Resolving DVD on Amazon Fire TV playback issue

Amazon Fire TV is a tiny box you connect to your HDTV. It's the easiest way to enjoy Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube.com, low-cost movie rentals, music, and much more. If you wanna playing DVD collections to your Amazon Fire TV for connect to your HDTV, you’re in the right place. Come on and fix them. 

 

  
Obviously, you cannot play the DVD disc on the Amazon fire TV for playback directly. What you may want to do is to rip & convert DVD movies to Fire TV compatible video files likes MP4. But, How to complete this task? Never mind, real movie fans always get their hands on creative solutions to meet their needs. Here, Pavtube BDMagic can convert any DVDs (including commercial css-protected DVDs and normal ones) or Blu-rays to meet your personal needs. What's more, it is also capable to convert DVD to various video formats, like MP4, H.264, MOV, FLV, MPEG, M4V, AVI, WMV, MKV, etc. Just 4 steps that you can rip all DVDs to Amazon fire TV and got a digital library of movies for watching any time. 
 
The process is relatively simple, so even if you are not technically savvy, you should be able to rip all of your DVDs without any issue. 
 
At first, you need to download this top DVD to Fire TV Converter. 
 
Step 1. Run DVD to Fire TV Converter; load DVD.
 
This converter both support DVD/Blu-ray disc/folder/ISO, your ISO image file would be recognized automatically so there's no need to run virtual drive to mount it any more. 
   

   
Step 2. Choose Format.

Click the drop-down list besides "Format" list, you can find many presets and columns for different devices and programs. Let's switch to "Common Video" column and select "H.264 Video(*.mp4)" for Amazon Fire TV.
 

   
Step 3. Adjust specs or edit video before conversion (Optional).

If you want to customize output video size, bitrate, frame rate and others, just click "Settings" to enter profiles settings window. Here you can set size to "1280*720" for Amazon Fire TV.  
   

   
And you can click the pencil-like icon on the top to crop, trim, edit audio/subtitles/ or add watermarks before conversion.

Step 4. Start conversion.

Now hit the big red "Convert" to start converting DVD movies to Amazon Fire TV MP4 with best settings for playback. After the conversion, you can get the converted videos in .mp4 format by tapping the Open button. Then, Transfervideo files to the Fire TV.
   
If you have videos in MKV, VOB, MOV, M2TS, Tivo, MPG, FLV, etc formats, you could now transfer them to Amazon Fire TV for playback directly: Full Guide.

Top New Movies In Theater Opening This Week - August 29, 2014

Top 1. As Above, So Below (2014)
  
93 min   -   Horror | Thriller
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil

Storyline:

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all. Written by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (Quarantine, Devil) and directed by John Erick Dowdle, the psychological thriller is produced by Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Drew Dowdle and Patrick Aiello. Alex Hedlund serves as the executive producer. 

Top 2. The November Man (2014) - [Opens 8/27]

108 min   -   Action | Crime | Thriller
Metascore: 33/100 (14 reviews)
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich

      

Storyline:

Pierce Brosnan and director Roger Donaldson reunite nearly 20 years after Dante's Peak for Bronan's Bondiest outing since Die Another Day. Apparently the studio is already at work on a potential sequel; often that's a last-minute Hail Mary for a film of questionable awareness, though. We hear Olga Kurylenko is underutilized and watching Bronan with his protege, played by Luke Bracey, is like "trying to get invested in a battle between Captain America and a tuna sandwich." 

Top 3. Last Weekend (2014) - [Limited]

94 min   -   Comedy | Drama
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Directors: Tom Dolby | Tom Williams
Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Chris Mulkey

Storyline:

Patricia Clarkson has been sporadic with her movie appearances over the past few years, and it's possible that that the funding for this film hinged upon her participation (we don't know that for sure -- just theorizing). After watching the trailer, we immediately thought about what it would be like to see Clarkson lead this cast in a staged version of the material so she could really go far in her development of what seems to be a memorable character.

Top 4. If I Stay (2014)

106 min   -   Drama
Metascore: 46/100 (33 reviews)
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.
Director: R.J. Cutler
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard

Storyline:

Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate. 

Enjoy these wonderful movies on theater and have fun! If you have collected lots of Blu-ray and DVD discs, you can Enjoy them on your portable devices at anytime, anywhere!

Backup DVD(ISO) files on home studio via UPnP server

A simplest DVD(ISO) to MP4 ripping tutorial; you can easily backup DVD(ISO) collections and convert them for sharing to home studio via UPnP server.

UPnP (which stands for Universal Plug and Play) is a feature that allows the devices on your home network to discover each other and access certain services. It is a great media server to transfer media to your home computer and stream it directly to your TV. Many users have successfully streamed the videos from internet, like youtube.
 

