Friday, March 17, 2017

How to Convert MP4 to a Blu-ray Player

MP4 is a popular and widely-used video format. If you have got .mp4 video files and want to watch it on home Blu-ray player with big screen, your Blu-ray Player will say that MP4 is not the format Blu-ray Player recognizes sometimes. In this article, we will offer you the reason and an easy way to get MP4 files to play on Blu-ray Player without problems.



Blu-ray Player has the ability to play DVD, Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray movies, it also offers USB ports to extend the Disc Player's media capabilities. The USB port can allow you to play music and video stored on your USB drive or external hard drive. As we know, MP4 is really supported by Blu-ray player, but you must know Blu-ray player has strict requiements on the file codec, container, resolution, frame rate, bit rate and audio codec. If your MP4 file contains a Blu-ray player unsupported audio or video codec, it can't be recognized or read. 

To solve MP4 files won't play on Blu-ray Player problem, a widely recommended solution is to convert MP4 to Blu-ray Player more compatible format. To finish task, there are tons of video converter apps out there. Here we highly recommned Dimo Video Converter Ultimate to get the work done. 

The software is able to convert MP4 as well as virtually all video formats like MKV, AVI, VOB, FLV, WMV, MTS, MOV, etc to Blu-ray player friendly file formats like .divx, .mp4 without quality loss. Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for media players including Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Gear VR, Oculus Rift, Samsung TV, Xbox, PS3, PS4, etc to meet your different needs. Before conversion, you can also edit MP4 by trimming/cropping or adding watermark/effect to MP4 with the built-in video editor. If you are Mac users, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. Download the software and we will share a quick solution with you.

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How to Convert and Play MP4 on Blu-ray Player

Step 1. Load MP4 files

Simply drag-and-drop your MP4 video to the program window or click "Add file" button to load MP4 files. You can add multiple files one by one for conversion.



Step 2. Choose output format

From the drop-down list of "Select Format" you can select AVI or MP4 from "Format > Video" category as the output format. When you have selected the output format, you should select a destination folder for the output file by clicking "...", you can also let it be the default one.

Step 3. Customize output profile parameters

By clicking the Settings button beside Profile, you can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want. You can adjust the output file size as 1920×1080, frame rate as 6-30fps, bitrate as 30Mbps, audio codec as MP3.



Step 3. Start conversion

Click the "Start" button to start converting MP4 files to Blu-ray Player immediately. Once the conversion finished, click the "Open" button on the main interface to pop out the folder with converted files and then transfer the generated files to your USB drive, plug the USB drive into Blu-ray Player's USB port for playing MP4 files on Blu-ray Player. Or directly share onto Blu-ray Player via wifi.

Tips: If there are no USB ports on your Blu-ray player, you can opt to burn MP4 files to Blu-ray disc for directly playing on Blu-ray players with the following 3 free Blu-ray creator.

Tiny Burner: An excellent freeware app that works with CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The installer also comes with a 32-bit and 64-bit version and will install the appropriate version automatically. Just load your disc into the drive, drag and drop the files you want and click the Burn icon to burn the disc.

StarBurn: A nice full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning app. It has a nice GUI interface that splits your burning options into audio, video, and data. You can burn images and build ISO images also. Unique features include the ability to erase a disc and to compress audio. 

True Burner: It can burn standard, multi-session and bootable CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. It’s got a very simple user interface and not a whole lot of settings. It doesn’t have a lot of advanced features like ImgBurn, but it gets the job done and it works well.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

How to Convert Blu-ray to play Blu-ray on VLC Media Player

If you've already invested in lots of Blu-ray discs, you may wanna watch your favorite Blu-ray movies in VLC, with high-definition content. To better support Blu-Ray playback in Windows PC, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present the fifth version of "Twoflower" which is VLC 2.0.4 (now the version is 2.2.4). The major updated VLC introduces an important number of fixes and improvements especially for Blu-Ray support. However, for legal reasons, AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys still are not shipped. Here I'd like to share a full guide on how to get Blu-ray playable on VLC in 3 ways.



