate,etc in the preview window.

Step 2.Select output format for converting AVCHD to MP4
Click on “Format”, and select output format from the drop-down list. H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 encoded MP4 formats are available. If you would like to play the AVCHD Lite recordings on portable players like iPad, iPhone 4,iPod,PSP,Archos,Zune,PocketPC,etc,simply follow the corresponding profile group and select customized MP4 format. In each group there is a star format, which is optimized format.

If you would like to watch the AVCHD Lite contents on HDTV via media players (e.g. Western Digital Media Player, Video DVD combos), HD quality should be attained. To maintain HD video quality, you may follow “HD Video” -> “H.264 HD Video” (*.mp4) or “MPEG-4 HD Video (*.mp4) and customize the A/V parameters based on the the media player and your TV.

Step 3. Customize MP4 format for your player.
Click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters. Notice that you can not “convert up” video quality. If you selected HD Video in Step 2, we advise you to adjust the A/V parameters to be the same with source AVCHD Lite footage so as to bear least quality loss at proper file size. You may check the A/V parameters of original video in preview panel, and it will display the video information when you select an item. In case it displays no information, please click the sign.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start converting AVCHD Lite to MP4 format.
After the above steps are done, you can click “Convert” button to start conversion. And you can click “Open” button to get the generated MP4 files for play back.


Via:  Pavtube Convert AVCHD Lite to MP4

How to transfer P2 MXF to QuickTime MOV format for storage?

July 21st, 2010

MXF is a wrapper that packages video and audio content together, with metadata describing and managing content. MXF is now taken for granted by many companies and is the file format of choice for content exchange attributed to its fast data transfer. Camera-recorders manufactured by Panansonic are now adopting P2 card as media storage, and MXF is the video recording format. Users can transfer the MXF files to hard disk or other archiving system at fairly fast speed. Besides, low-rate MXF files can be transferred by FTP over the Internet for on-air broadcasting of news bulletins, program scheduling or off-line editing. However, backing up MXF footage brings troubles. The kind of video format features extremely high bit rate, which results in huge size files. Several hours of MXF recordings can takes up storage of hundreds of GB. Your hard disk will be soon filled up. That’s why we are talking about cutting the file size down by transferring P2 MXF to QuickTime MOV format with Pavtube Video Converter.

Now please refer to the following guide how to convert MXF to QuickTime MOV with Pavtube Video Converter.

Step 1. Import P2 MXF to the powerful MXF Converter.
Run the MXF to QuickTime MOV Video Converter, click “Add” button and browse to the MXF files you’d like to convert, click “Choose” to confirm. Or you may drag and drop the files to the MXF Converter.

When the MXF files are loaded to the program, you can view the videos from the Preview window. Simply select an item and click the “Play” button. When the video is playing, you may take snapshoot by clicking the “Snapshoot” button when it plays to your favorable frame. Music Festival DVD Introduce your little on to the splendor and delight of Mozart’s classical music.

Step 2. Select output format- QuickTime MOV, H.264 MOV.
The Pavtube MXF Converter is capable of converting unprotected MTS, MXF, M2T files to QuickTime MOV, MP4, MOV, M4V, QuickTime MOV and various other optimized formats for portable devices. Pavtube HD Video Converter provides QuickTime MOV formats with xvid and H.264 codec. Since we are converting MXF video to QuickTime MOV, ,what you need is to click on the “Format” bar, follow “Common Video” and select “QuickTime MOV” format in order to save storage. To get higher quality, please click on “HD Video” tab and choose “HD MOV” format.

