stumbleupon

StumbleUpon and digg

shxckj@126.com — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:40:00 GMT

Digg Space Channel are a Digg. In fact, except outside the major media in this channel to be "top" of the website are the home fields of science within the site more professional. Frequent such as the list of nasa.gov (NASA), sciam.com (Scientific American), nationalgeographic.com (United States National Geographic magazine) are very interesting. Simple content, the ads do not offend the eye.

I personally prefer the NASA "Astronomy Picture Daily" (Astronomy Picture of the Day) section. The columns from June 16, 1995 start update, released a daily astronomy picture. This is their first release of the picture, or the GIF format is very simple:

Today is a beautiful picture JPG:

Here they can find a list of all the photographs, a detailed introduction. Not a long article, the University certainly did not question the standard of English.

2, StumbleUpon (the expansion of tools embedded in the browser)

StumbleUpon is an "interest-based" site of the favorites, it is not purely social functions such as Facebook, internal network or as a powerful network of fun, but it also means that those ads harassment, fraud information and much less. More importantly, StumbleUpon provides a very good Firefox browser extensions, and his status for no less than my Firebug! Do not need the complexity of this expansion of knowledge can be used any computer!

StumbleUpon obviously not limited to astronomy and geography-related, but also for the IE browser has the same expansion, here I am only an extension of Firefox as an example of how to use StumbleUpon to introduce you find content of interest to:

First of all, here at StumbleUpon download and install the Firefox extension of. After installation, you need to register in order to use (must be registered to use, but definitely worth the registration).

After the Firefox you will be on many a navigation StumbleUpon to see that "I like it!" The right: flash video player

At the right side of the navigation to find a "All" button, to start after the selection "Update Topics" to flv blind

, You will be set into the personal preferences page:

How to rip Blu-ray files for playback on iPhone 3GS via Mac OS?

shxckj@126.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:28:00 GMT

As a matter of fact, Blu-ray rippers specially developed for Windows operating system are much more than the applications designed for Mac OS, thus Mac users often feel troublesome to search for such a program, especially for one that is easy-to-use and practical, to deal with their tons of Blu-ray collections, not to mention how to add these BD files into portable devices for playback. Fortunately, a powerful utility called Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is released recently in purpose of relieving Mac users’ trouble. It is capable of ripping BD files into many other common video formats, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc., so that you can do whatever you like with the ripped files, adding to media player for local playback, importing to iMovie, Final Cut Pro for further editing, sync to iPhone 3GS for entertainment, or do something else at will. Now I am going to focus on one aspect only, and will be glad to show you how to use this application to rip Blu-ray files for playback on iPhone 3GS via Mac OS.

Step 1: Load BD files

There are two ways to do it, namely, through "DVD Folder" and "IFO File".

Step 2: Choose a format for iPhone 3GS

Click the drop-down list of "Format", and then click the option "iPhone", after that select an output format according to the specification of your iPhone 3GS. All are as the following interface showing, and here I choose "iPhone 3G H.264 640x480(*.mp4)" for instance.

Step 3: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to decide where to load the output files for your iPhone 3GS. If not, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper will export the ripped Blu-ray files to a save path set by default automatically.

Step 4: Adjust video and audio parameters

This program allows users resetting video and audio options like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, etc., in that case, you can take charge of the output file size and image quality in a proper way.

Step 5: Start Blu-ray ripping

Once the above steps are completed, then you can click "Convert" button to begin ripping your BD files. After finished, the generated files for iPhone 3GS can be found by clicking "Open" button with ease.

Additional tips for Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper:

1. Tick the checkbox "Merge into one file", you can combine all the Blu-ray files to be as a single file, so as to enjoy them on your iPhone 3GS without intervals.

2. Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper adopts advanced audio and video sync tech, which enables you to have high output quality without any audio/video out of sync problems.

3. It enables users to select subtitle, audio track as well as camera angle.

4. It provides users with simple editing functions, such as crop, trim, add watermark, add special effects, take place of the original audio, etc.

5. The multithread technology makes it 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.

6. Besides ripping BD files into other media formats, it also supports directly copying Blu-rays and general DVDs to the hard drive of your Mac.

How to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies

shxckj@126.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:39:00 GMT

To avoid the original Blu-ray and DVD discs being scratched by frequent use, it is a good idea to copy and save them as video folders, or burn them to another blank Blu-ray disc or DVD disc as backups. When it comes to this point, a practical program written for this utility is necessary. In my article here, I’d like to take Pavtube Blu-ray Copy for example to show you how to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies via it in detail. If you are looking for such a solution right now, you can feel free to move on with the following paragraphs.

