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Sending Blu-ray Collection Over To iOS Devices in Full-HD 1080p Via Mac

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Enable iOS Devices (Apple TV 3, new iPad 3) to Play Blu-ray Rips with Full-HD 1080p Quality

With 1080p hitting the new iPad (iPad 3) and Apple TV 3, some of you are perhaps now looking to send your Blu-ray collection over to iOS devices for playing back. Here is an easy part. With a Blu-ray optical drive hooked to your Mac, you can use some converter softwares to convert your Blu-ray movie discs to play at the full 1920×1080 resolution on the new iPad’s Retina display (also with Apple TV 3). Last week I tweeted about having successfully ripped my first Blu-Ray disc on the Mac, and while the process wasn’t actually all that difficult. Quite a few of you inquired about how I did it, and what my hardware/software setup was, so I figured I would throw this quick tutorial up.

Add a Blu-ray Drive to Your Mac

First, the most important piece of the equation is that you have a Blu-Ray drive hooked to your Mac. I don’t anticipate Apple including them even as a BTO option any time soon, so your best bet is to go external. I happen to have used a LaCie d2 Blu-Ray 12x USB 2.0 and FireWire Drive 301906U just because we had one kicking around Macenstein Labs. Personally I am not a fan of LaCie’s hard drives (or more importantly, their power supplies) but to be fair the drive performed impeccably and was whisper quiet, so perhaps the external Blu-Ray drive will be their thing.

Rip Blu-ray Content to 1080p videos (compatible with Apple TV 3, new iPad 3) on Mac Pro

My next experiment was to see if we could take a Blu-ray movie disc and rip it to the Mac Pro and transcode it into a format that could be played on the new iPad at the original 1920×1080 resolution. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but while the latest version of the software has added SOME support for reading Blu-Ray folder structures, it cannot yet decrypt the Blu-Ray discs the way it can with regular DVDs, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step.

If you’re looking for ease of use, and don’t mind spending $40 (they currently have a sale), I’ve had success using Pavtube’s Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to convert Blu-Ray discs to a format playable by Apple TV 3 and iPad 3 in a one step process. Using a preset, we used PavTube’s software to convert a Blu-ray movie disc to a “Full HD” 1920×1080 MP4 movie that is compatible with the newest 2012 iPad with the 2048×1536 Retina display. Besides, you can also choose a “Full-HD” preset for Apple TV 3 while maintaining the Dobly Digital 5.1 sorround sound.

The conversion of the 2 hour movie took 1 hour and 20 minutes on our 6-core Mac Pro. It produced a 4.6GB movie file (much smaller than the original movie file). We then imported the MP4 movie file to iTunes and synced it with the new iPad. We played it using the Video app. I’ve found the quality to be excellent, and see no difference when compared to playing the discs themselves. Of course, you can also play the converted movie on your Mac using iTunes or Quick Time Player.

The Steps:

Step 1. Convert Blu-Ray using Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to convert to 1080p H.264 *.mp4 (it has several preset options to choose a format specific to the new ipad and the new Apple TV according to different demands).

Step 2. Import new .mp4 file into iTunes (drag .mp4 file to the iTunes icon on the dock).

On Apple TV 3 and the new iPad, I browse the iTunes library for the movie and it plays smoothly and at full quality. I don’t think it could get much simpler unless of course, Apple provides native support for Blu-Ray which doesn’t seem likely.


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