How to Watch Blu-ray on Apple TV

It is well known that Apple TV supports very few file formats, which include MOV, MP4, and M4V videos, meaning BLu-ray cannot be playback on your Apple TV.

Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is made for ripping and copying Blu-ray to Apple TV, Apple TV H.264, Apple TV MPEG4, etc. The output videos are compatible with all the Apple TVs as well as iPhone (iPhone 6/6s/7/7plus), iPad, iPod and iTunes. You can rip and convert homemade and commercial Blu-ray Discs (Blu-ray H264, MPEG, VC1) for freely playback on all your Apple devices.

How to Convert Blu-ray to Apple TV

Step 1: Import Blu-ray movie.
Launch Leawo Blu-ray Ripper, and click the button like a disc to add a Blu-ray movie.


Step 2: Select an output format for Apple TV and set the output folder.
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “HD video > “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” which is the compatible format for Apple TV.


Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.

Step 4: Start converting Blu-ray to H.264 HD Video for Apple TV
Click the “Convert” icon, the Blu-ray to Apple TV conversion will start immediately. You can follow the converting process in the “Conversion” interface.

How to Play Play 4K 4K Blu-ray on Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Fire TV is a tiny box you connect to your HDTV. It's the easiest way to enjoy Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, YouTube, and more. However, you would fail to transfer 4K Blu-ray to Amazon Fire TV for enjoyment on the big screen. That's because Amazon Fire TV has no 4K Blu-ray playing capability. This article aims to give you some tricks for getting 4K Blu-ray movies to Amazon Fire TV for playing correctly.

To play 4K Blu-ray files on Amazon Fire TV, what you need to do is to rip 4K Blu-ray into Fire TV and Plex Media Server friendly format e.g. H.264 MP4.

To begin, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is highly recommended to you, which should be a great helper with a user-friendly interface and powerful capacity. It can help users to rip and convert 4K Blu-ray into MP4 format for Amazon Fire TV without quality loss. Plus, it offers other output formats for playing on portable devices like Samsung Galaxy Tab, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7, iPad .etc to meet your different needs. If you are a Mac OS X user, please turn to Leawo 4K Blu-ray Ripper for Mac.

Insert your 4K Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run the 4K Blu-ray to Fire TV ripping software and click the "BD/DVD disc" icon to load your 4K Blu-ray movies. As you can see, you can preview the loaded 4K Blu-ray files in the right preview window and select 4K Blu-ray audio track/subtitle. DVD disc, DVD folder, ISO/IFO files are supported as well.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc

Open the “Convert” module, and then click the "Add Blu-ray/DVD" button on the main interface to load a 4k Blu-ray disc.


After you have set output format, you could click the same drop-down list and click the "Edit" button to adjust the video and audio parameters of output files, including video codec, audio codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, channel, etc.


Step 2: Select output format

Click the drop-down list next to the “Add Photo” button, and choose “Change” to enter the Profile setting panel where you can freely set output format.



Step 3: Begin the 4K Blu-ray ripping process.

Hit the "Convert" button to begin the conversion from 4K Blu-ray to Amazon Fire TV.
When the conversion is completed, feel free to transfer the converted movies to an external USB drive, then plug the USB drive into your Amazon Fire TV.

Best DVD43 Alternative to Rip DVD

DVD43 is a very popular free DVD decrypter to help you decrypt DVDs. But the question is DVD43 can't deal with the new DVD copy protection for its relatively slow update. Therefore, in order to rip and convert DVD effortlessly, you'd better find a DVD43 alternative.

Here Leawo DVD Ripper is highly recommended to you. With it, you can decrypt your protected DVD in Windows within a few simple clicks.

Besides removing DVD copy protection,  it also enables users to rip and convert DVDs to a wide variety of video formats like MP4, MOV, M4V, MP4, WMV, AVI, MPG, FLV, MKV, etc for different use. If you're looking for a DVD43 alternative for Mac, please turn to DVD Ripper for Mac.

Step 1. Add source DVD movie

Insert target DVD disk into computer’s DVD drive, and click "Add Blu-ray/DVD" button to load source DVD file.


Step 2. Set output format

Click the drop-down box (named "MP4 Video" by default), and choose "Change" to choose "MP4 Video" as output format


Step 3. Set output directory

Click the big green "Convert" button and then set an output directory in the "Save to" box.

How to Extract Subtitles from Blu-ray Movies?

Part 1: How to Extract Subtitles from Blu-ray with MKVExtract

When you want to extract subtitles from Blu-ray discs in different formats, MKVToolnix is a free and open-source MKV subtitle extractor to extract the subtitles from MKV video to ASS, STR or SUB files. It is available to Windows, macOS and Linux. Just learn more details about the process to extract the Blu-ray subtitles as below.

Step 1. Download and install the MKVToolnix package and MKVExtractGUI from the Internet. After that, you can unzip the MKVToolnix package, and put the GUI file into the folder.


Step 2. Double click the program to run the MKVExtractGUI.exe file. Hit the button with the three-dot icon to Import the MKV file ripped from your Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray program.


Step 3. Next, check the subtitle that you need in the Tracks section and uncheck unwanted tracks. An MKV file may store several subtitles, which you can select certain one or all of them. Set a specific folder to save the subtitle file in the Output Dir area.


Step 4. Finally, click on the Extract button at the bottom of the window to extract subtitles from the Blu-ray movie. When it is done, you can find the subtitles extracted from Blu-ray movies saved in SRT, SUB or ASS depending on the original format of the subtitle track.

Part 2. Best way to Rip Blu-ray with Subtitles - Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is a well-known blu-ray ripper boasting to rip Blu-ray DVD to 180+ video/ audio with 100% original quality and 6X faster speed with subtitles remained. 

Simply put, it can rip and convert blu-ray into video of all kinds of formats and devices. It features zero quality loss conversion experience and allows users to enjoy theater movie feeling. 

Apart from that, file merging, media editing, 3D movie creating, parameter adjusting, etc are all offered together within the program. Next, there will be a tutorial guide to show you how to work with this program to rip blu-ray.

Step 1. Download and install the latest Leawo Blu-ray Ripper on your computer;

Step 2. Launch Leawo Blu-ray Ripper, add your target Blu-ray movie

Step 3. Choose the audio track and subtitle stream you need to retain at the corresponding sections




Step 4. Click “Change” option to choose the target output format.



Step 5. Click the green button “Convert” on the toolbar and set output directory in the “Save to” box. 



After that, click the bottom “Convert” button to start converting Blu-ray movie files.