Plex Movie Streaming

Convert Blu-rays to Plex Media Server for streaming

Summary: Convert Blu-ray movie disc free on Plex Media Server to play with iPhone 6 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S6, HTC One M9, etc.

Here I would like to introduce Plex Media Server – a solution for your local and online media, which seamlessly connects your Plex clients. Well you can watch movies with the client – Plex Media Center on Windows & Mac, and more importantly, on iPad, iPhone and Android devices with the paid app.

This time, I own a plex mediaserver at home and need content to watch, I have tons of Blu-ray movies and wanted a good program to rip them with. I tried AnyDvD which is supposed to be a faster ripper and it was.

At last, I found Pavtube Blu-ray to Plex Converter which aims to solve this problem by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical Blu-ray and DVD discs or downloaded media to local computer, hard drive then stream over a home network for Plex Media Server and iPhone 6 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S6, HTC One M9 playback. It's professional in ripping and converting Blu-ray/DVD discs, Blu-ray/DVD ISO image, Blu-ray/DVD copies and more. It will help you backup your Blu-ray disk and save the time looking for them from the cardboard with ease.

I read tests and tons of reviews give this program as No. 1 Blu-Ripper 2013. Well I mostly use it to transcode blu-ray to mkv because it supports good sound options and most devices support the format. As for the device I use is plex media server (PMS) and basicly any device (likemy wiiu, htc onex, samsung gs2, 2 computers, xbox 360) that supports DLNA can play converted mkv video from the pms.

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Below is a simple guide about how to convert/ backup your Blu-rays to Plex Media Server

First of all, you need to download and install the Best Blu-ray Ripper for Plex Media Server. There is a Mac version for you if you use Mac OS X computer. Then, just follow the steps to operate it.

Step 1: Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run Pavtube BDMagic and click "BD/DVD disc" icon to load movie from Blu-ray source(Disc, folder, ISO).

Step 2: Click the "Format" option, and choose Common Video > MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv) as output format. You can also select H.264 Video (*.mp4) for Plex Media Server.

Tip:

If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. Keep in mind the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.

Step 3: Click the convert button under the preview window, and the Blu-ray ripper will start the conversion from Blu-ray movies to MKV for Plex Media Server. After conversion, you can stream Blu-ray movies through Plex Media Server to HDTV, iPhone 6 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S6, HTC One M9, or other DLNA-compliant devices.

Now watching blu-ray movies on portable devices becomes easy and I can really lie back, relax and enjoy my favorite blu-ray movies.

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Source: http://pc-mac-compatibility-issues.blogspot.com/2013/10/get-blu-ray-on-plex-media-server.html

Convert Blu-ray movies playback on Mac Mini HTPC with PLEX

Summary: Blu-ray films on Mac Mini HTPC with PLEX? Here is the answer.

Blu-ray must be a hurt for Mac mini owners, If you’re HD movie lover and wish to add Blu-ray movies to the newly built Mac HTPC, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac and PLEX are good combination. Pavtube BDMagic for Mac copies protected Blu-ray movie to your Mac HTPC and PLEX plays high-definition 1080p M2TS files from Blu-ray structure. In that way you can play Blu-ray movie on Mac Mini HTPC without quality loss. The following guide tells how to copy/rip Blu-ray movies to Mac Mini HTPC with Pavtube BDMagic for Mac.

Preparations:

1.Mac mini
2.external BD drive
3.source Blu-ray Discs. 4.Pavtube Mac mini Blu-ray Player (The software is able to back up Blu-ray movies and commercial DVDs for Mac HTPC Media Center without quality loss or compress the BD and DVD movies to MOV, MP4, MKV, M4V, etc. in perfect sync.) Review:Enrich your Mac Mini HTPC Media Library: rip DVD and Blu-ray movies to Mac Mini HTPC with XBMC

How easy it is to get Blu-ray movie playback working with the popular Mac Mini HTPC with XBMC?

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movies.

Install and run the Pavtube BDMagic for Mac on your Mac. When the below interface pops up, click "Blu-ray disc" icon to import Blu-ray or DVD movie. If you already have a Blu-ray folder or ISO file on your HDD, you can either click "Blu-ray Folder" icon or "IFO/ISO" to load your source files.

Step 2. Specify an output format.

Click “Browse” button and specify an output location. Make sure there is enough space for a whole BD movie (usually 25GB-50GB) when backing up Blu-ray disc to Mac HDD.

Step 3. Back up Blu-ray for PLEX playback on Mac Mini HTPC.

Click on “Copy the entire disc” button to back up Blu-ray/DVD movie to Mac. A 90 min. Blu-ray takes about 40 min to copy to Mac hard drive. After the copying process completes, you can get the final output files by clicking “Open” button with ease. The ripped Blu-ray directory contains two folders, “BDMV”and “CERTIFICATE”. The PLEX is able to play the M2TS files from Blu-ray directory.

Tips: Wanna copy the M2TS/ VOB streams only without menus and ads? Make some changes in Step 3. Click on the “Format” bar and choose “Copy”>> “Directly Copy” mode, and then click “Convert” button to start conversion.

Now, you can enjoy the Blu-ray movies on Mac Mini HTPC with PLEX. And Blu-ray/DVD playback can also be realized on these multifunctional game consoles just like: Wii, Xbox 360 and so on.

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Stream Blu-ray to Plex Media Server

Summary: This article offers a brief instruction about how to get Blu-ray movie disc free on Plex Media Server to play on HDTV, iPod touch, Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One X+, etc. portable devices.

Here I would like to introduce Plex Media Server – a solution for your local and online media, which seamlessly connects your Plex clients. Well you can watch movies with the client – Plex Media Center on Windows & Mac, and more importantly, on iPad, iPhone and Android devices with the paid app.

This time, I own a plex mediaserver at home and need content to watch, I have tons of Blu-ray movies and wanted a good program to rip them with. I tried AnyDvD which is supposed to be a faster ripper and it was.

At last, I found Pavtube Blu-ray to Plex Converter which aims to solve this problem by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical Blu-ray and DVD discs or downloaded media to local computer, hard drive then stream over a home network for Plex Media Server and ipod touch, Samsung Galaxy s2, HTC one X+ playback. It's professional in ripping and converting Blu-ray/DVD discs, Blu-ray/DVD ISO image, Blu-ray/DVD copies and more. It will help you backup your Blu-ray disk and save the time looking for them from the cardboard with ease. The Mac version is Blu-ray to Plex Converter for Mac.

I read tests and tons of reviews give this program as No. 1 Blu-Ripper 2013. Well I mostly use it to transcode blu-ray to mkv because it supports good sound options and most devices support the format. As for the device I use is plex media server (PMS) and basicly any device (like my wiiu, htc onex, samsung gs2, 2 computers, xbox 360) that supports DLNA can play converted mkv video from the pms.

Read More: Top 5 Blu-ray Ripper Software Review | Top Blu-ray Ripper for Mac Review

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Below is a simple guide about how to convert/ backup your Blu-rays to Plex Media Server.

First of all, you need to download and install the Best Blu-ray Ripper for Plex Media Server. Then, just follow the steps to operate it.

Step 1: Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run the Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and click "BD/DVD disc" icon to load movie from DVD and Blu-ray source(Disc, folder, ISO). You can also click "Add Video" to load video files like MTS/M2TS, MKV, VOB, MOV, TOD, TiVo, etc.

Step 2: Click the "Format" option, and choose HD Video > MKV HD Video(*.mkv) as output format. You can also select H.264 HD Video (*.mp4) for Plex Media Server.

Tip:

If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. Keep in mind the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.

Step 3: Click the convert button under the preview window, and the Blu-ray ripper will start the conversion from Blu-ray DVD movies to MKV for Plex Media Server on Windows/Mac.

After conversion, you can stream Blu-ray/DVD movies through Plex Media Server to HDTV or ipod touch, Samsung Galaxy s2, HTC one X+, or other DLNA-compliant devices. Now watching blu-ray movies on portable devices becomes easy and I can really lie back, relax and enjoy my favorite blu-ray movies.

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Source:http://mediaconverting.blogspot.com/2013/12/copy-blu-ray-to-plex-media-server.html

Rent Angelina Jolie Movies on DVD and Blu-ray on Netflix

The divorce news put Angelina Jolie in the spotlight hotspot again and make some people want to review her movies again. If you didn't collect Angelina Jolie movie before, renting Angelina Jolie movies on DVD and Blu-ray on Netflix is a nice idea. Below are Angelina Jolie's most popular movies. You can directly click the picture to online rent them on Netflix.

By the Sea	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Maleficent
Unbroken	The Bone Collector	Salt
Girl, Interrupted	In the Land of Blood and Honey	The Tourist
Wanted	Changeling	Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Beyond Borders	Alexander: Theatrical Cut	Taking Lives
Cyborg 2	George Wallace	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

How to Make a Digital Copy of Netflix DVD for Storing and Collecting

We spend money but we don’t own the movie indeed. That’s a pity. Therefore, somebody just wonder if we can copy the rented Netflix Angelina Jolie DVD/Blu-ray and put it away. Sure, you do. You can remove the copy-protections on DVD with?Blu-ray/DVD Ripper?and store the rips to your hard disc, NAS, personal cloud storage, server, external hard drive and other storage devices. In this case, you can own the Angelina Jolie Netflix DVD/Blu-ray forever in the form of duplicates. Below lists the specific guide to instruct you how to rip and backup Angelina Jolie Netflix DVD/Blu-ray to storage devices.

To reach the above goal, a DVD Ripper is a necessity.?Pavtube BDMagic (review) is a top-ranked DVD Ripper in this field. Its key features are shown as below:

With decent decrypting capability of removing CSS Copy-protections and DVD?region codes?including the latest Netflix DVD discs
Rip Netflix DVD to H.265, M3U8, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, FLAC, MP3??and other video/audio formats
Has optimized preset for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android Phone/Tablet, Microsoft, TV, etc while converting Netflix DVD
Copy the entire disc in original file structure with all subtitle tracks and audio streams preserved.
Save 100% intact VOB main movie from your Netflix DVD Disc without any quality loss.
Allows you to decide the video/audio bitrate, frame rate, size, codec, sample rate, channel during DVD ripping process

Free download and install:

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Learn: Copy Netflix DVD/Blu-ray on Mac

Step 1. Load Netflix Angelina Jolie DVD/Blu-ray movie

Click “File” ＞ “Load from disc” to load Netflix Angelina Jolie DVD/Blu-ray movie.

Step 2. Choose MP4 as output

The playback devices like iPads, laptops, smart TVs, game consoles, Apple TV, smartphones and tablets support playback MP4 video files. So you can target MP4 as output from DVD movies. Click the format bar to follow “HD Video” ＞ “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4).”

Tip 2. The unique ability that this DVD ripper has is that it can rip both DVD and Blu-ray sources with multiple audio and subtitle tracks, chapter markers preserved. For instance, you can rip?DVDs to multi-track MKV?for playback with the VLC player.Step 3. Rip Netflix Angelina Jolie DVD/Blu-ray to MP4

Hit the “Convert” button to start ripping Netflix Angelina Jolie DVD/Blu-ray movies to MP4 format for free.

Now, you can keep your Netflix Angelina Jolie DVD/Blu-ray movies forever.

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Ripping Blu-ray ISO to Android Tablets and Smartphones

"I have a large Blu-ray collection and most of the discs have been backed up as ISO files. Why doesn't Android support *.iso format? There are a lot of Android based media players, yet none of them support the standard Blu-ray ISO format. Why is this? "

In fact, you can't run ISO file on a Android as an media because it's not media file. That means there's no such thing which enables you to directly play Blu-ray ISO to Android Tablets and Smartphones at the time being. So what if you want to play Blu-ray ISO on Android?

To make it possible, we may wonder how to rip BD ISO movies to Android-friendly Video Formats, then an app calledPavtube BDMagic becomes a must! It enables you to convert Blu-ray, DVD and ISO/IFO files to H.264 or MPEG-4 videos for playback on any Android Tablets and Smartphones like Asus Transformer Prime, Google Nexus 7, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Nook Tablet, Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Tab S and more with just a few clicks. The process is quite easy than you may think. Below, I will throw this quick tutorial up, guaranteed to play Blu-ray ISO movies on your Android devices. (Here take The Expendables 3 Blu-ray as an example)

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Convert The Expendables 3 Blu-ray ISO files to H.264 MP4 for Android Tablets and Smartphones

1. Run the best BD ISO Ripper for Android program(Mac version: BDMagic for Mac), and add your Blu-ray ISO image files to the software by clicking "DVD IFO/ISO" icon. Select the movie title you want to convert, and preview the file you just selected from the movie in the preview window if you want. Then select wanted subtitles and audio track if necessary.

2. Select an Android friendly format, e.g. H.264 .mp4 for conversion. There are optimized format for Galaxy Tab, Xoom, Acer Iconia Tab, Asus Transformer, Google Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, etc. Basically the "Android >> Android Tablets 720P Video(*.mp4)" is an universal format for Android tablets and smartphones. And to get HD quality, select "Android Tablets 720P Video(*.mp4)".

Or depends on your device, you can choose a suitable video format from "Android" catalogue. (Android Support Video/Audio Formats)

Not a Android users? It doesn't matter, the Pavtube BDMagic also supports "common" video formats like MOV, M4V, MP4 and has presets for all the models of iPad Air 2, iPhone 6 plus, iPod 5 and Apple TV 3, so you should be able to create files compatible with your iOS basd devices, as well as BlackBerry and Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 2, Surface RT/Pro, etc.

Tips: You can adjust the output parameters of the video by click 'Settings' button. Please remember the file size is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.
Plus: Tips for How to Edit DVD files

Click the “Edit” button and edit your movies before conversion. There are main seven functions available: Trim, Crop, Text Watermark, Image/Video Watermark, Effect, Audio Editor, and Subtitle.

Trim: Select video durations by setting the start time and the end time.
Crop: Cut off black edges and unwanted areas.
Text Watermarking: Add text to the video as watermarks.
Image/Video Watermarking: Add image or video to the source video as a watermark.
Effect: Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation of the video, and add special effects including 3D effect to the video.
Audio Editor: Enable you to replace the original audio track with your specified sound track. Or choose to remove the audio. Plus, it’s freely to set audio fade in or fade out.
Subtitle: Add plug-in SRT, ASS, SSA subtitle to videos.

3. Click the big Convert button to encode The Expendables 3 Blu-ray ISO to MP4 videos for Android Tablets and Smartphones

The software will do the rest automatically. When the conversion finishes, you can click 'Open' to access to the converted MP4 videos. In this way, you can transfer converted videos to your Android Tablets and Smartphones for watching anywhere you like.

What's more?

1. To convert Blu-ray, DVD and video(including MKV, AVI, Tivo, VOB, FLV, MPG, ISO, IFO, etc.) to Android devices, a software can be completely solved, it is Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate.

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3. Android tablets only recognize SD cards formatted in FAT 32, this limits a single file size less than 4GB. If you worry about getting a big video file larger than 4GB, you can use split feature in Pavtube software to split a large 1080p/720p file into multiple chunks under 4GB.

Learn to split a large video file into several small files under 4GB for Android device.

Source：http://movie-tips-review.blogspot.com/2014/12/watch-blu-ray-iso-on-android-device.html