Backup Blu-ray to Plex Media Server with lossless mkv

Plex Media Server enables you to organize all of your personal media in order to enjoy it no matter where you are. With Plex Media Server, it is easy to get your movies free playback on your iPad, Android tablet/phone and your laptop. If you have many Blu-ray movies with high definition, it is a good idea to backup Blu-ray to Plex for streaming on portable devices during the trip. Although Plex itself can’t play Blu-ray natively for Blu-ray encryption, there are many ways to rip Blu-ray to Plex supported formats. And to preserve the Blu-ray video and audio quality, backing up Blu-ray to Lossless MKV for Plex is the best choice. (See Why We Use Lossless MKV for Blu-ray Backup)

How to backup Blu-ray to Plex Media Server with lossless MKV?

To backup Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV, you have to choose the right video transcoder. Searched all over the internet for the best program, I find Pavtube ByteCopy, an easy-to-use copy-protection removal which is special designed for ripping Blu-ray movies to lossless MKV to Plex so that you can play Blu-ray on PS4, Smart TV, Mac Mini, etc.

What’s more, it’s also a professional Blu-ray ripper which allows you to rip and backup Blu-ray movies to any video format you like. The output video can be played by portable devices, media players, HDTV, etc, which will give you best video quality. (Read
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Steps to backup Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movie.

Free download Pavtube ByteCopy to your computer, install and launch it. Insert Blu-ray into disc drive which is well connected with the computer, click the “Load from disc” button in ByteCopy and browse to disc drive for importing.

Step 2: Choose lossless MKV as output format

To preserve multiple subtitles/audio tracks and chapter markers, lossless multi-track MKV for Plex will be a perfect output video format. Click the format bar to follow “Multi-track Video” ＞ “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)”.

Step 3: Start backing up Blu-ray to Plex

Click the button “Convert” on bottom right to get down to ripping Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV. And after conversion, you’ll get the converted Blu-ray in lossless MKV format for Plex.
With Pavtube ByteCopy, you can easily backup Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV in just three steps.

Then go with the following steps to stream Blu-ray to PS4 via Plex Media Server

Step 1: Download Plex Media Server.

1. Download Plex Media Server for free from the Plex Downloads page, choose the platform you need or device you need and download the program. Here, we choose Windows platforms as an example.
2. Install and set up Plex Media Server. Install Plex by following the usual installation method, launch Plex Media server and an install icon will shown to the bottom right of the screen. To setup the Plex Media Server, choose “Media Manager.. from the Plex icon in the system tray.
3. Add converted Blu-ray movies to Plex Media Server. Click the “+” icon on left side to open “Add library” window, select “Movies” type, then press “Next”, you can then choose a language if need be, then click “Next” to open another window, press “add folder” to find the folder where your converted Blu-ray movies is located, click “Add library” to finish Blu-ray movies to Plex Media Server adding process.

4. Sign your Plex account.
From the top-right triangle drop-down list, select “Sign In” option to log in with your plex account or sign up if you don’t have an account. And you will finish the whole Plex Media Set up process.Step 2: Access Plex content on PS4 web browser.

1. First, open the web browser on your PS4. This is found on the home screen and the icon looks like a globe with www on top of it.
2. The PS4 web browser should now open, so go to the address bar at the top and type in www.plex.tv/web.
3. The Plex website should now load, and you need to sign in with the same username and password you used when setting up Plex Media Server on your computer.
4. You’ll then be presented with a menu showing the converetd Blu-ray movies you have added to your libraries.
5. You can begin browsing and enjoying your ripped Blu-ray movies straight away!

If you are Mac users, here Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac can be downloaded. It has updated to support Mac OS X El Capitan. With it, you can rip and backup DVD and Blu-ray on Mac OS X El Capitan keeping high video quality.

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How do I Rip Blu-Ray, DVD Discs for storage onto Drobo 5n and copy to Mac Mini Plex for Use on TV

“I am looking to put my movie titles onto my Drobo 5n and pointed my dedicated Mac mini running Plex Server and running Plex Theater, that’s connected to a 4×4 matrix switch that plays to all my TVs in my house. Once I have all my movies uploaded in the right format, I would like to be able to play them on any device (mainly my TVs, or my 3 iPhones and 3 iPad Minis.) My movies are DVD and Blu-ray (most with digital copy). Can you help me? Thanks!”