First and easiest way - Upgrade VLC Media Player to recent version  

Download a copy of latest free VLC media player which is version 2.2.4. Run and install. It comes with multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback with VLC.  

Second and Complex Way: Download and place keys database

Preparation:

Download VLC player on computer (Wins & Mac)

Step One:

Go to: http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ to download the KEYS DATABASE(KEYDB.cfg) and AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY(libaacs.dll for Windows or libaacs.dylib for Mac).

For Windows Users:

1. KEYS DATABASE

* Open your user area ("C:\Users\your username\AppData")



* Enable view hidden files and folders (Under Folder Options – View tab then select "show hidden files…"->select ok)



* Open "AppData" directory or create a folder and name it aacs

* Place the downloaded KEYDB.cfg file in this folder directly.

Download Install AACS dynamic library for VLC to use:

2. AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY

* Go to "c:\Program Files" [Or "c:\Program Files (x86)" if running 64bit]

* Navigate to "VLC" directory, and move the libaacs.dll file into it.

Now, you can easily play Blu-Ray disc with VLC on Windows for free. Note: The latest VLC still doesn't have menu support yet.

For Mac users:

You may navigate the corresponding folder and move into the necessary files as follow. Go to: http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/, get the necessary files.

1. KEYS Database

Mac OS: put it in ~/Library/Preferences/aacs/ (create it if it does not exist)

2. AACS Dynamic Library

Mac OS: right-click on VLC, choose "Show package contents" and put that file in Contents/MacOS/lib/

Now, you can easily play Blu-Ray disc with VLC. 

Third and direct solution: Find another Blu-ray player

Here are some of the best blu-ray player software programs for the Windows as VLC alternatives:

WinDVD Pro 11
It's a multifunctional blu ray video player software for Windows PC. With such a tremendous acceptance for the 4K videos, the software supports HD, 3D, DVD and others common video and audio formats. You can enjoy best quality video and audio along with many exciting features. It has a unique feature that includes a premium online movie search engine that helps you find the favorite movie. It's available at an attractive price of $80.

Power DVD Ultra

This certainly is one of the best software programs for playing blu ray videos. The latest version of it (Power DVD 15 Ultra) supports blu-ray, 4K, 3D, HD and various others formats of videos. It comes in three versions and all the 3 versions have powerDVD remote that turns your android device into a remote control for the power DVD installed system. It costs around $100 and you can purchase it online as well.

iDeer Blu Ray Player for windows

This blu ray player is the authorized player software for all Windows OS all across the world. It can play both commercial and non-commercial blu ray discs, folders and ISO files. It supports a vast range of video formats and MP3, AVI, WMV, WMA, MPEG, MP4 etc. are to name a few. This is also a powerful HD video player that doesn't cause any loss to the picture and audio quality. This blu ray player software also supports smart phones. It costs around $60.

Dimo Video Converter Ultimate
* The built-in player supports playing almost any popular input video formats and Blu-ray with different region code.
Rip Blu-ray to digital files for freely playing, editing, sharing
* Enables you to share media contents online or export to any devices with your friends and family.
* Supported OS: Windows 2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8.1/Windows 8/Windows 10

Fourth and always effective Solution: Rip Blu-ray to VLC supported format

Note:

1. VLC does not yet support Blu-Ray menus so you must manually select title to play.

2. Most protected Blu-ray disc movies are not supported.

3. It is hard to find a proper Blu-ray player without crashing or buffering issues sometimes.

In this case, I am afraid that there is no other solution but to hire a paid Blu-Ray ripper to rip Blu-Ray to VLC playable video format and easy access Blu-ray movies without a disc inserted. And your primary concern may be how to keep the best compromise between high visual quality and less take-up of storage. 

