As a matter of fact, Blu-ray rippers specially developed for Windows operating system are much more than the applications designed for Mac OS, thus Mac users often feel troublesome to search for such a program, especially for one that is easy-to-use and practical, to deal with their tons of Blu-ray collections, not to mention how to add these BD files into portable devices for playback. Fortunately, a powerful utility called Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is released recently in purpose of relieving Mac users’ trouble. It is capable of ripping BD files into many other common video formats, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc., so that you can do whatever you like with the ripped files, adding to media player for local playback, importing to iMovie, Final Cut Pro for further editing, sync to iPhone 3GS for entertainment, or do something else at will. Now I am going to focus on one aspect only, and will be glad to show you how to use this application to rip Blu-ray files for playback on iPhone 3GS via Mac OS.
Step 1: Load BD files
There are two ways to do it, namely, through “DVD Folder” and “IFO File”.
Step 2: Choose a format for iPhone 3GS
Click the drop-down list of “Format”, and then click the option “iPhone”, after that select an output format according to the specification of your iPhone 3GS. All are as the following interface showing, and here I choose “iPhone 3G H.264 640×480(*.mp4)” for instance.
Step 3: Set destination folder
Click “Browse” button to decide where to load the output files for your iPhone 3GS. If not, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper will export the ripped Blu-ray files to a save path set by default automatically.
Step 4: Adjust video and audio parameters
This program allows users resetting video and audio options like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, etc., in that case, you can take charge of the output file size and image quality in a proper way.
Step 5: Start Blu-ray ripping
Once the above steps are completed, then you can click “Convert” button to begin ripping your BD files. After finished, the generated files for iPhone 3GS can be found by clicking ”Open” button with ease.
Additional tips for Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper:
1. Tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”, you can combine all the Blu-ray files to be as a single file, so as to enjoy them on your iPhone 3GS without intervals.
2. Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper adopts advanced audio and video sync tech, which enables you to have high output quality without any audio/video out of sync problems.
3. It enables users to select subtitle, audio track as well as camera angle.
4. It provides users with simple editing functions, such as crop, trim, add watermark, add special effects, take place of the original audio, etc.
5. The multithread technology makes it 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.
6. Besides ripping BD files into other media formats, it also supports directly copying Blu-rays and general DVDs to the hard drive of your Mac.
