30 Sep 10 Get forced subtitle when backing up blu-ray movies

Why we back up blu-ray movies with forced subtitles?
Forced subtitles are subtitles that included in commercial Blu-ray and partial DVD movies so as to provide a better visual experience to display the translation text when a foreign or alien language is spoken, or a sign in different language is shown.

If your blu-ray movie contains more than one language and you go without subtitles when backing up blu-ray to PC , you’ll possibly fail to understand the lines that are spoken in foreign languages. And that’s why we’d better back up blu-ray movies with forced subtitles when there are multiple languages spoken in the blu-ray movies.

How to extract Forced subtitles only when ripping blu-ray movies to hard drive?
The Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper can extract subtitles from blu-ray discs and DVDs for you. With an “Only show forced subtitle” option, the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper allows users to create videos with subtitle for “Navi” only when ripping the blu-ray Avatar to MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV, TS, MOV, M4V, etc. For example, when backing up blu-ray movie Avatar, the software that handles the English subtitles in the movie only when the Navi are speaking.

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Subtitle solutions for backing up Blu-ray movies that contains forced subtitles
Blu-ray movie without subtitle (no subtitle at all for the full length movie):

Blu-ray movie with English Subtitle of the same scene (English subtitle is printed for the full length movie):

Blu-ray movie with English Forced Subtitle (English subtitle is included only Navi language is spoken in blu-ray Avatar):

How to rip Blu-ray movies with Forced Subtitles using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper?
Click BD/DVD ROM to load blu-ray movies to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, check the chapters you want to rip, and set Forced subtitles for each chapter follow this way: specify a language as your English in “Subtitle” pull-down list, and check “Only show force subtitle” before converting blu-ray movie to hard drive. When “Only show Force Subtitle” is checked, the subtitle appears on the screen only when foreign languages (i.e. Navi in Avatar) other than English are spoken.

For Mac Users: How to rip blu-ray movies to Mac and not lose forced subtitles?

30 Sep 10 Mount and play blu-ray ISO image file on HTPC and PC

“These days I can’t be bothered going and grabbing a DVD and sticking it in the machine so they’re all imaged on the HTPC and can be called up instantly.”Some folk posted. Yeah, more and more movie lovers now backup DVD and blu-ray collections to ISO image files. An ISO is basically a file that is an exact image of a disk whether it be DVD, Blu Ray, HD-DVD. If you have a media PC (HTPC) it is an ideal way to have your movie collection, as it not only enables you to watch blu-ray movies on HDTV without quality loss, but also allows you to burn a blu-ray disc copy easily. However, beginners can hardly find detailed and useful guide about how to mount and play blu-ray ISO image files on HTPC.

What you need to play blu-ray ISO image files smoothly on HTPC?
1, Powerful enough Media PC hooked up with HDTV
2, Virtual Drive setup
3, Media Player software like PowerDVD or WinDVD
4, A Blu-ray Ripper(If the players can not read blu-ray ISO image files )

Step-by-step guide: play and mount blu-ray ISO image file on HTPC
Step 1: Download free virtual drive DAEMON Tools Lite on PC,then run.

After the installation finishes please run DAEMON Tools Lite.

Step 2: Add blu-ray ISO image.

Click to add the blu-ray ISO file into virtual drive: select the ISO file and then click “Open”.

Step 3: Mount blu-ray ISO image to virtual drive.
Right click on the file name and select “Mount”>“Device 0”.

Step 4: Find blu-ray ISO image file in virtual drive.
After the blu-ray ISO image file is mounted into virtual drive please click close. Now the ISO image file will show in your BD-Rom Drive.

Step 5. Play the blu-ray ISO image file from virtual drive.
PowerDVD and WinDVD are two highly ranked applications for blu-ray playing back on HTPC. You may use either of them to open the blu-ray ISO image file from virtual drive and play it just like common blu-ray disc.

Tip: If the players can not read blu-ray ISO image files properly
If the players fail to play the blu-ray ISO image properly on HTPC, then you are advised to use some external HD media players like Seagate FreeAgent Theater or Western Digital HD Media Player to read the blu-ray ISO files from the hard drive, or you can use the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to rip the blu-ray ISO image file to 1080p HD MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV etc and use some universal players (e.g. VLC player) to play the ripped blu-ray contents on HTPC.

