How to rip Blu-ray movies to a NAS and play them back on NMT Popcorn Hour C-200

So you just have a large number of Blu-ray movies collections, and wanna rip and store them all on your NAS, so as to freely watch the stuff with your new NMT Popcorn Hour C-200? If so, you may come to the right place. Because this guide will focus on this point, and is going to provide you with a solution on how to rip Blu-ray to a NAS and play them back on NMT Popcorn Hour C-200. Just follow the detailed step-by-step instruction as below.

The software we will use is Pavtube Blueray Ripper. Why do we choose it?

Because it is an integrated program that can rip blurays into the format you want instead of having to use multiple programs. With full Blu-ray disc support, it is able to remove different copy protections of your commercial BD discs, no matter AACS, or BD+. The new released MKB V17 protection is supported as well.

OK, here we go.

Step 1: Click "BD/DVD ROM", "BD/DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load Blu-ray files



Step 2: Select output format for NMT C-200

Since it is clearly stated in C-200 Technical Specifications that C-200 is able to play MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS), to keep full playback quality, you can choose directly copying the Blu-ray M2TS streams to store on your NAS without any quality loss, and still with the .m2ts file extension.

Click on the dropdown list of "Format", and then follow "Copy"> "Directly Copy".



By the way, if you do mind the large output file size, you can then choose other file formats supported by NMT Popcorn Hour C-200, so as to save the storage space of your NAS. This Blu-ray rip software provides users with a large amount of output formats. You can select anyone of them that is fit for your NMT C-200.



If you do not use "Directly Copy", then you can click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters to customize the output file quality, these parameters include codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.



Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start converting Blu-ray movies

As soon as the ripping task is completed, you can click "Open" button to get the output Blu-ray files stored on your NAS, and then connect C-200 to the network attached storage and home theater system for beautifully playback. Have fun.

If you are using a Mac, Pavtube Mac Blu-ray ripper is your choice.

How to convert MKV to iPad and iPad Wi-Fi+3G accepted format on Mac

Do you have tons of MKV files, but yet have been never able to convert them into a proper video file for your new iPad/iPad 3G on Mac? If so, this article is deserved reading on, because it aims to tell you how to convert MKV to a playable format for iPad, so that you can enjoy your MKV movies on that wider display in high quality.

Required software:
Pavtube MKV to iPad Converter for Mac

Following is the detailed instruction of how to convert MKV to iPad and iPad Wi-Fi 3G accepted format, feel free to check it and get what you are looking for.

Step 1: Click "Add" button to load MKV files into this program



This Mac MKV to iPad converter supports batch conversion, thus you can add multiple MKV files to it at a time. More than that, if you want to combine all the files into a single file, you should tick the checkbox "Merge into one file" to achieve this goal.

Step 2: Select output format for iPad/iPad 3G
Click on the pull down menu of "Format" firstly, and then you will see there are an "iPad" option, and three sub-presets optimized for iPad. You can select anyone of the three profiles to meet your requirement. All of them will guarantee you a perfect playback quality on your iPad and iPad Wi-Fi+3G. Snow Leopard video converter is now fully compatible with Mac OS X.



Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click "Settings"button, then the interface as below will show up, you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters shown on it, including codec name, bit rate, image pixels, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. However, we suggest you to skip this step, because the default settings will absolutely ensure the excellent playback quality on your wide screen iPad.



Step 4: Start converting MKV files to iPad and iPad Wi-Fi+3G supported format
As soon as all the above three steps are finished, you can click "Convert" button to start converting MKV files to iPad compatible format. Once finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output files. Now just add these converted MKV files to your iTunes, and sync them to your iPad for watching.

How to rip DVD movies to iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G supported file formats on Mac

Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity unveiled in "Avatar"? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"? Have you ever wept for the extremely beautiful but tragic love in "Titanic"? Have you ever been motivated by the movie dialogues like "A strong man can save himself; a great man can save another" in "The Shawshank Redemption"?

So there are hundreds of movies in your DVD collection, wanna rip the classic ones for playback on your new iPad or iPad Wi-Fi+3G in 720p quality? If so, this article will show you how to convert DVD movies for watching on your iPad with excellent quality. Go to find the details from the following paragraphs.

The software you will need is Pavtube DVD to iPad Converter for Mac.

This program is good at removing commercial DVD copy protections, so you can feel free to load almost all of your DVD movies to it to do format conversion, even the latest released ones. More than that, with advanced audio and video in sync technology, it will guarantee the output files well in sync while playback on your big screens iPad/iPad 3G.

Step 1: Once you run this program, click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to load DVD files



All the DVD movie files are checked by default while loading, you can right click on the file to "Uncheck all" or "Check all", so as to select your needed files to convert in an easy way.

Step 2: Select output format for your iPad/iPad 3G
Actually, there are three iPad presets specially optimized for iPad, you can choose anyone of them to satisfy your needs. Every one of them will definitely ensure you a perfect playback quality on your iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G.



To see the default video and audio parameters, you can click "Settings" button, and all of these items including codec name, bitrate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels will be clearly presented as below. If you are professional at changing these items, you can adjust them to meet your higher expectation, otherwise, just let them be. Because they are good enough to output a nice quality file for your iPad.



If you still want to try your luck, please follow iPad supported file formats to do your changes.

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, 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

iPad Supported Audio Formats

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz

Audio formats supported:HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVDs to iPad/iPad 3G video
Just take a few seconds to do selection, and after that, you can sit back and relax, the entire DVD ripping task will be finished by this iPad Mac DVD ripper at fast speed. Once the conversion work is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output DVD movies for your iPad with ease.

