How to Convert Video_TS to MKV Videos on Windows 8.1/8

In this article, you will learn how to convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to MKV for smoothly playback with your media player on Windows 8.1/8.

Video_TS folder is the folder on DVDs that contains the DVD's video data and playback information. It contains three kinds of formats, IFO, BUP and VOB. IFO is information file, which is the main factor to operate video playback. With IFO files you can forward or backward the video at will. If IFO files are damaged or can't be read, don't worry. BUP is the backup of IFO and they have the totally same function. But if you happen to lose them all, you will have big trouble in controlling video play, so be careful. VOB means video objects, which is the container of video files. No need to say how important it is.

However, Video_TS folders are not that widely supported. If you want to play play Video_TS folders on much more media players, you may need to convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to playable MKV file in advance.

To achieve this goal, first of all, download and install Pavtube DVDAid, which is the best tool to accomplish your goal by converting DVD VIDEO_TS to MKV file, Windows 8.1/8 supported.

Overall, the program can easily convert DVD disc, DVD VIDEO_TS folder and DVD IFO/ISO file to any video format for different devices including iPad Air, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, Kindle Fire HDX, Apple TV 3, Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Note 3, Google Nexus 7/10, WD TV, WD TV Live, and more.

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Convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to MKV file on Windows 8.1/8 easily and fastly

Step 1. Run the best VIDEO_TS Converter, click "Load from folder" to select and load the Video_TS files you want to convert. All the loaded files will be displayed on the left source pane and you can choose the titles to rip.



Step 2. Clicking the "Format" menu, here you are suggested to choose “MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)” as output format from “Common Video” category under the drop-down list of “Format”. If you want to get better HD video quality, just select “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” from “HD Video” category.



Step 3. If you like, modify profile settings such as video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get optimized video and audio playback.



Step 4. Return back to DVDAid main interface, and hit the "Convert" button to start encoding DVD VIDEO_TS to MKV format Windows 8.1/8.

Once it finishes, open output folder, locate the created mkv file and you can transfer DVD VIDEO_TS folder to your media player for watching and sharing anywhere you like.

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How to Save Pictures from a DVD to a Mac

Description: This guide will show you how to transfer pictures from a DVD to save on your Mac for storage or sharing.

Q: "Hi, I have a large collection of DVDs, when wathing my DVDs on my Mac, I find some pictures or scenes in DVD movies are beautiful. So I attempted to look for a way to save the image from my DVD while it's paused as a picture. Then I can print them out or just upload to share with my family and friends. I have tried using apple, shift, 4, but this function seems not work for my DVD player on Mac. Wanna find a way out..."

As for the quesion above, today I would like to share with you the tips about how to save picture from DVD on Mac. The app I use to capture pictures from DVD on My mac while I am watching DVD movie is Pavtube DVDAid for Mac. 
  
Features:

* It provide the easiest and fastest way to rip and convert DVD movies to MP4/AVI/MKV/WMV and many other video and audio formats with high quality.

* It largely accelerates conversion speed and saves users lots of time when converting DVD movies to video formats using H.264 codec.

* The video editing features makes you edit the DVD movies as you want such as the Trim function helps you select wanted DVD movie scenes and leave out unwanted part like commercial advertisement.

* You can preview & take Snapshots/thumbnails before ripping your DVD movies
  
Don't you like to have a try?

They provide free trial (no time limitation) before purchase; and you can reach the Windows version here (Surprisingly we found both are on 40% off now for celebrating Pavtube new official website releasing.)

How to Save Pictures from a DVD to a Mac 

Step 1. Load DVD movie from Mac.

Run Pavtube DVDAid for Mac, click "Load disc" 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. Capture Pictures from DVDs on Mac OS.

After importing, all video files in your DVD will be listed in the program. You can preview the imported movie file by double clicking or checking one of them and click the play button under preview window.

By clicking the camera button under the preview window, you can take snapshot from the playing window as Thumbnail or for other use. By clicking the folder button, you can find the snapshots you took.



