Sunday, April 24, 2016

Popular DVD Ripping/Copying FAQs

Ripping DVD videos is never as straightforward as you thought, especially for starters. But never mind, there are always some guides that can instruct you to get DVD backups or MP4/MKV extracts. To save your time to searching for the DVD ripping/copying tips, here we have gathered around some top and effective tutorial on DVD backing up. Hope you can find what you want in the corresponding categories.

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DVD Encryption

There are four types of copy protection that are used on commercial pre-recorded DVD discs. These are Analog Protection System (APS) scrambling, Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption, Region codes and a system involving corrupted disc structure. Recordable DVD discs are also sometimes copy protected using Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) encryption. We will go over each of these schemes in turn

Analog Protection System (Macrovision)

The Analog Protection System, popularly known as Macrovision after the company that developed it, is a protection system that is applied to the composite analog video signal coming out of DVD players. By manipulating the signal level of the composite video, Macrovision fools the automatic gain control of most video recorders resulting in annoying shifts in color and brightness in the recorded video.

Macrovision can be defeated by passing the composite video signal through a hardware device that restores the proper video signal levels. With the demise of analog video and the widespread availability of digital decryption tools, Macrovision protection has largely become irrelevant. Macrovision Corporation renamed itself Rovi and now promotes other copy protection technologies.

Content Scramble System (CSS) Encryption

CSS is an encryption system that is the main copy protection scheme used on pre-recorded DVD discs. CSS utilizes a proprietary 40-bit cipher that is used to encrypt the data stored on the DVD disc. When the disc is inserted into a player or computer, a series of "authentication" handshake key exchanges occur between the DVD drive and the player software. At the end of the "authentication" process, the drive allows access to the encrypted DVD data and the player can use the key it has obtained to decrypt the DVD data and play the disc.

Many DVD drives have a tendency to completely lock out access to an encrypted disc until the drive has been "authenticated". In addition, many DVD drives will refuse to complete the "authentication" process and provide a decryption key if the disc and drive are not from the same region. Both of these situations can cause strange behavior and odd error messages on computer systems.

DVD Disc Corruption

After the CSS protection system was cracked, the movie industry looked for a alternative copy protection scheme that would be compatible with the large number of existing DVD players in the marketplace.

Borrowing a (failed) technique from the video game industry, they settled on a scheme in which portions of DVD discs are deliberately mangled in such a way as to render them unreadable. When the disc is played, these corrupted areas of the disc are skipped. When the disc is copied sequentially, however, these corrupted areas cause the drive to hang up and get stuck.

This copy protection scheme has been marketed under a variety of names, including ARccOS (by Sony), RipGuard (by Rovi), Disney X (by Disney), etc. For cost and convenience reasons, it is not applied to all commercial DVD releases.

DVD disc corruption is a nuisance, but most of the more sophisticated DVD copy tools can handle it. Some tools maintain a database of corrupted areas on DVD discs that contain corruption, while other tools attempt to analyze the DVD structure to find areas of the disc that are never accessed.

Region codes

Almost all commercial DVDs that are sold have region code, which only allows the DVD to be played on DVD players that have this region code, and the only DVD players that typically do have this region code are those sold in that same region. Following is a color-coded region map for DVDs:

Region code map for DVD

When you want to play DVD of region 1,2,3 on your DVD player freely or on your region-locked PS3/PS4/Xbox One/360, you can refer to the following guides:

DVD Ripping/Copying Tools

There are many DVD Ripper/Copier software floating over there. Popular DVD ripping tools include MakeMKV and DVDFab DVD Copy. The gold standard decryption tool is, however, the on-the-fly tool Pavtube ByteCopy and Pavtube BDMagic. You can read their comparison article MakeMKV vs ByteCopy vs DVDfab or look at their difference in the chart below.