For more information please refer to: Mount and play blu-ray ISO image file on HTPC

18 Sep 10 Convert DVD/Blu-ray movies and various videos to Pico Projector supported file types

Pavtube Mac Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate for Pico Projector is an ideal and professional tool to rip/convert/compress Blu-ray discs, standard DVDs, and a wide variety of videos to a compatible format with your Pico Projectors like AAXA P2, Optoma PK201, Optoma PK301, Samsung SP-H03, and more. The Mac Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate for Pico Projector could remove all the protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies, back up blu-rays, DVD movies and various videos to hard drive/microSD card/USB key, and rip/convert them into other popular audio and video formats to play back on your portable Pico Projectors.

Key features of Pavtube Mac Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate for Pico Projector:

- Enjoy videos and movies from disc, ISO image file, cams, DVRs, web videos freely.

- Easy to use, and powerful editing facilities like crop, trim, watermark, flip, etc.

- Outstanding audio video in sync technology makes perfect matching for converted files.

- Provide perfect audio solutions and up to 7.1 channels output option.

- Full support for recorded TiVo shows

- Ability to merge files together and trim out unwanted clips

- Auto-shutdown functionality.

Download Pavtube Mac Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate for Pico Projector:

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18 Sep 10 Delivers superior colorful image and media playback functionality with Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector

Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector, an entry-level pico projector, announced at CES 2010 in Las Vegas, weights only 5.6 ounces including battery, but it offers multiple media playback functionalities and even boasts a bright LED light source with a projected 20,000-hour lifetime.

The Optoma PK201, with a resolution of 854 x 480 in 16:9 widescreen format, and a dimension of 2.4” x 0.7” x 4.6”, is a truly palm-sized portable Pico Pocket Projector. You can bring it anywhere in any type of bag you own, such as your fanny pack, backpack, briefcase and even a purse if you like. Amazingly, with up to 20 ANSI lumens Bright mode, Optoma PK201 delivers superior crisp and colorful widescreen images up to 66” diagonally.

Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector features 28MB internal memory, which is expansion available via microSD slot up to 16 GB SDHC. Also, it contains full assortment of I/O ports, including 2.5mm Composite video/audio-in, VGA and Component-in, audio-out and mini HDMI input, and allows for easy connection to most analog or digital devices. For instance, you can use it as an external iPod or iPhone display, or you can plug the microSD card of your Motorola Droid into PK201 to watch pictures and video files. More than that, you can also use its internal media player to watch movies or display photos directly.

With powerful media playback functionalities and multiple devices and file types compatibility, the PK201 supports a wide variety of source inputs and file formats. See the details in the following chart:

All that and more make Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector an ideal gadget to do media playback and mobile business presentations. PK201 sets you free to share photos, slide shows, and movies with friends or family members at home or on-the-go.

To get video files to play correctly, users can’t avoid doing a lot of format conversions unless the source files are already in the format of AVI, MOV, MP4 or 3GP. Actually, the included Optoma Pico Video Encoder is always ready to help users do format conversion from one to another. What happens is that the software is not powerful enough to transfer all videos and commercial Blu-ray movies and DVDs to PK201 compatible file formats, and additionally it is not Mac compatible at all. The following are our recommendations to help you out of this problem.
1. If you are using a Mac computer, and wanna rip Blu-ray and DVDs for playback on PK201, you can use Blu-Ray DVD to PK 201 Projector Converter for Mac;
2. If you need a Mac video converter to handle all of your video files, like TiVo, MTS, M2TS, MXF, etc, you can try out Video/Movie to PK 201 Projector Converter for Mac;
3. Blu-Ray DVD to PK 201 Projector Converter offers you ability to rip home made and commercial Blu-rays and DVDs to Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector supported file formats on your Windows PC.
4. Video/Movie to PK 201 Projector Converteris suitable for Windows PC users to convert common video files to PK201 playable videos.

