Hardware requirements for playing Blu-ray on Windows Desktop

This article will help you clarify the best solution for playing Blu-ray movies on Windows 8.1/8/7 and hardware requirements if you want to get blu-ray movies playable on your Windows Desktop.

What kind of computers can play Blu Ray discs? What are the hardware requirements for playing bru ray discs on a computer? Can my computer play Blu-ray Discs?

Thes are frequently asked question when referring to Blu-ray playback on PC. Here I list the hard system requirements for playing Blu-ray on Windows PC, hoping to help those that want to play Blu-ray Disc from PC.

Hardware requirements for playing Blu-ray Disc on a Windows 8.1/8/7 PC:

System:
Pentium 4 541 (3.2 GHz), Athlon 64 X2 3800+, AMD Fusion E-series & C-series or above

Graphics Processor:
Intel G45, ATI Radeon HD 2400, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT or above

OS:
Windows XP, 2000, Vista, Windows 7

Memory:
2 GB required for Vista and Windows 7; 1 GB required for Windows XP

Disc Player:
BD-ROM/BD-RE or Super Multi Blu combo disc drive

Note: The Blu-ray Disc here I mean is restricted to regular Blu-ray Disc. For playing 3D Blu-ray you’ll have to use a more advanced PC.

Aside from compatible hardware, Blu-ray player software is a necessity for anyone who wants to play Blu-ray discs on a desktop PC or HTPC. Among all the Blu-ray player software, PowerDVD 11 is ranking top. This is an ultimate universal media player offered by Cyberlink, which is granted an authentic license for Blu-ray playback by the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association). The player also plays movies, videos, photos & music of various other formats.

Anyway, to protect Blu-ray Discs from scratches, you’re advised to rip Blu-ray to PC losslessly and play the digital backup.

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Tips and Tricks for Selecting a Blu-ray to MKV Ripper

This article will give you tips and tricks for Selecting a Blu-ray to MKV Ripper. If you don't have any idea about which Blu-ray Ripping or copying tool is best, refer to the info below.

1. How do people rip Blu-ray movies to MKV? Which software do they use?

Blu-ray rippers varies, most of them let users to rip Blu-ray to MKV. You Google “Blu-ray to MKV” and there will be so many apps that you find it difficult to decide which to use. Best ranking Blu-ray Rippers are Pavtube BDMagic, DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper, Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper, Imtoo Blu-ray Ripper. Yet many experienced users regard MakeMKV the best tool for Blu-ray to MKV ripping.

2. Why is MakeMKV much favored by experienced users?

Firstly, it converts not only Blu-ray, but also DVD to MKV. And the functionality to open DVD discs is free. Secondly, it offers Beta version with 60 days’ trial. Lastly, MakeMKV maximizes the advantages of the Matroska (.mkv) format.

3. What are the advantages of MKV format?

Why people choose Blu-ray to MKV rather than Blu-ray to AVI, MP4, WMV and other formats? Basically because MKV is the only format that lets one have a complete movie in a single file, including many audio, video and subtitles streams and Blu-ray chapters. MakeMKV converts all of these from Blu-ray MKV and not changing it in any way, making itself the best tool for lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup.

4. Is MakeMKV just so perfect? Any shortcomings?

To be honest, MakeMKV is an ideal tool for those who would like to backup Blu-ray to MKV without any quality loss. However, it’s not favorable by everyone. The thing is, Blu-ray videos bites up too much space. It is good to have a MKV movie of Blu-ray quality, but not so good when the MKV movie is of Blu-ray size (25GB- 50GB). Unfortunately, MakeMKV does lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup only. It is not capable of compressing Blu-ray- that’s probably the defect of MakeMKV.

5. What tool to choose if I’d like to compress a Blu-ray to MKV?

Any of the above mentioned Blu-ray Rippers can compress Blu-ray to MKV for you. Special features of these Blu-ray Rippers:

Pavtube BDMagic ($39.2) – forced subtitles; good a/v sync, 5.1 audio (AC3/AAC) output, DVD ripping;

DVDfab Blu-ray Ripper ($60 for 1-year’s license) – keeps 2 audio tracks in one mkv file; m2ts output, decryption of BD;

Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper ($49.95)/Imtoo Blu-ray Ripper ($49.95) – AMD APP graphic acceleration technology

Some Notes:

All of these Blu-ray Rippers employ NVIDIA CUDA computing when converting Blu-ray to H.264 MKV.

