Nevertheless, there are many other software developers that are able to let you make backups of Blu-ray and DVD movies you own. Here’s a list of AnyDVD alternatives for Mac (macOS Sierra/El Capitan) that are available and are able to decrypt DVD and Blu-ray discs enabling you to make backups of your favorite movies.

Disclaimer: We do not condone piracy. Circumvention of copy protections might be illegal in your country. Only use this software to create backups of discs you own. 

Top AnyDVD Alternatives on Mac (macOS Sierra/El Capitan)

Pavtube DVD/Blu-ray Ripper for Mac

Except AnyDVD, Pavtube Studio is the NO.1 Software Inc in China offering Blu-ray ripping software and DVD ripping software. Its top-selling applications which can copy/rip both Blu-ray and DVD have Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac and Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac. All of these 3 softwares from Pavtube Studio can copy, rip and convert both Blu-ray and DVD, among which Pavtube ByteCopy will be strongly recommended cause it can export lossless/uncompressed MKV container like MakeMKV and encoded MP4 wrapper with mutiple subtitle and audio tracks. These 3 Blu-ray/DVD ripping software are fully compatible with 10.12 macOS Sierra, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, etc.

• Pavtube ByteCopy: $42 for lifetime license
• Pavtube BDMagic: $39.2 for lifetime license
• Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac: $65 for lifetime license (It can rip Blu-ray/DVD and transocde videos)

DVDFab for Mac

DVDFab for Mac is a well known name and has been in business for years. The company is located China which till now has been a safe haven against the American entertainment industry. The company even withstood a complete seizure of their domain and further attempts by the AACS-LA to close down the company. DVDFab comes with an graphical user interface that displays four tabs: Copy, Ripper, Converter, and Creator. By clicking on any of them you get access to advanced tools that efficiently handle both tasks related to DVDs and Blu-ray discs. But, you need to pay for the each function. And you can look at the price of each DVDFab feature. It is TOO EXPENSIVE.

Ideal DVD/Blu-ray Ripper for Mac

The Chinese company Ideal offers a free 10 day trial of their Blu-ray ripping software which normally sells at $59.95 and is currently available at $49.95. The company regularly updates their software to allow decryption of new movies. They also have a solution for decrypting DVD movies, which sells at $39.97 for a lifetime license.

Magic Blu-ray Ripper for Mac

Magic offers Blu-ray ripping software for both Windows and Mac. A lifetime license is currently avavailable at $49.95, which saves you a whopping $70. (thanks for the tip zebadee!)

Leawo DVD / Blu-ray ripper for Mac

The company Leawo offers both DVD and Blu-ray ripping products for both Windows and Mac. They have a free trial and when that’s done you can buy the Blu-ray ripper for $49.95 and their DVD ripper for $29.95, for both a year of free updates. A lifetime license is $99.95 for the Blu-ray ripper and $39.95 for the DVD ripper.

MakeMKV for Mac

MakeMKV is free to use and will deal with decryption of both DVDs and Blu-rays. The software won’t be an one step solution for most users as it doesn’t compress video. It will always repackage DVDs to MKV files. Blu-ray movies can be made into an uncompressed MKV file or ripped to the HDD.

MacX DVD Ripper for Mac

MacX DVD Ripper is a DVD ripper that backs up and rips DVD movies (including commercial DVDs) to MOV, MP4, MPEG, FLV, iTunes video, minus all the copy protections that are widely used in DVD movies. Its free edition can’t remove CSS, region code,Disney X-project DRM, etc. If you want to rip protected DVDs, you need to cost $29.95 Advanced Pro Version.

Longo DVD Ripper for Mac 

Longo DVD Ripper for Mac is a very easy and powerful DVD Ripper for Mac OS. It can rip DVD to iPad, iPod, PSP, AVI, MP3, MP4(for most smart phones like htc). Then you can enjoy the movies on your portable device without the original DVD discs anytime and anywhere.

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"Why can’t I play mkv files on my Xbox One? They work, but only for the audio. I downloaded some movies into a hard drive to watch on my Xbox, but then only the audio is playing and not the actual movie on the screen. It’s a black screen with the audio of the movie. Anyone know how to resolve this problem?"

"hi everyone, my old Xbox one and now new Xbox one S both seem to be transcoding all my MKV’s causing them to constantly buffer and becoming unwatchable. i got a synology ds416play about a month ago and was running the new plex dvr update 2 server from it and also running the same on my MacBook. all the files play on my iPhones, iPads and MacBook but NOTHING will play on my xbox. I’ve tried analysing, optimising but nothing works."