 
However, UPnP only supports FLV, M2TS, MKV, MOV, M4V, MP4, MPG,VOB, WMV .etc media files, Blu-rays and DVDs, like ISO files are disc images not media files and so do not play over UPnP. Then how to backup your DVD DVD(ISO) files on home studio via UPnP server for playback? Well, first of all you need to roll off the DVD disc protection, and then convert them to more common video formats like MP4 which is compatible with most devices, like computer, smartphone, tablet, TV, console, etc.

Hereby you need a DVD ripping software.

Among many tools in various brands, Pavtube DVDAid is definitely hands down better in ease of use, ripping speed and quality of video output. It can reformat DVD(ISO) to the video format that UPnP server supports, like MOV, MP4 .etc with ease. 

FYI: Top 5 DVD Ripper Review

Tips: Got the Mac version for you – Pavtube DVDAid for Mac

Download a free trial of this user-friendly Pavtube DVDAid and let's start this super-easy workflow.

Tutorial: How to backup DVD(ISO) to home studio via UPnP server

Step 1. Insert your DVD and launch Pavtube DVDAid.

Insert your disc to computer, launch Pavtube DVDAid and click the disc-like icon on the top, click disc name to load your movie.
 

 
Notice the "Subtitles" and "Audio" options above format list? You can choose one subtitle or language and build them into target video. Anyway, if you want to obtain multiple audio tracks or subtitles, try this Pavtube ByteCopy.

Step 2. Choose "H.264 MP4" format.

Click "Format" drop-down list, choose "Common Video>H.264 Video(*.mp4)" as below:

H.264 MP4 is well compatible with main stream devices like PC/Mac, IOS/Android/Windows smartphone&tablet, etc.
 

 
(Optional): adjust target file specs.

If you are not satisfied with the default file specs, hit the "Settings" icon (besides "Format") and free change video size, bitrate, frame rate, and audio sample rate, etc. 

Step 3. Conversion.

Hit the big red "Convert" in right bottom corner to start ripping DVD to MP4 format directly. Wait for a while when it's ripping; after it completed, hit "Open" or "Open output folder" to quick locate generate MP4 files.

Now just stream them to your UPnP server for sharing and playing with family members!

Read more:

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How to play Blu-ray on iPad 3 easily for Mac

The iPad 3 with the stunning features 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology, 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch, HD (1080p) up to 30 frames per second with audio. All the features are point to iPad 3 is a great portable media player. If you got iPad 3, would you like to watch blu-ray movies on ipad3? Here I will throw up a quick tutorial to help you out. 

 
As we know, iPad 3 cannot play Blu-ray disc directly, and most of you are not about to pay iTunes' ridiculous prices to watch movies and TV shows you already own on Blu-ray. Instead, you'll just rip those Blu-ray discs to an iPad 3 compatible format. Pavtube BDMagic for Mac is the highly recommended tool for you here.   This Mac Blu-ray movie to iPad 3 Converter can aid you to rip and convert the Blu-ray movie to iPad 3 friendly format MP4 on Mac easily and quickly. What’ more, If you have the intention to convert videos MKV/AVI/WMV/MOV/MTS/VOB or DVD, ISO/IFO to iPad 3 on Mac at the time,you can also complete the goal with it.
  
Part I: How to convert Blu-ray to iPad 3 supported video formats. 
   
Step 1: Load Blu-ray files. 

Load your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run the program and click “Load from disc” icon to load Blu-ray movies. You can also import movies from DVD folder, Blu-ray folder and ISO image files.
  

 
Step 2: Choose iPad 3 preset as the output format. 

click “Format”, Choose “iPad > iPad 3/4 (New iPad) Full HD Video(*.mp4)” output preset as the output format, which will remove all the incompatibility issue for you. Note that you can customize the settings for the output by specifying format and destination folder. 
 

    
Step 3: Start ripping Blu-ray to play on iPad 3. 

Once you do this, you can begin the process to convert Blu-ray files to iPad 3 by clicking the Convert button. All the conversion tasks will be done at fast speed and you will get a high output quality.

When you complete the process and rip Blu-ray to iPad 3, you can follow Part II and connect the device to your Mac to sync the iTunes library. From here, you are ready to enjoy your high quality videos on iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad mini, iPhone 5S, etc.

Part II: Detailed steps:

First, locate the output file where you have saved the videos. Then open the iTunes app so that you can import the output videos to it. This can be done by dragging and dropping the media file. The process is simple all you need is:

Step 1. Click "File" menu on the left side of iTunes toolbar
Step 2. Choose the "Add File to Library" option
Step 3. Open the output folder that contains the videos
Step 4. Select the file and click "Open".

After opening the file the will go to your iTunes and you can verify if the transfer has been successful by going to the iTunes library and typing the name of the file. If it is successfully transferred, A thumbnail of the video file will appear in your screen. If the transfer is successful you can further transfer the file to your iPad 3 and you can easily enjoy them everywhere you wish to. 