First of all, what can Pavtube Blu-ray Copy do for you?

1. Make perfect 1:1 copies of Blu-ray and DVD movies

2. Support disc to disc, disc to folder, and disc to ISO backup to meet your multiple needs

3. Copy Blu-ray and DVD movies with flawless quality

4. Free you from the annoying protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies

5. Directly burn Blu-ray and DVD movies without other burning software

Okay, now let’s have a look at its simple operating steps.

Step 1: Select Blu-ray or DVD source file

Click the drop-down list of "Source" to select Blu-ray or DVD source file. You can select from BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, and Image File (*.ISO).

Step 2: Select Target

Click the drop-down list of "Target" to select destination folder, your target can be BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu- Ray/DVD Folder, or Image File (*.ISO).

Step 3: Entitle Disc Label

If your target is a blank disc, then you can type your wanted disc label into the textbox after "Disc Label"

Step 4: Click "Start" button to begin copying and burning

Additional tips:

The "Options" window will pop up as soon as you press the red circle marked icon at the left. To burn a disc to a blank disc, the program will generate some temporary files previously, and then burn them to the blank disc. The temporary files will be saved in a default folder, if you want to save them in your specified folder, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Work Space" to change. Furthermore, you are allowed to tick "Delete temporary files" and "Shut down computer automatically", so as to save your storage space and manage your time in a proper way.

Convert M2TS files to AVI for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus

shxckj@126.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:22:00 GMT

Even though it is announced that Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus software has added

AVCHD camcorder support and users can import and edit high definition footage from AVCHD camcorder discs, and convert to standard definition formats, but I still met troubles while importing the HD .m2ts files captured by means of a HD Sony Handycam type HDR-CX11E (PAL), I guess it is not as powerful as it claims.

I have to look around for a practical and affordable program to help me out. My only objective is to convert these .m2ts files to .avi files, so that I can edit them with Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus, and burn them into a SD DVD for playback on the DVD player connected to my TV, as well as computer DVD Player software on computers. Fortunately, I came across Pavtube HD Video Converter, it is easy to use and helpful, I finally successfully converted .m2ts files to .avi format, and the output files are in good quality, without any problems while editing in MovieFactory 6 Plus. It is my pleasure to share this HD Video Converter here. Following is the detailed steps, absolutely easy enough:

1. Click "Add" button to load .m2ts files to this application

2. Select AVI as output format and specify destination folder

Click the drop-down menu of "Format" to select AVI format for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus. Meanwhile click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to locate the output AVI files. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

There are "Common Video" and "HD Video", both have AVI options, you can choose one according to your own needs.

Common AVI:

HD AVI:

3. Set advanced settings

Click "Settings" button, then the following window will enables you to adjust all video and audio parameters on it, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel. That means you can customize the settings in your own ways.

4. Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Once finished, you can get the output AVI files via clicking on "Open" button. After that, Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus will be able to recognize these files. You can now edit the files and author them to a new DVD.

How to convert MKV to iPod and iPhone accepted format on Mac?

shxckj@126.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16:00 GMT

Are you a Mac user? Do you have tons of MKV files, but yet have been never able to convert them into a proper video file for your iPod or iPhone on Mac? If so, this post is deserved reading on, since it will focus on this issue to tell you how to convert MKV to iPod and iPhone accepted formats, so that you can enjoy the MKV files on your iPod or iPhone smoothly without trouble.

Required software:
Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac

Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac is a splendid MKV Converter designed for Mac users, which can perfectly transfer MKV files you downloaded via eMule, LimeWire, or BT to any popular portable devices workable formats. You can take it as an MKV to iPod converter, MKV to iPhone converter, MKV to iPhone 3G converter, MKV to iPhone 3G S Converter, MKV to Apple TV converter, MKV to PS3 converter, MKV to BlackBerry converter, etc. Following is the detailed instruction of how to convert MKV to iPod and iPhone accepted format, check it now to get what you want.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load MKV files into this program

Step 2: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the drop-down button at the end of “Format” to select iPod or iPhone supported format as output format, here I choose iPhone 3G H.264 640X480 (*.mp4) for instance. Also, you need click “Browse” button to specify where to locate the generated files. In addition, this application supports batch conversion, thus you can add multiple MKV files to it at a time, if you want to combine all the files into a single file, you should tick “Merge into one file” to achieve it.

