Format Guides: May 2017

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Simple way for copying Blu-ray/DVD ISO to Chromecast for streaming

“I’m going to buy a Chromecast. But friends tell me that I can not play my backed up Blu-ray and DVD ISO files on Chromecast. Is it ture? If it is possible to do it, then how?”

You may know that you can just drag a local movie file to chrome browser’s address bar and cast it to the big screen with Google Cast the chrome extension via Chromecast. (Read Apple TV vs Chromecast comparison review) Unusually chrome the browser will have no trouble of handling kinds of video types, but not includes ISO files since ISO is not supported by Chromecast. As far as I know it’s not like that you can directly cast iso files to Chromecast for streaming, what you can do is to rip ISO from Blu-ray/DVD to digital movie files like MP4 and use the Chromecast’s local playback workaround to stream the movies to Chromecast. Then how to do it? What tool do we need?

If you’re looking for ease-to-use ripping tool, check out Pavtube BDMagic- a top ISO to Chromecast Ripper, (Here is Top 5 Best Selling Blu-ray Ripper review) which aims to solve this problem by giving us the ability to remove disc protection and convert Blu-ray, DVD and ISO files to Chromecast compatible formats for casting the movies to Chromecast browser with ease in only 3 clicks. In addition, with the Subtitles option, you can freely choose your preferred subtitles for your ISO files. If you are working on Mac OS X, please get BDMagic for Mac.

How to Transfer Blu-ray/DVD ISO images to TV via Chromecast

STEP 1: Import ISO source

Launch the program Run ISO to Chromecast Ripper, click “Load file” to choose Load IFO/ISO file. It will recognize the ISO image file automatically so that you will not have to run virtual drive to mount the ISO any more.

STEP 2. Choose output format

Click Format bar to get the format list and select a proper export format. For Chromecast, MP4 in “Common Video” column can be compatible. Also learn how to convert ISO files to play on Surface Pro 3, Galaxy Tab 4 and 3D TV.

Step 3. Start to rip BD/DVD ISO to Chromecast

When all the settings are OK, click “Convert” button to start converting ISO files to MP4 video. When the conversion is over, click “open” to locate the ripped video files. After the conversion, get the converted mp4 movie for movie casting.

Tutorial: How to Stream Converted iTunes Movies from the Chrome Browser to Your TV

*Download Google Cast extension for your Chrome Browser. The Google Cast extension enables you to find and play content on your Chromecast device from your Chrome browser. Once installed, the Cast Extension is located in the upper right hand corner on the Chrome toolbar.

*Open a new tab in chrome browser and drag the converted iTunes movies or TV shows to the address bar. Chromecast will cast them to your TV. Google Cast supports the following media facilities and types.

Note: Both Mac users and Windows users can stream iTunes Movies with Chrome Browser.

IMPORTANT! To do this, you can enter file:///C:/ in Chrome’s address bar (or (file://localhost/Users/yourusername on a Mac), and then drag and drop the file into Chrome—or press Ctrl-O or Command-O—to show your system’s file browser. Hit the Cast button either before or after you choose the file you want.

For Google Cast extension, you can set the quality to High (720p) or Extreme (720p high bitrate) to get a reasonable video quality on a full HD TV.

Source: http://open-mobile-share.com/copy-blu-ray-dvd-iso-to-chromecast/

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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The 2017 Mother's day will come in just few days, there are many different ways to celebrate this great day with your Mom. You can either send a delicate card with all your best wishes, prepare a delicious super for her or a bouquet of beautiful flowers to put a smile on her face. But for Mother who are media enthusiasts, gifts such as a Disc Conversion software or video Conversion tool to let her get full access to all her favorite movies, TV shows, music video, etc anywhere at anytime as she like would be your first choice.

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Wish to get a digital copy of the movies on the Blu-ray disc or old DVD disc so that your Mother can conveniently view the movies on computer, smartphone, tablets, game consoles, TV, etc without touching the original disc. You can easily achieve that with Pavtube Blu-ray and DVD Ripping software, which can powerfully and automatically bypass the digital copy protection and region code from Blu-ray or DVD disc, so that you can easily make a copy or backup of the data on the disc without any limitation. Detailed discount information are below:

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Download and Convert Facebook HD Video on macOS Sierra

There are many funny HD video clips on FaceBook. You maybe want to download them to play on your iPhone, iPad, Samsung Tablet or edit the downloaded FaceBook video on iMovie, FCP X/6/7. When we download FaceBook HD video, only one format can be chosen so that sometimes, this format video can be played on your multimedia devices but can't be edit with some video editing tools. In many cases like this, you need to convert downloaded FaceBook video files on your Mac. So here let's learn how to download and transcode FaceBook HD video files.