So, cheer up now! Just cast aside VLC and turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate (Windows 10) which can help you rip any Blu-ray to VLC-friendly format with fast speed and high output video quality. The process is very straightforward. Pop in your disc, choose an VLC output format (MP4 or MKV), and click "Start". Then go get a cup of coffee (conversion takes time).  

Besides, the built-in editor allows you to trim, crop, adjustment video effect, add watermark, etc. to get the best overall video effects. Note that optimized preset for playback Blu-ray on mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, VR, TV, editors, etc. are also in the support list. By the way,if you are using VLC on Mac (including 10.12 OS Sierra), try Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac to convert Blu-ray format. Below are the detailed steps.

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How to easily convert Blu-ray to VLC in high quality

1. Insert your Blu-ray disc to the BD drive, then launch the Blu-ray ripping software and click the "Add Blu-ray" button to have the Blu-ray content imported. In addition to Blu-ray, DVD and video files like MP4, MOV, VOB, AVI, WMV, etc. are also supported.



Note: You can freely choose the audio track as you like for output.

2. Click the "Select Format" bar and you can choose "Format -> Video -> MP4/MKV" as the target format. This format can be played well on your iTunes, iPad, Apple TV also.  

Tip: You can also check the "Settings" box , and set video codec, video size, Bitrate, frame rate to get a decent video you want on your VLC player.



3. Hit Start button to start Blu-ray conversion. During the process, you can view detailed progress info, and preview the progress with real time images. OK. Leave the rest to the best Blu-ray to VLC Converter, and everything will be done very quickly.After conversion, you can click the "Open" button to find the converted Blu-ray files. Mow you can add and play the BD contents with VLC player at ease.



Just like the saying goes, where there is a will, there is a way. Watching Blu-ray movies on VLC and transferring to devices for enjoying anywhere you like is easy as ABC now.

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Monday, March 13, 2017

Rip Blu-Ray in Windows 10 with Blu-ray Ripper for Windows 10

Windows 10 gets native support for MKV and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). But still there is no Bly-Ray playback option. However, that doesn't mean you have to live without Blu-Ray movies with Windows 10. Just free download an easy-to-use Blu-ray player for Windows 10, or use an effective Windows 10 Blu-ray ripper. Now let's learn how to play glorious Blu-ray movies on Windows 10 system in 3 methods so as to steer away all Windows 10 won't play Blu-ray problems.



Method 1 to play Blu-ray on Windows 10 – Use a free Blu-ray player

There are plenty of Blu-ray disc players available on the market. As to freeware, VLC is one of them, which add AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys to play most of Blu-Ray movies. See how to watch Blu-ray on VLC Player here



Besides, there are some alternative Windows 10 Blu-ray players like KMPlayer, Daum PotPlayer, etc. However, you should not that these apps are free by avoiding the licensing requirements for Blu-ray playback software; instead, the technology has been reverse engineered. Worse still, they don't have native support for 3D Blu-ray movies, because that encryption has not yet been reverse engineered.

Method 2 to play Blu-ray on Windows 10 – Get a professional Blu-ray player

If you would like to any Blu-ray movie including some protected/region-code-locked Blu-rays, latest Disney movie Blu-ray discs on Windows 10 flawlessly, 8K Player is the top recommendeded third-party commercial player app since it is versatile and easy to operate for its extremely simple and beautiful design. 

To make it clearer, 8K Player (Blu-ray Power) is an ultimate combination of Blu-ray (disc/folder/ISO) player, free video/audio player, gif maker, movie recoder, screenshot or bookmark tool, which works perfectly on Windows 10/8/7 or Mac computer. It is worth the name of best Blu-ray media player 2017. The equivalent mac version is 8K Player for Mac.

If you're interested in getting the most out of your Blu-ray Disc drive as an archival storage device - after all, you can cram up to 50 GB onto a single dual-layer BD-R disc - make sure to look at Roxio's Toast 12 Titanium($99.95), which offers Blu-ray authoring capabilities among its many other features.