More info about format selection:

In the format profile, there are two options you should pay attention to, namely “iPod” and “iPhone”, through the two options, you can choose a proper format for your iPod and iPhone according to their specifications.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, then the interface as below will show up, you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters shown on it, including codec name, bit rate, image pixels, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If you do not have this need, you can totally skip this step.

Step 4: Start converting MKV files to iPod or iPhone accepted format

As soon as all the above three steps are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start converting MKV files to iPod or iPhone accepted format. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the conversion info, such as conversion progress, for single file and total files, time expenditure, generated file size as well as estimated file size. Through the info, you can properly take charge of your time and storage space.

As long as conversion is completed, you can find out the produced files for your iPod and iPhone via pressing “Open” button effortlessly. After that, just sync the files to your iPod or iPhone via iTunes, and till now the whole task is finished. Enjoy yourselves.

How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc.

shxckj@126.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:08:00 GMT

Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity expressed in "Avatar"? Have you ever wept for the extremely romantic but tragic love in "Romeo and Juliet"? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"?

Uncountable classic movies have given us different kinds of feelings, wanna collect as many as them to be as your own collections on your home server, on your HD of PC, or enjoy them on your portable devices no matter wherever you go? If so, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac would be your suitable choice. It's used to convert DVD movies to various video and audio formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4 (MPEG-4, H.264), MOV, MP3, etc., which are compatible with handheld devices like Motorola Droid, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Archos, PSP, Creative Zen, etc. Following is the user guide in detail.

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac

Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.

You can add DVD files to it through "DVD Folder" or "IFO File". After that, you can click the drop-down list of "Format" to select the output format according to your mobile devices accepted format. At the same time, you can hit "Browse" button to specify where to locate the output files. Moreover, if you want to join multiple titles or chapters into a single file, you can tick "Merge into one file" to realize this goal.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Clicking on "Settings" button, experienced users can set video Codec Name, Bit Rate, Video Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video, as well as setting audio Codec Name, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to make the quality of audio better.

Step 4: Convert

After all the settings are done, you can click "Convert" button to start DVD ripping. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the ripping info, including ripping progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size, estimated file size, etc.

Additional Tips:

1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.

2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.

3. Ripping by chapters is supported.

4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.

5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

6. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

7. Specific effect models are provided, such as "Simple gauss blur", "Simple laplacian sharpen", "Aged film", "Flip color", and "Invert".

How to rip Blu-ray files into HD video format on Mac?

shxckj@126.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:03:00 GMT

Want to find an effective way to rip Blu-ray files into HD videos without many quality losses, but failed? If you are a Mac user, and involved in that case just right, this thread here may exactly do you a favor, since it is written in purpose of showing people how to do it via the help of third party software called Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. Apart from ripping Blu-rays to standard media formats like AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc., Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac can also make use of HD codec like H.264, Xvid, MPEG-2, WMV, Divx, etc. to convert BD files into lots of HD video formats, such as H.264 HD Video (*.mp4), H.264 HD Video (*.mov), MPEG-4 HD Video (*.mp4), MPEG-2 HD Video (*.mpg), MKV HD Video (*.mkv), WMV HD (*wmv), Divx HD (*.avi), AVI HD Video (*.avi), etc. Now, let’s move on to see how to rip BD files into HD video formats on Mac step by step.

Step 1: Click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to import Blu-ray files.

Step 2: Click the drop-down list at the end of "Format" to select an HD format as output format. Here I choose H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)" for instance.

Step 3: Click "Browse" button to look for and set a save path to store the output HD videos.

Step 4: Click "Settings" button to do advanced settings.

After clicking this button, you will enter the window shown below, on which you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters like codec name, bit rate, image pixel, sample rate, etc., in that way you can take charge of the output file size as well as image quality on your hands freely.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start Blu-ray ripping.

As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click "Open" button to find out the ripped HD files with ease.

BTW, if you want to combine all the BD files into one file, so that there are no intervals while playback, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file" to achieve it.

Also, if you want to do simple editing on the original BD files, you can click "Editor" button to do this. Briefly speaking, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac provides users with functions like "Crop", "Trim", "Text Watermark", "Image/Video Watermark", "Effect" and "Audio Replace", via these functions you can remove unwanted areas of the original video, specify a certain video duration to rip, add your own preferred pictures, text, and videos to be as watermark in the output HD files, and adding special effects, as well as substitute the primary audio with your favorite ones.