The only obvious downside of Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector we can see now is the poor battery life, which is only around one hour. That means you’d better not go far away from a power source during the course of using it. But considering its portability, remarkable clean and colorful image quality, and media playback functionality, as well as its very acceptable price of no more than $300, all are deserved. You’ve got a great Pico Projector.

10 Sep 10 Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate–Put Blu-rays,DVDs and different videos to Samsung Captivate

The Samsung Captivate feature a 4-inch 480 x 800 pixels big, beautiful screen and large storage capacity and it a 32GB capacity MicroSD card slot .All that and more make Samsung Captivate to experience videos on the go. But what is the best way for you to put Blu-ray/DVD and different videos to Samsung Captivate for playback? In this guide, we show you how to do this Simply in detailed steps.

Requirements:
1. Installed Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate (Free download )
2. Blu-rays, DVDs you wanna convert to Samsung Captivate
3. Samsung Captivate with microUSB cable

Step-by-step guide:

Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate to add your video source
Click "Add Video" to load video source or click "Load BD/DVD" to load your Blu-ray or DVD movie files.

Step 2: Select output format for Samsung Captivate
Click on the dropdown list of "Format", and then follow "Android"> "Samsung Fascinate MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)". This format is specially optimized for Samsung Fascinate, but it can also deliver a well playback quality on Samsung Captivate.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters
Just click "Settings" button to optimized the output file quality by adjusting video and audio parameters. The codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel are all adjustable in the following interface.

Tips:
If your source is larger than 800×480, you must set the aspect ratio to a maximum of 800×480.

Step 4:Put Blu-rays, DVDs and different videos to Samsung Captivate
When the above mentioned steps are done, you can click "Convert" button to start converting Blu-rays, DVDs to Samsung Captivate. Once the conversion is completed, you can mount your Captivate on to your computer via USB, and create a folder named "Video" in the root folder on the Captivate. Then click "Open" button of Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate to get the converted files, and copy them into the "Video" folder for your Samsung Captivate for entertainment.

Learn more knowlege about Samsung Galaxy S Phone:http://www.pavtube.com/hot-mobile-phone/#link_samsung

10 Sep 10 How to convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to Samsung Epic 4G?

The Samsung Epic 4G feature a 4-inch 480 x 800 pixels big, beautiful screen and large storage capacity and it a 16GB microSD card .All that and more make Samsung Epic 4G to experience movies on the go. But what is the best way for you to convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to Samsung Epic 4G for playback? In this guide, we show you how to do this Simply in detailed steps.

Requirements:
1. Installed Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate (Free download )
2. Blu-rays, DVDs you wanna convert to Samsung Epic 4G
3. Samsung Epic 4G with microUSB cable

Step-by-step guide:

Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate to add your video source
Click "Load BD/DVD" to load your Blu-ray or DVD movie files.

Step 2: Select output format for Samsung Epic 4G
Click on the dropdown list of "Format", and then follow "Android"> "Samsung Fascinate MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)". This format is specially optimized for Samsung Fascinate, but it can also deliver a well playback quality on Samsung Epic 4G.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters
Just click "Settings" button to optimized the output file quality by adjusting video and audio parameters. The codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel are all adjustable in the following interface.

Tips:
If your source is larger than 800×480, you must set the aspect ratio to a maximum of 800×480.

Step 4:Convert Blu-rays, DVDs movies to Samsung Epic 4G
When the above mentioned steps are done, you can click "Convert" button to start converting Blu-rays, DVDs to Samsung Epic 4G. Once the conversion is completed, you can mount your Epic 4G on to your computer via USB, and create a folder named "Video" in the root folder on the Epic 4G. Then click "Open" button of Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate to get the converted files, and copy them into the "Video" folder for your Samsung Epic 4G for entertainment.

