Thursday, May 4, 2017

Top Handbrake 1.0.7 Alternative for Windows (10) and Mac

What's the biggest sugar-coated bomb for video buffs in this festive holiday? Needless to say, it must be the news from Handbrake, one of the popular open source video transcoders, finally, it officially launched as version 1.0.7 after 13 years in beta, with improved features of adding new device presets, new Matroska (MKV) presets that include support for VP9 video with Opus audio and so on. Will it be enough? Well, technically yes, but how about getting more video output, the best video conversion quality and faster speed? Any alternative to Handbrake 1.0.7 available? Don't be so hurry, you can turn the dial the other way all from here.


Handbrake 1.0.7 Limitations: Errors After Upgrading to latest version

Handbrake is a famous, open-source, cross-platform DVD ripper and video converter. With it, you can convert DVD or video to the limited video formats like MP4 with MPEG-4 or H.264 encoded. However, this is what makes people and love and hate handbrake. Trouble can arise in unexpected places:

1. Upgrading issue: Handbrake users download and install Handbrake 1.0.7 as soon as it's released. Some people succeed, while some not.

2. Complex Operations: Even though Handbrake 1.0.7 adds a user-friendly drag and drop option to import files, it's still complicated for beginners to convert videos and rip DVDs. 

3. No valid source found/no title found 

4. Won't rip the latest protected DVD, leaving you as nervous as a cat on the hot roof. 

5. Unable to find the right title when ripping DVDs 

6. Slow Scan Speed Error

7. Audio Defaults: Chosen Language (Any) first track of language only.

8. Intel QSV (H.264) Coding generates messy outputs: After updating to 1.0.7 (or latest 1.0.1) on Windows 10, the generated .MKV file is blinking/messy. 

9. Video won't sync with audio, or video is missing

10. Slow Speed of MKV VP9 Encode

11. Crashes every time converting video to MKV VP9

12. Supports only two output formats: MKV and MP4. Consequently, if you want to choose AVI or FLV as your final format for uploading to YouTube, you have to turn to other video converting software.

13. Still have bad compatibility with macOS Sierra/Mac OS X El Capitan even though it declared that some bugs for running on these systems had been fixed.

Best Handbrake 1.0.7 Alternatives on Video Conversion & DVD Ripping

So to be not disturbed with these Handbrake issues, Handbrake 1.0.7 alternatives are in demand for users. Look around for a Handbrake 1.0.7 alternative? Cuz you are in a market where there is a demand, there is a supply. And here we'd like to recommend a functional tool similar to Handbrake separately for video conversion, DVD ripping and even Blu-ray ripping - Dimo Video Converter Ultimate

It is an all-in-one video converter, audio converter, DVD Ripper, Blu-ray ripper, video player, video editor, ISO maker and wi-fi media transfer. Let's have a look at what this excellent replacement of Handbrake 1.0.7 can do for you:

1. 6x faster speed. NVIDIA CUDA tech and fast mode option makes it at least 6x faster than HandBrake 1.0.7. No stuttering, no VP9 video encoding crashes. 

2. No quality loss. It supports ripping Blu-ray/DVD and convert SD/HD/4K videos from formats to formats and output the original quality. 

3. 350+ video and audio codecs. It supports to input and output nearly any video audio (container) formats, including VP9, VP8, MKV, MP4, AVCHD, MTS, MOV, H.265, H.264 etc. with 150+ preset profiles for different devices, covering iPhone 7/7 Plus/SE, Galaxy S7, Apple TV 4, Oculus Rift and more.

4. Extract Audio Files from Videos: It performs well in extracting audio files from your videos as MP3, M4A, WAV, ALAC, AIFF, FLAC, AAC, AC3, etc.

5. Ease of use. It can convert video by simply loading files, choosing output profiles and clicking Start. Super easy even for novice users. 

6. Video editing. It comes with powerful editing tool like trimming, cropping, adding watermark, adjusting effect, compressing, etc. 

7. ISO making: Just a click away to make ISO files from Blu-ray or video folder

8. Media streaming: Quickly transfer videos from Mac to mobile devices for playback on the move. 

9. No video and audio out of sync error

10. No accidental interruptions problems 

Dimo Video Converter Ultimate will solve all kinds of problems Handbrake does and doesn't do on converting videos or ripping DVD. For mac users, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac.

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Handbrake 1.0.7 Alternative to Convert Video on Windows (10) or MacOS Sierra

Step 1. Add video, audio, Blu-ray, DVD

There are two ways to import files into the program, (1) Click the "Add File", "Add DVD", "Add Blu-ray" button to browse your computer's folders and select the file(s) you want or (2) For video/audio files, just drag-and-drop the files you want directly from your desktop into the main window and remember, you can import multiple files one by one. 


Step 2. Select an output format 

If you have specific needs concerning video or audio quality, click "Select Format" to select the output format you want, then, you can set the video parameters (resolution, frame rate, encoder, and bit rate) or audio parameters (such as sample rate, channel, encoder and bit rate) by clicking "Settings". 