Step 3. Personalize your DVD movies(Optional)

If you want to personalize your DVD movies, this Pavtube DVDAid for Mac provides you amazing video editing functions as follows: 

Trim: You can trim off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Crop: You can drag the edges on play window to specify or adjust parameters. You can also click the human button to switch to advanced mode. And then you can set display aspect ratio as well as output ratio and output mode.

Text Watermark: Check Enable, you can add text watermark to selected video clip. You can either set parameters or drag the text on preview screen to set its location.

Image/Video Watermark: Check Enable, you can add images or videos as watermark onto selected video file. The location can also be set by dragging on the preview screen.

Effect: Under Effect tab, you can add special effects like Simple Gauss Blur, Flip Color, Invert, Aged Film to your source video. In Color Control section, you can correct color by by adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation. Deinterlacing is checked by default to keep good image quality.

Audio Editor: You can either replace/remove original audio, or set audio fade in/out effects.

More details, please refer to the user guide of DVDAid for Mac.

In fact, besides saving picture from DVD and editing the video clip, the most important function of DVDAid for Mac is to convert DVD to a proper formats for playing on all Android, iOS and Windows Tablets/Smartphones; or for watching on our TVs, PS3, Xbox 360, WDTV etc. HD Media Players on Mac. 

See also:

Mac Tips: How to Digitize Your Blu-ray Collection with BDMagic for Mac
How to Play DVD on Computer Effortlessly 
How to make free blu-ray ISO image file from commercial blu-ray discs?

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Comparison between Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and Handbrake

Read the full comparison between Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and Handbrake. I test each product thoroughly and give high marks to only the best. All ideas expressed are my own, honest opionions.

Handbrake is a well-known video transcoder software application. And Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is an all-in-one toolbox which I used for years. In the past several days, I've tested the similarities and differences between the two programs- Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and Handbrake, now I'd like to share my summary here. This post is written without partiality, just be objective to show the truth, hope it will be of some help for you guys.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (4.7.0) VS. Handbrake (0.9.9)



1. Input:

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: Able to load BD/DVD discs, a wide range of video files.

Commonly used H.264, MP4, MOV, MKV, VOB, WMV, MPG, Tivo, AVI, Divx, M4V, QT, FLV, F4V, ASF, 3GP, TS, MTS, M2TS, TP, TRP, MOV, MOD, TOD, MXF(partial), DV, M2V, 3G2, RM, RMVB, DAT, NUT, NSV, etc. etc.
3D Blu-ray movies, 2D Blu-ray movies, Blu-ray Folder, Blu-ray ISO Image File
DVD movies, DVD Folder, DVD IFO File, DVD ISO Image File.

Handbrake: Able to load a wide range of video files, including commonly used .mkv, .flv, .m2ts, .mp4, .wmv, avi, .mod, etc., and unprotected DVD .vob files, but unable to work with .tivo files.

2. Loading speed:

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: The speed of loading files is faster than Handbrake, especially when loading DVD files.

Handbrake: The speed of loading files is much slower than Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, especially while importing DVD files.

3. Output

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: Output formats are various.

Common video formats:

AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, MOV, M4V, VOB, DV, ASF, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, etc.

HD video formats:

MP4, MOV, MPG, MKV, WMV, TS, AVI, etc.

Lossless video stream:

VOB, MPG, TS, M2TS from DVDs, Tivo shows and Blu-ray Discs

Flash video:

FLV, F4V, SWF

Note: Video Converter Ultimate does not support ISO output.

Handbrake: Output format are limited, only MP4, MKV, and M4V.

4. Audio Pass Thru

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: No Audio Pass Thru option

Handbrake: Allow AC3 pass-through, or DTS pass-through

5. Preview

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: Preview videos in real time.

Handbrake: Need encoding firstly, and then preview with external media players, like QuickTime and VLC.

6. Batch conversion

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: Supports batch conversion and multiple files can be converted in the same time.

Handbrake: Supports batch conversion, but files can only be converted one by one.