As the aforementioned, MKV is a container and it can contain many types of video files. Xbox One/Xbox One S can read MKV but only some types of MKV files. If you can’t play some of your MKV files on Xbox One/Xbox One S, you can check if the MKV A/V codec is supported by Xbox. Below are Xbox One/Xbox One S supported MKV codec and features.

MKV container feature support in Xbox One/Xbox One S

MKV container features are supported on Xbox One/Xbox One S in the following ways:

• If one or more video tracks are present, the first track will be played.
• If one or more audio tracks are present, the first track will be played.
• If one or more captions tracks are present, the captions will not render, but the file will load and play.
• If one or more fonts or images are present, captions and images will not render, although the file will load and play.
• Menu information is not supported and will not be displayed, but the file will load and play.
• Chapter information is not supported, but the file will load and play.
• If files with chapters refer to supplemental files, the supplemental files will not play.
• Thumbnail images are available when browsing for files on USB drives using the file browser.

This set of features should allow playback of most MKV files if they contain supported codecs.

Xbox One/Xbox One S Supported MKV codec

MKV files that contain video and audio tracks encoded with the following codecs are expected to play on Xbox One/Xbox One S:

Make All MKV Files Watchable on Xbox One/Xbox One S

So when your MKV has some Xbox unsupported A/V codec, you need to re-encode the incompatible MKV to Xbox One/Xbox One S with the friendly codec or audio with MKV Video Converter. The software recommended here is Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Apart from MKV, you also can use it to convert MP4, AVI, WMV, H.265, even Blu-ray and DVD to Xbox One/Xbox One S supported video formats. Plus, the best Pavtube MKV Video Converter is also a functional video editor, which you can easily merge, trim, crop, add watermark and create 3D/VR effects on MKV videos with Xbox One/Xbox One S and convert MKV to 180+ video codecs for playing on various platforms, incl. iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Android phone and tablet, TiVo, Chromecast, Roku, Seagate, HD Media Player, smart TVs, VR Headsets, PPT, even all Non-linear editing softwares, etc.

Recently, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate has upgraded to version 4.9.1.0 with supporting the most advanced hardware acceleration NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP by H.264/H.265 codec, which can give users 30x video transcoding speed than before. So you can save lots of time to convert MKV to Xbox One/Xbox One S with it.

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Steps to Convert MKV to Xbox One/Xbox One S Playable One

Step 1 Import source MKV video files

On the main interface of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, click “File” button to load your source MKV video files. After loading, you could activate the build-in Player to preview MKV video files. In addition, Xbox Media Player does not currently support the use of subtitles in movies so if you want captions shown, you can choose the subtitle streaming in "Subtitle" at the bottom of the chapter list and then this subtitle tracks will be hard burnt to output video in graphic, in which case your Xbox One/Xbox One S doesn’t need to read subtitle file when playing MKV files.

Step 2 Select Xbox One S as format

You can either choose one of Xbox One/Xbox One S supported file fomrats listed below or direct output Xbox 360 preset profile formats which can also apply to Xbox One S. 

Xbox One/Xbox One S supported file formats

Video formats: 3GP video, 3GP2, AVI DivX, DV AVI, AVI uncompressed, asf, AVI Xvid, H.264 AVCHD, M-JPEG, .mkv, .mov, MPEG-PS, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-2 TS, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 SP, WMV, WMV HD 
Audio formats: 3GP audio, AAC, ADTS, MP3, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless, WMA Pro, WMA Voice

Note: No matter you chose WMV, MP4 or Xbox 360 preset, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder to H.264 and audio encoder to “AAC‘ or “AC3“, along with frame rate, resolution, bit rate, channel, sample rate, etc if you want. If you want to remove the video black bar, please go to “Edit” > “Adjust” >”Keep Aspect” to adjust their aspect ratio of 16:9 or 4:3.

Step 3: Convert MKV to Xbox One/Xbox One S

Click the big green “Convert” button to start to convert MKV to Xbox video immediately. When the conversion completes, you can find the output video file under the directory you just set.

How to Play MKV Files on Xbox One/Xbox One S?

There are some ways to stream your MKV files and other media on Xbox One/Xbox One S. You can click the tab to learn the each method below.

• Play MKV on Xbox via USB drive
• Stream MKV from Xbox via DLNA
• Stream MKV to Xbox With “Play To” or “Cast to Device”

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To play FLV video with Windows Media Player, you have 3 options:

1. Get an .flv codec (not really recommended) Codecs from other sources can be messy.

2. Play it with VLC instead.

3. convert it to e.g. .wmv with some media file format converter.

Method 1: Install FLV Encoder in Windows Media Player

The latest versions of Windows Media Player should play Flash FLV files without any problem, but you may need to install a media decoder first. If your version of WMP doesn’t work with FLV files, try installing ffdshow.