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Easy steps:

Start up the Windows 10 Blu-ray Player app, connect the external BD drive to your Windows PC with a Blu-ray disc inserted, and then you can click "Open Bluray" to enjoy the Blu-ray movie.  



With the Blu-ray movie loaded, you can right click the main interface, or click option button to open embedded navigation panel and select chapters to view, enable your audio track, choose subtitles stream, and switch up your viewing mode on the fly.

The Blu-ray Player supports Dolby Digital True HD 7.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, so you can connect your Windows 10 machine to a set of surround-sound speakers to experience the ultimate audio quality.

Method 3 to play Blu-ray on Windows 10 – Choose a powerful Blu-ray Ripper  

Have issues with Blu-ray players for Windows 10 or need to play Blu-ray on any devices from Windows 10? Don't bother any more. You can free download a top Blu-ray ripper to rip Blu-ray discs to digital video formats for playback without any limitation. 

Better still, in this way, you can watch any favorite Blu-ray movie anytime and anywhere you like without inserting the Blu-ray disc every time, and also protect the Blu-ray disc from being scratched or damaged. An external Blu-ray drive is required for reading a Bu-ray disc and  a virtual BD drive is required for playing Blu-ray ISO files.

Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, one of the most popular and easy-to-use Blu-ray ripper better than AnyDVD, MakeMKV, DVDFab, etc., enables you to rip any Blu-ray to WMV, MP4, MPEG, H.264, HEVC, AVI, MOV, M4V, etc. for free for later playing Blu-ray movie on Windows 10/8/7, etc. by bypassing Blu-ray copy protections and region codes. With advanced NVDIA CUDA tech, it can deliver super fast conversion speed.

In addition, this user-friendly Blu-ray ripper can rip any copy-protected Blu-ray (incl. newly-released Game of Thrones Seasons 6 Blu-ray) to Windows Media Player, iPhone 7/Plus, iPad Pro, Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, Gear VR, Samsung TV, PS4 Pro, Xbox One S, etc. with original quality for easier Blu-ray playback. And you are also allowed tocustomize settings to trim, crop, adjust effects, add watermark for Blu-ray video or adjust parameters (bit rate, frame rate, resolution, codec and more). For mac users, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. Download the program and learn the step-by-step guide on ripping Blu-rays on Windows 10.

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How to Rip, Convert and Backup Blu-ray on Windows 10 Effortlessly 

Before loading Blu-ray content, a BD drive is needed and computer should networked so that the ripper can access key for cracking the copy-protections.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies into the program

Once you run the Windows 10 Blu-ray Ripper, click "Add Blu-ray" button to load Blu-ray movie up into the Blu ray ripping program.  



Step 2. Decide Output format

Before ripping, you can copy Blu-ray to an ISO file for storage.

Click on "Select Format" bar to select output format. Here you can choose rip Blu-ray to .wmv, mpeg-4, mpeg-2, mpg, flv, avi, mkv, etc on Windows 10.

Tips: More features of the versatile Windows 10 Blu-ray Ripper

a. Before conversion, you can go to the “Settings” to set the parameters for your movie. To compress the file size, adjust the parameters to be smaller.

b. You can choose the audio track which you want to keep. Just click the drop down menu to select your desired one.

c. Click Edit button and you can trim, crop or adjust the video with the built-in video editor to get the very part and effect of the Blu-ray movie you want.

Step 3. Start converting Blu-ray on Windows 10

Click "Start" button to start Blu-ray conversion on Windows 10. After conversion, click "Open" to find the converted movies for playing, organizing, streaming and sharing with your families anywhere you want. 

Kindly Note: Dimo's free media server will help you easily access local videos on mobile devices or TV wirelessly.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Putting Blu-ray files onto Kodi for playing

Blu-ray Ripper - rip and convert Blu-ray movies to video and audio formats for use in XBMC Kodi software media player and entertainment hub.