All in all, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac can basically meet all the needs you demand during the course of ripping Blu-ray files into HD video format. Well, it’s time to end up now, hope this helps. Good luck.

How to rip Blu-ray movies to Apple TV on Mac?

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:06:00 GMT

Are you still frustrated to look for a practical Blu-ray ripper for your Apple TV on sorts of search engines? In fact, there are numerous different Blu-ray rippers in the market, but unfortunately, not all of them are easy-to-use and powerful while ripping BD movies to do other use, especially for people who are using Mac OS. To relieve the troubles of Mac users, this thread will present you how to rip Blu-ray movies to Apple TV via the available software Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac in detail. Just check its step-by-step instruction as below freely.

Click here to download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, then install and run it.

Step 1: Load BD files, select Apple TV format and specify save path

You can press tag "DVD Folder" or "IFO Folder" to input Blu-ray files. If you like, you can tick checkbox before "Merge into one file" to combine all the .m2ts files into one file. Also, you are allowed to specify a path to store the output files for your Apple TV through clicking "Browse" button; otherwise, this program will export the output files to a destination folder set by default automatically. No matter you use your indicated path or defaulted path, you can finally get the ripped files via hit "Open" button.

Do remember clicking the drop-down list of "Format" to select an Apple TV workable format. Once you click this button, you can do your selection from the following interface:

Step 2: Adjust video and audio parameters

Suppose you need change some video and audio parameters to manage the output file size and quality, you can totally achieve it by clicking "Settings" button. All the parameters in the following panel can be adjusted as you like.

Step 3: Convert

After the above settings are done, what you should do next is just hitting "Convert" button to start BD ripping for your Apple TV. Conversion interface is as below, you can get ripping info from it as much as possible, such as the ripping progress, elapsed and left conversion time, generated and estimated file size, so that you can know accurately about the time expenditure and space occupation.

See, only three simple steps, you can finish ripping your BD movies to your Apple TV successfully. Why not have a try about Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac?

Tips:

1. This program also supports editing DVD and Blu-Ray clips. It provides editing functions like trimming video duration, cropping video area, adding watermark, adjusting special effect, replacing audio, and more.

2. It adopts advanced audio and video sync tech which enables you to have a high quality output video without any audio/video out of sync problems.

3. This program has its own built-in codec, so it will not install any codec to your computer, which avoids the unexpected codec problem.

4. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is at super high ripping speed. Its advanced coding technology quickens the conversion speed. With this Mac Blu-Ray Ripper, you can convert DVD, Blu-Rays 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.

How to rip Blu-ray files for playback on iPhone 3GS via Mac OS?

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:02:00 GMT

Step 1: Load BD files

There are two ways to do it, namely, through "DVD Folder" and "IFO File".

Step 2: Choose a format for iPhone 3GS

Step 3: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to decide where to load the output files for your iPhone 3GS. If not, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper will export the ripped Blu-ray files to a save path set by default automatically.

Step 4: Adjust video and audio parameters

Step 5: Start Blu-ray ripping

Additional tips for Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper:

1. Tick the checkbox "Merge into one file", you can combine all the Blu-ray files to be as a single file, so as to enjoy them on your iPhone 3GS without intervals.

2. Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper adopts advanced audio and video sync tech, which enables you to have high output quality without any audio/video out of sync problems.

3. It enables users to select subtitle, audio track as well as camera angle.

4. It provides users with simple editing functions, such as crop, trim, add watermark, add special effects, take place of the original audio, etc.

5. The multithread technology makes it 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.

6. Besides ripping BD files into other media formats, it also supports directly copying Blu-rays and general DVDs to the hard drive of your Mac.

Reserve TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio of BD .m2ts streams on Mac

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:49:00 GMT

Lots of people are still looking for solutions to figure out how to reserve Dolby TrueHD audio of Blu-ray .m2ts streams while doing format conversion. Without a practical program, it’s definitely difficult to set the

movies being converted in your master language, even though your .m2ts files are not copy-protected. Normally, if your master language is English, then English audio is making use of TrueHD, and suppose

your format conversion application can not recognize TureHD audio, then it will only output the audio track it recognized, that would be French, Spanish, or some other languages instead of English. In that case,

you will encounter language troubles absolutely, so an available MTS/M2TS converter which can support TrueHD audio would provide timely help at this time.

Besides keeping Dolby TrueHD audio, some people also have the requirements of keeping DTS-HD Mater Audio during the conversion. There is no doubt that everyone needs great audio to match their great

video. To relieve the pains of Mac users, this guide will take TrueHD audio for example to show you how to retain your needed audio track of BD .m2ts files on Mac in detail.

