Enjoy/play blu ray with WDTV
When ripping Blu-ray Discs for play with WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player, there are many ways to choose from. To keep best possible quality for HD TV play back, many choose to copy Blu-ray to m2ts streams or burn a BD ISO image. But there is a problem here- the WD TV Live Plus will not allow you to forward movie or select a chapter to start with when playing BD ISO or m2ts clips.
So some WD TV box users turn BD to MKV ripping, as MKV format can holds a whole movie in a single file including lossless video, multiple HD audio tracks and subtitles. However, another issue comes up- WD TV plays MKV, but subtitles are not displayed as you watch ripped movie on HDTV, because WD TV Live Media Players do not support Blu-ray PGS subtitles in MKV container. In order to have subtitles displayed correctly, you have to extract Blu-ray subtitles and convert it to a format that Live Plus does support, like srt. But this is complicated and time-consuming.
I would share with you a tool to short the process - Pavtube ByteCopy, which is the best Blu-ray ripping tool I have ever used for playing Blu-ray with WD TV Live boxes. It lets you copy Blu-ray video and audio to MKV file and converts the PGS subtitle to dvdsub format, which is compatible with all the WD TV HD media players and BD players. Click to check detailed guide for BD to WD TV ripping.
Enjoy/play blu ray with WDTV
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