All of these Blu-ray Rippers rip Blu-ray to AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, M4V, VOB, etc as well.

Xilisoft and Imtoo Blu-ray Ripper do not crack Blu-ray copy-protections. Do not load encrypted Blu-ray to them.

Not any Blu-ray Ripper converts Blu-ray to MKV with more than one audio track other than DVDfab; not any Blu-ray Ripper rips DVD other than Pavtube.

6. My choice- more than MakeMKV alternative

You may wonder which app I choose for Blu-ray to MKV ripping. Well, I had tried out all of the above mentioned Blu-ray Rippers before I become steady with Pavtube ByteCopy. I don’t want to say much about it, just one sentence: it’s more than an alternative of MakeMKV- it does everything MakeMKV does and also shrink Blu-ray to MKV video.

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For a Mac version please go to the ByteCopy for Mac page. And note that the Mac version can’t employ CUDA when converting Blu-ray to MKV.

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One Day Giveaway: Recover all your lost data free from iPhone/iPad/iPod

Summary: Pavtube iOS Data Recovery software giveaway for iPhone/iPad/iPod users, users can backup and recover their lost data free with this giveaway.

Pavtube Studio is Giveaway iOS Data Recovery on GiveawayOfTheDay.com on March 3, 2014.PavtubeiOS Data Recovery is the best iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and iTunes data recovery software, Users can now backup and restore their data for free.

The link of the giveaway page:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pavtube-ios-data-recovery

Pavtube iOS Data Recovery is designed for users who have the need to backup existing data, and restore the lost data from iOS devices and iTunes backup file, such as call history, contacts, photos, SMS messages, iMessages, notes, calendars, reminders, voice memos, and more.

"iOS Data Recovery is a pretty new software released in the New Year. And the reason why we provide this giveaway is to help more users to recover their lost iOS and iTunes data on either Windows or Mac computers. And also we hope to get more advices and suggestions from them to make the software more user-friendly." said Betty Yu, the brand’s manager.

There are likely thousands of accidental occasions that one may lose iOS data, water-damaged, failure to update iOS, unsuccessful jailbreak, device stolen, unexpected factory restoring, Google Account changing, etc. Pavtube iOS Data Recovery was right designed to help people out of those bad occasions.

From iTunes Backup file, users are able to restore 11 types of data without the iOS device, such as Photo Stream, Camera Roll (including videos), iMessages & SMS Messages, Call History, Contacts, Notes, Reminders, Safari Bookmarks, Voice Memos, Calendar, and Message Attachments.

While for data not backup with iTunes, users can get back 7 types with the iOS device, such as Call History, Contacts, Messages, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, and Safari Bookmarks. All recoverable data can be previewed and are selectable in the software, except the videos. And all of the above great features are included in this giveaway.

This giveaway is for users with any generations of Apple devices such as iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS, iPad Air/Mini/4/3 (New iPad)/2/1 and iPod touch. And users can download either Windows or Mac versions to work on the right operation system.

"We hope both our users and us can get much help and information from this giveaway." Concluded Betty, "And as always, this giveaway on GiveAwayOfTheDay is providing the latest official version from Pavtube with offers to upgrade and get other relative Pavtube software."

From: http://samsung-galaxy-video-converter.blogspot.com/2014/03/free-recover-lost-data.html

Easily and quickly convert HD video to Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300 for watching

Here is a workflow about the HD Videos to Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300 conversion, you can easily & quickly convert MKV, AVI, VOB, M4V, WMV, MPG, Tivo, FLV video to Transformer TD300 support video formats for smoothly playback. 

Asus yanked the covers off a stack of new laptops, tablets and smartphones at today’s CES 2014 press conference in Las Vegas. Out of them all, one product stood out: the Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300, which seamlessly combines Windows 8.1 and Android, and swaps between the two in a matter of seconds.

The TD300 is cast in the classic Transformer Book image, with the 13.3in tablet securely slotting home into a matching keyboard dock and releasing with the quick press of a button. The whole device weighs in at 1.9kg and measures 28mm thick. No doubt, watching videos on Transformer Book Duet TD300 with 13.3 display would be so great.