Required software:

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac

Okay, let’s begin now.

Step 1: Click "Add" button to load .m2ts files

Step 2: Click "Properties" to select TrueHD audio

Firstly, click the drop-down list of "Stream ID", after that a list of audio tracks will show up like "0x1100", at the same time, the audio codec name will pop up in the textbox of "Format", if it is TrueHD, the codec

name "truehd" will emerge like the following interface showing. What you should do is just clicking on the stream ID one by one to see which one is your wanted TrueHD audio.

Step 3: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select whatever format you like as output format, and click "Browse" button to specify where to store the output files. Meanwhile, if you want to combine multiple .m2ts files to

be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

Step 4: Set advanced settings

Click "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels in the following interface, to reserve TureHD

audio to the full extent, you should select 6 channels.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to begin conversion

After conversion is completed, the output files can be found out via clicking "Open" button with ease.

By the way, if you do not have decrypted BD .m2ts streams, but copy-protected Blu-ray discs, then Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is your appropriate choice,

it is capable of dealing with both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio as well as let audio and video match well.

The best free Hulu Downloader you've ever seen

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:46:00 GMT

Hulu Downloader Beta is a practical Windows application to help you capture Flash videos (.flv, .f4v), Movies, TV Shows, Movie Trailers, MTV, etc. from video sharing websites like Hulu.com, Youtube.com, Google

video, Myspace, Yahoo! Video, CBS, MTV, Megavideo, Photobucket, Dailymotion, Veoh, Demand Five, etc., and save them on your hard drive, play them back whenever you want without being connected to the

Internet.

It is capable of downloading movies quickly and flawlessly, so as to enrich your movie collections with the most popular online video resources.

Features Highlights:
Widely support for overwhelming online videos
The app is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, PTMP, PTMPT, PTMPE, PTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh,

Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video etc.

Capture URL automatically
The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no need to add URL manually.

Enrich your A/V collection
This Hulu Downloader is capable of downloading any video and audio file you can play online so that you can turn numerous online video and audio into your own collection. What’s more, a powerful player is

inlaid for you to play back the videos in library freely.

Convert downloaded videos freely (come up soon with full version)
You are allowed to convert the downloaded videos to various video and audio formats compatible with portable devices like iPod, iPhone, 3G phone, etc. With this app, you can enjoy the online flash videos on

your portable players freely, whenever and wherever.

Free download Hulu Downloader Beta:

http://download.huludownload.com/hulu-downloader/huludownloader_setup.exe

The best free Hulu Downloader you've ever seen

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:44:00 GMT

video, Myspace, Yahoo! Video, CBS, MTV, Megavideo, Photobucket, Dailymotion, Veoh, Demand Five, etc., and save them on your hard drive, play them back whenever you want without being connected to the

Internet.

It is capable of downloading movies quickly and flawlessly, so as to enrich your movie collections with the most popular online video resources.

Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video etc.

inlaid for you to play back the videos in library freely.

your portable players freely, whenever and wherever.

Free download Hulu Downloader Beta:

http://download.huludownload.com/hulu-downloader/huludownloader_setup.exe

How to rip DVD to AVI on Mac

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:41:00 GMT

Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is specially developed for Mac users to remove DVD copy protections, as well as rip DVDs to almost all other popular video and

audio formats including AVI, MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, etc., so that the generated files can be played on various media players or mobile

devices, or imported to some video editors to make your own movie works.

Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to AVI on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Load DVD files

You can click "DVD folder" or "IFO file" to load DVD files directly from the DVD-Rom or from an IFO image file.

Step 2: Select AVI as output format

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to choose AVI as output format

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click on "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels. Do remember

clicking "OK" button to save your settings.

Step 4: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to specify where to export the output files to.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to AVI

The following window will show you clearly about the ripping info, such as time elapse, estimated left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. In that way, you are able to manage your time and storage

space in a proper way.

Once ripping work is done, you can click "Open" button to get the output AVI files effortlessly.

Additional tips:

1. The ripping speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar programs. Merge multiple files into one file is available.

2. Enable users to select specific subtitle and audio track to convert.

3. Guarantee audio-video in sync.

4. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

5. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

How to convert TiVo files to MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, and VOB on Mac

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:33:00 GMT

As we all know there is no certain software developed for Mac users to transfer and replay TiVo DVR recorded files as "TiVo Desktop" doing on Windows. But if you want to do format conversion between TiVo file

and other video formats on your Mac directly, what is your method? My way is to use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to achieve my goal. Once you are sure you have the same requirement as I do, follow these

steps to find the solution.