7. Editing functionality

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: More Powerful editing functionality, including cropping, trimming, adding text, image and video watermarks, audio replacement, adjusting contrast, brightness, and saturation, as well as adding special effects, and deinterlacing.

Handbrake: Supports cropping, adding subtitles, adding multiple audio tracks, and video filters.

8. Subtitles

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: Support attaching SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles

Handbrake: Supports adding subtitles

9. Advanced settings

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: Allows adjusting audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel.

Handbrake: Allows adjusting video codec and frame rate only.

10. Conversion speed

Source file for testing:

MKV file, video codec:H.264；Resolution: 1280*536; Frame Rate: 24; Duration: 01:45:55; Audio Codec: DCA; Sample Rate: 48000Hz; Channels: 6

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate:
Convert to MKV format, Video codec: h264, Size: original, Bit rate: High Quality; Audio Codec: aac; Sample rate (hz):44100; Bit rate (bps):128000; Channels: Stereo

Time expenditure: 1 hour and 23 minutes.

Handbrake:

Convert to MKV format, Video codec: h264, Frame Rate: Same as source, adding subtitles and using Audio Pass Thru.

Time expenditure: 5.5 hours

If you have interests to have a try about the two programs by yourself, you can download them here:

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate
Handbrake 0.9.9

BTW, as Handbrake can't let users convert copyright protected DVDs and encrypted DVDs for backup, but just homemade DVDs. If you want to convert protected DVDs, I usually use Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate to rip my commercial DVDs.

See also:

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate Review, Promotion and Guide
2014 Top 5 Best Audio and Video Converter Ultimate Reviewed
Pavtube Major Upgrade in BDMagic, DVDAid, ByteCopy and Video Converter Ultimate

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Move "The Lego Movie(2014)" Blu-ray onto Western Digital My Book Live for roku streaming with Mac OS X

This article introduces how to backup or copy "The Lego Movie(2014)" Blu-ray disc to Western Digital My Book Live on Mac, so that you can watch the movie on Roku without format problems.

Review: Everything About 'The Lego Movie"

It would have been so much easier, and so much safer, for directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to just make the kind of Lego Movie that you probably expected from the marketing. They could have crafted a simple hero’s journey, crammed with celebrity cameos and postmodern humor, and called it a day while watching the money roll in and the toy sales shoot through the roof.

And there are all of these elements in this particular Lego Movie, but there is also something more. The film goes in some wonderfully unexpected directions and takes real storytelling risks. I cannot say how everyone will respond to its narrative left turns and unexpected poignancy, but they elevate to the film far above a glorified toy commercial. The Lego Movie may in fact be brilliant. Expected release date for The Lego Movie DVD and Blu-ray discs is May-June, 2014.

How to bacup "The Lego Movie(2014)" Blu-ray onto Western Digital My Book Live" on Mac

With "The Lego Movie(2014)" to be released on Blu-ray, I have the question: how to digitize a blu-ray movie and put it on my western digital mybooklive device for streaming onto roku devices with Mac OS X?

To copy my Blu-ray on My Book Live with Mac, it may take a lot of energy. Although, MacX DVD Ripper Pro Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate and iDVD can do this, none of them can be easier to use that Pavtube.

The best BDMagic for Mac from Pavtube can help you back up Blu-ray and DVD movies to Mac hard drive, copy them to Home Server, NAS for storage and watching them on HDTV and HD Media player including PS3, PSP, Xbox, Dune HD Player, WD TV Live within few clicks. Really simple interface and powerful function. On the roku, I use the roksbox channel, configured to steam movies from the WD/apache server. Works really good on my home network.

Detailed steps to copy "The Lego Movie(2014)" Blu-ray to My Book Live on Mac

Before copying Blu-ray discs check what you need:

1. An external Blu-ray drive.

2. Top Mac Blu-ray Ripper software - Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac

3. Internet connection.

4. "The Lego Movie(2014)" Blu-ray disc.

