
It would not accept the MKV file created by MakeMKV.Īlso worth noting is that the BDMV folder and the ISO image I made using AnyDVD HD burned a beautiful BD-RE disc at 1080p and played in my PS3 and in my Samsung BD player. So, if you need to decrypted/rip with AnyDVD HD (in Bootcamp or even in Fusion/Parallels), then Pavtube’s Blu-ray Ripper will easily transcode it, or you can always decrypt/rip with Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper too. Things to note (for the curious) are that this app successfully accepted an ISO image and a BDMV folder I made under Vista (Boot camp and VMWare Fusion) using SlySoft’s AnyDVD HD which has to be the best BD decrypter out there. It decrypted all 4 discs I’ve tried so far and they all played extremely well on my AppleTV at 720p. The are four different AppleTV settings alone. And, it encodes for everything under the sun. Well, I’m pleased to say that this doesn’t seem to be the case with Pavtube’s Blu-ray Ripper. You can’t just buy a transcoding app, you have to buy an iPhone encoder, then an AppleTV encoder, etc. What really irks me about this company though is that they nickel and dime you by charging you for several different apps. So, out of frustration I turned to one of the Chinese companies that operates under a million different names which put out the exact same software under each name and almost always with a nearly identical interface. I was very disappointed with HandBrake (crashing), iVideo Converter produced choppy files at 720p, VisualHub never finishes, Popcorn won’t accept any HD input at all (MKV, ISO images, or even BDMV folders), and the story is the same with DVDRemaster Pro and ReFrame.


None of the reliable transcoders worked at all. Well, after many trials, here is what I found:
