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How to Backup Blu-ray to WD External HDD for viewing?



If you borrowed some Blu-ray discs from your friends and have no enough time to watch them all, backing up them to your WD External Hard Disc Drive will be a not bad idea. Keeping Blu-ray in WD External HDD is convenient for you to erase these movies once you are familiar with the contents. No circulation in case of copyrights violations.You can search for a Blu-ray Backup tool from Google to help you backup Blu-ray to WD External HDD. From my Blu-ray ripping experience, I like using Pavtube ByteCopy to rip and copy Blu-ray. It has rich features to fulfill all my requirements: 

  • It can copy Blu-ray to WD External HDD with two methods: Full Disc Copy and Copy Main Title according to your choice.
  • It enables you to rip and backup Blu-ray to any other format like H.265, M3U8, MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, FLV, FLAC, OGG, etc to adapt to various media streamers like iPad, iPhone, PS4.
  • It can rip Blu-ray to WD External HDD in lossless MKV with multiple audio tracks, subtitle streams and chapter markers.
  • User-friendly way it works for non-IT savvy people like me is easy to operate.
  • Its reasonably price makes me would like to invest.


Free download and install ByteCopy: 
  

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 Backup Blu-ray to WD External HDD for viewing? 

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies 

Insert the disc into the drive and run the program. Click disc button to add the Blu-ray movie to the app. You can preview the movie in the main interface. 

 

Step 2: Copy Blu-ray movie 

– Option A: “Full Disc Copy” without anything loss 

Click quick button “Copy the entire disc” to starts copying the Blu-ray disc to WD External HDD maintaining the original structure. 

When the copying task finished, you can click “Open” button to get the output videos. The backed up Blu-ray/DVD movie is usually saved as a directory file structure in VIDEO_TS or BDMV folder. 

– Option B: Copy Blu-ray main movie 

Click “Format” bar, choose “Copy” > “Directly Copy” from the Format menu to copy the M2TS files only which contains the main movie of Blu-ray disc. When the copying work is done, you can locate the generated Blu-ray M2TS file on output folder without any other extra contents. 

– Option C: Rip Blu-ray to MP4, MKV, AVI, etc 

Besides backing up Blu-ray without quality lossless, you also can rip Blu-ray to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, MPEG and more. (For mac users, refer to the mac workflow) Here, you can set the output format as MP4. Click the format bar to follow “HD Video” > “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4).” 

 

Tip: If want to customize the output video quality, pls hit “Settings” icon to open profile settings window. Frame rate is always suggested to set as “original” unless you want to do some special editing; Size(pix) can be set to 1080p or 720p; also the bitrate parameters will affect output quality vertically. You will be able to check the estimated file size in the same window. 

Step 3: Start backing up Blu-ray to WD External HDD 

Click right-bottom “Convert” button on the main interface to start the conversion process. When it finishes, open the output folder to find the generated file. 

After you backing up Blu-ray to WD External HDD, you can enjoy them in your free time. And you needn’t worry that you can’t give back the Blu-ray disc to your friends on time. 



How to Copy Blu-ray to Wireless HDD for Streaming



Wireless Hard Drive Disc creates a personal WI-FI network , so you can stream your media and files to your tablet or smartphone. With it, you don’t need to worry about maxing out your mobile device’s capacity. Through WI-FI, you and your family can watch films via Wireless HDD on different devices at the same time. If you have plenty of Blu-ray collection, you can choose to copy these Blu-ray movies to Wireless HDD for streaming on portable devices anytime and anywhere. 

Copying Blu-ray to Wireless HDD is very easy. But the devices you will use to play Blu-ray movie, such as smart phones, tablets, iPad, have no ability of playing Blu-ray movies directly, so you have to use a third party Blu-ray ripping program to rip and backup Blu-ray to Wireless HDD in popular video format, like MP4, MKV to be compatible with your portable devices. 

Pavtube ByteCopy is a professional and user-friendly Blu-ray ripper, which can backup Blu-ray to Wireless HDD in H.265, M3U8, MP4, AVI, WMV, etc with high resolution. It also can copy Blu-ray to lossless MKV with chapter markers, keeping 5.1 or 7.1 sound. It can rip Blu-ray to Wireless HDD at ultra fast speed with NVIDIA CUDA technology. 