When you open an FLV file the player may give you a warning message saying that it doesn’t recognize the file extension — click OK and play the file anyway.

Method 2. Play FLV videos with VLC

Another way to play flv on Windows Media Player, you can use the VideoLAN program, which is also known as the VLC Media Player. The VLC media player is an open source program developed by the VideoLAN organization. The VLC Media Players comes with a large library of audio and video codecs pre-installed. For some people, this option serves as an alternative to using the windows media player which needs to be manually upgraded and tweaked in order to play certain file types.

Apart from VLC, you can try other media players like:

• 5KPlayer 
• KMPlayer
• Plex

Method 3: Convert FLV to Window Media Player supported videos

The ultimate way to play flv on WMP is to simply install Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Lots of users are impressed by this converter since it is powerful enough to convert nearly any video to WMV, MP4, AVI, MOV, H.264, H.265, M3U8, FLV, etc and even rip Blu-ray and DVD to WMP, WMC, VLC, QuickTime, Plex, Kodi and iOS/Android/Windows Tablets & Phones and HD Media Players as well as video editing software including Sony Vegas, Pinnacle, Avid MC, Premiere, and more. And you can enjoy the powerful edit function, like trim, crop, watermark for text, image and video, 3D effect, subtitles and so on.

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Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can complete these tasks:

Steps to Convert FLV to WMV for Windows Media Player

Step 1. Put FLV files on the converter

Import the FLV files to the video converter. You can do that in two ways:

a) You can drag and drop the file directly in the application.

b) You can click the "Add Files" button to browse, select and load the file in the application.

Step 2. Select output format for Windows Media Player.

Click "Format" menu you will find various video formats listed by different devices. Just choose a compatible video format for Windows Media Player. You can choose "Common Video" > "WMV" as the output format, or select "HD Video" and choose "WMV HD(*.wmv)" as the output format.

Step 3. Edit loaded FLV video files.

Click "Edit" button and you are allowed to trim, crop, add text/image/video watermark or some effect to your output video for making it perfect. Here the function of adding subtitles to output files will contribute to make your own videos. You can use free software Subtitle Edit to edit your subtitle content then add it to output videos.

Step 4. Start conversion.

Click the "Convert" button to start FLV to WMV conversion. When it completed, click the "Open" button to get the generated videos for Windows Media Player.

This way can fix all the following issues:

"When trying to play a (.flv) file on Windows Media Player it prompts that the selected file has an extension (.flv) of file type that is not recognized. Then asks me if i still want to play the  file. When i click yes an error box comes up saying file type or codec may not be recognized by the player. Any solutions please?"

"When I try and use Windows Media Player (on my new Windows 8 pc) to play .flv files I get told the extension is not recognised but the player might still be able to play it.  It isn’t able to play it."

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KMPlayer Supported Files

• Incomplete/Damaged AVI file (Skip Damaged Frames)
• Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing (with realtime index rebuilding under certain condition: AVI downloading in consecutive order)
• Incoming Stream delivered via HTTP (ASF/OGG/MP3/AAC/MPEG PS/MPEG TS: Only works with KMP splitters)
• Directshow playback (avi, mkv, mov, mp4, 3gp, ogg theora, ogm, rmvb, mpeg1/2, vob, wmv, dvr-ms, http:// etc including almost every audio formats)
  • Async File Source (network) filter for memory caching
  • Compressed Audio Album Support (zip, rar)
  • Shoutcast (Including NSV), Icecast
  • DTS Wave, AC3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey’s Audio, Musepack, FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Modules (MOD, S3M, MTM, UMX, XM and IT), AMR, ALAC, WavPack, TTA etc
  • Native (ansi/unicode) Cue Sheet Support
  • Google Video (GVI), Flash Video (FLV), Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV), PMP
• QuickTime Engine + Directshow (needs QuickTime player or Alternative or its decoders)
  • The verified MOV samples with KMP mp4/mov splitter (directshow)
    • MOV[H264/AVC1+AAC], MOV[H264+AC3]
    • MOV[SVQ1+A-law], MOV[SVQ1+IMA4], MOV[SVQ1+PCM]
    • MOV[SVQ3+QDM2], MOV[SVQ3+MP3], MOV[SVQ3+IMA4], MOV[SVQ3+QCLP]
    • MOV[MP4V+AAC], MOV[MP4V+MP3], MOV[MP4V+ALAC], MOV[MP4V+PCM]
    • MOV[RLE+AAC], MOV[MSVC+MP3], MOV[MPNG+QDM2], MOV[MPG1+MP2]
    • MOV[CVID+TWOS], MOV[CVID+PCM], MOV[MJPEG+PCM], MOV[DVC+PCM], MOV[H263+MU-law], MOV[SMC/RPZA+PCM]
  • Almost all MP4s are supported(directshow).