Requirements:

- TiVo recordings: they can be from your own TiVo DVR or from the DVR of your friends

- TiVo Media Access Key: it is a specific 10-digit number assigned to every TiVo account holder. If your TiVo source file are from your friends, then ask him/her for it.

- Pavtube Video Converter for Mac

Step 1: Launch Pavtube Video Converter for Mac and click "Add" button to load TiVo files

In the first attempt, a dialog window will pop up as below, just click "OK" button.

After that, the following window will allow you to enter your Media Access Key, just insert it, and click "OK" button to confirm. What you should do next is clicking on "Add" button to load your TiVo files again. Or

you can directly drag and drop the file into this program. Meanwhile, suppose you want to let it alone and do something else during the conversion, you can tick "Shut down the computer after conversion".

Step 2: Select output format

Click on the drop-down list of "Format" to select output format. This utility supports a wide range of output format, including MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, VOB, and customized formats for iPod, iPhone,

PSP, PS3, Apple TV, BlackBerry, etc.

Step 3: Do advanced settings

Click on "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If you are not good at this step, you can totally skip it. By the way, if

you wanna combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file" in the main interface.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease.

How to convert DVD to AVI for further editing with Windows Movie Maker

shxckj@126.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:30:00 GMT

DVD movie still plays essential role in our audio/video daily life in spite of prosperity of online video and handheld devices. The problem is that DVD movie is not editable and you can only watch the movie the

way it is presented on the disk. This is a time of individual customization and showing your own style, why not tries to edit a movie and watch it whatever way you like. To edit the DVD movie, you need to

convert DVD to AVI firstly and then import the exported AVI videos to Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, and Sony Vegas etc. First let us start from what is AVI.

About AVI
AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave Which is defined by Microsoft, it can work as a container to be embedded with different codec, such as DivX, XviD, etc. The AVI video generally brings high quality, but

occupies larger disk space. It is suitable for further video editing.

To edit DVD with Windows movie maker, you need a DVD Ripper to convert DVD to AVI. This popular DVD Ripper offers AVI formats with various codec, which will

certainly meet your needs to play, and edit video etc

1. Run Pavtube DVD Ripper

If you have not installed it yet, please download the free trial version of Pavtube DVD Ripper.

2. Add DVD video by clicking "DVD ROM ", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO".

3. Choose the AVI format on the "Format" drop down box.

There are several profiles with AVI as output format.

Pavtube DVD Ripper offers several options for AVI with uncompressed codec and less compressed codec. The uncompressed codec is available for the profile

"Losseless raw video". The profile is set with recommended settings, and you can also change the output settings by clicking the "Settings" button. There are four video codecs for uncompressed AVI: BGR24,

RGB555, YUY2, and RGBA32.

There are 5 profiles for AVI with less compressed codec, in "Common Video" profile, there are AVI MSMPEG4-V3, Xvid AVI, and Divx AVI, in "HD Video" profile, there are AVI HD Video and Divx HD AVI.

4. Check the "Convert" button to start converting

After conversion, just click the "Open" button, and you will find the output AVI files.

Now you have got the output AVI videos, and the rest of the work goes to video editing software. Let’s take Windows movie maker for example.

Step1: Import your video. Get your video onto your computer any way you need too. Open Windows Movie Maker.

Step2: Edit your AVI video. Open your storyboard by clicking "View storyboard". Your storyboard will be your timeline and where you will do most of your editing. For you movie folks we can call it your

"cutting room floor". To put your video in the storyboard, drag it from your library to the storyboard. Click the plus sign on your timeline so you can see video and audio lines. If you want to add extra audio to your

piece, import it the same way you did your video.

Step3: Play your AVI video and watch for where you want to cut and delete the extraneous video. Place your timeline cursor (the blue line that crosses perpendicular to the timeline) where you want to cut

your video and split it by choosing "Edit split". Split your original video as many times as you want. Once you split the video you see the rest of the original video in your library. Delete the video you don't want by

pressing "Delete" on your keyboard.

Step4: Add video by dragging it to the storyboard. Make sure your cursor is where you want it on the timeline because the program will automatically place your audio track where your cursor is. You will

notice your audio track goes into the audio space on your timeline. To edit audio follow the same steps as the video.