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 copy Blu-ray to Wireless HDD with ByteCopy? 

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movie 

Run the versatile Blu-ray Converter on PC, click "File" > "Load from disc" to load Blu-ray discs to this app. 

 

Step 2. Choose output format 

You can set the output format as MP4, which is the most compatible video format. Click the format bar to follow "HD Video" > "H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)." 

 

Tip: If want to customize the output video quality, hit "Settings" icon to open profile settings window. Frame rate is always suggested to set as "original" unless you want to do some special editing; Size(pix) can be set to 1080p or 720p; also the bitrate parameters will affect output quality vertically. You will be able to check the estimated file size in the same window. 

Step 3. Start copying Blu-ray to Wireless HDD 

Hit the "Convert" button to start Blu-ray to Wireless HDD conversion. After conversion, hit "Open" or "Open output folder" to quick find ripped videos. 

After conversion, you can transfer ripped Blu-ray to Wireless HDD for streaming on smartphone, tablet and computer. You can enjoy them on the go or at home. 


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How to Stream 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud?

How to Stream 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud? 

Western Digital My Cloud, as a practically foolproof device for network sharing, lets you access terabytes of content from your smartphone, tablet or laptop, yet keeps it right where it belongs: securely under your roof, and completely under your control. With a USB 3.0 port for storage extension or backing up data, it helps you consolidate your amount of photos, videos, and other documents. WD My Cloud can support a wide range of format like MP4, MOV, AVI, but due to the reason of lacking 3D Blu-ray drive, so you can not stream 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud. 

To stream 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud, Pavtube BDMagic is one of the dynamic Blu-ray ripper that can help you rip 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud compatible Formats like MP4, MOV, AVI. This Blu-ray Ripper (Review) has strong power to convert 2D/3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray folders, Blu-ray ISO file to H.264, M3U8, MP4, M4V, MOV, MKV, AVI, etc, with ultra fast speed and excellent image and sound quality. Besides, it also can rip DVD to WD My Cloud in these regular formats. 

Free download and install: 
  

Other Download: 
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-ripper/ 
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-BDMagic/3000-7970_4-75922877.html 

How to stream 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud? 

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movie to Blu-ray Ripper 

Run Blu-ray Ripper on your computer. When the interface pops up, click “File” to load your Blu-ray movie to this programme. It will automatically choose the main content to convert. If there are several language subtitles in your Blu-ray movies, you can select the language subtitle you want to show in your movie by “Subtitle”. 

 

Step 2: Specify output format 


In drop-down format list, you are suggested to choose "HD Video" > "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" as output format. 

 

Tip: If the source movie has black area and you want crop it. You can click “Edit” and video editor interface will appear. Inside it, you can crop the black area, trim footage and add watermark. 

 

Step 3: Start conversion 

After all settings done, hit on the “Convert” button and 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud conversion will get started. After the conversion completes, open output folder and you will find the converted movies. 

Now, you can stream your 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud for sharing. BDMagic is a professional Blu-ray Ripper, which can not only backup 3D Blu-ray to WD My Cloud but also transfer Blu-ray to TVPS4,Windows Media CenterAirStash,Xperia Z4Surface Hub Tablet for streaming on the go or anywhere you want. 

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Backup Blu-ray/DVD to MKV/MP4 to Synology NAS

Backup Blu-ray/DVD to MKV/MP4 to Synology NAS 

Synology NAS will be a definitely good investment for people who has limit storage space at home but is crazy about watching HD Blu-ray/DVD movies. Synology NAS is designed to provide a solution of file storage and sharing with data protection for your home environment with low power consumption, quiet operation and reliability. Backing up Blu-ray/DVD movies to Synology NAS can make you enjoy movies via HD TVRokuPS3 without Blu-ray/DVD drive and physical discs in-and-out. 

 


Considering the format compatibility, before you store Blu-ray/DVD to Synology NAS, you maybe need to rip Blu-ray/DVD to a more compatible format, like MP4, MKV, MOV. After all, we know that little media players and devices can directly play Blu-ray/DVD with copy protection and region codes. To backup Blu-ray/DVD to MP4/MKV for Synology NAS, you have to use a Blu-ray/DVD ripper

From Google search, you can see Pavtube ByteCopy ranks high among the similar products. It can rip and backup Blu-ray/DVD to MP4/MKV/AVI/MOV/M4V, etc for Synology NAS with fast speed and excellent output video quality. it also can copy Blu-ray/DVD to lossless MKV with multiple subtitle/audio tracks and chapter markers and multi-track MP4/MOV to Synology NAS. (Learn more reasons to choose ByteCopy

Free download and install ByteCopy on Windows: 
  

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 backup Blu-ray/DVD to MP4/MKV for Synology NAS? 