Step 3. Set video and audio bit rate, frame rate, channels, etc.
You may also customize video and audio parameters in Settings panel. Simply click “Settings” button to and set the bitrate, frame rate, channels, sampling rate as desired values. What you are doing is down-scaling the file size, and the trick lies in video and audio bit rate. The video bit rate of P2 MXF can be up to 100mbps! That’s extremely high! What bit rate is best? It depends on your needs. The video bit rate of a commercial blu-ray disc is around 30mbps. And standard DVD? 5-10mbps. The lower bit rate you set the smaller file size you get. You’d better try with some smaller files first before transferring all MXF files to QuickTime MOV. Have you ever need to put your AVCHD camcorder video iPhone and share with others? Just convert AVCHD MTS to iPhone

Step 4. Specify a folder to save the converted QuickTime MOV files.
Click the “Browse” button next to “Export to” field and specify an output folder to save converted files. Click “Choose” to confirm.

Step 5. Start converting MXF to QuickTime MOV.
Click “Convert” to start converting MXF to QuickTime MOV format when everything’s ready. The MXF Video Converter supports batch conversion so you may load multiple MXF files and convert them to QuickTime MOV at one time. You may also join MXF files together by checking the box “Merge into one file” before conversion starts. After conversion you may click “Open” button to find generated QuickTime MOV files and use them freely.

How to watch FIFA World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings on iPhone 4

July 21st, 2010

World Cup 2010 South Africa has lit the passion of football fans across all corners of the globe. However, due to crazy busy business or for some other reasons, you may have no time to watch the live matches in front of your widescreen TV with your families and friends, so you have to ask your family members to record the game by using a TiVo DVR for the later playback. If you are always busy in work, then watch FIFA World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings on your remarkable iPhone 4 is a great way to save your time while traveling on a train or some other public vehicles. Haven’t got a way to copy World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings to iPhone 4? Take it easy, this guide will show you a detailed solution on how to watch FIFA World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings on iPhone 4 with Pavtube iPhone 4 Converter. Please feel free to read on the following step-by-step instruction.

HOW-TO:
How to watch FIFA World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings on iPhone 4

Requirements:
1. TiVo Desktop
2. Pavtube TiVo to iPhone 4 Converter

First of all, you should transfer your recorded World Cup shows from your TiVo box to your personal PC via TiVo Desktop.

Open TiVo Desktop, click “Pick Recordings to Transfer” to transfer TV shows to your PC. The TiVo Desktop will prompt when the transfer is finished.

Then do as the following instruction shown:
Step 1: Run iPhone 4 Converter, and import World Cup TiVo recordings to it
Once you run this TiVo to iPhone 4 Converter, click “Add Video” to load your TiVo files. TiVo shows are copy protected, so a dialogue window will show up to ask you to enter Media Access Key, just click “OK” button to confirm.

After that, an interface as below will pop up, just enter your Media Access Key, and click “OK” button to confirm.

Then click “Add Video” again to load your World Cup TiVo shows into this TiVo to iPhone 4 Converter.

Step 2: Select output format for iPhone 4
Click the drop-down list of “Format”, and then tap on “iPhone Video”, after that, you will see there are two presets specialized for iPhone 4. If you want to watch FIFA World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings on iPhone 4 at 720p, you can select “iPhone 4 H.264 720P (*.mp4)” as output format, if you wanna watch 640*480 video, you can select “iPhone 4 MPEG-4 640×480 (*.mp4)“.

Meanwhile, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output files, or you can skip this step to use the default destination folder set by this TiVo to iPhone 4 Converter. Additionally, this iPhone 4 Converter supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time. To combine all the World Cup TiVo shows you added into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 3: Set advanced settings
Supposing you want to adjust the audio and video parameters of your World Cup TiVo files, you can click “Settings” button to do it. The following pop-up window allows you to change codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel to your needed ones.

Following info may be of some help for you when you adjust audio and video parameters by using this iPhone 4 Converter to copy World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings to iPhone 4.
iPhone 4 supported Video formats:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

Step 4: Start converting World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings to iPhone 4
As soon as the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start conversion. The output files converted for iPhone 4 can be found via clicking “Open” button after conversion task is done. Sync the final World Cup files to your iPhone 4, and now you are ready to watch FIFA World Cup 2010 TiVo recordings on iPhone 4.