Best H.265 Decoder to Convert H.265 to KMPlayer

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is designed to handle the H.265 format like a boss. The great thing about this tool is that it combines encoding, decoding, and converting into one piece of software, which may save you some valuable time based on your goals (plus it has big, easy buttons for amateurs).

Key Features

• Encode all variety of video files including H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, MKV, VOB, Divx etc. to H.265 MP4/MKV
• Decoding H.265/HEVC videos to other video format like H.264 MP4, Xvid, Divx, AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, etc. or directly convert H.265 video to audio format like MP3, WAV, etc.
• Directly play H.265/HEVC video files without format conversion.
• Edit H.265 like merge H.265 files into one, crop H.265, trim H.265, rotate H.265 video, add subtitles/watermark to H.265 HEVC video, adjust the H.265 parameter like bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio volume and etc.
• Rip DVD and Blu-ray to H.265/HEVC vieo files

So with this Pavtube H.265/HEVC Converter, you can easily convert H.265/HEVC to MP4, AVI for KMPlayer. Please note that Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is designed for Windows use specifically. If you are runing MacOS Sierra, please use the equivalent Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac.

How to Convert H.265/HEVC Video Converter to KMPlayer?

Step 1: Load h.265/hevc videos

Drag your files into this H.265 HEVC Video Converter, with ‘Add video’ you can load them with individual clips, or with ‘Add from folder’ you can import them with a complete folder. Batch conversion is also available.

Step 2: Choose format and set profile.

Press the drop-down box named “Profile” and select a format you need for KMPlayer. There are several options that include MPEG-2, WMV, MPEG-4, MKV and many others each designed with their own encoding types.

At the same time, you can customize video and audio presets in order to get a satisfying playback on your device. Video parameters including video codec, display resolution, bit rate and frame rate, and audio settings like sample rate, audio channels, and more, are free to adjust according your needs.

Step 3: Start H.265 to H.264 decoding

Hit “Convert” button to start to convert H.265 video to H.264 for KMPlayer. After the conversion, tap the Open icon in the main interface and you can locate the converted files there. Just add the files to your KMPlayer, and you can play the converted HEVC videos on KMPlayer easily without any issues.

About Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

1. Recently, the leader of multimedia software application Pavtube Studio has upgraded its top-ranked Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate to version 4.9.0.0 with supporting the most advanced hardware acceleration NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP by H.264/H.265 codec, which can give users 30x video transcoding speed than before. Read the detail: Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate Up to 4.9.0.0 Supporting H.265 NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP Acceleration

2. If you buy Pavtube Video Converter Ultimtate now, you can get it at a 20% discount cause Pavtube Studio is holding on Year-End & Christmas Sale. Learn the details here .

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What’s New in Pavtube Software v4.9.0.0?

1. Support newest NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP technology to accelerate video encoding by both H.264 and H.265/HEVC codec. Note: H.265 CUDA depends on whether your computer is geared up with H.265 encoding capable graphics card. Please refer to the document on official website of nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
2. Further added support for latest Blu-ray MKB v62.
3. Improved handling for location seeking issues on BD and some VOB files.

Hardware and System Requirements

If the current setup on your windows pc is too low, you need toupgrade GPU for h.265 encoding. You can consider about one of the three NVIDIA’s H.265 encoding capable graphics card, which are the GeForce GTX 950, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980M, GeForce GTX TITAN X and GeForce GTX 10 Pascal series including 1060, 1070, 1080 and TITAN X. Another thing to mention, due to lack of support in current Nvidia SDK and driver, Win10 currently supports only encode for 970 and 980, but supports decode+encode for 950, 960, 1060, 1070, 1080 and TITAN X (Pascal) cards.

Other NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP Supported Pavtube Products

 Pavtube ByteCopy | Pavtube BDMagic | Pavtube DVDAid  
Pavtube Video Converter | Pavtube HD Video Converter | Pavtube MXF Converter  
Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter | Pavtube MXF MultiMixer | Pavtube MKV Converter 
Pavtube FLV/F4V Converter | Pavtube MOD Converter | Pavtube TOD Converter

Enable H.265 CUDA in Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

Simply click “File” > “Load from Disc” to load your Blu-ray and DVD movies or add your MKV, MP4, 4K video files, etc. Then Choose “H.265 MP4 Video” in “Format” drop-down list. Now, move your cursor to “Tools” button on the top of the main interface to choose “Options”. Then you can enable GPU acceleration.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate Information

Version: 4.9.0.0

Official Site: http://pavtube.cn/blu-ray-video-converter-ultimate/

Key Features: Read review

OS: Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/windows 10

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What is MP4 format?