Step 1: Add Blu-ray/DVD video file 

Insert Blu-ray or DVD into disc drive. Launch ByteCopy, click "Load Disc" button to browse to disc drive and import source movie into this app. 

 

Step 2: Choose output format 

Click the “Format” option and choose “HD Video” > “MKV HD(.*mkv)” as output format. Of course, you still can selectMP4WMV as the target format according to your need. 


Step 3: Adjust video parameters 

If you have some video/audio parameters to adjust, you can click “Settings” next to “Format” to open the profile settings window. Here, you are allowed to change the video/audio size, codec, frame rate, bitrate. 


Step 4: Start to rip Blu-ray/DVD to MKV for Synology NAS 

Double check your settings and hit on the "Convert" button to start ripping Blu-ray/DVD to Synology NAS in HD MKV format. When the backup is done, find copied MKV file in output folder, and upload to Synology NAS. 

Did as the steps. You could now enjoy HD Blu-ray/DVD movies via Synology NAS on HD TV, Roku, PS3/4, etc and don’t need the Blu-ray/DVD discs to take up the precious space on the shelf. 

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Copy DVD Collections to Plex for Xbox One playback

Copy DVD Collections to Plex for Xbox One playback 

Q: Has anyone ripped their DVD collection for streaming via Plex and playing on Xbox One? 

“I have about 250 DVDs and it seems like it’d be very time consuming and tedious. There’s all kinds of DVD Ripping software out there (some free, some not) with a variety of different options. It seems a bit overwhelming. Is there a good one to get set the way I want the DVD’s to rip a few DVD’s for my Xbox One per day until it’s done? For streaming via Plex, is there any particular quality/bitrate that’s preferable for doing this? Any help/input would be greatly appreciated.” 

 

You may have the same troubles as below. Have more than 250 DVD collections? Want to rip and backup DVD to Plex media server so that you can stream DVD movies via Plex onto Xbox One to watch anytime you want without having to pull out the DVD disc? The tutorial is offering a easy way. After searched on Google, as “Best DVD Ripper + Plex “, “Rip DVD to Plex for Xbox One” and so on. you may find that best software to import into Plex and one of the Plex forums top recommended is Pavtube ByteCopy (Readreview). 

This is a professional DVD Ripper for Plex. With it, you can easily convert the commercial DVD movies to Plex compatible video formats or almost all regular video formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, etc. and even extract MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, etc. audio with high quality and fast speed. It aims to solve the program by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical DVD discs to local computer, hard drive then stream over a home network for Plex Media Server and iPad Air, iPhone 6 Plus, Smart TV, Apple TV, Roku 3, Xbox One, PS3, or other portable devices playback. 

If you are using Windows-based computer, then Pavtube ByteCopy is exactly what you need. It is well compatible with Windows operating system and converting with fast speed and extremely high quality. Mac users just turn to Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac, which performs well on Mac OS X Yosemite and lower.


 

Step-by-step: How to Convert/Copy DVD to Plex for using in Xbox One

Step 1: Load DVD movies

Run the DVD Ripper and click disc icon to load DVD movies for converting. You can also import Blu-ray discs with BD drive, files from BD/DVD folder or ISO image files.



Step 2: Decide output format

Click Format bar and choose MP4 from Common Video, which can be recognized by Plex well. MKV is also a good choice; If you are unwilling to degrade the HD video quality, “HD Video”-> “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” is a better choice for you. (Read Plex Supported Format and Installation)



Step 3: Advanced settings to get better quality (optional)

If the default settings can’t meet your needs, you can freely to adjust these parameters including video bit rate, frame rate, video size, audio channel, audio codec, sample rate, etc.

Step 4. Start converting DVD movies to Xbox

When all settings are done, simply click the Convert button to begin the conversion from DVD to Plex/Xbox One. Few minutes later, you can find your DVD files have been ready for Plex and then stream to Xbox One for watching

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