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Apr 1, 2010
How to rip commercial DVDs on Mac - for playback on wide screen TV via WD TV Mini



WD TV Mini  Media Player supports up to 1080i resolution for crisp HD media playback,  besides this feature, it will never limit the size of your media collection,  and you just need add more drives as you like. DVD Ripper can best dvd ripper MPEG WMV DivX H.264/MPEG-4 AVC MP4 MP3 WMA excellently.However there is no luck with commercial  DVDs, even though you need not consider about the storage space, because these  DVDs have strict copy protections, which WD TV Mini is unable to decrypt.To  rip commercial DVDs to a compatible format with WD TV Mini on your Mac, what  you will need is Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac only. Go to find a step-by-step  instruction as below.

First off, have a look at WD TV Mini Media Player  supported media formats:

Videos:
AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4),  RM or RMVB 8/9/10

Audios:
MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, APE

You can free download  Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac here.

Step 1: Launch Pavtube  DVD Ripper for Mac, and load DVD files to it

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



Step 2: Select an output  format for WD TV Mini Media Player

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to a WD TV Mini  Media Player supported format as output format. Here I select "Xvid AVI" as my choice.

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. The user manual of WD TV  Min tells us that when playback .avi (Xvid) video files, WD TV Mini supports up  to 720*576 30fps or 720*480 30fps, so we need to follow the manual while  ripping a DVD. www.chumvideo.com



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

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 files for WD TV Mini 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.

Posted at 12:14 pm by sseofan

 

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