Tips:

If you don't figure out the differences among various video formats and have no idea which suits your device or player best, you can see the below output video formats suggestion (esp. for the newbie).

* MP4 (H264): Keep a good balance among video conversion speed, video quality and file size. Another beauty, it works with almost all the devices and platforms.
* MOV (H264): speed, quality and file size are similar to the previous one. It's more suitable for Apple related products and app like iPhone iPad, Apple TV, iTunes, QT.
* MKV (AVC): higher quality and faster speed than the previous two. No significant difference in file size. Only one con: the video compatibility is comparatively poor.

Step 3. Edit source files

Hit "Edit" button to edit video  if you need. When entering the video editing sector, you can freely trim video length to decide the Start Time/End Time, crop video to remove the unwanted black bars, rotate video of 90/180/270 degrees, add text watermark, adjust effects, create 3D video, etc.

Step 4. Convert your media files 

After a short setup, click the "Start" button to begin the Video/Audio/Blu-ray/DVD to a right format conversion process, then sit back and enjoy your newly freed music and movie files on your devices. As an awesome Handbrake 1.0.7 alternative, this Ultimate converter comes with more excellent features like sharing converted videos from PC/Mac to mobile devices or TV for playback conveniently.

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Kindly Note:

The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Converting MKV to Samsung TV Compatible Format


Samsung's range of TVs are some of the most popular and well-received available on today's market. Having shelled out considerable amounts of hard-earned cash on brand new, top-of-the-range TVs by Samsung, some customers were understandably agitated when they got it home and came to the realisation that Samsung TV struggles with MKV videos. 

Q:When I play movies by connecting USB, I can view avi, mpeg files etc. But when I play MKV files, it gives an error codec not supported, and audio does not work. I can see the visuals fine with no sound.

Then, can Samsung TV play MKV files? Why won't play some MKV on Samsung TV? How to watch all kinds of MKV on Samsung TV? This article will give you answer.


Can Samsung TV Play MKV? Why won't play some MKV on Samsung TV?

As far as we know, codec support is likely to be limited to whatever Samsung decided to support in their TV. Unfortunately the video's you play on the TV will need to be formatted in such a way that they are encoded using codecs supported by the TV. And an MKV is a container format which can hold various video and audio codecs. If your Samsung TV can't either read the MKV file or when it does the images are kind of distorted with poor audio, you may get some MKV videos encoded beyond Samsung TV's support. This is the main reason why you got into trouble to play MKV in Samsung TV.

How to watch all kinds of MKV on Samsung TV

To solve "Samsung TV not playing MKV" issue, a widely recommended solution is convert MKV to Samsung TV more compatible MP4 format. There are a huge amount of tools out there that allow you to convert MKV files to Samsung TV friendly formats

While in view of converting speed and quality, here I highly recommend you try Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which can fast help you convert MKV to Samsung TV accepted MKV videos with customized preset profile for Samsung TV. Besides MKV, the program can also convert MP4, MOV, AVI, VOB, MTS, M2TS, MXF, WMV, etc. video formats to play on Samsung TV, iPad, iPhone, Nexus, Samsung Galaxy devices, Xbox One S, FCPPS VR and more smoothly. Even the original 7.1 audio channel can be kept in MKV to Samsung TV supported MP4 conversion. If you're a Windows user, simply turn to the Mac version here.

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Guide: Convert MKV files for playback on Samsung TV

Step 1. Import MKV you want to convert to Samsung TV

Start MKV to Samsung TVvideo converter and drag the .mkv files to the software interface. Or you can click "Add File" button to import the video.  


Step 2. Choose the optimized format for Samsung TV

Now click the "Select Format" icon to reveal output panel. And move mouse cursor to TV category to Select Samsung TV as the output format. The optimized output format will contains the best video settings for playback on your Samsung TV. Of course, you can also choose H.264, MP4, MKV, AVI from "Format > Video" profile list.

Tip: Before start the MKV to Samsung TV conversion, you can click the Settings icon and adjust the video size, video bitrate, codec, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc parameters, so that you can get a decent video on your Smart TV.


Step 3. Convert MKV to Samsung TV

Click the "Start" button to start converting MKV to Samsung TV video format. After the conversion, connect the USB drive with computer and head to the destination folder where the converted files are stored; transfer the files to the USB drive then playback your MKV files on the Samsung TV with best quality. Or share them to TV wirelessly with Dimo Free media server. Why don't give this powerful tool a try today?

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Kindly Note:

The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 Macs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 Macs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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Lossless backup Blu-ray to MKV with all audio and subtitle tracks; Rip Blu-ray to multi-track MP4; Convert Blu-ray to almost all popular video/audio formats and devices; Copy Blu-ray to ISO/M2TS; Share digitized Blu-ray wirelessly.

DVDmate (Mac/Win)

A professional DVD ripping and editing tool with strong ability to remove DVD protection, transcode DVD to any video and audio format, and edit DVD to create personal movie.

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