Tips:
If your World Cup TiVo shows were recorded by a DVR of your friend, just type in your friend’s code when the iPhone 4 Converter reminded you to put in the Media Access Key while loading TiVo files, and you will be able to convert them as well.

How to convert/rip Blu-ray Avatar to iPhone 4?

July 13th, 2010

Surfing online, you will find there are dozens of Blu-ray  copy programs or blu-ray to iPhone 4 rippers around the internet. The thing is  that most blu-ray to iPhone 4 converters won’t back up the new BD+ technology  protected Blu-ray Avatar, but with exception, Pavtube blu-ray to iPhone  4 converter does. In the purpose of helping iPhone 4 users watching  Blu-ray Avatar on Apple’s remarkable iPhone 4, this article intends to show you  how to rip Blu-ray Avatar to iPhone 4 playable file format with blu-ray to iPhone  4 ripper in detail.

Step-by-step guide: how  to convert/rip blu-ray to iphone 4

Step 1: Free download Pavtube  blu-ray to iphone 4 converter, install and launch it
Once run this blu-ray to iPhone 4 ripper, you can click “BD/DVD  ROM” or “BD/DVD Folder” to load Blu-ray Avatar movie files.

Step 2: Select an output  format for iPhone 4
Click on the drop down list at the end of “Format”, and  then hit “iPhone” preset. After that you will see this blu-ray to iPhone 4 ripper provides users with two profiles specially optimized for iPhone 4, they are  ”iPhone 4 MPEG-4 640*480 (*.mp4)” and “iPhone 4 H.264 720P (*.mp4)”, which one  to choose is depending on your own needs.

Step 3: Adjust video and  audio settings
Click “Settings” button, you will enter the following  window, on which you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters to  optimize the output file quality, these parameters include codec name, aspect  ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel.Pavtube iPhone video converter, can convert AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, etc to Apple iPod video.

The following info may be of some help for you while  adjusting audio and video parameters.
iPhone 4 supported video  formats:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level  3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and  .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per  second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz,  stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.

Step 4: Start converting/ripping  blu-ray Avatar to iPhone 4
Click “Convert” button, then Pavtube blu-ray to iPhone  4 converter will start converting BD Avatar to iPhone 4 at a super high  speed without any audio and video out of sync issues. Once the conversion task  is completed, you can click “Open” button to get the final files for your  iPhone 4.

How to convert YouTube/FLV to iPad with video to iPad converter?

July 13th, 2010

If you want to play FLV movies downloaded from YouTube on  you iPad or iPad 3G, you must  need a useful iPad Converter to help you convert YouTube/FLV to iPad compatible file  formats, like MPEG-4, H.264, MOV, MP4 and M4V. The thing is that, if you look  around, there are literally dozens of video to iPad converters advertised, but  which one is the best to give you a reliable working performance? My answer is Pavtube iPad Converter. The interface  of Pavtube video to iPad converter is very clean and well suited to task. I had  no problem to find all the relevant options or understand them. Best of all, it  performances as advertised without any audio and video out of sync issues, and  is well suited for rendering YouTube/FLV files viewable on your iPad or iPad  Wi-Fi+3G. Go to find a  step-by-step instruction of how to convert YouTube/FLV to iPad with video to  iPad converter.

Step 1: Run Pavtube iPad  Converter, and add YouTube/FLV files to it
Run this video to iPad converter, and when the following  main interface pops up, click “Add Video” button to load your YouTube/FLV files  to it. This iPad video  converter supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to add multiple YouTube/FLV  files to convert at a time.

Other than that, if you wanna combine several files into a  single file for playback on your iPad/iPad 3G  without any intervals, you can tick off the checkbox “Merge into one file” to  join your checked YouTube/FLV files.

