Backup Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Home

The WD My Cloud Home offers plenty of space to keep photos, videos and files from all your phones, tablets, computers and external storage devices, in one place at home. Just plug it into your Wi-Fi router and use your smartphone to set up. No computer necessary. No monthly fee required.

For Blu-ray/DVD collectors who travel a lot, you may wish to take your favorite movies on Blu-ray/DVD disc with you anywhere you go. Then backing up Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Home can be a good solution for you. The following article will show you how to make that achieved.

Backup Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Home

As a personal cloud storage, My Cloud Home has no specific requirements for the files storing on it. However, it would be another story for Blu-ray/DVD disc due to the copy protection used on those disc. To bypass that protection, you will need a specific disc copy application. Here, we highly recommend Pavtube ByteCopy to you. The program can helps to powerfully bypass all Blu-ray/DVD copy protection automatically in the background, besides that, it also offers various different ways for Blu-ray/DVD to My Cloud Home backup. You can make a 1:1 full disc copy with original Blu-ray/DVD structure, a main movie copy without unwanted comments, trailers or a Blu-ray/DVD to lossless multi-track MKV copy without your desired subtitle languages or audio tracks. Apart from that, you can also choose to rip or convert Blu-ray/DVD to your Phone, tablet or other portable devices compatible digital file formats or devices preset profile formats for viewing on the move.

Related article: Backup DVD to USB | Backup DVD/Blu-ray to NAS | Backup DVD/Blu-ray to MediaFire

For Mac users, you can switch to download Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac to complete the conversion on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, etc.

Step by Step to Copy/Backup Blu-ray/DVD Movies to My Cloud Home

Step 1: Step 1: Load Blu-ray or DVD disc.

Install and launch the free trial version of the program. Insert your Blu-ray or DVD disc into your computer’s optical drive. If your computer is not equipped with built-in optical drive, you will need an external USB Blu-ray or DVD drive. When both Blu-ray and DVD exists, the software will load DVD.

Step 2: Different ways to backup Blu-ray/DVD movies.

On the top tool bar of the main interface, use the option to make an entire disc copy of original Blu-ray/DVD structure without changing anything.

Main Blu-ray movie copy

From “Format” bar drop-down list, select “Copy” > “Direct” Copy, you can then copy the selected movie file in its original format without quality loss. When directly copy a Blu-ray video, you will get .m2ts as output, when directly copy a DVD video, you will get .vob as output.

Lossless multi-track MKV copy

To preserve all your wanted audio tracks and subtitles streams in the source movie, you can use the program to rip Blu-ray/DVD to ” Lossless/encoded multi-track MKV(*.mkv)” under “Multi-track Video” category.

Rip Blu-ray/DVD to devices compatible formats

Here, select the output digital file format according to which devices you plan to play Blu-ray movies on various portable devices. Here, we choose one of the best compatible digital file formats “H.264 HD Video(*mp4)” under “HD Video” main category.

Step 3: Start Blu-ray/DVD backup/ripping process.

After all setting is completed, hit the “Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin Blu-ray/DVD to WD My Cloud Home copying or ripping process.

When the conversion is finished, click “Open Output Folder” icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you will produce a digital file for either safe backup or convenient device streaming from My Cloud Home.