How to use Pavtube Mac iMedia Converter?

The tutorial aims to give you a general idea about how to use Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac before getting started. The iMdedia Converter for Mac is specially designed for Mac users to enjoy the videos, DVD and blu-ray movies on Mac and multiple mobile devices.

Basically, Pavtube iMedia Converter helps you to directly backup DVD and blu-ray movies from disc and folder to hard drive, rip DVD ISO image file to desired video and audio formats, convert HD footages such as MTS (M2TS, M2T), TOD, MOD and MOV files to desired formats for editing and playing back, convert DVR TiVo files to lossless MPEG files and other desired formats, and convert among other common videos such as flash videos, Quicktime videos, CD files, digital video files, Matroska files, etc. and extract audio tracks from the source discs and clips. Besides, the converter features editing facilities such as trimming, cropping, watermarking, flipping, etc.

To learn more information about this app, you may visit iMedia Converter for Mac or download the free trial of iMedia Converter and try it out. Please note that the trial version output video with a watermark on the screen and the Disk Copy option is restricted to use three times only.

Now let’s see how to use the powerful iMedia Converter for Mac.
1. Import source disc/ folder/ file
2. Preview and Snapshoot
3. Back up DVD and blu-ray disc
4. Set Output Settings
5. Edit video clips
I. Trim Video
II. Crop Video
III. Image/ Video Watermark
IV. Text Watermark
V. Set Effect
VI. Replace audio
6. Convert Movie
1. Import source disc/ folder/ file

Accepted sources includes blu-ray disc, blu-ray folder, DVD, DVD folder, DVD ISO image file, and Video clips. For ripping blu-ray disc you need to connect an external BD drive with your Mac. To add video files, please click ‘Add Video’ button and browse to source video files or drag and drop the files in the ‘Getting Started’ area. To load blu-ray disc, DVD, blu-ray folder, DVD folder, please click ‘DVD/ BD Folder’ and browse to the disc or directory. To import DVD image file, please click ‘IFO File’ and browse to the file you’d like to convert.



The file list is composed of five columns: Check box, Name, Duration, Trimmed Length, and Destination File.



Check Box: Click to check/ uncheck all files in the list.
Destination File: The name of the converted file. By default it is same with the original file. If you’d like to specify a different name for output file, double-click it in Destination File column and type in favorable name.




Common video files are listed for you to organize; the blu-ray or DVD movie shows up as a directory. Expand the directory and you will find all the chapters are in numerical sequence. You can convert the whole disc to movie collection or select single chapter for conversion.

For blu-ray movie, there are Title Mode and File Mode. By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. By default all the Titles are selected for editing and ripping. If you want to rip the main movie and nothing more, do uncheck other sequences. If you would like to retain everything in the blu-ray disc, simply use the default settings. If you’d like to switch to file mode, please select the blu-ray movie directory and click ‘ViewMode’. And you can check and preview each individual segment. In File mode all the m2ts files in file list are checked by default. If you want to select but the main movie, a fast way is to right-click and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). Or simply check the small box in the title bar of the file list to check/ uncheck all.

When a blu-ray or DVD movie is loaded, you can find the Subtitle and Audio option under the file list are activated.



Subtitle: Click to view available subtitles of selected chapter and set desired subtitle from drop-down list. Note that some chapters have no subtitles at all. And you can specify subtitle of different languages for different chapters.
Audio: Click to view available audio tracks selected chapter and set desired audio from drop-down list.
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Best MOD to iPad Converter

Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Pavtube MOD to iPad Converter is an ideal tool for people who are using digital camcorders, such as JVC Everio, the Canon FS100 and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. It can edit and convert the recording video MOD from your digital camcorder to other popular video and audio formats like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A etc. for playback on portable devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, cell phones and edit in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Power Director etc.



What's new
- Fixed for the out of sync issue when merging multiple trimmed files together.

- Improved the GUI to be more user-friendly. A checkbox is added for users to check/ uncheck all chapters; the main movie of source disc is marked out; and slider bars are added so as to adjust the position of crop area and text/image/video watermark more conveniently.

- Upgraded the Profile Manger, and improved the profile list to be more friendly, intuitive, and flexible. The software will memorize the profile settings and apply it when it is updated to the later version.

- Added support to iPad, including three more optimized formats.

- Added scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation facility contained in Effect tab.


For Mac user: Mac MOD to iPad Converter

Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools

Mac MKV to iPad Converter - Convert MKV videos to iPad on Mac

Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

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Pavtube Mac MKV to iPad Converter is a splendid MKV Converter on Mac OS X, which can perfectly transfer MKV file you downloaded with Emule, Limewire, or BT for any popular portable devices. You can take it as an MKV to iPad converter, MKV to iPod converter, MKV to iPhone converter, MKV to iPhone 3G converter, MKV to Apple TV converter, MKV to PSP converter, MKV to BlackBerry converter, MKV to Creative Zen converter, MKV to iriver converter, MKV to Zune converter, MKV to iMovie converter, MKV to FLV converter, etc.


What's new
- Added customized output formats for iPad and TiVo Directly Copy in profile list.
- Refined the GUI to be more user-friendly, including addtional scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation and Volume in Edit interface.
- Now apply Deinterlacing facility by default.

For Windows user: Windows MKV to iPad Converter

Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools