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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Blu-ray Disc Encryptions: Regions and BD Region Hack

If you would like to watch Blu-ray disc without region limitation, this article below the definition region codes and how to bypass the blu-ray region codes built into their BD players.

What are Blu-ray Disc region codes?

Region codes place geographical restrictions on where in the world a Blu-ray movie can be played. For example, a BD system bought in the USA region would play only Blu-ray movie disks with that area’s encoding.

Why are there BD region codes?
The purpose of region codes is twofold. First, it allows regional pricing to be affected by the movie studios. Since pricing will be very different around the world, the system prevents home users importing home movies bought overseas at a lower price. Secondly, it allows the control of regional release of movie titles. Often, for instance, Hollywood films are available to buy on disk in the USA and Europe before other parts of the globe. With regional encoding, the studios can prevent unlicensed movie imports so giving distributors around the world control of supply.

The region codes are entirely voluntary on the part of the studios releasing the disks, and Blu-ray movie releases need not have any region code, so called “region free” releases. If a Blu-ray movie is region free, it can be played on all systems regardless of region. Interestingly, many early releases of Blu-ray films were region free.

Blu-ray Disc regions: Region A, Region B, and Region C
The world is divided into three regions by the BDA (Blu-ray Disk Association): Region A, Region B and Region C. The following map shows the regions as defined.

A: East Asia (except Mainland China and Mongolia), Southeast Asia, the Americas and their dependencies.
B: Africa, Southwest Asia, Europe (except Russia), Oceania and their dependencies.
C: Central Asia, East Asia (Mainland China and Mongolia only), South Asia, central Eurasia and their dependencies.

Blu-ray Region Hack/Crack/Bypass
In any case, many people are trying to work out how to bypass the blu-ray region codes built into their BD players, but there are rarely successes. But there are another way to play Region A blu-ray discs on Region on B/ C BD players and PS3: Use BDMagic to rip commercial blu-ray discs to remove the regions, and play the unprotected blu-ray movie from hard drive. Blu-ray players and PS3 boxes support playback of M2TS, MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, etc.

More reviews:

Movies and TV Series coming out on Blu-ray at March 2014
New Movies coming out March 2014 List with Release Dates
How to Backup new released DVD discs on Windows 8.1/8

Thursday, December 26, 2013

2015 Top 5 Best Blu-ray Ripper Review for Android/Apple iOS/Windows 8.1/8 RT/Pro tablets & smartphones

Which Blu-ray Ripper is the easiest and best Blu-ray Ripper program in 2015? The article gives you a review on Top 5 Best Blu-ray Ripping programs for Android/Apple iOS/Windows 8.1/Windows 8 RT/Pro tablets & smartphones. You can take it as reference to choose the best Blu-ray Ripping Tool for you.

Blu-ray disc has been widely applied in a variety of ends, especially popular in Blu-ray and DVD movies. Many popular movies have now become available in Blu-ray discs for high quality in both video and audio, just like the coolest "Inception", "D-day Hindi", "Oblivion", "Star Trek", "Dabangg 2", "Monsters University", "Inkaar", "Aashiqui 2", and so on.

If you collect many Blu-ray and DVD discs in home, in order to avoid the favourite Blu-ray movie is scratched by Naughty children, what's more, to play Blu-ray movies on smart TV via a professional Blu-ray player, you need to convert your Blu-ray/DVD discs to a proper formats for playing, so it's necessary for you to purchase a Blu-ray Ripper.

Here, I list the Top 5 Best Blu-ray Ripper in 2015 - 2016 according to Google Ranking and user popularity. From where, you can clearly learn about the advantages and disadvantages of Blu-ray Ripping/Copying Tool.

Top 5 Best Blu-ray Ripper programs in 2015 - 2016

Top 1. Pavtube BDMagic – Excellent

Price: Only $34.3

The good:

Full Disc Copy

You can import all kinds of Blu-ray and DVD sources: BDMV folder, physical DVD, Blu-ray ISO, VIDEO_TS folder, DVD ISO and IFO file, protected Blu-ray Disc and unprotected Blu-ray Disc. Using the "Full Disc Copy" feature, you can preserve the Blu-ray's original file structure, buakup Blu-ray disc to PC with one click.

Tip: Using "Directly Copy" feature, you can backup Blu-ray/DVD main movie in original format(m2ts or vob) without quality loss.

Converting lateast Blu-ray/DVD movies

While Pavtube BDMagic also support convert Blu-ray/DVD to Android, Apple and Windows device friendly formats (iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple TV 3, Galaxy S6, Galaxy Tab S, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire HDX, Surface Pro 3, Google Nexus 7 2nd Gen, LG G-Pad, HTC One, etc.), it takes longer. Supporting Dolby Digital 5.1/AAC 5.1 audio as a plus. Moreover, it allows you to trim a specific duration from a movie while allowing you to split movie/divide a movie evenly into multiple segments.

Fast speed:
Pavtube application takes advantage of the NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD APP technology, and the conversion speed can be increased up to 6 times faster than ever before.

Support adding subtitles:
Moreover, Pavtube programs support adding *.srt and *.ass subtitles into video and merge into one file for output.

Support converting 3D to 3D:

The highly recommended features is that it now support converting Blu-ray/DVDs to 3D Video, which means you can enjoy you Blu-ray/DVD movies on your 3D TV or Media Players with Side-by-Side(SBS), Top-Bottom, or Anaglyph 3D in MKV/MP4/MOV/WMV/AVI format. If you want to protect your Blu-ray disc, save space, while maintaining the original quality, Pavtube BDMagic is the best software you are looking for, it can meet all your needs.

Highlight Features:

1. Add H.264 baseline/main/high output profiles
2. Support H.265/HEVC decode
3. Support H.265/HEVC encode
4. Support latest Blu-ray movies.

The bad: It lets you trim a specific duration from a movie, but not allows you to split movie/divide a movie evenly into multiple segments.

The bottom line: With decent decrypting capability, high quality video output and considerate backup solution and specific format templates for versatile PMP devices, Pavtube BDMagic ranks top on the Blu-ray ripping application list.

Editors' note: Pavtube provides excellent customer support service, including lifetime free upgrade of product and technical support. Users can contact the support staff via email for help and suggestion.

Trial Download:

Pavtube BDMagic for Windows (Requires Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1 Blue/Windows 10)

Pavtube BDMagic for Mac (Requires Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, Snow Leopard 10.6)

Top 2. DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper – Good

Price: $60

The good: When it comes to decrypting/hacking Blu-ray discs and DVDs, DVDfab is about as good as it gets. DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper well deserves its high reputation in decryption, and it handles not only AACS, BD+, Region code restriction, but also Cinavia protected Blu-rays. By taking advantage of CUDA accelerating, the conversion time is greatly shorted. If you want to rip a Blu-ray to MKV and keep 2 audio language and external subtitles, DVDfab would be your choice.

The bad: It is lacking of DVD ripping feature. It does not support AMD APP encoding. The interface is not very intuitive. And DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper costs more than its alternatives.

The bottom line: DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper decrypts and rips Blu-ray title to various video files playable on next generation consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360, HD player like WD TV Live, or mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc.

Editors' note: DVDfab has a comprehensive forum where you can communicate with other users and get helpful advices. There’s not support email but you can submit your problem to DVDfab.

Top 3. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper – Good

Price: $44.95

The good: Leawo Blu-ray Ripper comes with the popular feature to convert 2D to 3D for users to enjoy the popular 3D effect and exports various HD and popular common video formats (M2TS, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, MPEG, MOV, MKV, RMVB, etc). Leawo Blu-ray Ripper has stunning trim and crop feature- it trims movie more accurate and crops video more considerate than its competitors. It can load multiple Blu-ray and DVD movies at a time. If you have tons of movies waiting to rip and feel like having a Blu-ray Ripper queue them several movies for running overnight, Leawo is recommended.

The bad: Not recognizing Blu-ray ISO or forced subtitle (if there is). GPU encoding is restricted to Nvidia’s CUDA only. There’s no backup option for keeping original movie quality.

The bottom line: Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is a nice tool for DVD and Blu-ray ripping. There may be some improvements for Leawo to make but it already performs well enough for average users to convert/put Blu-ray and DVD movies to iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Wii, etc.

Editors' note: We noticed that audio quality is noticeably degraded when ripping Blu-ray with Leawo Blu-ray Ripper.

Top 4. Aimersoft Blu-ray Ripper – Fair

Price: $45.95

The good: By taking advantage of AMD APP, Intel? Quick Sync Video and NVIDIA? CUDA? technology, Aimersoft Blu-ray ripper converts movies faster and saves your time. It rips Blu-ray/DVD into almost all popular video formats (MP4, AVI, MOV, etc) and features versatile format templates for smartphones, game consoles and MP3 players. Its “Backup” function let users envelop a whole Blu-ray movie into a MKV/DVD into VOB without quality loss. If you’re looking for a way putting movies onto a HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony, or Motorola smartphone, the Aimersoft Blu-ray Ripper is worth checking out.

The bad: It does not support Blu-ray ISO or BDMV structure. There’s no option for preserving only forced subtitles. Most Blu-ray Discs are not loading to the software.

The bottom line: Aimersoft Blu-ray Ripper handles DVD ripping as good as any other rippers, but the company really needs to work hard and step forward in Blu-ray Disc cracking. Other than that, Aimersoft Blu-ray Ripper is impressively fast and helpful.

Editors' note: It seems that Aimersoft does not handle Blu-ray AACS and BD+ encryption properly and the software keeps popping up a message that we should contact customer support during our testing- the customer support staff offers but apologize though.

Top 5. Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper – Poor

Price: $24.98

The good: Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper can convert both standard Blu-ray videos and 3D Blu-ray videos to SD and HD video formats such as MKV, AVI, WMV, TS, etc. And it can preserve 3D effects when your source is 3D Blu-ray movie. NVIDIA CUDA and AMD APP graphic acceleration technology has been introduced to bring faster conversion experience.

The bad: The app does not decrypt Blu-ray protections and requires AnyDVD HD to be installed in advance for Blu-ray ripping. DVD ripping is not supported.

The bottom line: Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper does not rip movies from Blu-ray Disc, but if you have had the Blu-ray cracked and saved onto computer hard drive, this tool would be helpful and useful for you to enjoy movies on iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Xbox, Zune, NDS, Wii, and 3D smartphones.

Editors' note: This tool is not recommended unless when you want to convert 3D Blu-ray and keep 3D effect.

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Source: http://device-camcorder-tips.blogspot.com/2013/08/top-5-best-blu-ray-ripper-review.html

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Rip/Copy Blu-ray collections to external hard disc for a safe storage

“I have quite a good collection of Blu-ray movies which I felt I should save on my ext hard disc for a safe storage and I recently got an external Blueray drive ASUS. I want to rip them for storage - I prefer digital versions that last longer and are more portable, than physical disks”

Have you ever had the same need as above? With the advent of the era of high definition videos, blu-ray, as the representative of high definition movies, spreads widely. It is a big deal to take care of such an enormous blu-ray collection. So a lot of collectors may consider the digital copy of blu-ray as the optimal way for safe storage. That is exactly a good idea. Let’s see some benefits of digital copy:

Safe: The physical disk is easier to being scratched or ruined especially when you have little lovely child at home. Every time when you play it in your player, a little damage will happen to the disk. However, the digital copy will last longer and can be played again and again without being ruined.

More accessible: The blu-ray disks will need more physical space for storage and maybe you should have a store room for it. When you want to watch one of them, you need to rummage through all the blu-ray collection for the desired one. In this case, you can make a digital copy of them and arrange them by certain rule such as by listed by years, so you can enjoy the blu-ray movies even in your bedroom and easily find out what you want.

More portable: The digital copy occupies little physical space and you can put then on your hard drive or take them with you in your smartphones or tablet anywhere. So you can watch them whenever you want to.

Now take action to get the digital copy of blu-ray. What you need is a powerful tool for ripping Blu-ray movies.Pavtube BDMagic is a professional program in making digital copy of Blu-ray. It can rip the latest 3D/2D Blu-ray and DVD and convert to various video formats for some popular smartphones and tablets as well as editing software. Simple interface and CUDA acceleration will bring you an easy but effective conversion. The following guide will show you detailed steps.

You can have the trial versionto try all the functions firstly, and then download the retail version to install it. (Mac users go to get BDMagic for Mac). What’s more, you can get 30% off for Blu-ray Ripper both for Windows and Mac. Go to “Back to School Promotion” to get the discount and find more surprise.

How to convert/copy Blu-ray movies for a safe storage:

1. Import blu-ray source.

Click “Load file” button to import the inserted blu-ray. After few second, it will be imported successfully and you can preview the whole movie in the preview window.

Then, you need to select the subtitle and audio track for output. As blu-ray movie contains multiple audio and subtitle tracks, you could choose your favorite one for output.

Note: Force subtitle can be checked for output so as to help you to read the unknown language and fully enjoy the blu-ray.

2. Choose output format.

Now go to “Format” menu to select output format there. A variety of options are listed such as many portable devices, video editing software, various HD video formats, etc. Choose the one you desired.

Note: You can find the “Directly Copy” option there. It will support to backup 100% intact the blu-ray main movie with all multiple tracks preserved. And you will get one M2TS file for output. If you want to backup blu-ray, it is a good choice for you.

By the way, if you want, you can adjust output video and audio parameters according to your own needs. You can change bitrate, frame rate, channels, etc. Click “Settings” button to set output profiles.

3. Convert Blu-ray.

Now it’s time to start conversion. Click big Convert button on the interface and then you will get a conversion dialogue box to show the exact progress, like time left, estimated size, state and so on.

Note: If you are bothered about waiting for conversion to finish, you can choose to check “shut down computer after conversion”. Then just let it alone, you are free to go out to do anything you like.

With it you can take your favorite blu-ray anywhere and enjoy them whenever you want to. Just try it now!

Meanwhile, there are many Money Saving Software Bundles, such as BDMagic + DVD Creator for rip blu-ray and burn to DVD. You will get 35% off for bundled software. Go to find the one you need.

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

User-friendly Blu-ray Ripper: ByteCopy vs DVDfab, Which one is best?

Description: Which is more user-friendly Blu-ray Ripper on the market from three aspect: disc loading, backing up Blu-ray/DVD main movie in m2ts without any quality loss, profile customizing, multiple audio tracks and subtitle streams retaining, srt/ass/ssa subtitle adding, output multi tracks MKV/MP4/MOV and converting. DVDfab? Pavtube ByteCopy? The article will show you.

No matter you are a newbie or professional who wanna get Blu-ray Disc collection backed up to computer hard drive or ripped Blu-ray movies to other video format for playback on new iPad 3, iPad mini, Apple TV 3, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Tab 3, Google Nexus 7, Surface, Kindle Fire HD, etc, it is not easy to find the suitable tool because there is so many on the market.

In below article I compare two most popular and hottest tools on the market from three aspects, disc loading, profile customizing and converting, hope it can help you more or less and you can make a much easier choice.

Prepared tools:

DVDFab trial version
Pavtube ByteCopy trial version
An external Blu-ray Disc drive
A Blu-ray Disc (take Avatar for example)

Part 1. Load Blu-ray Disc.

DVDFab: I insert the disc before running DVDFab, and when I open the software it automatically detect the disc and start loading. While it seems like that DVDFab cannot correctly detect the BD region code. My Blu-ray Disc Avatar is region A and region B, while after loading into DVDFab, it shows this disc is from region C by default and I have to manually change to correct region for successful disc loading.

Meanwhile it takes 3-5 minutes to finish disc loading process, and there is no estimated loading time period so I have no idea how long it will take until it is complete after 5 minutes.

ByteCopy: I installed Pavtube ByteCopy on the same computer and click this "Load Disc" icon to import same Avatar Blu-ray Disc, I do not need to choose BD Region Code or anything else, and it only takes about 10 seconds to finish disc loading.

Plus, there is a percentage showing the progress of disc loading so I would know when the disc can be successfully imported.

Part 2. Custom profile settings.

1. Disc audio streams and subtitle tracks selection.

DVDFab: The GUI of DVDFab is very fresh and I could easily know the functions of every button, like the "Edit" icon for cropping and resizing source disc, the device image or "Profile" icon for output format settings, the "Advanced Settings" for customizing profile parameters, etc.

But I had trouble finding the icon to selecte subtitle and audio track in the first place, and accidentally I put my mouse on the selected Disc title, now I see the drop-down list of subtitle and audio tracks.

ByteCopy: There are obvious icons on Pavtube GUI so I can easily set up the desired subtitle track and audio stream.

2. Video editing option.

DVDFab offers two video editing options, one is Resize output movie resolution and another is Crop unwanted video black bars.

In ByteCopy Video Editor Tab, I find other options beside crop and resize, including trimming, adding text/image/video watermark, adding video effect, audio editor and attaching srt/ass/ssa subtitles, etc. Meanwhile, on ByteCopy GUI, I am able to merge several video clips into one or split one large movie into several segments.

Part 3. Start conversion.

1. Automatic rename function.

DVDFab: Once complete profile settings, I click the big "Start" button to convert my Avatar Blu-ray. While here comes an error message which shows "The file already existed, do you want to overwrite it?" because I did a similar conversion before. If I choose "Yes", my current ripped movie would overwrite the previous one and the previous ripped movie is gone forever, but if I choose "No", the conversion just aborts and tells me "Process Failed", so weird.

Later I realize that I have to manually rename the movie before starting conversion to avoid this error message again.

ByteCopy: I completely rip this movie without renaming the file and Pavtube ByteCopy does not pop up any similar error, instead it would add a number like 0, 1, 2,…at then end of the output movie name, so I will not loose any of the movies I ripped, this amazes me.

3. Locate output file.

In DVDFab, I cannot find any button that would lead me to the created movie, it means I have to remember to file path I set up then open computer hard drive to look for that file; in Pavtube ByteCopy, it is considerate to put "Open" icon on GUI to locate the ripped movie, or I could click this "Open output folder" on conversion UI as well.

Below is my point of view about these two BD ripping tool, DVDFab and Pavtube ByteCopy, and considering to user-friendly aspect, I prefer Pavtube ByteCopy.

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Converting HD Videos, Blu-ray, DVD movies for Android Tablet/Phone with 20% discount

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Good News! Pavtube Release a New Site - multipelife.com with Product Migration and Name Change. Along with the new website, Pavtube has moved its bestselling software products to multipelife.com with brand new names. DVD Ripper has now become DVDAid, Blu-ray Ripper has been renamed as BDMagic, which extends the enjoyment on easily restoring, editing, creating and eventually watching BD/DVD copies on almost all multimedia devices without limits.

To thanks for your continued support all along our previous site and the new www.multipelife.com, we are holding a 'New Site Special' with fantastic discounts up to 40% off. Like us to get 20% off BDMagic, 30% off ByteCopy, 40% off DVDAid and 20% off Video Converter Ultimate on Windows/Mac platform: https://www.facebook.com/pavtubefans/app_209569249055691

Read more: http://device-camcorder-tips.blogspot.com/2014/05/pavtube-release-new-site-and-special.html

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, a powerful ripping program which integrates video converting, (protected) Blu-ray/DVD breaking and backuping features; now are on 20% off for Pavtube New Site Special Offer.

The Blu-ray/DVD movies, MTS, MXF, M2TS, TS, M4V, MOV, WMV, MP4, MPG, Tivo, AVI, 3GP, FLV, F4V videos …are all supported to be converted to suitable format for Android tablets or phones.

Download a free trial version and let start to do the magic - enjoy video, 2D/3D Blu-ray/DVD on any Tablets, Smartphones, HD Media Players, Game players, HDTV, etc.

1. Click the top left two icons to import discs or videos correspondingly.

Click the drop-down list on the bottom; choose proper presets according to your device model. You can see columns for normal Android devices, tablets/phones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola or PSP/PS3.

Or you can use the small search box (besides the big red "3") to locate your device quickly.

pavtube blu-ray/dvd/hd video to android converter

2. Check the pencil-like icon to activate the editing function. Here you can trim, crop, add 3D effect, deinterlace or edit audio before conversion.

Notice the small triangles under the progress bar? Click them to adjust frame by frame easily.

3. If you want to output video in specific size, bitrate or frame rate, click "Settings" (which is marked as "3") and change the digits as you need. Pls notes that the video quality improved with the bitrate, but not the higher the better. You need to consider your device configuration as the high bitrate required higher read&write speed.

4. Ok now click the "Convert" button to start converting/copying Blu-ray/DVD/HD Videos to Andorid tablet ot phone for playing. After conversion, click "Open" to locate the converted video directly.

Don't know how to transfer videos from PC to Android? You can view this Android File Transfer.

The Mac version of this Video Converter Ultimate is renamed as iMedia Converter for Mac, it's also on 20% off to thanks for your great support; Mac users, don't miss it!

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Up to 30% OFF: Backup/Rip Blu-ray Disc on Win/Mac on Summer Sale 2013

Source: http://device-camcorder-tips.blogspot.com/2013/07/backup-rip-blu-ray-disc-on-windows-and-mac.html

Dear students, Summer Vacation has already come, when you are existed to get ready for summer get-away trip, have you considered what to do on the way? Sleeping, chatting? Quite boring, don't you think? How about spending some quality time and enjoy movies? BTW, many new movies has released a Blu-ray version on disc, such as An American Girl, Upside Down, The Call, and Phantom and if you want to backup Blu-ray movies and watch them on the going, get 30% OFF Blu-ray Ripper (Windows/Mac) on Pavtube Unique Crazy Summer Sale 2013 to backup/rip Blu-ray discs for viewing on your portable devices When you're traveling.