DVD Backup Tips

To manage DVD movies conveniently and protect DVD discs from scratching, people usually backup DVD discs to digital version. There are too many choices you can choose to store your DVD backups, like NAS, Media Server, Cloud Storage, External Hard Drive, USB Stick, etc. Different choices lead to different results. For example, when you migrate DVD to Clous NAS devices, you can play DVD movies on any DLNA-enabled devices freely while you put DVD backups to external HDD, you can carry your DVD movies anywhere as you want. Choose the guide you want below:

DVD Audio Extracting

Sometimes, you love the background music in the DVD movies. When you can't find the audio online, what can you do is to extract the audio from your DVD discs. If you don't know how to do it, just visit the guides below:

DVD Subtitle Issues

Have you got chagrined when you can't understand the plot for the foreign language? Do you have the need of extracting the subtitle from your favorite DVD, BDMV folder, M2TS files and ISO images? Or maybe you want your movies to displaying the subtitle only when the actor saying a foreign languages?

DVD Lossless/Multi-track Ripping

When you want to lossless backup DVD, it means you don't want any video quality loss in the DVD copying. Multi-track backing up DVD can make you keep multiple subtitle streaming and audio tracks so that you can switch the sound channel as you need.

DVD to Media Player

Except DVD Player, even powerful as VLC can't play DVD movies directly. So when you want to play DVD movies on various media player and portable devices such as Windows Media Player,QuickTime, etc, you need to rip DVD to digital file.

DVD to Devices

When you want to stream DVD on TV, PS3, PS4, Xbox One without using DVD Player, you also can choose to copy DVD to NAS, USB HDD, Home Server for TV DVD streaming.Thus,since your portable devices don't have one DVD player so create a digital copy of DVD can ave you view DVD movies on your iPad, Galaxy phone/tablet, etc.

DVD to Video Editor

Through DVD ripping, you can edit your DVD movies or a fragment on some popular video editor software.

DVD Ripper Software Comparison

Below is a chart to give you an intuitionistic exhibition on the difference between some top DVD Ripping software.

 

Software Compare Pavtube ByteCopy Pavtube BDMagic

DVDfab DVD Ripper

MakeMKV
Input Support        
DVD Disc
Y
Y
Y
Y
DVD Folder
Y
Y
Y
Y
DVD ISO
Y
Y
Y
Y
DVD Ripping Function
Decrypt the Encryption
Y
Y
Y
Y
Full Copy DVD
Y
Y
Y
N
Directly Copy DVD
Y
Y
Y
N
SD/HD MP4/AVI/WMV Output
Y
Y
Y
N
DVD to Multi-track MP4/MOV/AVI
Y
N
N
N
DVD to Lossless MKV
Y
N
N
Y
Forced Subtitle Preserving
Y
Y
Y
N
GPU Acceleration
Y
Y
Y
N

2D-3D/3D-2D
Y
Y
Y
N
Customize Output Video
Y
Y
Y
N

Verdict:

If you have some other DVD ripping/copying needs and can't find the solution here or you have other useful tutorial, leave a message at the comment area and we will update the article regularly.

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Friday, April 22, 2016

Everything You Want to Know About Blu-ray Ripping/Copying

Summary: Do you want to backup Blu-rays, rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV or just copy Blu-ray to digital file? Here, you can learn any skills of Blu-ray ripping/copying.

Ripping Blu-Ray videos is not as straightforward as doing so with DVD videos, especially for starters. But never mind, there are always some guides that can instruct you to get Blu-ray rips or MP4/MKV extracts. To save your time to searching for the Blu-ray ripping/copying tips, here we have gathered around some top and effective tutorial on Blu-ray backing up. Hope you can find what you want in the corresponding categories.

Blu-ray Encryption

The main reason that you can't play your Blu-ray movies on your Blu-ray Player or some multimedia players is the encryption schemes. The Blu-ray Disc standard mandates that all pre-recorded discs be protected by a copy-protection scheme. The copy protection used on pre-recorded discs is in practice only applied to the stream files and not to any other files that make up the format. There are several distinct levels of copy protection for pre-recorded discs.

