Monthly archives for January, 2015

How Can You play online/downloaded YouTube video with Rok...

How Can You play online/downloaded YouTube video with Roku?

I just bought the new Roku 3 and it helps us easily enjoy the newest and hottest movies, TV shows, musics from hundreds of free media channels and network, including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu Plus, (Read comparison between Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Video) Spotify, etc. Among them, YouTube must be the most popular video sharing site where […]

Converting Blu-ray Collection to Roku 3 for Playback Free...

Converting Blu-ray Collection to Roku 3 for Playback Freely

Roku 3 features a USB Media Player Channel to let you stream local video collection to HDTV. How about Blu-ray movies? Officially, the Roku 3 only supports H.264 MKV and MP4/M4V video. The point here, Blu-ray format is not accepted and you may find it a painful experience to stream Blu-ray to Roku 3. Luckily, […]

Stream any Supported/Unsupported Video and Audio format t...

Stream any Supported/Unsupported Video and Audio format to Roku

Roku is a mighty streaming video machine, with channels offering movies and shows from most major streaming providers, including Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and HBO Go. Many users want to use Roku as a streamer to cast local video contents to HDTV for playing, but they don’t know which format is supported for streaming, that’s […]

Get started to Stream Video from PC to Roku using Plex Me...

Get started to Stream Video from PC to Roku using Plex Media Server

You can play videos from Youtube or ANY website on your TV through your Roku. However, Roku can’t stream video from PC without other third-party software. But don’t worry! Here I’ll show you how to stream video from PC to Roku via Plex. Everybody loves how simple it is to combine all their favorite media […]

Watching my Blu-ray contents on in-house media server in ...

Watching my Blu-ray contents on in-house media server in my living room

I have a huge Blu-ray movie collection and need a program to assist me in ripping my BluRays to be used with my in-house media server then I can watch all of these content on the media computer I have in my living room. Byreceiving some promo e-mails and frequently visiting the HitFilm forum, I found Pavtube […]

Six best H.265 Video Converters supporting HEVC encode &#...

Six best H.265 Video Converters supporting HEVC encode & decode

If you are using video player software which does not fully support native H.265 files, then you need a H.265/HEVC video converter application. The idea of a H.265/HEVC video converter is to take your high quality h.265 files and convert them into a supported format of your choice. Below you will find our selection of the five best H.265/HEVC […]

Rip & Convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to play on Android...

Rip & Convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to play on Android devices with ease

Video_TS files are one of the main folders in a DVD’s contents. Yeah, you can view the Video_TS files on your computer and DVD players. However, if you want to put your movies on portable Android devices like Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Tab S, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Kindle Fire HD(X), Xperia Z3, etc, you […]

Top 10 Boilsoft Video Joiner Alternatives (Free Download)

Top 10 Boilsoft Video Joiner Alternatives (Free Download)

Boilsoft Video Joiner is the comprehensive and easy video file joiner to combine any video clips into a complete video file. The program works with the following video types: AVI, MPEG/MPG, VOB, RM/RMVB, 3GP, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP4, MKV, MTS, and FLV. All of this is done at lightning quick speeds. Pros Join multiple videos […]

PS3 can’t play MP4 files? Convert MP4 to PS3 fully-...

PS3 can’t play MP4 files? Convert MP4 to PS3 fully-compatible formats

Sony PS3 claims to be able to play MP4 video but why sometimes you failed to play MP4 Video on PS3(PlayStation 3)? PS3 can play MP4 format files with extension of .mp4 with video codec of MPEG-4 AVC H.264/Xvid/DivX and audio codec of AAC. In that case, there are still several MP4 videos are unsupported […]

How can I easily stream video from Mac to PS3 free?

How can I easily stream video from Mac to PS3 free?

Being an owner of both a Mac and a PlayStation 3, I stumbled across a great piece of software called PS3 Media Server, a free way to stream media library from your Mac to Playstation 3. Here’s how to set it up. (If you are a Windows user, you have got the DLNA Media Server to get […]

Top Ten best Alternatives to Cyberlink PowerDVD

Top Ten best Alternatives to Cyberlink PowerDVD

CyberLink PowerDVD is a commercial media player. Several editions of the software are sold including: Ultra, Deluxe and Standard. All editions support the viewing of DVD but only the Ultra edition supports Blu-Ray playback. One of its amazing features is that you can keep yourself updated anytime about the latest video and cinema releases. However,  PowerDVD will […]

How to Sync and Play XviD/Divx via Apple TV 3

How to Sync and Play XviD/Divx via Apple TV 3

DivX/Xvid becomes more and more popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. (Read XviD & DivX Reference) Have tried directly syncing the XviD/Divx to Apple TV 3, but failed? No worry, this article is written just to resolve the XviD/Divx on Apple TV […]

Best HEVC/H.265 Video Encoding/Decoding: Pavtube vs Handb...

Best HEVC/H.265 Video Encoding/Decoding: Pavtube vs Handbrake

The H.265, or as it is more commonly called HEVC, was approved by ITU and ISO on January 25th, 2013. There’s no doubt the HEVC compression format provides a significant quality increase over the previous H.264 format. Have you enjoyed the benefits of H.265? With wave of HEVC capable encoders and decoders will also coming […]

The Real Codec Battle is VP9 vs H.265, which is the winne...

The Real Codec Battle is VP9 vs H.265, which is the winner?

I noted that the real battle is between H.265 and VP9 and not H.264 and VP8 nowadays. H.265 or VP9? The fight is only beginning. I really thought it was a done deal when Google announced their roadmap for WebRTC, where VP9 was there as a new experimental addition. VP9 is the future of VP8. […]

Importing XAVC MXF files into Premiere Pro CC 2014

Importing XAVC MXF files into Premiere Pro CC 2014

XAVC is an open recoding format that was introduced by Sony. It allows for a wide range of content production including intra frame recording and long group of pictures (GOP) recording. And the Material Exchange Format (MXF) can be used for the digital container format. But many users find they can’t do anything when importing […]

H.265 Converter- Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate Updated...

H.265 Converter- Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate Updated to Encode Video to H.265

HEVC, short form for High Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265, is a video compression standard successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. It ensures to deliver video quality identical to H.264 AVC at only half the bit rate. Simply put, H.265 time is coming and this is why more and more companies urgently gear up to […]

4K Blu-ray Discs & Players Will Be Ready in 2015

4K Blu-ray Discs & Players Will Be Ready in 2015

4K TV owners will have more options for content as 4K Blu-ray discs and players could arrive as early as the 2015 holiday season, according to TechRadar. Chairman of the Blu-ray Disk Association Global Promotions Committee Victor Matsuda confirmed the report, and said he expects 4K Blu-rays to cost more than Blu-rays, similar to when […]

Tips and Tricks to Play and Convert H.265/HEVC video file...

Tips and Tricks to Play and Convert H.265/HEVC video files

Whether you are wanting to watch stunning new HEVC videos on your huge widescreen computer monitor, or on your smartphone, having a piece of software that is capable of playing this increasingly popular and widely used format of ultra high definition video smoothly will make all the difference in how much you enjoy the experience. […]