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Blu-ray backup:How to back up Blu-ray disc to play in MPlayer?
As a free and open source media player, MPlayer has become one of the most popular and satisfactory video players in people’s multimedia life. Doubtlessly, with high definition and a wide variety of media formats supports, MPlayer has been providing people with great convenience when watching no matter DVDs, SD videos or HD movies on their computer. Till now, the bottleneck of MPlayer lies in that it is unable to directly play BD movies. Fortunately, people have figured out a solution to back up BD movie to play in MPlayer. Following is a detailed workflow of how to copy Blu-ray disc to play on computer using MPlayer, if you are interested in it, just feel free to read on.
What you will need:
An internal or external BD drive
PavtubeBlu-ray backup
HOW-TO: How to backup Blu-ray disc to play in MPlayer? Step 1: Download, install and run this Blu-ray backup
Once run it, click “BD/DVD ROM” or “BD/DVD Folder” to load Blu-ray movie files.
Step 2: Select an output format for MPlayer
Click on the drop down list of “Format” to choose a format for MPlayer. ThisBlu-ray backupprovides users with a wide range of output formats, including SD videos and HD videos. For the sake of keeping high quality of BD movie, I select “HD Video”> “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” for instance.
Please see the following contents to get the details of MPlayer supported video and audio formats:
- Container formats: 3GP, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia, Bink
- Video formats: Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, Bink
- Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, FLAC, Intel Music Coder, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Musepack, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA, Bink
Step 3: Adjust video and audio settings
Click “Settings” button, then you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters in the following window, including codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.
Step 4: Start backup blu-rayto MPlayer
Click the big button “Convert” to start backing up Blu-ray movie to MPlayer. When the copying task finished, you can tap on “Open” button to get the final files and add them to MPlayer for watching.
The same as Sony’s PS3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is not only a game console, but also a media player that allows you watching movies via your home theater system. The difference between the two consoles is that PS3 is able to play bluray disc directly, while Xbox 360 would not. But is there a way to put and play bluray m2ts on Xbox 360? Yes, there is. With Pavtube Blu-ray to Xbox 360 Converter, you can not only directly transcode copy protection removed m2ts files to Xbox 360 supported files, but also rip encrypted commercial bluray disc for Xbox 360. The following guide elaborates how to put and play m2ts BD files with xbox 360 within simple steps.
For your reference: Xbox 360 supported file formats 1. AVI:
File Extensions: .avi, .divx
Containers: AVI
Video Profiles: MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple & Advanced Simple Profile
Video Bitrate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 x 720 at 30fps.
Audio Profiles: Dolby® Digital 2 channel and 5.1 channel, MP3
Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
2. H.264:
File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov
Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime
Video Profiles: Baseline, main, and high (up to Level 4.1) profiles.
Video Bitrate: 10 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps. Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)
Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
3. MPEG-4:
File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .mov
Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime
Video Profiles: Simple & Advanced Simple Profile
Video Bitrate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 x 720 at 30fps.
Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)
Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
4. WMV:
File Extensions: .wmv
Container: asf
Video Profiles: WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3), VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main, and advanced up to Level 3
Video Bitrate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps.
Audio Profiles: WMA7/8, WMA 9 Pro (stereo and 5.1), WMA lossless
Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
Notes: You can not mix and match the video and audio codec outside of the above defined lists randomly.
Step 1: Run Pavtube Blu-ray to Xbox 360Converter to load bluray m2ts files
You can click “Add Video” to load m2ts files directly from your hard drive, or you can click “Load BD/DVD” to load bluray m2ts files from a Blu-ray disc or a BD folder.
Step 2: Select output format for Xbox 360
Take choosing WMV as output format for instance, click on the drop-down list at the opposite side of “Format”, and then follow “Common Video” > “WMV3 (WMV9) (*.wmv)”.
Step 3: Customize file quality for the output WMV files
To rip BD with Pavtube Blu-ray to Xbox 360Converter forplaying m2ts on xbox 360, you are allowed to customize the output file quality by adjusting video and audio parameters. Click on “Settings” button, then you can adjust audio and video parameters including video/audio codec, resolution, video/audio bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the following popup window. To make it excellent for playback on Xbox 360, you can follow the optimal settings recommended as below:
Video codec: wmv3 (the default one)
Resolution: 1920*1080
Bitrate: 150 kbps
Frame rate: 30 fps
Audio codec: wmav3 (the default one)
Sample rate: 48 khz
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: 5.1 Channels
Do remember clicking “OK” button to confirm your settings when finished the adjustment.