AACS Encryption

The first level of copy protection applied to pre-recorded discs is the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) developed by the AACS Licensing Administrator, a consortium of companies including Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Warner Bros., IBM, Toshiba and Sony. It is based on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a robust 128-bit key encryption system developed by the US government.

AACS includes a system by which the keys assigned to a particular player can be "revoked" for future Blu-ray disc releases if it is determined that those keys have been compromised. When a newer Blu-ray disc is inserted into an older drive, the drive is required to check the version of the "Media Key Block" (MKB) on the disc and, if it is newer than the one the drive has internally, to copy over to permanent non-volatile memory the newer MKB. Thus playing newer discs propagates the revoked key lists out to all drives.

BD+ Protection

BD+ is a second level of copy protection that is optional for pre-recorded Blu-ray discs. After the stream files are encrypted using AACS encryption, they are further mangled randomly with instructions on how to repair the mangled files stored on the disc as special BD+ instructions. These instructions run in something called a "BD+ virtual machine", special software that Blu-ray players are required to include. The virtual machine on the player runs the BD+ code on the disc and retrieves something called the "Fix-up Table" (FUT) to repair all the BD+ mangled regions on the disc.

Cinavia Protection

Cinavia, developed by a company called Verance, is a newer level of copy protection that is optional on Blu-ray discs. The system involves "steganography" or watermarking, in which a special encrypted data signal is hidden within a single audio channel in an audio track. Verance claims the Cinavia signal is inaudible, and that the signal can survive audio compression and recompression.

When a player with Cinavia support detects a Cinavia signal on a Blu-ray disc, it can verify whether playback should be allowed. The player can display one of four possible messages known as "Cinavia message codes". The most commonly viewed messages are (1) "Playback Stopped" and (3) "Audio Muted". Message (1) is supposed to stop distribution of "camcorder" recordings of first-run movies from theaters if the theaters include a Cinavia signal in the movie soundtrack. Message (3) is supposed to stop unencrypted ripped copies of movies. There is apparently no exception for consumer backup copies.

Region codes

Region codes are basically DRM (digital rights management) techniques that allow studios to control the release of films in various regions. A Blu-ray player only can play the Blu-ray discs sold at the same region as the Blu-ray player manufactured.

There are 3 separate Blu-Ray region codes. These codes are classified alphabetically as Region A, Region B, and Region C.

Region A: This region covers all of North America, South America and South East Asia.

Region B: This encompasses Europe, Africa, Middle East, French territories and Greenland.

Region C: Region which covers the rest of the world including Russia, Asia, and China.

When you want to play Blu-ray of region A, B and C on your Blu-ray player freely or on your region-locked PS3/PS4/Xbox One/360, you can refer to the following guides:

Blu-ray Ripping/Copying Tools

There are many Blu-ray Ripper/Copier software floating over there. Popular Blu-ray ripping tools include MakeMKV and DVDFab Blu-ray Copy. The gold standard decryption tool is, however, the on-the-fly tool Pavtube ByteCopy and Pavtube BDMagic. You can read their comparison article MakeMKV vs ByteCopy vs DVDfab?or look at their difference in the chart below.

Blu-ray Backup Tips

To manage Blu-ray movies conveniently and protect Blu-ray discs from scratching, people usually backup Blu-ray discs to digital version. There are too many choices you can choose to store your Blu-ray backups, like NAS, Media Server, Cloud Storage, External Hard Drive, USB Stick, etc. Different choices lead to different results. For example, when you migrate Blu-ray to DLNA certified NAS devices, you can play Blu-ray movies on any DLNA-enabled devices freely while you put Blu-ray backups to external HDD, you can carry your Blu-ray movies anywhere as you want. Choose the guide you want below:

Blu-ray 3D Issues

While 3D becomes more and more popular, 3D Blu-ray, 3D ISO is brought into the circle, as well. However, high resolution and excellent 3D effect attracts people while the limited compatibility brings users headache. That's because you can't play the 3D Blu-ray/3D ISO on your 3D TV, 3D Glasses, 3D Projectors smoothly from time to time for various reasons.hope you can find the solution below to liberate you.

Blu-ray Audio Extracting

Sometimes, you love the background music in the Blu-ray movies. When you can't find the audio online, what can you do is to extract the audio from your Blu-ray discs. If you don't know how to do it, just visit the guides below:

Blu-ray Subtitle Issues

Have you got chagrined when you can't understand the plot for the foreign language? Do you have the need of extracting the subtitle from your favorite Blu-ray, BDMV folder, M2TS files and ISO images? Or maybe you want your movies to displaying the subtitle only when the actor saying a foreign languages?

Blu-ray Lossless/Multi-track Ripping

When you want to lossless backup Blu-ray, it means you don't want any video quality loss in the Blu-ray copying. Multi-track backing up Blu-ray can make you keep multiple subtitle streaming and audio tracks so that you can switch the sound channel as you need.

Blu-ray to Media Player

Except Blu-ray Player, even powerful as VLC can't play Blu-ray movies directly. So when you want to play Blu-ray movies on various media player and portable devices such as Windows Media Player,QuickTime, etc, you need to rip Blu-ray to digital file.

Blu-ray to Devices

When you want to stream Blu-ray on TV, PS3, PS4, Xbox One without using Blu-ray Player, you also can choose to copy Blu-ray to NAS, USB HDD, Home Server for TV Blu-ray streaming.Thus,since your portable devices don't have one Blu-ray player so create a digital copy of Blu-ray can ave you view Blu-ray movies on your iPad, Galaxy phone/tablet, etc.

Blu-ray to Video Editor

Through Blu-ray ripping, you can edit your Blu-ray movies or a fragment on some popular video editor software.

Blu-ray to ISO

Do you need to copy Blu-ray to ISO image? If so, read the following guide:

Blu-ray Ripper Software Comparison

Below is a chart to give you an intuitionistic exhibition on the difference between some top Blu-ray Ripping software.

 

Software Compare Pavtube ByteCopy Pavtube BDMagic

DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper

MakeMKV
Input Support        
Blu-ray Disc
Y
Y
Y
Y
Blu-ray Folder
Y
Y
Y
Y
Blu-ray ISO
Y
Y
Y
Y
Blu-ray Ripping Function
Decrypt the Encryption
Y
Y
Y
Y
Full Copy Blu-ray
Y
Y
Y
N
Directly Copy Blu-ray
Y
Y
Y
N
SD/HD MP4/AVI/WMV Output
Y
Y
Y
N
Blu-ray to Multi-track MP4/MOV/AVI
Y
N
N
N
Blu-ray to Lossless MKV
Y
N
N
Y
Forced Subtitle Preserving
Y
Y
Y
N
GPU Acceleration
Y
Y
Y
N

2D-3D/3D-2D
Y
Y
Y
N
Customize Output Video
Y
Y
Y
N

Verdict:

If you have some other Blu-ray ripping/copying needs and can't find the solution here or you have other useful tutorial, leave a message at the comment area and we will update the article regularly.

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Monday, April 18, 2016

play DVD movies on Moto X Pure Edition

Except iPhone, there are many Android phone that still make people love, such as Moto X Pure Edition. Moto X Pure Edition has a 5.7" 1440p Quad HD display and front-facing stereo speakers, as well as 4K video capture. If you want to get a Android phone, consider about Moto X Pure Edition. When have a Moto X Pure Edition in hand, you may want to play your some DVD movies on it. So how to view DVD movies on Moto X Pure Edition?



Moto X Pure Edition supported formats:

supported video formats: H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8

supported audio formats: AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MIDI, MP3, PCM/WAVE, FLAC, OGG/Vorbis

From the chart above, we know that Moto X Pure Edition doesn’t support DVD, even the DVD Video-TS folder, DVD ISO/IFO files. So when you want to play DVD disc, DVD IFO/ISO, DVD Folder on Moto X Pure Edition, you need to use a DVD Ripper<DVD Ripper vs. DVD Copier> to re-encode DVD movies to Moto X Pure Edition supported digital version.