Learn more knowlege about Samsung Galaxy S Phone:http://www.pavtube.com/hot-mobile-phone/#link_samsung

03 Sep 10 Convert videos to Motorola Droid X with Best Motorola Droid X Converter

The most popular Motorola phone like Motorola Droid X have powerful video playback functionality. With wide screen and large storage capacity matching (For example, Motorola Droid X features a 4.3-inch display with a resolution at 854×480),this smart phone is suitable for owners to watch videos and movies when travel on a train or some other public vehicles. What happens is that due to format compatibility issues, Motorola Droid only support certain video format like MP4 in a beautiful way, that is to say, to watch videos on Motorola Droid X, you need use a video to Motorola Droid X converter to convert video to Motorola Droid X compatible format,or convert video to Motorola phones playable file format before adding them to your little gadget for watching. In the purpose of pointing out a way on format conversion, this guide offers a solution on how to convert video to Motorola Droid X with Pavtube video to Motorola converter. A detailed guide is showing as below.

Step 1: Run Pavtube Motorola converter, and add video source to it
Click “Add Video” to load your source file. The video to Motorola Droid X converter supports batch conversion, so you can add multiple files to it at a time. To combine several files into a single file, you need tick off the checkbox of “Merge into one file”.

Step 2: Choose output format for your Motorola Droid X
Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select output format for your Motorola Droid X. For instance, if you need convert video to Motorola Droid X, you can follow “Android”> “Motorola Droid (X) MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)”.

Step 3: Set advanced settings
If you have higher expectation on the output file quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the following popup window.

Step 4: Convert video to Motorola Droid X
Click the big button “Convert” to start converting video to Motorola Droid X compatible video format via using Pavtube video to Motorola converter.Once the conversion task is done, you can click “Open” button to get the resulted mp4 files for your Motorola Droid X with ease. Add them to the SD card of your Motorola Droid Xfor watching. Have fun.

Mac users can see more about How to convert videos, DVDs and Blu-rays to Motorola Droid X and Motorola Droid on Mac?

03 Sep 10 How to watch Blu-ray, DVD and different videos/movies on Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector?

Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector is considered as an ideal home cinema projector for its functionality of watching movies and displaying photos using the internal media player. The palm-sized Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector features a clean, crisp, and high resolution LED output and 1 GB of internal memory with a micro SD card slot that supports expanding capacity up to 16 GB in size. All that and more make Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector suitable for watching Blu-ray, DVD and different videos. However, due to format issues, Samsung SP-H03 only supports videos in the format of AVI, MP4, ASF, MPG, RM, FLV, and WMV, that is to say,to watch Blu-ray, DVD and different videos/movies on Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector, you need convert BD, DVD and videos to Samsung SP-H03 compatible file type. The following guide aims to provide you with a format conversion solution for Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector by using Blu-ray DVD Video/movie to Pico Projector Converter. Go to see the detailed guide in the following.

Step 1: Free download PavtubeBlu-ray Video Converter Ultimate, install and launch it
Once launch it, click "Add Video" to load your video files, like MKV, DivX/XviD AVI, MTS, TiVo, etc., or click "Load BD/DVD" to load your Blu-ray or DVD movie files.

Step 2: Select iPhone 4 720p as output format for Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector

Why do we choose iPhone 4 720p? We have tested using Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate to convert Avatar to the iPhone 4 at 720P, the result picture quality is not only spellbinding when run on iPhone 4, but also with Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector from a microSD card in the unit.

To choose iPhone 4 720p as output format, you can click on the pull down menu of "Format", and then follow "iPhone" > "iPhone 4 H.264 720P (*.mp4)".

Step 3: Set advanced settings
To watch Blu-ray, DVD and different videos on Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector in good playback quality, you can click "Settings" button to optimize the video and audio parameters.

All the parameters in the following window are adjustable, and you can try your luck to adjust them. If you are not good at it, you’d better let them be, because the default settings are able to ensure you a well playback quality without any audio/video out of sync issues or artifacts on your video.

Step 4:Convert videos to Samsung SP-H03
Once the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click "Convert" button to Convert BD, DVD and videos to Samsung SP-H03 with Pavtube Blu-ray Video to Samsung SP-H03 Converter. When the conversion is completed, you can get the output files for your Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector for playback via click "Open" button with ease.

More info about Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector:How to rip Blu-ray to Samsung SP-H03 Pico Projector for playback?