How to get smooth playback of Blu-rays(ISO) on WD TV

Still stick with my WD TV for movie enjoyment. And recently, am thinking of whether this player can play back my Blu-ray or or ISO backups I have made of my Blu ray drives. The idea being I don’t have to lug the Blu-ray disc all over the house… have them laying around and get scratched.

Through hours’ searching online, I got know that WDTV will not recognize Blu-ray or those ISO files without me having to do something. The best way is to convert Blu-ray/ISO to MKV, MP4 with a Blu-ray ripping tool I guess.

Well, Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper is the tool I’ve been used for nearly one year. It should be the app helping me finish the Blu-ray ripping task.

Reviews: With it, you can convert the commercial Blu-ray movies and ISO/IFO as well as DVD files to MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, MPG, etc. for playing on WDTV. In addition, it provides hundreds of video presets for portable devices like Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2/3, Acer Iconia Tab, Toshiba Thrive, Nexus 10, Nexus 7 (2), etc. If you are on Mac, turn to Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. Don’t hesitate to get it now and follow the easy steps below to make your Blu-rays playable anywhere on WDTV or WDTV Live.

How to rip Blu-ray/ISO to WD TV/WDTV Live playback format:

Step 1: Run the  best Blu-ray to WD TV Converter and click Blu-ray disc icon to load your Blu-ray or ISO movie files.

Step 2: Choose your desired output format for WD TV, like MKV, H.264 MP4  and more. Here just set H.264 MP4 for example.

Tip: By clicking the “Settings” button, you can modify the video/audio parameters like 1920*1080 (Full HD 1080P video resolution), which can help you get the ripped Blu-ray movies with high quality

Step 3: Select subtitle and audio track language you like from the “Subtitle” and “Audio” options. If you like, you can also check “Only show forced subtitles” to make it possible for playback HD videos with forced subtitles on your WD TV.

Step 4: Hit the Convert button to start converting Blu-ray movies to WDTV video.

After a short conversion, you will get the ripped Blu-ray files. And then you could stream Blu-ray movies to WD TV for HD playback. Enjoy.

P.S. The WD TV Supported Formats

Subtitles: SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI
Audio: MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digitat, DTS
Video: AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264),M2TS, WMV9

The best way to get VIDEO_TS folder playable on WD TV

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Just curious if anyone knows if this thing will natively, or via 3rd party app play VIDEO_TS folders on my WD TV. I googled VIDEO_TS to WD TV, and found many guys have the similar confusion.

“I plan to buy a WD TV HD player box that can hook up external hard drive to play movie from there. Question is does it support to play a folder “Video_TS” or not? I have a lot movies that ripped out in DVD format which is “Video_TS” and “Audio_TS” folder.”

“When I play a DVD – Live Hub doesn’t work properly.

I try to play by clicking on the VIDEO_TS map – it doesn’t play but shows:

VTS_01_0
VTS_01_1
VTS_01_2
VTS_01_3

When I click on VTS_01_1 it plays but stops and then I have to click on VTS_01_2 and so on.

Is there a way to solve this?”

Of course, some guys have given the answer. WD TV is NOT a DVD player. It will however play the .vob files in the VIDEO_TS folder. To play the whole VIDEO_TS folder on WD TV smoothly instead of playing multiple .vob file one by one, the best solution would be convert VIDEO_TS to a common video format for your media player. But it would be no DVD menu there anymore. So, before the conversion, you’d better backup your VIDEO_TS if necessary.

First download and install the Brorsoft DVD Ripper. It should be the app helping us finish the DVD VIDEO_TS ripping task.

With it, you can convert the DVDs, VIDEO_TS as well as ISO/IFO to MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, MPG, etc. for playing on WDTV. In addition, it provides hundreds of video presets for portable devices like Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2/3, Acer Iconia Tab, Toshiba Thrive, Nexus 10, Nexus 7 (2), etc. If you are on Mac, turn to DVD Ripper for Mac. Don’t hesitate to get it now and follow the easy steps below to make your VIDEO_TS playable anywhere on WDTV or WDTV Live.

How to rip VIDEO_TS to WD TV/WDTV Live playback format:

Step 1: Run the best VIDEO_TS to WD TV Converter and click DVD folder icon to load the whole VIDEO_TS folder to the UI.

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Step 2: Choose your desired output format for WD TV, like MKV, H.264 MP4 and more. Here just set H.264 MP4 for example.

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Tip: By clicking the “Settings” button, you can modify the video/audio parameters video size, bitrate rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc which can help you get the ripped DVD movies with high quality.

Step 3: Hit the Convert button to start converting Blu-ray movies to WDTV video.

Additional Tips: Before start the conversion, select subtitle and audio track language you like from the “Subtitle” and “Audio” options. If you like, you can also check “Only show forced subtitles” to make it possible for playback HD videos with forced subtitles on your WD TV.

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After a short conversion, you will get the converted VIDEO_TS files. And then you could stream VIDEO_TS DVD movies to WD TV for HD playback. Don’t worry you can’t play VIDEO_TS on WD TV flawlessly. Enjoy.