Blu-ray and DVD movie is becoming more and more popular, many people choose to enjoy movies with a blu-ray or dvd player, but sometimes it is not so convenient in this way, so they prefer to store BD/DVD on Drobo 5n or stream via Plex for playing directly with other portable devices or TV as above. But as we know, Blu-ray movies and DVD movies are all protected, we will need third party software to remove the protection and rip Blu-ray/DVD to the format you need. After looked up best blu ray ripper for the mac through google search and I found Pavtube BDMagic for Mac which was always considered the best by every reviewer.

After trying one other one I agree with it. With this versatile Blu-ray ripping tool, you can easily remove all kinds of Blu-ray and DVD copy-protections and convert Blu-ray/DVD to MKV on Mac, the output quality is still as vivid as original. And a lot of videos formats are supported to output, so you are able to watch them on your TV/smartphones/tablets.How to backup Blu-ray/DVD to MKV for storage on Drobo 5n or Streaming via Mac Mini Plex

Download and installed the software and experience all the functions now. If you wanna a Windows version, please go to Pavtube BDMagic.

Step 1. Launch the best Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and load Blu-ray discs.

Step 2. Click “Format” to find “Common Video” catalogue, select “MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)” for storing on Drobo 5n or playing on TV via Mac Mini Plex.

Also you can choose “H.264 Video(*.mp4)” for enjoying on smartphone or tables.

Tip: You can click settings button to adjust the output parameters, such as resolution, bitrate, frame rate, etc. For example, if you want to maintain the 5.1 audio effect, you can choose 5.1 audio in settings.

Step 3. Click “Convert” to start backing up Blu-ray to MKV, when completed, click “Open” to find the generated files.

Now transfer the converted Blu-ray/DVD movies to Drobo 5n or import them into Plex server on Mac Mini for streaming and playing on TV. Obviously, it is easy to backup blu-ray to MKV format without any audio and video out of sync issue. Have a try now!

More features of BDMagic for Mac:

Directly Copy will help to backup the 100% intact Blu-ray/DVD main movie and output an m2ts/vob files with multiple audio and subtitle tracks.
Full Disc Copy can 1:1 backup the entire Blu-ray and DVD with original structure and chapter markers.
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Cast DVD Movie to Chromecast through Plex Media Server

Let's focus on ripping and casting DVD movies to Chromecast via Plex with the fast DVD to Chromecast ripper in the following text.

Using Google Chromecast means an easier way to cast all your favorite entertainments and apps to bigger TV from smartphone, tablet or laptop. Partial its charm relies on the powerful streaming ability. till now, Chromecast is still a special existence form with peculiar format acceptance. Most of DVD fans want to copy DVD collections to the google Chromecast for streaming on Plex, but failed. If you got into the same trouble, you’re in the fight place. The article shows the best workaround for copying DVD to Chromecast for streaming via Plex by ripping DVD to Chromecast friendly video format on Windows or Mac.

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As it claimed, Chrome browser is a very capable video player that will have no trouble of handling various video types such as WebM, MP4, MPEG and MKV. However, it is not available to cast DVD movies to bigger TV via Chromecast media mirror, unless Pavtube DVDAid Movie Copying & Ripper Software does a favor. it's not like that you can directly cast movies played from your laptop's DVD drive or hard drive. What you can do is to rip DVD to Chromecast compatible format like MP4 and then use the Plex Media Server playback workaround to stream the movies to Chromecast. Read the review.

By testing, this top DVD Ripper for Chromecast it’s able to rip the latest commercial DVDs like The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies DVD, Jurassic Park DVDs, Furious 7 and so on. With it, you can convert DVD to almost all regular video formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, etc. and even extract MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, etc. audio from DVD movies. Best of all, it allows you to copy your DVD to hard drive with original structure or main movie only. Furthermore, it continuously upgrades to offer you up-to-date DVD backup solution, making it a top contender and worthy of consideration by any DVD to Chromecast converter buyers. If you're using a Mac, please turn to Pavtube DVDAid for Mac, which enables you to convert DVD to Chromecast through Plex on Mac OS X (Yosemite).