Part 1: Download FaceBook HD Video

There are many online FaceBook downloader sites from which you can easily download FaceBook 480P, 720P, 1080P video in MP4, MKV, WMV, AVI formats.

Popular FaceBook video download sites have:

www.fbdown.net/

www.downvids.net/

www.filevid.com/

It is easy to use this FaceBook video downloader to download FaceBook HD video files. Here take downvids.net as an example. You can download FaceBook HD video files as the steps shows:

1. Click www.downvids.net/ to open the site.

2. Click "Download Video" at the top menu.

3. Paste the FaceBook video URL address you want to download.

4. Choose the video format and resolution you want.

5. Hit grey DOWNLOAD button to download FaceBook video you want.

Part 2: Convert Downloaded FaceBook HD Video on Mac including macOS Sierra

To convert FaceBook HD video, you need a video converter. Here we choose Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac cause this powerful video transcoder can convert FaceBook SD/HD FLV, MKV, AVI, WMV, MP4 video to any other format video and even convert FaceBook video to MP3, MWA, MKA, AAC audio files.

Free download and purchase:

Step 1: Free download the FB Video converter on macOS Sierra and launch it. Click "File" to load Facebook video files.

load file

Step 2: Click Format panel to choose format for output files. You can choose the one that meets your devices or players most.

mp4 format

Click the settings button next to the Profile frame to specify parameters for output files. You can reset Video Codec, Quality, Video size (choose output video size from provided options, or manually input the size you desire into the box according to your devices or players), Bit Rate, Frame Rate, Aspect ratio, Audio Codec, Audio Quality, Sample rate, Channels, etc.

Step 3: Back to the main interface and click the “Convert” button to convert FaceBook HD video to various video and audio formats. You can see the converting progress, time, size, etc.

Now, you can transfer your converted FB video to any devices to play or edit them in iMovie, FCP.

Source: https://media-playback.jimdo.com

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL on Mac

What is PAL and NTSC?

PAL and NTSC are the two most common used standard broadcast formats. PAL stands for Phase Alternating Line. NTSC stands for National Television Standards Committee. PAL adopts a frame rate of 25 fps and 720x576 aspect ratio, and is widespread in most of Europe, Australia and large parts of Africa and Asia. For NTSC, a frame rate of 30 fps at an aspect ratio of 720x480, is used in North America, Japan and South Korea.

Why need convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL?

After knowing about PAL and NTSC, let us talk about why need convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL. If you have a camcorder purchased in Australia, you will be unable to play the videos shot by the cam on your home player in United Kingdom or other countries using PAL, you will get black screen or other playback problems. This principle also applies to DVD as well. A PAL DVD will not play on most DVD players in North/South America. The solution is to find a converter to change NSTC to PAL or change PAL to NTSC with several options.

Best Video Converter for Converting PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL

Here I highly recommend Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to all the users. This program not only convert video from NTSC to PAL, but also convert NTSC DVD to PAL DVD. It also supports various video conversion between 250+ formats. Besides, you can also convert any SD/HD/4K video to format such as mp4 so that you can add video to iPod, iPad, iPhone, Android phones, TV, Game consoles, or upload video to Facebook, YouTube etc. Moreover, it includes a built-in video editor, which enables you to split, merge, trim, crop, add watermark, adjust video effect, edit audio and insert subtitles. Windows user van get Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate.

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Full guide to Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL on Mac (macOS Sierra included)

Step 1: Add source video files

Launch the application on your computer, click "Load from disc" option to import DVD from optical DVD drive to the program.

Step 2: Select output file format

Go to "Format" drop-down list, if you want to convert PAL DVD to NTSC DVD, you can choose to output "VCD/DVD/SVCD" > "DVD NTSC (16:9)", if you want to convert NTSC DVD to PAL DVD, choose to output "VCD/DVD/SVCD" > "DVD PAL (16:9)".

Choose output file format

Step 3: Change output video resolution and frame rate.

Click "Settings" icon on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, when you choose to output NTSC DVD, set the output file size as "720x 480" and the frame rate as 30, if you choose to output PAL DVD, adjust the output file size as "720x576" and the frame rate as 25.

Adjust output file size and frame rate