Sunday, April 30, 2017

Ripping DVD for Google Cardboard with 3D effect

Google Cardboard, another excellent virtual reality headset followed with Samsung Gear VRZeiss VR One, has gained widespread reputations amongest 3D lovers, not only because of its lower price, but also its powerful compatibility with nearly any smartphones including Android and iPhone. If you happen to have a bunch of DVD collections at home, it's a pity for you can not get them on your Andorid/iOS devices through Google Cardboard with 3D Effects. In this article, I'll glad to share some useful tips to help you move your DVD medias into Google Cardboard for viewing freely on your smartphone. 



As a matter of fact, Google Cardboard lacks ability to play DVD movies but it can play Side-by-Side MP4 videos. So in order to watch DVD in Google Cardboard, firstly you'll rip and convert DVDs to SBS MP4 videos. To do this, you can use Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. With it, you can convert 2D DVD as well as 2D/3D Blu-ray to Google Cardboard supported side-by-side video files with lossless quality. In addition, it offers other 3D videos as MKV Top-bottom 3D video, MP4 top-bottom 3D video, MKV side-by-side 3D video, which can play on Gear VR, VR One, Oculus Rift DK2, PS VR, Google DayDream View etc. perfectly.

Ripping DVD for viewing in Google Cardboard is simple as ABC. After downloading, follow the wizard to install and run the program. Then follow the steps below to convert DVD to MP4/MKV SBS video. The below guide takes DVD Ripper for Windows (macos Sierra compatible) screenshots for example. If you're using a Windows PC, simply turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, which has the same function as the Mac version. Keep in mind that you have download the rght version, Mac OS .dmg files cannot be installed on Windows platform – and vice versa.

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Simple Steps to Rip DVD for watching on Google Cardboard

a: Load DVD movies

Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-ROM, run Dimo DVD to VR video converter and click "Add DVD" icon to load DVD movies.



b: Choose output format

Click the format bar to follow "Format > Video" and choose the MP4 or MOV format which can fit your Google Cardboard or mobile phone perfectly.

Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" which is next to "Format", free change your target video size, bitrate, frame rate and 3D depth. If you want to get best video quality, pls switch them to "original".



c: Select 3D effects 

Click on "Edit" > 3D and choose 3D effect (Red-Blue, Left-Right, Top-Bottom three modes) from the option. Here "Left-Right" can be set to get a side-by-side video. You are able to get immediate preview of 3D effect within the built-in player. 



c: Start DVD ripping

Click the "Start" button, and the DVD ripper will start the conversion from DVD movies to 3D SBS video for Google Cardboard. After conversion, open output file destination, locate the created SBS 3D MP4 video and you could view the ripped DVD movies in Google Cardboard via iPhone/Android as you want. You can adjust your phone left or right in your Cardboard holder to help to maximize the 3D depth as well as focus the viewing area as closely to the center of the screen as possible.

Note: You'll have to download the compatible iOS or Android VR player apps that are capable of projecting stereoscopic content. Learn more and get your own Cardboard viewer at http://g.co/cardboard.

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The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 Macs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 Macs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

How to Get all DVD into Plex Media Sever for Streaming

We all know that Plex allows you to aggregate all your personal media and access it anywhere you go. You are able to enjoy your own media on all your devices with the Plex Media Server. If you like me have 800-900 DVDs and want to put them into some format so you can share them into Plex, just read on this article. I will share the tips and tricks for copying your DVD collection to Plex Media Server for streaming and playing on TV.



Since Plex has maked it clear in its supported sources list and DVD format is not listed. The possible solution is to use a DVD ripping tool to rip DVD to Plex/TV playable video format and stream it to TV for playback. Though there are many DVD rippers for Plex, the best and most suitable among them is Dimo Video Converter Ultimate

This DVD Ripping program offers specified video formats for TV and many other game hardware like iPhone, iPad,Android, PSP, PS4 Pro/PS4/PS3, Xbox One S/Xbox One/Xbox 360, PS Vita, Wii and more bypassing the CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS and PuppetLock or some other DVD protection. With it, you can easily convert, edit, view and save all your DVD disc in a format that can be easily streamed and played from Plex with the highest possible playback video quality, even original AC3 5.1 sound can be kept for Plex pass-through. If you're using a Mac, please turn toDVD Ripper for Mac from Dimo, which enables you to rip DVD to Plex Media Server on Mac OS (Sierra included).