MP4, or MPEG-4 Part 14, is a media container format, storing video, audio, subtitles and images, normally in .mp4 file extension. To make it clearer:

e.g. MP4 container (.mp4) = MP4 format video (H.264 codec) + audio + subtitle

What file formats does MP4 support?

MP4 is a container format that can store video, audio and other data. So, what formats does MP4 support?

Video formats: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4(A)SP, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.265/HEVC, VC-1/WMV, Real Video, Theora, Microsoft MPEG4 V2, VP8, VP9, MVC

Audio formats: MP3, AAC, WMA, Opus, AC-3, DTS, LPCM, ALAC, DTS-HD

Caption/subtitle formats: MPEG-4 Timed Text

Most Common Combination of MP4 Video and Audio Codec

MP4： Xvid  MP3

MP4： H264  AAC

MP4: H.265 AAC

QuickTime Player Compatible MP4

QuickTime supports a lot of media formats and codecs, with many more coming all the time. Take a look at the following video and audio formats and codecs that QuickTime Player can play in Mac OS X 10.6 or later.

This means that QuickTime only can play MP4 video encoded with MPEG 4, MPEG 2, H.264 video codec and MP3, AAC audio codec. Your XviD MP4, H.265 MP4, VC-1 MP4 and other MP4 files with QuickTime unsupported codec won’t be able to playback with QuickTime on macOS Sierra. To play this format video on macOS Sierra, you can download a more powerful media player like VLC on your Mac, otherwise, you can convert the MP4 files to QuickTime playable format video with some macOS Sierra Video Converters.

Re-encode MP4 Files to QuickTime on macOS Sierra

With Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, you can easily re-encode any MP4 files to H.264 MP4 for QuickTime on macOS Sierra and you also can convert MP4 to MOV for QuickTime. You can freely change the video codec and audio codec to compatible with QuickTime when converting MP4 files. Besides MP4, you also can convert AVI to QuickTime, MKV to QuickTime, H.265/HEVC to QuickTime, WMV to QuickTime, VOB to QuickTime, etc with right video/audio codec.

With Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, you can add external srt/ass/ssa subtitles to MP4, MKV, MOV, etc files and trim/crop/split/merge video files , too. If needed, you also can extract MP3 audio from video files including YouTube video, FaceBook video on macOS Sierra with it.

Note: this macOS Sierra video file converter from Pavtube Studio now is available at 20% off discount for Pavtube is holding Year-End & Christmas Sales .

The Original Price of Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac: $65. Now $52 , saving $13

Besides, not only this video converter for macOS Sierra, its equivalent Windows 10 version Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is also available at 20% discount in Pavtube Christmas Deal. You can learn more about it in this guide: Christmas and New Year Gift: 20% Off Coupon for Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

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Steps to Transcode MP4 to QuickTime on macOS Sierra

Step 1: Download and install the macOS Sierra video converter. Then Click “Add Video/Audio” under "File" button to load MP4 files you want to convert from your harddrives. You can add more than one file at one time. You can double click the video title in the source file list to preview the video you select.

Step 2: Select and custom output format. Click “Common Video” > “MOV – QuickTime (*.MOV)” to get the optimized output file for WMV to QuickTime conversion on macOS Sierra.

Tip: You can also check the “Settings” box, and set video codec, video size, Bitrate, frame rate to get a decent video you want on your QuickTime player.

Note: The MP4 to MOV Converter additionally offers you some useful edit functions for making your videos more enjoyable. You can split, crop, add cool effects to your media files or capture your favorite scene of the video.

Step 3. Hit the “Convert” button and let this smart Mac MP4 to MOV Video Converter do the rest for you!

Once the conversion ends, you can locate the MOV files in output folder and then watch the converted MP4 files with QuickTime on macOS Sierra without any hassle.

This video converter was specifically designed for Mac OS users. It performs greatly on iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air either with 10.12 macOS Sierra, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac OS X Lion or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

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What’s New?

1. New version: v4.9.0.0 (12.20 2016 )

2. Support newest NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP technology to accelerate video encoding/decoding by both H.264 and H.265/HEVC codec.

Note: H.265 CUDA depends on whether your computer is geared up with H.265 encoding capable graphics card. Please refer to the document on official website of nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk

3.Further added support for latest Blu-ray MKB v62

4.Improved handling for location seeking issues on BD and some VOB files

Refer to:

• Ultrafast conversion speed powered by NVIDIA® CUDATM & AMD APP technologies
• Blu-ray Ripper with CUDA acceleration: how fast could it be?
• Improve Blu-ray Ripping Speed with GPU Acceleration
• Fast rip Blu-ray Disc on a slow computer with CUDA implementation

Enable H.265 CUDA in ByteCopy

Simply click "File" > "Load from Disc" to load your Blu-ray and DVD movies. Then Choose "H.265 MP4 Video" in "Format" drop-down list. Now, move your cursor to "Tools" button on the top of the main interface to choose "Options". Then you can enable GPU acceleration.