You may happen to have hd videos in MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, MPG, M4V, Flash video(FLV/F4V), camera videos(MTS/MOV/MXF) or you like recording TV shows by Tivo, and want to transfer them to Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300 to kill time on board. However, the problem is that not all these formats are supported by Transformer Book Duet TD300. How to solve the problem?

Obviously, the most compatible video format for Transformer Book Duet TD300 is MP4 files encoded with MPEG-4 or H.264. The most effective way is to convert MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, MPG, Tivo, M4V, FLV to MP4 with best video settings for Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300.

Now follow this article; you will learn how to accomplish this easily within a few clicks.

Preparation:

Here I'd like to introduce Pavtube Transformer TD300 Video Converter, a very easy-to-use video to Transformer converting program which comes with flawless video quality and quick conversion speed.

Tip: Reach the Mac version here: Video to Transformer TD300 Converter for Mac.

Tutorials: Converting MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, MPG, Tivo, M4V, FLV, F4V, MTS to Transformer Book Duet TD300 friendly format

Step 1: Load video files to this Video to Transformer Book Duet TD300 Converter

Download the Pavtube Video to Transformer TD300 Converter on your computer, install and run the program, add videos.

You can choose to import videos or the entire folder by clicking the top left two icons.

  
Step 2. Choose a proper format for Transformer Book Duet TD300.

Click "Format" drop-down list and choose "Asus > ASUS Transformer Pad 300 Video(*.mp4)" as the compatible MP4 preset with best video quality. 
   

Step 3. Customize video specs for Transformer Book Duet TD300 (Optional).

You could also click the "Settings" to adjust the video and audio parameters of output files.

In the Video Settings, you can select Encoder, Frame Rate, Resolution (you could define it yourself according to your Transformer Book Duet TD300 tablet) and Bitrate for your movie.

In the Audio Settings, you can select Encoder, Channels, Bitrate and Sample Rate for your movie.

Step 4. Start HD Videos to Transformer Book Duet TD300 Conversion.

You can hit the big red "Convert" to start converting MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, MPG, Tivo, M4V, FLV, F4V, MTS to MP4 with best video settings for Transformer Book Duet TD300. After the conversion, click "Open output folder" in the conversion window, or "Open" in main interface to quick locate the converted video.

Now, you can transfer MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, MPG, Tivo, M4V, MTS FLV, F4V videos to Transformer Book Duet TD300 for smooth playback without any problem. Enjoy your digital life!

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How to digitize home DVD/BlueRay library for viewing on TV and Tablets

This article will outline the easiest way to digitize home Blu-ray/DVD library to external hard drive for watching on TV or other portable tablets. 

Q1: Hi All, I'm looking for the simplest way to make digital backups of my kids DVD's and then play them back on their TV. Navigation/finding of the movies is important since they are young.

Q2: Hey-Many thanks in advance! We need to digitize from commercial bluray discs....  Before you tell me that we're breaking copy-write law we're not using it for commercial use, it's for a non-broadcast sales tape and it's industry standard.   

Q3: I have a collection of about 300 DVDs and Blu-rays that I would like to rip and make digital copies of on a hard drive. I would then like to access these files and play them on Home theater pc and to stream to other tv's in the house over the network. I also want it to be used on both android and apple tablets.

Here is the equipment I would use to connect and watch:
1 Home theater PC
2 smart TVs
3 iphones
1 ipod
3 tablets

What I am not sure of is the easiest process to go through in order to get this done. I am open to all suggestions.
Now I'd love to share my experience with you guys the way I solve these issues. Googled bluray ripper reviews to look for the best tool to digitize home DVD/BlueRay library, I met Pavtube BDMagic . It is top-ranked in the review with reasonable price.

Well I haven't got the chance to try every profile, but it's really the best Blu-ray/DVD backup tool      I've met ever; I mean it's ease of use, not fuss and simple to follow. This best BDMagic can rolls off Blu-ray/DVD disc protection, supports loseless 1:1 Blu-ray backup and keeps all the disc titles and chapter structure perfectly.

Don't you like to have a try? 

They provide free trial (no time limitation) before purchase; and you can reach the Mac version here. 

How to digitize home DVD/BlueRay library with best video quality 

Step 1. Run Best BDMagic and import disc. 

Click this icon to load disc from ROM, IFO/ISO or folder. I also noticed if you have a ISO file to import, it will recognize the ISO file automatically with no need to run virtual driver and mount ISO files firstly. Good design. 

Step 2. Choose format. 

Click "Format" drop-down list and choose proper format for different using. 

For instance, if you simply want to back up Blu-ray/DVD to external hard drive, here are two solutions: 

1.Click the "computer" icon on the top to output 1:1 Blu-ray/DVD file exactly the same as original. 

2. Select "Copy>Directly Copy" in format list to output an intact m2ts file of the main title. 



For watching on Home theater PC, TV and other android and apple tablets, you can choose "Common Video > H.264 Video(*.mp4)" or "HD Video > AVI HD Video(*.avi)", it's well compatible with your TV and Tablets. 

 

Step 3. Change video specs. (Optional) 
If you are not satisfied with default specs, then click "Settings" to enter Profiles Settings windows. You can customize video frame rate, bitrate, size and other settings freely. 

(It does not work for directly copy) 

Step 4. Start conversion. 

Click the big red "Convert" to start backing up or converting your Blu-ray/DVDs. Usually backup will be quicker because it does not need to do trancoding. 

After the conversion, click "Open output folder" to quick locate converted files. Connect your hard drive to computer and transfer them into it. 

Pavtube BDMagic/ByteCopy works easily and at high efficiency. Digitizing home DVD/Blue-Ray library  is no long the complicated thing. Now take time to enjoy it.

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Record and Play Amazon Instant Video (.wmv) on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

If you have problems about playing Amazon Instant Video on your Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition, you can check out the tutorial to Remove DRM from Amazon WMV and record Amazon Instant Video (.wmv) to your Note 10.1 2014 Edition.

Ever since the arrival of the Nexus 10, it’s been hard recommending other, lower resolution 10-inch Android tablets. Given that Samsung made the aforementioned 10-inch Nexus, complete with 2560 x 1600 display, we wondered when a similar panel might grace Samsung’s own tablet lineup.

I have downloaded a couple of files from Amazon.com that I’d really like to put on a flash drive to give to a friend, who wants to put it on her Note 10.1 2014 Edition. How to make it?

As is known to everybody, the WMV videos purchased from Amazon store, including music, videos, movies, and TV show etc. are usually format type unsupported by the Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition.

 The problem is, those WMV videos you downloaded from Amazon are protected (by DRM), and can't be played on any Android/Windows tablet except for the Amazon Kindle Fire (HD). So if you would like to transfer Amazon WMV videos to Note 10.1 2014 Edition for playback, you have to remove DRM from Amazon Instant Video and convert/record it to Note 10.1 2014 Edition compatible formats.

To do it, Pavtube ChewTune (Vidpie)- a Amazon WMV to Note 10.1 2014 recorder can do great help! Actually, it is nearly able to unlock all the DRM videos as long as your video is authorized and it's able to playback on this computer. And the Mac version is ChewTune for Mac

* Legally strip DRM copy protection from iTunes, Digital Copy, Amazon, BBC iPlayer
* Record DRM media to iOS/Android/Windows 8 devices supported file type with subs
* Change DRM files to any regular format you want with expected quality
* Support files downloaded from iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Blockbuster, etc.
* Support batch conversion and auto-shutdown computer after conversion

Read before try

1. Make sure that your computer is authorized for source videos, that is to say you can play the Amazon WMV video using Windows Media Player.

2. During the installation your computer will pop up a Windows Security dialogue box saying "Windows can't verify the publisher of this drive software". Ignore it and choose "Install this driver software anyway" to continue installing Pavtube ChewTune.

 

3. At the end of installing, the setup wizard will install Audio Driver onto your computer automatically through windows command line. This will take a few minutes. Don't skip or abort, it is essential for running ChewTune correctly.

4. It would take as long as the source movie length for the whole Amazon Instant video to Note 10.1 2014 conversion process since Pavtube ChewTune records source DRM videos in 1:1 video and audio quality.

How to transfer Amazon DRM video to Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition

Step 1. Download Pavtube ChewTune as the Best DRM removal software.