Guide: Ripping DVD off for streaming via Plex to Chromecast with friendly format

Step 1. Load DVD Movies

Insert movie disc into the DVD-ROM, on the software, click “load DVD” button. It doesn’t necessarily to be a DVD optical media, it can also be an ISO/IFO files to convert to playable digital file format.

Step 2. Select Chromecast compatible formats

Click on the drop down menu of the Format, select “Common Video > H.264 Video(*.mp4)” or "Common Video" > "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)" as the target format. It fits on Chromecast/Plex for playback.

Then, you might tweak the output parameter settings to get better video/audio quality before the DVD to Chromecast process. For the most part you can leave this alone; the default optimized settings should be fine as is.

Step 3. Start ripping DVD movies

After all necessary settings, you can just click the "Convert" button to start converting your DVD movies to Chromecast. After the conversion, click Open to get the output files.

Step 4. Stream/Cast Local DVD to Chromecast

You use Chromecast to cast or stream the converted DVD video from PC or Mac to HD TV or display:

At first, download Chromecast mobile apps (such as Plex) on iPhone, iPad, iPod or Android, or web apps using Google Chrome (on Windows, OS X, and Chrome OS) through an extension on your computer. These apps can help you stream DVD movies by the Chromecast to TV within a local version of the Chrome browser.

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Easiest way to convert Video_ts folder for use on Plex server

A VIDEO_TS file is a DVD folder file, mainly containing all data for the DVD movies. It totally contains three kinds of files inside: VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP, and VIDEO_TS.VOB. Yeah, you can view Video_TS files on your computer and DVD players. However, if you want to put your VIDEO_TS movies on Plex, you’ll find it’s difficult to do that since Plex doesn’t recognize VIDEO_TS format.

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“I have a number of ripped DVDs that maintain the original DVD file structure. VLC can play them fine. So can built in DVD players. I like Plex for the way it catalogs and organizes the files for me, but it never played that DVD Video_ts structure back very well. Any solutions?”

My purpose is this page is to introduce a simple way to stream VIDEO_TS to Plex for playback with ease. As far as I know, Plex supported media file formats are restricted to MKV (H.264), MP4 (H.264). To get Video_TS on Plex server, the VIDEO_TS movie file needs to be converted to H.264 video, with the file extension like .mkv or .mp4. Therefore, if you want to enable Plex read and play your VIDEO_TS movies, a VIDEO_TS Converter is needed.

Here Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (Read review) is recommended to rip VIDEO_TS to Plex Media Server. With it, you can convert (3D) Blu-ray, DVD, Blu-ray BDMV folder, DVD VIDEO_TS folder, ISO/IFO files to Plex playable (H.264) MP4, MKV format with perfect audio and video sync in HD quality. In just a few mouse clicks, you’ll be able to view the VIDEO_TS on your Plex smoothly. Just download the program and follow the tips below to easily make Plex Media Server play VIDEO_TS files.

Convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to Plex supported file format

Step 1. Run the best VIDEO_TS Converter, click “Load from folder” to select and load the Video_TS files you want to convert. All the loaded files will be displayed on the left source pane and you can choose the titles to rip.

Step 2. Click Format > Common Video and set output video format as H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4). The reason mp4 is the target format is that by packing the videos in mp4, the file size will be reasonable small and the video quality remains.

Step 3. If you like, modify profile settings such as video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get optimized video and audio playback.

Note: Plex just plays the MP4/MKV files with H.264 video codec and AAC audio, you need to click the Settings icon to set the correct video, audio codecs.

Step 4. Return back to Video Converter Ultimate main interface, and hit the “Convert” button to start encoding DVD VIDEO_TS to H.264 MP4 for Plex playback.
After the conversion, click Open to get the output files. Afterwards, you can either stream them or add the converted videos to Plex media library.

1. Download and install Plex. Click on the Computer download.
2. Create a Plex account.
3. Click the “Already have an account” link to supply your credentials, or create one now.
4. Name thyself.
5. Create your media library by clicking on the Add Section button.
6. Add Channels, or other third-party sites that you can tap into using a Plex-friendly app, by selecting them on the next screen.
7. You can edit Plex’s default settings by clicking on the wrench and screwdriver icon in the window’s upper-right.
8. Stream your stuff by tuning into Plex using your favorite DLNA-friendly device

Now you can grab the Plex apps for iOS or Android to watch your VIDEO_TS files via Plex anywhere you like easily.

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