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Are you looking for a way to copy your Blu-ray collection including the new Blu-ray Avatar to your PS3, but have no luck? If so, you may come to the right place. Because this article focuses on this point and aims to figure out a way to solve this problem. To copy a Blu-ray disc, you need a practical Blu-ray ripper, and to rip the new BD+ protected Blu-ray Avatar, you need a much more powerful tool. With Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper, you can not only remove the strict copy protections of BD Avatar, but also convert the movie to PS3 compatible formats. Well, go to find a detailed guide about this in the following contents.

1. Download Pavtube Blu-ray to PS3 converter, install and run it.
As soon as you run this application, you can load the Avatar Blu-ray movie files to this program by clicking on the button "BD/DVD Rom", "BD/DVD Folder", or "IFO/ISO".



2. Select an output format for PS3.
Click on the drop-down list of "Format", and then slightly hit “PSP/PS3” option. After that, you will see there are different formats specialized for PS3, just select one according to your own needs. Here we choose "PS3 Video (1080P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" for example.



Additional, with this Blu-ray to PS3 converter, you can join the checked Blu-ray Avatar files into a single file while conversion, just tick the checkbox "Merge into one file", if not, the program will save them as separate files respectively.

3. Optimize output file quality
Click on “Settings” button, and then you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels in the following interface.



4. Click on the big button "Convert" to start copying Blu-ray Avatar to PS3.
Once the ripping task is completed, you can click “Open” button to get the final Blu-ray Avatar files for your PS3 via clicking “Open” button with ease.

Learn more: Pavtube software now with support for ripping Blu-ray disc Avatar

So you just have a large number of Blu-ray movies collections,  and wanna rip and store them all on your NAS, so as to freely watch the stuff  with your new NMT Popcorn Hour C-200? If so, you may come to the right place.  Because this guide will focus on this point, and is going to provide you with a  solution on how to rip Blu-ray to a NAS and play them back on NMT Popcorn Hour  C-200. Just follow the detailed step-by-step instruction as below. 

The software we will use is Pavtube Blueray  Ripper. Why do we choose it?

Because it is an integrated program that can rip  blurays into the format you want instead of having to use multiple programs. With  full Blu-ray disc support, it is able to remove different copy protections of  your commercial BD discs, no matter  AACS, or BD+. The new released MKB V17 protection is supported as well.

OK, here we go.

Step  1: Click "BD/DVD ROM", "BD/DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load Blu-ray files



Step  2: Select output format for NMT C-200

Since it is clearly stated in C-200  Technical Specifications that C-200 is able to play MPEG2  Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS,  MTS), to keep full playback quality, you can choose directly copying the  Blu-ray M2TS streams to store on your NAS without any quality loss, and still  with the .m2ts file extension.

Click on the dropdown list of "Format", and then  follow "Copy"> "Directly Copy".



By the way, if you do mind the large output file  size, you can then choose other file formats supported by NMT Popcorn  Hour C-200, so as to save the storage space of your NAS. This Blu-ray rip software provides  users with a large amount of output formats. You can select anyone of them that  is fit for your NMT C-200.



If you do not use "Directly Copy", then you can click "Settings"  button to adjust video and audio parameters to customize the output file  quality, these parameters include codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate,  sample rate, and audio channels.



Step 3: Click "Convert"  button to start converting Blu-ray movies

As soon as the ripping task is completed, you can click "Open"  button to get the output Blu-ray files stored on your NAS, and then connect C-200  to the network attached storage and home theater system for beautifully  playback. Have fun.

If you are using a Mac, Pavtube Mac Blu-ray ripper is  your choice.

The tutorial aims to give you a general idea about how to use Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac before getting started. The iMdedia Converter for Mac is specially designed for Mac users to enjoy the videos, DVD and blu-ray movies on Mac and multiple mobile devices.

Basically, Pavtube iMedia Converter helps you to directly backup DVD and blu-ray movies from disc and folder to hard drive, rip DVD ISO image file to desired video and audio formats, convert HD footages such as MTS (M2TS, M2T), TOD, MOD and MOV files to desired formats for editing and playing back, convert DVR TiVo files to lossless MPEG files and other desired formats, and convert among other common videos such as flash videos, Quicktime videos, CD files, digital video files, Matroska files, etc. and extract audio tracks from the source discs and clips. Besides, the converter features editing facilities such as trimming, cropping, watermarking, flipping, etc.

To learn more information about this app, you may visit iMedia Converter for Mac or download the free trial of iMedia Converter and try it out. Please note that the trial version output video with a watermark on the screen and the Disk Copy option is restricted to use three times only.

Now let’s see how to use the powerful iMedia Converter for Mac.
1. Import source disc/ folder/ file
2. Preview and Snapshoot
3. Back up DVD and blu-ray disc
4. Set Output Settings
5. Edit video clips
I. Trim Video
II. Crop Video
III. Image/ Video Watermark
IV. Text Watermark
V. Set Effect
VI. Replace audio
6. Convert Movie
1. Import source disc/ folder/ file

Accepted sources includes blu-ray disc, blu-ray folder, DVD, DVD folder, DVD ISO image file, and Video clips. For ripping blu-ray disc you need to connect an external BD drive with your Mac. To add video files, please click ‘Add Video’ button and browse to source video files or drag and drop the files in the ‘Getting Started’ area. To load blu-ray disc, DVD, blu-ray folder, DVD folder, please click ‘DVD/ BD Folder’ and browse to the disc or directory. To import DVD image file, please click ‘IFO File’ and browse to the file you’d like to convert.



The file list is composed of five columns: Check box, Name, Duration, Trimmed Length, and Destination File.



Check Box: Click to check/ uncheck all files in the list.
Destination File: The name of the converted file. By default it is same with the original file. If you’d like to specify a different name for output file, double-click it in Destination File column and type in favorable name.  




Common video files are listed for you to organize; the blu-ray or DVD movie shows up as a directory. Expand the directory and you will find all the chapters are in numerical sequence. You can convert the whole disc to movie collection or select single chapter for conversion.  

For blu-ray movie, there are Title Mode and File Mode. By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. By default all the Titles are selected for editing and ripping. If you want to rip the main movie and nothing more, do uncheck other sequences. If you would like to retain everything in the blu-ray disc, simply use the default settings. If you’d like to switch to file mode, please select the blu-ray movie directory and click ‘ViewMode’. And you can check and preview each individual segment. In File mode all the m2ts files in file list are checked by default. If you want to select but the main movie, a fast way is to right-click and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). Or simply check the small box in the title bar of the file list to check/ uncheck all.

When a blu-ray or DVD movie is loaded, you can find the Subtitle and Audio option under the file list are activated.  



Subtitle: Click to view available subtitles of selected chapter and set desired subtitle from drop-down list. Note that some chapters have no subtitles at all. And you can specify subtitle of different languages for different chapters.
Audio: Click to view available audio tracks selected chapter and set desired audio from drop-down list.
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