(PS: In addition, there are still many top Blu-ray Ripper tools used to rip Blu-Ray discs, such as 20% OFF Video Converter Ultimate, ByteCopy, MakeMKV, HandBrake)

Preparation:

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

Now get detailed instruction to backup Blu-ray Disc on Windows and Mac.

1. Launch Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper, and load Blu-ray disc from disc driver.

2. Click the Format button, and choose optimized profile for output.

PS: Pavtube BDMagic provides dozens of profile presets for almost all mobile devices, including some new tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Google Nexus 7/10, iPad 3, iPad 4, Surface RT/Pro, Kindle Fire HD, etc.) and new smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S4, iPhone 5, HTC One, Nexus 4, etc.), so don't worry that you cannot find your device's friendly profile. Plus, Pavtube software application supports HD media players and video editing programs for output.

3. Click Settings button to set up profile parameters to get better video quality.

4. Click big "Convert" button to start backup/rip Blu-ray disc for playing on Tablet/Phone.

Pretty simple steps and you would get Blu-ray disc copied for Summer Holiday trip. More great news, Pavtube 2013 Summer Holiday Crazy Promotion activity offers up to 50% discount products.

Meanwhile, Pavtube Free DVD Ripper (Windows/Mac) and Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate is coming soon! Looking forward...

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

How to keep Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio when ripping Blu-ray movies?

How to keep best audio quality(Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio) when backup/ripping Blu-ray Disc to PC? This is a frequently asked question. such as:

"What I am wanting to do is be able to take my 100+ Blu-rays that i have bought and convert them into a digital format and put them on my pc so I can just watch movies off the pc and not the blu-ray disc. I also have 7.1 surround sound as well so if there is a way to keep that it would be nice."

In the Blu-ray specification, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-MA, LPCM, Dolby Digital, DTS and PCM are optional codecs for Blu-ray audio encoding. Earlier Blu-ray Discs save audio in Dolby Digital and DTS codec, most recent Blu-ray movies usually comes with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA audio tracks to deliver higher quality audio with 7.1 channels. Not every AV receiver/amplifier can decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA audio, but most of them support Dolby Digital, i.e., AC-3 5.1 audio codec. When ripping Blu-ray Disc for playing back with PC and HD media players, better check the supported codec of your device first to set a best fit for your player.

Refer to below how to keep Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio when ripping Blu-ray Discs with Pavtube ByteCopy, it is a best BD ripping tool and backup disks without quality loss, allow full preservation of all audio tracks, subtitles and chapter markers, what's more, it saves 7.1 surround audio from original disks, just like you mentioned.

Compare: MakeMKV vs Pavtube ByteCopy vs DVDfab

Software availability:

Pavtube ByteCopy Trial version - A trial is free but functional-restricted. Lossless output can be used 3 times only. You may download a trial and see how it works.
Pavtube ByteCopy Retail version. A full version is offered at $42 by Pavtube Studio.

How to keep Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby True HD 7.1 audio when ripping Blu-ray movies?

Step 1. Hook up an external BD drive with my desktop (if there is not an internal one), and place a Blu-ray Disc into the BD drive.

Step 2. Run Pavtube ByteCopy software and click the "Load BD/DVD" icon to import movie files from Blu-ray Disc.

Step 3. Select the whole disc, and click the "Edit Disc" button. Now the "Edit Disc" screen pops up. Here you decide whether keep the original Dolby True HD 7.1/Dolby Digital 5.1 audio or encode the audio streams into Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks.

To pass-through original TrueHD/Dolby Digital/DTS/PCM audio, just select "lossless" quality in "Format" box. In this way you get lossless audio streams as they are burned into BD. Dolby TrueHD track will be copied and packed into generated MKV file without transcoding. But note that the original BD may not contain Dolby TrueHD audio.
To transcode the BD audio streams into Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks, you may select "HD Player" and press "Settings". In this way you get H.264/AC3 encoded MKV file.

Step 4. Click the "Convert" button to start ripping the Blu-ray movie to MKV file. After conversion I click "Browse Export Path" and get an MKV file. Pavtube ByteCopy extracts the main movie with all subtitles from disc and seals the contents with encoded AC3 audio streams into MKV container, which preserves the best possible quality.

Additional Tip: How to check audio information of the Blu-ray Disc?

Pavtube ByteCopy lets you check the audio info. Once the movie source is opened you will see its contents as a tree structure. Expand the directory to check file information. "Title1 (Main Title)" contains Blu-ray movie, and other Titles bonus and extra features. You can find Audio info such as codec, channels and language under "Title1(Main Title)".

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