Pavtube ByteCopy for Windows/Mac has helped many people to solve the problem about playing DVD movies on Moto X Pure Edition. As a top DVD ripper, you can easily break the complex copy protection and region codes from DVD disc and change the disc format to a normal MP4 or other video formats supported by Moto X Pure Edition. With it, you just need to load a DVD disc into the program, choose a MP4 format as target for Moto X Pure Edition, and click "start conversion" to start, it is really easy and quick. Read review to learn more functions to help you.

Free download and install:
          

Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/bytecopy/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-ByteCopy/3000-7970_4-76158512.html

How to rip and put DVD movies to Moto X Pure Edition?

Step 1. Import DVD source video

Click the "file" button to import DVD videos into the application. It supports batch importing so that you can add as many video files as you wish. And you can select your wanted subtitle or forced subtitle to show in the display at the bottom of the chapter list.



Step 2. Choose the right output for Moto X Pure Edition. 

As we mentioned above, we would like to introduce you to select the “HD Video”>>”H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” as your best choice. Surely you can choose other suitable ones as you like.



Tip: Click "settings" next to format bar, you can change video and audio parameters. Considering Moto X Pure Edition has super high resolution with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 using an extremely sharp Quad HD resolution. , you can preserve the original size and bitrate, or adjust video size to high, but no larger than 2560 x 1440. Remember, higher bitrate results in bigger size and lower quality loss.

Step 3. Start converting DVD to Moto X Pure Edition

Click the "Start conversion" button at the bottom right corner to start converting DVD movies to Moto X Pure Edition. 

After DVD to Moto X Pure Edition conversion, then click "Open" to find the generated videos. Then just transfer the generated H.264 MP4 video on Moto X Pure Edition for playing. Hopefully you can enjoy it! 

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Friday, April 15, 2016

Top 7 Best DVD to AVI Converter Software 2016 Reviews

DVD was once the popular home entertainment format. But with the development of Home Theater and more and more people like to watch DVD movies on portable devices, people gradually are aware of the inconvenience of disc-based content. So the need of converting DVD to AVI has increased largely recent years.

dvd to avi

AVI is a popular container file format used for watching standard definition video on the PC and is the container used by DivX video versions 3 through 6. AVI files can hold different types of video and audio streams inside, and with the help of DivX® video compression technology, they can display incredible video quality while maintaining a small file size. .divx files are also based on the AVI container, but can contain additional features like XSUB subtitles and chapters. 

DVD to AVI converter software allows you to circumvent DVD encryption and convert DVD to AVI in order to watch DVD movies on all the electronics you own. However, there are too many DVD to AVI converter softwares in the market that make you confused which one should choose. We ranked several DVD to AVI conversion software programs by subjecting them to battery of tests to determine which one is the best.

Comparison of Top 7 DVD to AVI Converter Softwares

Software Compare

Pavtube ByteCopy

Pavtube DVDAid

imToo DVD Ripper

 Any DVD Converter
 Open DVD Ripper

 123 Copy DVD

Cucusoft DVD Ripper

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3D TB AVI
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BlackBerry AVI Series (*.avi)

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Batch Conversion
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Our Verdict and Recommendations

There are a lot of good DVD to AVI converter choices on our side-by-side comparison chart. The best programs strike the balance between quick conversion times and high-quality results. They also offer a large selection of conversion profiles so you can tailor a conversion specifically for the devices you want to watch your favorite movies on

The top performers in our review are Pavtube ByteCopy and Pavtube DVDAid, the Gold Award winner, but since Pavtube ByteCopy also can rip and backup Blu-ray to AVI, so I think it is indeed Gold Award Winner. imToo DVD Ripper, the Silver Award winner; and Handbrake, the Bronze Award winner. Here's more on choosing software to meet your needs, along with detail on how we arrived at our ranking of these 8 applications.

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