Step 2:Select an output format for iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G
Click on the pull down menu at the opposite side of “Format”,  and then tap on “iPad” option, after that, you will see the following window,  on which it offers 4 formats optimized for iPad. You are free to choose anyone  of them according to your own requirements. I select “iPad Video H.264 (*.mp4)”  for instance.

Step 3: Optimize audio  and video settings
Click “Settings” button, then the interface as below will  show up, on which you are permitted to adjust settings like codec name, aspect  ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel. For example, if you  prefer 720P video to 768*576, then you can set the size at 1280*720 instead of  768*576 to meet your needs. Please notice that the default settings provided by  the iPad video converter are capable of producing you a quite well file quality while playing back on  your iPad, so if you are not professional in adjusting audio and video  parameters, we suggest you’d better use the default settings, or the incorrect  adjustment may cause you jumpy video or audio and video out of sync issues.

Additional info you may need if you would like to change  the above mentioned audio and video settings when converting YouTube FLV files to  iPad with iPad video converter.
iPad supported video  formats:
H.264 video up to 720p,  30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps  per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5  Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio  up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps,  1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in  .avi file format.

Step 4: Convert YouTube/FLV  to iPad with video to iPad  converter Click “Convert” button to start converting YouTube/FLV to iPad supported file format. This iPad  video converter will complete conversion at super high speed with perfect file quality,  which will ensure audio and video matching very well and won’t bring you audio  and video out of sync issues. Once finished, you can click “Open” button to get  the result files.

How to compress HD footages to SD video clips for playing and editing on Mac?

July 13th, 2010

Tracing back to abut 70 years ago, television made its big debut at the World’s Fair in New York. Now in the fist decade of the 21st century, a new TV resolution is underway. Yeah, it’s about the High Definition. The big screen HD TV is within reach of everyone now. And so is the HD DV, cams, camcorders etc. With these digital video recorders, we could take HD footages up to 1080p for playing and editing. However, many folks got scratching their heads when playing the high definition media contents or importing HD footages to editing software. This short article helps you learn the features of HD footages and what to do to get it through when the HD footages are not playable or editable on Mac OS.

Which are the typical formats of HD footages?

HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or 1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p). Generally different HD video camcorders (AVCHD DV included) generate footages of different HD formats. These are usually MPEG-2 or H.264/AVC encoded videos ranges from 720/30i (Panasonic Lumix series) to 1080/60p (Sony LMD models). Typical video formats of HD footages are MTS, MOV, TOD, MOD and DV. Among these formats, MTS ranks the most popular one and is widely supported by over-majority DVs and camcorders.

How to play and edit the HD footages on Mac?
QuickTime Player does not naturally support de-coding the MTS, TOD or MOD. Other universal media players like VLC Player and Mplayer is required for playing the HD footages. Both are freeware. You may try them out. VLC Player is regarded as the first choice by some folks.

Editing HD MTS, TOD, MOD, MOV can be fairly troublesome. iMovie, FCE, FCP, even FCS can’t say for sure it is capable of loading and handling all the MTS, TOD, MOV(H.264 encoded) footages properly. To our disappointment, most of the time we got error message when importing the HD footages to edit. In that case, a HD Video Converter is a must tool for editing HD footages on Mac. In the following guide I will share with you how to convert HD footages to SD video on Mac with Pavtube HD Video Converter, a powerful and user-friendly en-decoding tool for you to compress HD video to editable SD video clips.

Convert HD to SD with Pavtube HD Converter
You may download the Mac HD Converter for trial (intel processor oriented, for powerpc please go to product page). There is not any time limitation for the trial, but please note that the trial converts video with a Pavtube logo watermark on the screen.