The home theater software Kodi is probably the best solution out there if you want to get the best media manager/player for all the video files on your computer, hard drive or media server, but one thing it lacks is a built in Blu-ray decoder. Then what is the best way to copy Blu-rays to Kodi for playback via network? If you've no idea about this, you're definitely being the right place.



Considering although Kodi can play many kinds of movies, it has difficulty in streaming encryption Blu-ray disc for getting stuck. So, to stick encryption Blu-ray to Kodi, you need remove the copy protection from Blu-ray and backup Blu-ray to Kodi in a normal format like MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, etc for playback. Only comes with some help from third-party Blu-ray ripping software software, it can be done effortlessly.

Some guys recommend to have a look at the program MakeMKV, rips off disk or file directly to MKV. I've given it a whirl. However, it takes a too long time for copying my Blu-ray movie content which is combined with the larger file size. It seems that the transcoding takes forever. So I need to get another way. This is why I choose Dimo BDmate, which is a top-selling Blu-ray Ripper/Copier in the market which has the following features:

* Break down the encryption in Blu-ray discs, including AACS, BD+, region codes, etc.
* Rip Blu-ray to Kodi friendly video with high output video quality and fast ripping speed
* Convert Blu-ray/DVD to H.265, H.264, MP4, MKV (including lossless mkv), AVI, etc with original video quality.
* Copy Blu-ray main movie to m2ts and and leave out extras, commentary, etc.
* Provide some video editing tools to let you crop the Blu-ray movies black bars, trim the unnecessary part, etc. for better video watching experience
* Offer optimal presets for iPhone, iPad, PS3/PS4/PS4 Pro, Xbox 360/Xbox One/Xbox One S, Samsung/Panasonic/LG/Sony TV, etc.
* Compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP, etc
* Has the equivalent Mac version which supports macOS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, etc

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How to Rip/Copy Blu-ray to Kodi step by step
1. Load Blu-ray movies

Insert the Blu-ray disc into your computer's Blu-ray drive and run the best Blu-ray ripper. You can load the Blu-ray movies by clicking "Add Blu-ray" button. This Blu-ray converter also supports ripping BDMV folder and ISO files.



2. Choose output format

Here H.264 MP4/MKV is the best choice for playing via Kodi(XBMC). You can click "Select Format" and choose MP4 or MKV from "Format > Video" as below. Or select HD MP4, HD MKV from "Format > HD Video" if you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie.

Tip: Advanced profile settings

Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset. You'd better adjust the video settings to keep a balance of video size and video quality.



3. Start ripping Blu-ray to Kodi

After all necessary settings, click the "Start" button to begin converting Blu-ray movies to Kodi highly compatible video files. Once the conversion done, click on "Open" button to access to the videos you ripped. Afterwards, just copy the converted Blu-ray files to your Kodi for enjoyment. 

Additional Tip:
If you need more special functions like gif making, video recording and video looping when playing Blu-ray, please refer to 8K Player (Win/Mac) - an 8-in-1 media player, not just to play Blu-ray movie, but also DVD, SD/HD/4K UHD videos and music with full HD 1080p and best sound quality. 

Get Dimo Video Converter Ultimate/Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac with Only $45.95, which can save you $63.9(BDmate $39.95 + Videomate $39.95 + DVDmate $29.95 = $109.85), then you can enjoy any Blu-ray/DVD/ISO or common movies freely on Windows 10/8/8.1/7/Vista/XP.

Related Software:

DVDmate (Win/Mac)

A professional DVD ripping and editing tool with strong ability to remove DVD protection, transcode DVD to any video and audio format, and edit DVD to create personal movie.

Videomate (Win/Mac)


An all-around video converter software program that enables you to convert various video and audio files to formats that are supported by most multimedia devices.


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Source: How to rip and play Blu-ray on Kodi