There would be a command window pop up during the installation to install specific soundcard drive for DRM Removal, pls do not shut down it and let it running until the installation completed.

Step 2. Add video and choose target format.

Drag and drop your videos to it directly, or you can click icon to import them as below.

 

Let's click the drop-down-list besides "Format" and choose " Samsung -> Samsung Galaxy Note(*.mp4)" as the best video format for Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition.

 

Step 3. Customize target video specs. (Optional)

Click "Settings" to enter Profile Settings window, you can find settings for video size, codec, bitrate and frame rate. Change them according to your own needs.

 

Step 4. Start conversion.

Now click the big red icon to start converting DRM videos to Note 10.1 2014 Edition in batch; this converter will activate your media player automatically and start to play this video (let's keep it running). The player windows cannot be removed or closed.

In the meanwhile, it will start to record this video in MP4 real-time. The conversion time is equal to the video length itself; you can do other tasks during the converting the process.

Note: the system volume could be turn off temporally during this period; but no worries and do not touch it to get perfect DRM removed video.

After the conversion, click "Open output folder" to quick locate the converted video.




Tips:

1. The DRM removing process may mislead your anti-virus software to falsely report virus/worm. Please ignore the report to keep on ripping.

2. This product cannot convert unplayable video (damaged, unauthorized, etc).

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Watch 1080p/720p Movies and Videos on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition without quality loss

A step-by-step guide to show how to remove Blu-ray/DVD protection on Mac/Windows, and convert M2TS/AVCHD/MXF/MPG/MKV/VOB/Tivo videos to play on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition with best video quality.

Samsung has unveiled a brand new version of its 10-inch Galaxy Note tablet at IFA in Berlin, which it is calling it the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. And the Note 10.1 will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions, all of which can be expanded by up to 64GB with a microSD card, leaving plenty of room for you to store all your favourite video and music on it.

In another word, Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is a great media player for watching all kinds of 100p/720p movies and videos. Have collected many Blu-ray, DVD disc, HD video files of the hottest movies like Endless love, That Awkward Moment, About Last Night, Winter's Tale etc and want to transfer them to your Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition for playback.

However, Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition only plays its preferred video stuff. MPEG-4 and H.264 are always the most compatible formats with Samsung Galaxy series. To get the work done, you can convert Blu-ray/DVD and 1080p movies to  Note 10.1 2014 Edition playable videos files first.

What we need?

To transfer Blu-ray/DVD to Galaxy Note, the first step is to remove commercial Blu-ray discs and DVDs protection from film studio, and then do the conversion. After several trials, we recommended this Video Converter Ultimate which is powerful in quick decrypting the protected discs within a few clicks. Also it’s capable of converting discs and 1080P videos to 1080P MP4 for Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition.

FYI: its Mac version is renamed as iMedia Converter for Mac.

How to convert Blu-ray discs, DVDs and 1080P videos to Galaxy Note III optimized video format?

Step 1. Run the Note 10.1 2014 Edition Movie Converter and import source media.

Click the top left “Load files” to load Blu-ray/DVD from disc drive, folder or ISO/IFO; or import click to load your video files like MTS/M2TS, MKV, MOV, TOD, TiVo, etc. by clicking the second icon “Add video”.

Note that your computer needs an external BD drive for loading blu-ray movie.



Step 2. Set output format for Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

To play videos on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, you need to set a compatible format for the smartphone. This Note 10.1 2014 Edition Ultimate Converter provides presets for Galaxy Note series. You can click on the pull down menu of “Format” to choose “Samsung>> Samsung Galaxy Note(*.mp4)” for conversion.

Step 3. Customize video specs. (Optional)

For people who want to further customizing output video size and quality, you can click “Settings” on the bottom to enter Profile Settings Window, and customize video size, frame rate, bitrate, codec and sample rate(Hz). In general, the higher bit rate, the bigger output file size.

Step 4. Start converting Blu-ray/DVD movie and 1080p videos to Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition video.

Now click “Convert” button to start ripping “Laggies” Blu-ray/DVD/video Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. When the conversion task is finished, you can click “Open output folder” button to get the “Laggies” movie ready for playback on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition.

• How to sync the converted video from Mac to Galaxy Note via Kies? 

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