The process is straightforward. After downloading, follow the wizard to install and run the program. Then follow the steps below to rip DVD to Plex supported file formats in a few clicks!

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Tutorial: Ripping DVDs to Plex for Streaming to TV

Step 1: Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-ROM, run the DVD Ripper and click "Add DVD" icon to load movies. You can also import movies files from DVD Video_ts folder, ISO. You can click on the dropdown list of “Audio track” to select your needed track so that you can view DVD movies with proper audio channel.



Step 2: Click "Select Format" bar and choose MP4 from "Format > Video" or "Format > HD Video", which can be recognized by Plex well. MKV is also a good choice; as a container format it takes whatever you give it.

Note: The output format is preferably in a common format, like MP3 for audio, MPEG-4 for video. The more common format you use, the more devices you can stream to. For example, if you use FLAC instead of MP3 for your music, you can't stream to your Xbox. Just keep in mind that not all devices support all formats of media.

Step 3: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. Keep in mind the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa. With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original DVD while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality. 

Step 4: Click the “Start” button under the preview window, and the DVD ripper will start the conversion from DVD movies to Plex Media Server. Once the conversion finished, get the ripped DVD files onto Plex Media Server easily. Now you can stream DVD movies through Plex to smart TV, Apple TV, Xbox, Roku, Google TV, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, PS4 Pro, computer/tablet/smartphone or other connected DLNA devices for great enjoyment both home and away. You can backup DVD to NAS or cloud before streaming.

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The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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DVDmate (Win/Mac)

A professional DVD ripping and editing tool with strong ability to remove DVD protection, transcode DVD to any video and audio format, and edit DVD to create personal movie.

Videomate (Win/Mac)

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Friday, April 21, 2017

How to Make 3D Videos for HTC Vive Watching

Of the various virtual reality headsets that have emerged this year, HTC Vive is the one that's most delivered on the lofty promises of VR. It's designed to put your entire body into a digital realm. Once you find some good sources of VR videos, or have regular 3D movies like Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy, Zootopia, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, Star Trek Beyond, Ice Age: Collision Course, or stuff like that, you can start watching these 3D movies on HTC Vive and putting yourself into a virtual world.



Full HTC Vive 3D Movie HOWTO Guide

Preparation:

1. Best HTC Vive Video Converter- Watch 3D videos on HTC Vive

Watching VR video on HTC Vive is a good taster of Virtual Reality within budget. Can any 3D video be viewed on HTC Vive? No. But with HTC Vive Video Converter -Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, you can watch any 3D movies on HTC Vive without error.

With it, you are able convert unsupported 3D movies including 3D Blu-ray to SBS 3D MP4 files for playback on your HTC Vive in just few clicks. It has the most amazingly easy to operate interface. Even freshers, who have no information on how to convert 3D movies, can quickly finish the 3D video conversion by following the guide. It supports not only HTC Vive, but also all VR headsets like Gear VRVR One, Rift DK2, Google Cardboard, etc. and mainstream 3D TV, 3D media players! By the way, thanks to its advanced NVIDIA CUDA technology, you'll going to process your conversion at 6X faster speed while retaining excellent output quality.

If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac (OS Sierra, El Capitan included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

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2. Buy/Download a 3D movie that is in these formats:

.mp4 .m4v .3gp .3g2 .ts .webm .mkv .wmv .asf .avi .flv. In my opinion, .mp4 is best, while audio is aac.