Step 1. Install and launch Pavtube HD Video Converter, add the HD footages you want to convert. Click the
Add” button to load the desired HD files. The program supports en-decoding HD MTS, MOD, TOD, MOV, TS, DV, M2TS, TP, TRP, AVI and other formats like RM, RMVB, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMA, VOB, H.264, 3G2, AAC etc

Step 2. Set output video format for HD to SD conversion. Click the “Format” bar and move to “Common Video” and then select a format from drop-down list. Here I select M4V for example. If you would like to keep the HD video quality, simply follow “HD Video” and find a desired format.

Step 3. You may also customize the video and audio parameters. Click Settings button and set output size, bitrate and frame rate. Smaller bitrate value leads to a smaller output SD file, which takes up less space. In order to avoid out of sync problem, do not set frame rate as “orginal”.

Step 4.Set output folder. Click the “Browse” button beside “Export to” field, and choose a destination folder for saving output files.

Step 5.Start Converting. Click “Convert” button to start converting HD footage to SD video. Then you could find the converted SD video in destination folder. Now you can play them on any portable devices like PSP, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, 3G phones or share them on internet.
With this program, you could convert HD video to SD formats to enjoy it whenever and wherever.

How to play Blu-ray disc with MPlayer on Mac OS

July 6th, 2010

At present, the playback of HD video is a piece  of cake for the mainstream PCs, but for Apple’s Mac computer, it has been a  chronic pain to play high-definition video files. Apple is the leader in the field of  high-definition movie, but because of their own MOV HD format protection  strategy, both HD Blu-ray and REMUX files have always been difficult to get the  perfect support on Apple’s Mac platform. To realize the goal of watching  Blu-ray movies on Mac with the most popular MPlayer, this article elaborates a  workaround on how to copy Blu-ray disc to play with MPlayer on Mac  OS.

What you will need:
- First you will need an external Blu-ray drive  for your Mac to read the Blu-ray disc.
- Then you will need software to crack the encryption and convert the  Blu-ray data to MPlayer compatible file formats. The software we recommend is Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac. The  main reason we choose it is because it is capable of removing copy-protections  and doing format conversion at the same time. Best of all, it adopts advanced  video and audio in sync technology, which will never let users encounter audio  and video out of sync issues.

Step-by-step guide: How to rip Blu-ray for  playback with MPlayer on Mac
Before we start, you may wanna know the  details of MPlayer  supported video and audio formats:
- Container formats: 3GP, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV (QuickTime),  MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM,  RealMedia, Bink
- Video formats:Cinepak,  DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1,  MPEG-2,  MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, Bink
- Audio formats: AAC,  AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, FLAC, Intel Music Coder, Monkey’s Audio,  MP3, Musepack, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA, Bink

OK, here we go.

Step 1: Free download Blu ray converter  for Mac, install and run it
Once you launch this Mac Blu ray converter, click “BD/DVD  Folder” to load your Blu-ray movie files.

Step 2: Choose output  format for MPlayer
Click the pull down menu at the opposite side of “Format”,  then all the output format presets will show up. To output SD video, you can  select “Common Video”; to export HD video, you can choose “HD Video”. We select  ”HD Video”>”MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” for instance.
This guide should help you get Blu-ray rips to the Apple TV easily.

Step 3: Adjust audio and  video parameters
Click “Settings” button of this Mac Blu ray converter to do  your own adjustments. Once clicked this button, the following window will pop  up, on which you are allowed to adjust video and audio settings like codec  name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If  your Mac is quite fast, then you can adjust the options to bigger ones,  otherwise, you need consider if your Mac is able to run the final HD files. For  example, for a faster Mac, you can set the aspect ratio at 1980*1080, but for a  slower Mac, you need set the size down to 1280*720, this would give you a DVD  quality playback experience as well.

Step 4: Start ripping Blu-ray for MPlayer on  Mac
Click the big button “Convert”, the Blu-ray ripping task  will process immediately. When finished, you can get the ripped Blu-ray  contents via clicking “Open” button with ease. Now, just open the files in  MPlayer for watching. Hope this helps.

If you are using Windows, you can see How  to back up Blu-ray disc to play in MPlayer.