Won’t Play Blu-ray movies on Media JukeBox

As the technology keeps on advancing day by day, so do the ways of watching videos/movies also expanding day by day. Before we used to watch movies on TV or Cinemas only, now we can also watch videos/movies on Video Players on our computers. Combining ease of use with powerful features, J.River Media Jukebox is an all in one music organizer, media player, CD burner and iPod connector ready to enhance the multimedia experience and meet the requirements of the most demanding users. It is capable of playing many types of media except for Blu-ray discs.

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For Blu-ray lovers who would like to add your wide collection of Blu-ray movies into Media Juke Box (TiVx) for storing and watching, this article introduces two simple options. Finding third party software to convert Blu-ray movies to play with Media JukeBox or hire an alternative thrid party player to play Blu-ray disc on Media JukeBox.

Option 1: Get an ideal third party program

Since Media JukeBox can not support Blu-ray disc directly, then the easiest solution to watch Blu-ray movies on Media JukeBox is to rip Blu-ray disc content into Media JukeBox supported formats like MP4. Under this circumstance, a powerful Blu-ray tool- Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac (Learn reasoons to choose it) is highly recommended to deal with DVD/BDs to common video formats conversion for Media JukeBox. What’s more, if you want to rip a Blu-ray/DVD to MKV/MP4/AVI/MOV/Prores on Mac with multi audio tracks without quality loss, Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac would be your choice. The trial version worked better than other products and I have successfully ripped my personal Blu-ray collection for easy storage on Media JukeBox.

Tip: Why we didn’t choose Handbrake?

Thank for the major updates from 0.9.4 to Handbrake 0.9.5, Handbrak has added the Blu-ray Support, you can rip your Blu-ray with Handbrake on Mac. (Refer to the steps) However, as Handbrake need VLC 64bit to read encrypted DVDs, neither HandBrake 0.9.5 nor 0.9.8 can rip protected Blu-ray discs. This time a third-party assistance software is needed. If you can not bear the complexity of install third-party software to assist Handbrake rip Blu-ray on Mac, or you just need faster and more convinient Blu-ray ripping solution, then Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac can be taken as an alternative for Handbrake.

Download the Mac Blu-ray to Media JukeBox Converter on your computer and follow the guide below to start conversion.

Other Download:

- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/bytecopy-mac/

- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-ByteCopy/3000-7970_4-76177783.html

How to Rip Blu-rays to MP4 for Media JukeBox

Step One: Insert your Blu-ray into driver, and add your Blu-ray disc via “Load” button to the app. This program also supports DVD discs and DVD/BD folder.

Step Two: From the Format menu, select Media JukeBox friendly format as your output video format. There, you can take MP4 as your output video format.

Media JukeBox supports all major video formats:

• Video CD playback.
• AVI Video (avi)
• MPEG Video (mpeg, mpg, m1v, mpv, mpe, m2v)
• MPEG-4 Container Formats (mp4, m4v, mp4v, m4p, 3gp, 3g2)
• Windows Media Video (wmv, wvx)
• DIVX Video (divx)
• DVD Video (ifo, vob)
• QuickTime Video (mov, qt)
• RealVideo (rv)
• ShockWave (swf)
• TiVo Format (.tivo files)
• Flash Video (flv)

Tip: If you are still not satisfied with the defaulted profile settings, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish.

Step Three: Tap the “Convert” button and start Blu-ray to Media JukeBox conversion.

When the conversion completes, you will be able to get the result video via “Open” button. After that, you can stream or transfer the converted Blu-ray videos to Media JukeBox for easy storage at ease without any problem.

Tip:

• Folder-watching/auto importing: i.e. watching a folder or folders for changes or new audio file additions and automatically reflecting those in the database. There is actually an auto importing plugin that will do this but I was not able to download and install it.
• Allowing the user to enter the search strings when searching for album art.
• You can sync your collection with the iPod, PDA’s and some selected phones.

Option 2: Install A Different Media Player

VLC can be considered as a powerful media player to afford DVDs and BDs. However, it could only recognize unencrypted Blu-Ray disk. In a word, the option is fantastic for DVDs, but somewhat lacking for Blu-Ray. Thus, you may need the above commercial option for the job for playing Blu-ray movies in Media JukeBox.

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