3. A VR player app

a. Whirligig 

To watch a video, click the Browse button in the top left-hand corner of the menu. You'll be able to browse your hard drive to choose a video file. (Whirligig also claims to support YouTube links in its Settings, but I couldn't get that to work at the time of this writing.)



As the video starts to play, you'll probably want to adjust some settings using Whirligig's heads-up controls. Here's what we recommend for each type of video: 
  • Regular 2D video: Set Projector to Cinema or Cinema Curved.  
  • 3D video: 3D video comes in a few different forms, so check the video you downloaded–or the settings you used when you ripped it–to see whether it's Half Side-By-Side, Full Side-By-Side, Half Over-Under, or Full Over-Under. Set the Projector to either Cinema or Cinema Curved, then select SBS or OU instead of Mono. If the video is Half SBS, set Stretch to "100" so it displays in the proper aspect ratio.  
  • 180 or 360 degree video: The video will usually tell you whether it's 180 degrees or 360 degrees on the site you download it from. If it's 180 degrees, set Projector to "Fisheye" and set FOV to 180. If it's 360, set Projector to "Barrel" and FOV to 360. You may also have to tweak "Tilt" for 180 videos or "Rotation" for 360 videos so that the video is facing the right direction.  
  • Full VR video: Combine the correct settings from "3D video" and "180 or 360 degree video" sections of this list. You can also adjust the Scale and Distance settings to fit your tastes, or click the Settings cog in the lower right-hand corner for even more options. Whirligig also has some other cool features like saving different presets, but these basics should get you up and running pretty quickly. For now, sit back and enjoy the movie!  
b. Virtual Desktop

Whirligig isn't the only way to watch videos on your VR headset, but it was the best cost-to-performance ratio in our tests. If you're willing to pay a little more, Virtual Desktop ($15) is also pretty good, and can do a lot more than play videos–it is, as the name implies, a full version of your PC's desktop in virtual reality. Just play a video in your favorite desktop player (like VLC), set it to full-screen, and go. 

Download and Install Virtual Desktop

First, download and install the Virtual Desktop from Steam. The cost is $14.99, but well worth it. If your target price is, well, free, then you can download the free GoPro VR player from Kolor. However, you need to start and stop the videos on your desktop monitor and is not entirely VR integrated.

Setup Virtual Desktop

The first thing to do is determine how BIG you want your desktop. The app lets you fully customize the size of the desktop. You can even specify with a simple slider control all the way up to 360 degrees which wrap the entire desktop around you. Although neat, 360 degrees is not too practical. Personally, I like 180 degrees with a screen distance around 3 meters.

Playing 360/SBS Videos

Now you have the virtual desktop installed and setup, playing 360 videos is easy!  Just click the 360 Videos option (top right), then browse to your video. Depending on the video format, you will need to change the Video mode. If you see the image duplicated on the left and the right, then select Side By Side (SBS). If you're unsure which format you need, then just click the option until the video looks good. Very few videos these days are 180 degrees, most are 360 degrees in the video projection option.

Steps to convert unsupported 3D videos to play on HTC Vive

Step 1. Load your 3D movies 

Launch the video converter for HTC Vive, and click "Add file" button to import your source 3D materials. Or insert the Blu-ray disc to the Blu-ray Disc drive and click the "Add Blu-ray" button to have movies uploaded to the Blu-ray Ripper. 



Step 2. Select output format 

Click "Format" and select "MP4" from "Format > Video" category as the output format. It works on HTC Vive perfectly. 

Tip: Click Settings to adjust the parameters like video codec, video bitrate, video frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel. 1920x1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920x540 resolution full side-by-side resolution. And keep audio in AAC or MP3. 

Step 3. Select 3D mode 

Once you have gained proper information about video types then it is time to set a mode as per your video type so that it can work perfectly on your VR headset. The selection can be done as below:

To get a SBS (Side-by-side) video, click "Edit", turn to "3D" and choose "Left/Right" mode. Finally hit OK button.



