Summary: This article offers a brief instruction about how to backup and rip several hundred Blu-ray collection to home media server for storage, streaming and sharing.

"I want to make a copy for backup my several hundred Blu-rays from my collection to convert them for storage on my home media server so I can stream them to any device in my home. How to make it?"



With a lot of wonderful Blu-ray discs like Star Trek, The Equalizer, Boyhood, Boxtrolls, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Expendables 3, etc. in hand, you may consider to find a way to convert your existing Blu-ray for storing on home media server rather than repurchasing it in a digital (non-disc) form as above. This article will give my own experience about how to convert hot Blu-ray to home media server friendly format.

At first, through Google search, you will find so many tools including the free and powerful Handbrake, here is a powerful converting tool with reasonable price- Pavtube BDMagic. With it, you can fast rip and convert any latest Blu-ray/DVD discs to home media server video format in super fast conversion speed and excellent image and sound quality. What's more, with this Blu-ray/DVD ripping tool, you can easily backup your Blu-ray, DVD disk with whole content copy or backup main movie only. For Mac users, you can get BDMagic for Mac. Now you're ready to migrate your Blu-ray, DVD movies into the all-digital future for transferring to home media server.

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Transcode Blu-ray movies to home media server supported format for streaming .

Step 1. Run this Pavtube BDMagic, load Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray folder, Blu-ray ISO image files. This program will help you analysis ISO files automatically so that there’s no need to run virtual drive to mount ISO image files any more.



Step 2. Click the “Format” menu, various devices and formats are listed below.

As home media server like Plex Server/NAS Server/E-library Server, etc. is powerful enough to almost all kinds of formats, you can choose the format according to your own needs like MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, etc. from "Common Video" or get a HD video from "HD Video" option.

If you would like to enjoy movies from physical discs to your mobile phone and tablet, you can select a decent format like "iPad > iPad HD Video(*.mp4)" from the profile list comes with the software.



Step 3: If you like, modify profile settings such as video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get optimized video and audio playback.



Step 4: Return to BDMagic main interface, and hit the “Convert” button to start encoding Blu-ray discs.

Once it finshes, open output folder, locate the created file and you can transform the converted files to home media server. Or you can play movies on Smart TV via USB and share with family members.

More about home media server:

Many people prefer to build a home media server to store all your photos, movies and more in a central location. Usually it integrates with all your family’s home computer; everyone in your family can access shared folders of photo albums, music and movies from any device in your home network.

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