Comparison Table between Software and H.265 CUDA

Here below is a comparison table of our own experiment result, which shall give you a better understanding of how H.265 CUDA works, in a more direct and visual way. Check it out.

Download sites

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Pavtube ByteCopy is a free-to-try Blu-ray ripping application for Windows that features simple and user-friendly tools and functionalities for all your video needs. It is designed to rip commercial BluRay movies as well as convert DVDs into MKV format with ease. It also features powerful BD decryption utilities enabling users to remove copy protections on all BluRay discs.

* Reads DVD and Blu-ray discs
* Reads DVD-Video(VIDEO_TS.IFO) folder, Blu-ray(BDMV) folder and ISO files
* Reads Blu-ray discs protected with latest versions of AACS, BD+, MKB v61, MKB v62.
* Preserves all video and audio tracks, including HD audio
* Preserves chapters information
* Rip BD/DVD to lossless/uncompressed MKV container
* Fast conversion – converts as fast as your drive can read data.
* No additional software is required for conversion or decryption.
* Convert BD/DVD to MP4 wrapper with multiple subtitle/audio tracks.
* Add subtitles to BD/DVD and extract SRT subtitles from BD/DVD
* Rip Blu-ray/DVD to FLAC, WMA, MKV, MP3, etc audio files.

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Pavtube Video Converter | Pavtube HD Video Converter | Pavtube MXF Converter  
Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter | Pavtube MXF MultiMixer | Pavtube MKV Converter 
Pavtube FLV/F4V Converter | Pavtube MOD Converter | Pavtube TOD Converter

Guides and How to’s

• Blu-ray/DVD toCamtasia 8/9
• Extract DVD subtitles to SRT
• Rip 3D BD ISO to 3D SBS MKV/MP4
• 3D Blu-ray in Google Daydream VR
• Blu-ray VC-1 to H.264 MKV with Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD Master Audio
• Convert DVD ISO to MKV in lossless
• Rip Blu-ray to MKV with DTS 5.1 for all audio streams
• 4K Blu-ray on Xbox One S
• Complete lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup
• Blu-ray to Popcorn Hour VTEN with DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Channel
• Make 1:1 backup of Blu-ray movie
• Backup Blu-ray movie with lossless audio
• Blu-ray ISO to H.264 MKV
• Blu-ray Disc with HD media players

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When we gathered the best HQ Video Converter for MacOS Sierra in 2017, we considered the conversion speed, output video formats, video quality, easy-to-use, etc. You can learn the judgment criteria below.

Key Attributes of Fast HQ Video Converter Applications for MacOS Sierra in 2017

Video & Audio Format Conversion Choices

The best HQ Video Converter software applications have the ability to modify any video on your computer into whatever format you need. All the programs in our lineup convert your videos to the most commonly used formats (AVI, FLV, WMV, MOV, MP4 and MKV), which cover the vast majority of conversions you’ll perform.

The best HQ video file converters though also offer a selection lesser-used formats such as ISO. These extra choices are useful as they allow you to convert videos for specialized hardware and software. However, the more obscure the format, the less important it is to the overall program.

Optimization Profiles

You can watch videos on multiple devices these days. The best HQ Video Converter for MacOS Sierra applications have a full library of preprogrammed optimization profiles that tailor your conversion for whatever device you happen to own: smartphones, tablets , gaming systems, set-top boxes, televisions and more. Some programs’ libraries contain just a handful of profiles while others have upwards of 400. The more choices you have, the higher the likelihood that the program you choose will have an optimization profile for your specific device.

Customization Tools

Sometimes you don’t want to convert an entire video. The best HQ video format converters offer a basic array of video-editing features that allow you trim, crop and adjust the picture and audio values of your footage. These basic video editing tools give you exactly what you need so you get the most out of a video conversion.

Ease of Use Test

This score was determined after an inspection of the software’s interface. We tracked how long it took to perform common tasks such as starting a conversion, picking an optimization profile and customizing your conversion.

We found that that the best programs place their most commonly used tools on the main window of the interface. Additionally, their workflow is set up in such a way that customizing the video and other settings are intuitive for users of all skill levels. Lesser programs, by contrast, bury their more advanced features deep in the in the application’s interface.

Quality Tests

After we converted our test video with each program, we asked a team of video/audio experts to inspect the results and compare them to the original footage. Our experts searched for imperfections in the copied video, such as grain, compression artifact, which is that fuzz or distortion that occurs when video is compressed into certain formats, and pixelation, where individual pixels in the video are visible.

We found that quality degradation of the picture varied wildly from program to program. The top video converters produce files that are nearly indistinguishable from the original. The movie converters that ranked in the bottom half of our video converter software reviews had picture flaws that distracted heavily from the viewing experience.

On the other hand, every video converter on our lineup did an excellent job converting sound. Our audio experts were hard pressed to find any difference in quality between the converted audio files and the original.

Timing Tests

If you’re converting longer videos, such as feature-length movies, the time it takes to complete a conversion is critical. The best programs convert videos fast and produce high-quality results.

Now, you can learn the review, comparison and the best recommendation of the top 5 High Quality Video Converter Applications for MacOS Sierra below in detail.

• Top HQ Video Converter Review
• Comparison
• Best Recommendation

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After did a online research, we rounded up best 5 x265 video converter applications so far on the market to help you transcode H.265 video to H.264 and encode H.264 video to H.265. Before the reviews, you maybe interested that which devices of you support H.265 and can’t play H.265.

Here’s a quick rundown of popular media playing devices that don’t support HEVC:

• Google’s Chromecast (first and second generations)
• Apple TV (although some reports suggest 1080p HEVC playback is possible by running VLC on a 4th-gen model)
• Roku (third-gen models and earlier)
• Amazon Fire TV (2014) and Fire TV Stick
• Any Western Digital WD TV products
• All PlayStation consoles (including PS4 Pro)
• Xbox 360

And here are the media players that do support HEVC:

• Roku 4
• Amazon Fire TV (2015) and 2nd-gen Fire TV Stick
• Xbox One

Below are the best 3 H.265 video converter applications after we tested the video output quality, video conversion speed and output formats. With them, you can easily convert H.265 video to TV, Xbox One, Apple TV, WMP, etc or re-encode H.264 video to H.265 files to reduce video size. You can click the name to learn its review and the user guide.

• Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate
• Any VC Ultimate
• Wondershare VC Ultimate

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is designed to handle the H.265 format like a boss. The great thing about this tool is that it combines encoding, decoding, and converting into one piece of software, which may save you some valuable time based on your goals (plus it has big, easy buttons for amateurs). With it you can easily transcode video content, upconvert older HD video to the new format, or downsize larger videos without a loss of quality. The program is primarily designed for BD/DVD/video movies, and while it does have trim, crop, split, and merge functions, you will not be able to customize it to your specific situation. 

Key Features

• Encode all variety of video files including H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MKV, VOB, FLV, AVCHD, MXF, TS, RMVB, Xvid, Divx etc. to H.265 MP4/MKV
• Decoding H.265/HEVC videos to other video format like H.265 MP4, H.264 MP4, Xvid, Divx, AVI, MOV, M4V, MKV, WMV, MPG, etc. or directly convert H.265 video to audio format like MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, Apple Lossless, AIFF, FLAC, RA, AU, DTS and etc.
• Directly play H.265/HEVC video files without format conversion.
• Edit H.265 like merge H.265 files into one, crop H.265, trim H.265, rotate H.265 video, add subtitles/watermark to H.265 HEVC video, adjust the H.265 parameter like bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio volume and etc.
• Rip Blu-ray and DVD to H.265/HEVC vieo files

Please note that Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is designed for Windows use specifically. If you are runing MacOS Sierra, please use the equivalent Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac.

Step 1: Load video files (h.265/hevc videos included)

Drag your files into this H.265 HEVC Video Converter, with ‘Add video’ you can load them with individual clips, or with ‘Add from folder’ you can import them with a complete folder. Batch conversion is also available.

Step 2. encode or decode your H.265/HEVC footage

Just come to the output list, in ‘HD Video’ and ‘Common Video’, we find the added ‘H.265′ there. Firstly for encoding our H.265 videos, select the ‘HD Video’-> ‘H.265 HD Video (*mp4))’ for an usual selection. Yes, three standards of H.264 codec types you can choose well.

While for decoding H.265/HEVC videos, just go to the ‘HD Video’ to make the ‘H.264 HD Video (*mp4)’ as your best one.

Step 3. Edit H.265 HEVC video files – Optional

There are still some popular functional items we can take around on the main interface, for example, in the ‘Edit’ button, we have offered you the ‘Trim’ to decide the video length, ‘Crop’ to remove the unwanted edges, ‘Subtitles’ to add some extra explanations? More you can have a try here.

Step 4. Adjust output file parameters (Optional)

You are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters if you are not satisfied with the default settings. Presets like size, bitrate, frame rate, audio channels, etc. can be customized in your own way.

Step 5: Start converting H.265/HEVC video files to H.265 MP4 or H.264/AVC MP4

Now hit on the “Convert” button on software main interface to start the conversion.