Step 4. Start conversion 

Click the "Start" button to start and finish the 3D video to HTC Vive conversion.  After the conversion, click "Open" button to quickly locate the generated media file. Now you can transfer the converted 3D videos to play with HTC Vive using the above methods easily. 

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Kindly Note:

The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

How to convert TiVo to iPhone 7 for playback

Tivos are great for time-shifting TV shows, but can place-shift them as well! If you've recorded many TV shows with TiVo and now you want to transfer them to your new iPhone 7 for kiiling time on the move, check out the solution here.



From what I have seen on the Tivo blogs, neither iTunes nor iPhone 7 is not compatible with Tivo files since all TiVo files are DRM protected. This is why iPhone 7 can't recognize TiVo from iTunes directly. Don't worry. Let's try some easier and quicker way here: transcode TiVo to iPhone 7 supported file format.

After fetching TiVo recovered shows and transfers them to your PC, you can take the aid of a safe and versatile movie/video converter tool- Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, to help you easily remove DRM from Tivo recordings or Tivo shows automatically and convert TiVo shows to iPhone 7/iTunes supported video keeping original quality as it provides the optimal presets for iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, etc.. Besides, you are allowed to edit the videos by trimming, cropping, adjust video effects, etc to get the wanted part and effects as you like. 

More than TiVo files, it can also support ripping Blu-ray/DVD, encoding MKV, WMV, AVI, FLV, MPG, VOB, MP4 and evencompressing 4K to iPhone 7 to meet your different needs. For Mac users, please get Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. Learn how to do Tivo conversion for iPhone 7 with only four steps that save you a much time and effort.

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Convert and Transfer Tivo to iPhone 7 for playback

Step 1: Enter TiVo Media Access Key

Start up this program, drag & drop TiVo videos to the program. Or click "Add file" to import .tivo file to the top Tivo Converter for iPhone 7. When first loading, this app will ask you to input your Media Access Key. 


Simply enter your Media Access Key, and click "OK" to confirm.

Tip: How to find your Media Access Key on TiVo: Go to "TiVo Central" menu >> "Messages and Set Up" "Account and System Information", and your Media Access Key would be there.

Step 2: Add TiVo video files



After being checked, click Click "Add file" button again to import TiVo shows to the TiVo convert tool for converting.  



Step 3: Select output format

Being a user-friendly iPhone 7 video converter, Dimo Video Converter Ultimate has already designed a special output for iPhone equipment. Click "Select Format" and select "Device > Apple > iPhone 7" as output profile for your iPhone 7 device.  

Tip: Profile Settings (Optional) 

The default settings may not satisfy you, and you can click the settings button to change the settings by yourself including video resolution, bit rate, audio sample rate, audio channel etc. for full screen playback smoothly.



Step 4: Start the conversion

Press "Start" button to begin encoding TiVo shows to iPhone 7. After conversion completes you can click "Open" to find converted and copy TV shows to your iPhone 7 for carrying along with.

Additional Tips: How to Transfer TV shows from TiVo to PC

It takes a while depending on length of TV program you are transferring. Make sure your TiVo and computer are in the same home network, and follow this guide to proceed TiVo file transfer:

1. On your PC, launch TiVo Desktop for PC, the freeware that transfers shows from your networked TiVo box to your computer.

2. Click "Pick Recordings to Transfer." A window showing your TiVo box's "Now Playing" or "My Shows" list appears.



3. Highlight any title in the list to see more information about the show. Check the box next to the title of the show (or shows) you want to transfer.

4. Click "Start Transfer." Transfer times vary, but may take as long as the show's duration to complete the transfer.
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Kindly Note:

The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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DVDmate (Win/Mac)

A professional DVD ripping and editing tool with strong ability to remove DVD protection, transcode DVD to any video and audio format, and edit DVD to create personal movie.

Videomate (Win/Mac)

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8K Player (Win/Mac)

A mixture of free HD/4K video player, music player, Blu-ray/DVD player, video recorder and gif maker. 

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