You can also free download Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and have a try.

Step 1. Install and run the Top Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and insert Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray drive, the Ripper will automatically load the disc information.

Make sure you have enough space on your drive (depending on the disc, this could be up to 50 GB).



Step 2. To copy the M2TS/ VOB streams only without menus and ads, pls choose the "Directly copy" option in "Copy". (The main movie is selected by default.)




Or you can click on “Copy the entire disc” button to back up Blu-ray movie to Mac. A 90 min. Blu-ray takes about 40 min to copy to Mac hard drive. The ripped Blu-ray directory contains two folders, “BDMV” and “CERTIFICATE”. Then the ruku is able to play the M2TS files from Blu-ray directory.

Step 3. Specify an output folder to save Blu-ray movie.

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 4. Back up Blu-ray/DVD for My Book Live on Mac.

After the copying process completes, you can get the final output files by clicking “Open” button with ease, then copy resulting file to My Book Live and then stream onto your Roku.

Additional Tips

The Top Blu-ray Ripper for Mac can help you remove Blu-ray protection and rip "The Lego Movie(2014)" Blu-ray to common formats: MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, SWF, FLV, F4V, etc. Most popular portable devices are also supported, so that you can enjoy Blu-ray movies on your iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPad 4, iPad 3, Surface RT/Pro, Surface 2, Surface Pro 2, Sony Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2, Motorola Droid Mini, Moto X, Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro, Galaxy Note 3, Google new Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HDX...

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

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Convert DVD to PS4 without quality loss for enjoying freely

This post will give you the easiest solution to rip DVD movies to PS4 for playing on HDTV or Home Theatre, especially for users who want to keep their DVD from scratched.

Sony PS4 is released in more and more countries, many fans have got this striking video game console, with it, we can play latest games on HDTV’s big screen and home theatre. If you happen to have a great DVD collection, you can play DVD on PS4 and enjoy a fantastic movie night with your family. But as we know, DVD Discs are easy to break after playing on PS4's drive over and over again.

To get hundreds of DVDs playable with a remote control on PS4, the best choice is make a digital copy of the DVD discs for permanent enjoying. To get it done, Pavtube DVD Ripper is the best tool for you. Overall, this program can help you extract DVD movies to PS4 playable format with fast speed and zero quality loss. The Mac version is Pavtube DVDAid for Mac. Below is guide for you to learn how to convert DVD to PS4 for watching or streaming.

Overall, in addition it is also a good tool for user making DVD enjoyment, and this powerful function is always be overlooked by consumers, it supports many media formats such as MP4, H.264, H.263, DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-2, and if you have some DVD movies at hand, you can use this Pavtube DVD Ripper ripping and converting them to store on PlayStation 4 (PS4), then you can take it everywhere for playing.

Tip:

If you also want to enjoy Blu-ray/DVD movies to 3D videos for playback, trying Pavtube Bytecopy (Win/Mac), which can help you to backup your BD/DVD keeping original subtitle streams and multi-track audios.

Step 1: Run Pavtube DVD to PS4 Converter, and load DVD files to it. You can click “DVD ROM” to load movie from DVD drive or “ISO/IFO” DVD ISO file.



Step 2: Select output format for PS4. Click on the drop-down list at the opposite side of “Format”, and then choose “PS3 Video(720P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)” format for streaming DVD rips to PS4.



Tip: This PS4 DVD Ripper let users control/customize output file quality. To improve video quality, simply click “Settings” and set video bitrate up.



Step 3: Start ripping DVD to mp4 video for PS4 streaming.

Click “Convert” button to rip DVD to PS4, once the ripping task is finished by Pavtube DVD to PS4 Converter, you can click “Open” button at the bottom of the main interface to get the output mp4 file for streaming to PS4.

You can use a PC with PS4 Media Server, TVersity, Windows Media Player 11, Vuse, Nero MediaHome or Mezzmo configured. (Learn how to set up Windows PC as a DLNA Media Server for PS4 streaming.)

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