As an High Efficiency Video Codec Video Converter, Any Video Converter Ultimate will be a great helper to convert any video format including AVI, MP4, MOV, MPEG, 3GP, ASF, FLV etc to H.265 videos .

Let’s learn how it works.

Step 1. Free download and install this HEVC video converter, then run it.

Step 2: Add the videos you need to HEVC Converter.

Simply click “Add Videos” or “Add or Drag Files” to add the videos you would like to convert to H.265 format. 

Note: Batch video conversion and merging videos are also supported.

Step 3: Set output format.

To successfully convert any video files to H.265, you just have to select the format you want, let’s say, MP4 (since it’s the best file that goes with Apple devices.) you can do this by selecting the format icon in “Output Profile” drop-down format list, simply choose ‘*.MP4’ in the Format tab and then select “x.265” as video Codec underVideo Option.

 

Step 4. Start converting videos to H.265 format.

Just click Convert Now button to start converting videos to h.265 files. Once the conversion is completed, you can click “Output Folder” button to get the converted videos.

Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is a swift, easy and adaptable digital video converter, DVD burner and converter for Win. It allows you to convert any videos or DVDs from one format to another with lightning-fast conversion speed. 

• Powerful Video Converter: Converts almost every video format to or from H.265 video filess rapidly in high quality.
• Wide Selection of Formats Supported: Converts any video files to MKV, AVI, MP4, MOV, 3GP, WMV, and a lot more.
• Fast-Speed Video Converter: Converts videos faster than any other video convert software programs.
• Additional Features: Edit tool videos, can burn video into DVD, get videos from video sharing websites, and etc.

Step 1.Import the file to Video Converter Software

You have two different ways to do this, first is by going to ‘Convert’ tab, then choosing ‘Add Files’, a file folder will pop up and from there you can browse and choose the file you want to convert. The second and simpler way to do this is by opening the folder containing the file you want to convert and simply dragging it from the folder then dropping it on the pane of the video converter software.

Step 2.Choose the Output Format of Your Preference

In order to convert any files to H.265, you just have to select the format you want your file to be converted to, let’s say, MP4 (since it’s the best file that goes with Apple devices.) you can do this by choosing the format icon in “Output Format” pane to see the drop-down format available in the software, choose ‘MP4’ in the Format tab you can see from the Video category, and then select ‘H.265’ as video Encoder by going to the Settings option.

If you want to convert a H.265 file format into another format, simply choose what format you want your file or files to be converted to.

Step 3.Begin the Conversion

Simply click “Convert” button in the bottom part of the video converter software window and the conversion will then begin. Wait until it’s done, the speed of completion always depends on how big or how many your files are.

With these softwares, you can freely switch your x265 video to x264 or re-encode H.264 to H.265 files. For H.264 files, nearly all multimedia devices and media players can play it. As for H.265/HEVC video fiels, below are the recommendations to play HEVC video:

On Windows 10, you can natively play HEVC videos in the default Films & TV app or through Windows Media Player. Alternatively, you can use VLC or MPC-HC for playback, which support older operating systems, or popular media center apps like Kodi (version 14 onwards) and Plex Media Player.

On macOS or iOS, VLC is your best bet.

On Android devices, you’ll be able to play back HEVC files using MX Player through software decoding if your device is fast enough, or if it is, both MX Player and the Plex app supports native HEVC playback. Note that some devices have HEVC decoding blocks in their SoCs but don’t support native playback at this time.

Learn More: Where You Need H.265?

*Downsize large HD videos with nothing lost

An HD video is usually very large in size, in order to save space while remain the video quality, converting the HD video to an H.265 video is the perfect solution. Result is the image quality is the same, but the file size is reduced to half. Cheers!

* Convert DVDs/Blu-rays to H.265 videos for feasible playback

If you want to view a DVD or Blu-ray movie on your video player devices, you need to convert the movie to a specific video at first. Here you can use H.265 codec to get a video with high video quality and relatively smaller size.

* Convert regular videos to H.265 for better video quality

If you have many regular videos in other formats, you can also convert them to H.265 videos and you can get much better video quality, and the file size is not large. Isn’t cool?

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Pavtube Studio specializes in developing multimedia software based on Windows and Mac OS X, which provides video audio software across Apple, Android, Microsoft, Samsung, HTC, Google, Sony and other platforms or devices, including DVD Ripper, Blu-ray Ripper and HD video converter. Its best-seller Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate integrates the functions of these 3 different tools into one application: rip DVD, decrypt Blu-ray and transcode video.

The original price of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is $65, but now is $52 only. You can read its review, tech specs and learn how to use it in the below  links section and then determine whether to buy it. You have enough time to consider it about cause the Christmas Promotion and Year-End Deal will go along with from today to Feb 6, 2017.

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