To be honest, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac is so simple to use and gives me exactly what i was looking for. Hope this guide can help you, enjoy it!

Transfer MKV, AVI, VOB and iTunes videos to Amazon Fire Phone

Amazon has released its first smartphones in 2014 - Amazon Fire Phone. If you got a new Phone, you may have this question: Does Amazon Fire Phone support videos in MKV, AVI, VOB format? As the operating system for Amazon Fire Phone is Android OS, Amazon Fire Phone only can play videos in MP4 format. Then is it possible to move MKV/AVI/VOB videos to the new smartphones for users? Now, You're in the right place. Hold on reading...
  

 
Section One: How to play MKV/AVI/VOB on Amazon Fire Phone? 
   
Q: “I want to copy my own videos to the Amazon Fire Phone. I've tried Handbrake but neither has worked. I’m looking for an easy to put my MKV, AVI, VOB videos into Amazon Fire Phone for playback . Anyone found a good conversion program they've actually used?”

A: Here, you need to transfer these videos to MP4 format. An Amazon Fire Phone video converter is a smart choice. In the market, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is able to play MKV/AVI/VOB videos on Amazon Fire Phone. 
  
About this Top Amazon Fire Phone video converter: 

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can help you compress many kinds formats video like MKV, AVI, VOB,  M2TS, DRM, etc to your Amazon Fire Phone with best quality at fast speed, and you can also use it to edit your video to remove the extra parts. If you want to play your DVD, ISO, IFO or Blu-ray movies on your Amazon Fire Phone, you also can use it to convert your DVD/Blu-ray collection to Fire Phone playable formats like MP4 without quality loss. 
    
Step-by-step guide:
   
Step 1. Download this best Amazon Fire Phone Video Converter and Install and run it, click the right icon “Add video”to load your video files like MKV, AVI, VOB (or Tivo, WMV, MTS, MXF, MOV, TOD, MOD, 3GP, FLV, F4V, M4V, etc).   
        


Step 2. Select best format for Amazon Fire Phone.
  
As Amazon Fire Phone runs Android operating system. So just click the format bar to select MP4 format.
  
Step 3. Edit videos for Amazon Fire Phone (Optional)

Go to the editing interface to trim, crop, add watermark, or just effect to MKV/AVI/VOB video scenes.

Step 4. Convert videos for Amazon Fire Phone. 

Go back to the main UI and just one click the red button “Convert” to realize conversion from MKV/AVI/VOB videos to Amazon Fire Phone.
  
Step 5. Transfer the converted videos to Amazon Fire Phone. 
  
Connect your Amazon Fire Phone to PC with a USB cable and transfer the converted MKV/AVI/VOB videos to Amazon Fire Phone. 
   
With Amazon Fire Phone video format converter, you can Enjoy MKV/AVI/VOB from video websites, movie download pages, DVDs and Blu-ray discs to new smartphones for playback. 
     
Setcion Two: Best way to put iTunes videos to Amazon Fire Phone. 

Q: “ I have purchased a lot of movies from iTunes store, now I want to play iTunes movies with Amazon Fire Phone, can you give me a method? Thank you!” 
  
A: You will encounter problems, just as the problem showed above. Why iTunes movies can’t be played on Amazon Fire Phone directly? It is because iTunes movies are all DRM protected, they can’t be played on unauthorized devices, such as Android tablet, HDTVs, Amazon Fire Phone, etc. So you may consider how to remove the DRM protection from these videos to unprotected mp4 files so as to play on Amazon Fire Phone easily. 

  


Here Pavtube Vidpie is perfect tool to legally recording and downloading iTunes purchased videos or Removing DRM from Itunes for playback with Amazon Fire Phone. 
   
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Weekly Blu-ray New Releases: August 18-22 2014

This is a list of new released and announced Blu-ray discs. All these Blu-ray discs come to my attention and would like to get these wonderful movies.

  

1. The Flintstones (1974)
Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraVioletUniversal Studios | 1994 | 91 min | Rated PG | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:
  
The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new associate vice president, Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred's, whose answers aren't very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little realizes that he's being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme. 
  
2. Leviathan (1989)

Shout Factory | 1989 | 98 min | Rated R | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:
  
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners -- led by head oceanographer Steven Beck -- comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment. As Beck's crew members begin to disappear one by one, the flesh-eating monster lurks below the surface -- and the divers left alive are scared to death.

3. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) (Criterion)

The Criterion Collection / Blu-ray + DVDCriterion | 1990 | 102 min | Rated NC-17 | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:

In 1988, after years of making sexually adventurous provocations that didn’t travel very far beyond Spain, Pedro Almodóvar scored a major international hit with his hyperactive farce Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. It was the perfect time for him to play it safe, capitalizing on his newfound success by heading even further toward the mainstream. Instead, he followed Women On The Verge with Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, a twisted romantic comedy in which the meet-cute sees the guy deliberately punch the girl in the face hard enough to knock her unconscious. Audiences eager to see more wacky shenanigans, perhaps involving consensual bondage, were treated to a relatively subdued and rather disturbing tale about a woman who slowly falls in love with her abductor, seemingly against her will. What’s more, the MPAA saddled the film with an X rating ... 

4. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) (Criterion)
The Criterion Collection / Blu-ray + DVDCriterion | 2001 | 106 min | Rated R | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:

The story of Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) makes up only half of Y Tu Mamá También, as that ribald bildungsroman works at an apparent remove from another narrative, one in which Cuarón's pet themes emerge: Although Tenoch and Julio may be willfully ignorant to it, their lives are irrevocably affected by the political and social insecurities of Mexico as the country embraces a dubious idealism. 

5. Once Upon a Time: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray

Disney / Buena Vista | 2013-2014 | Season 3 | 950 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:

Emma Swan gets the surprise of her life when Henry, the son she gave up 10 years ago, arrives on her doorstep. Returning the boy to his adoptive mother becomes complicated when Henry reveals a stunning theory to Emma. Everyone in Storybrooke, Maine is a fairytale character under a curse, and Emma - as the long lost daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming - is the one who can save them all. The story unfolds; interweaving scenes of the drama in the sleepy New England town and the the inhabitants' past lives in the world of fairy tales. The timeless battle of good vs evil is ready to begin again.

Enjoy these great blu-ray movies! And if you are interested in some great 3D Blu-ray / DVD movies to add your collection, check out my new 3D Blu-ray /DVD move review.

Backup all of my favorite movies on Windows 8.1 Pro tablet

Description: Want to keep your favourite Movies in Blu-ray/DVD disc on Windows 8.1 Pro tablet for storage? Check out this article to learn how to backup/copy all of your movies. 

Desktops, Laptops, Tablets- No matter what kind of device you're working on, be more productive with Windows 8.1. The new Windows devices offers great flexibility and variety. Choose the device that best fits your business needs from a range of form factors. Windows 8.1 Pro is the best Windows yet when working with a mouse and keyboard, delivering more speed, performance and security to boost your productivity on any non-touch device.

 

For movie lovers, with more and more new movies being released, it wil surely give them a kind of visual Feast for playing their favourite films on powerful Windows 8.1 Pro tablet. Need to back up your favourite Blu-rays /DVDs on your hard drive, then you can easily get the movies playback on Windows 8.1 Pro tablet? This article will tells you how.

At first, to backup all your Movie to Hard Drive, you need to a third-party software to help you. Well, masses of tools can be found on the Internet that makes it reasonably easy to rip and backup Blu-ray/DVDs. But you know, not all the tools are good enough and with no quality loss. In this article, I'll show the best way to rip and backup all of my movies onto Windows 8.1 Pro tablet step-by-step. 

For Windows users, here we recommend you to choose Pavtube ByteCopy. Wow, the program works like a charm! It's so easy to use, converts very fast and output lossless videos. Below is my workflow. (Full review) 

Operation system:

• Windows 8.1/Windows 8/Windows 7/Windows Vista/2003/XP
• 1G Hz or above Intel processor.
• 1GB physical RAM (memory) or above.
• 1024*768 or higher resolution display.
• Optical Drive: DVD drive (BD drive is required for ripping Blu-ray disc)

Tips:

1. There's 6 times limitation if you use the trial version to output lossless MKV files; 
2. This program also has a Mac version which works for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, Snow Leopard 10.6 users, find Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac here. 

How to lossless backup Blu-ray/DVD Movies with keeping multi-track for Windows 8.1 Pro tablet?

Step 1. Launch Pavtube ByteCopy and load disc. 

Firstly you need an external blu-ray drive; 

Click the top left icon and it will detect the inserted Blu-ray/DVD disc, click disc name to load them. 



Step 2. Choose lossless format. 

Click "Format" list and select "Multi-track Video>Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*.mkv)" as below to lossless backup your Blu-ray/DVD Disc.



Step 3. Adjust V/A settings. 

Click "Settings" to enter Multi-track video profile window; switch to "Video" and find the "Encode" box which is unchecked by default, so if you want a lossless MKV copy, do not touch it. 

The switch to "Audio", check wanted audio track; so does the "Subtitles". 

Step 4. Start backing up Blu-rays to lossless MKV format. 

Click the big "Convert" to start the conversion. After conversion, click "Open" or "Open output folder" to quick locate converted files. Ok now the lossless MKV files are prepared; tranfer them to your Windows 8.1 Pro tablet for playback without quality loss! 

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