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Play MKV files on Gear VR with Galaxy Note 4

Presently lots of users prefer to download high definition videos from internet. Most of them are in MKV format. MKV is a flexible, open standard video file format which can store alternate audio tracks, multilingual subtitles and chapter points, as well as rich metadata authoring (including cover art, ratings, and descriptions) in one single file. This feature makes you play and watch MKV just as enjoy Blu-rays. In this article , I would like to show you a step by step guide on how to encode MKV for watching on Gear VR via Galayx Note 4 with zero quality loss.

Samsung Gear VR is a mobile virtual reality headset, on which you can play your own movies using the Oculus Cinema with brilliant immersive viewing experience. It supports a wide range of media formats including MKV files in 2D or 3D SBS(Side-by-Side) work on Gear VR, but the audio has to be encoded in AAC or MP3 for stereo. AC3 audio and DTS Dolby don't seem to work and this is why you often play MKV files on Gear VR with no sound found. In order to watch MKV on Gear VR with Galaxy Note 4, you just need a right program and convert MKV to 3D MP4 for smoothly playing on Gear VR via Galaxy Note 4.

Luckily, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is just the right app that can help you to finish the task quickly and easily. This video converter has been proven to be an outstanding MKV video converter. With it, you can convert MKV to Gear VR compatible SBS 3D MP4/MKV effortlessly. In addition to MKV files, this program also allows you to watch 3D Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray ISO, 3D AVI, 3D YouTube, 3D YIFY, etc on Gear VR via Samsung smartphpones nicely.

What's more, with the built-in editor, you can trim, crop, adjust special effect to your MKV video, so that you get the very part and effects at your will. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac (El Capitan, Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

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How to encode and play MKV files on Gear VR with Galaxy Note 4?

Step 1. Import MKV video

Click the "Add video" button, browse to import video into this app.

Step 2. Decide output format

Tap on "Format" bar and find "3D Video", there are a lot of format options for you. "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" is recommended for Samsung Gear VR. Of course, "MKV Side-by-Side 3D video", "MOV Side-by-Side 3D video" are also supported.

Tip: Click Settings to adjust the parameters like video codec, video bitrate, video frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel. 1920x1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920x540 resolution full side-by-side resolution.

Step 3. Start encoding MKV to Gear VR

Click "Start conversion" button to start converting MKV to Samsung Gear VR friendly 3D video. After the conversion, you can get the resulted videos by clicking the Open button.

After the conversion, you need to transfer the converted 3D movie to Galaxy Note 4 for playback with VR. Just refer to the following steps:

1. On your MicroSD card file directory, navigate to Oculus > Movies > Your Movies

2. Create a new folder in "Your Movies" and label it "3D"

3. Move your SBS 3D videos into your newly created "3D" folder

Once you have created your 3D content folder and imported compatible video files, insert your MicroSD card into your Galaxy Note 4, pair up the phone with your Gear VR, and put the virtual reality headset on your head. Then:

1. Navigate to Oculus Cinema from the main menu

2. Navigate to "My Videos" from the Oculus Cinema content library menu

3. Select the 3D video you want to watch (if you followed the above steps it should have a "3D" label in the upper righthand corner)

4. Choose the cinema mode to begin playback.

Now you can easily watch converted MKV videos on your Galaxy Note with Gear VR at home instead of going to cinema, or you can put them onto other 3D players for stunning playback. So nice!

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Source: http://gear-vr-help.jimdo.com/2015/09/08/play-mkv-on-gear-vr/

Convert Walking Dead Season 6 Full Episodes Quickly

The sixth season of The Walking Dead, an American horror–drama television series on AMC, premiered on October 11, 2015. The season will consist of 16 episodes, split into two eight-episode parts; the second of which will premiere on February 14, 2016. Developed for television by Frank Darabont, the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The executive producers are Kirkman, David Alpert, Scott M. Gimple, Greg Nicotero, Tom Luse, and Gale Anne Hurd, with Gimple as showrunner for the third consecutive season. This season introduces notable comic characters such as Heath, Denise Cloyd, and Scott.

The Walking Dead Season 6 (TV series) Information:

The Walking Dead Season 6 release date:
Episode 9-16 (premiere on February 14, 2016); Episode 1-8 (premiered on October 11, 2015)
DVD release date: Not announced
Genres: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Developed by: Frank Darabont
Starring: Andrew Lincoln; Norman Reedus; Steven Yeun; Lauren Cohan; Chandler Riggs; Danai Gurira; Melissa McBride; Michael Cudlitz; Lennie James, etc.
Original Networks: AMC, AMC Networks

List of The Walking Dead Season 6 Episodes:

Episode 1: First Time Again Directed by: Greg Nicotero October 11, 2015
Episode 2: JSS Directed by: Jennifer Lynch October 18, 2015
Episode 3: Thank You Directed by: Michael Slovis October 25, 2015
Episode 4: Here's Not Here Directed by: Stephen Williams November 1, 2015
Episode 5: Now Directed by: Avi Youabian November 8, 2015
Episode 6: Always Accountable Directed by: Jeffrey F. January November 15, 2015
Episode 7: Heads Up Directed by: David Boyd November 22, 2015
Episode 8: Start to Finish Directed by: Michael E. Satrazemis November 29, 2015
Episode 9: No Way Out Directed by: Greg Nicotero February 14, 2016
Episode 10-16: TBA February 21, 2016 - April 3, 2016

If you have some troubles in playing the Walking Dead Season 6 Full Episodes on media player, portable devices, TV, etc, you can convert the videos to them supported videos for smooth playback. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (Mac) is a professional video converter which can convert the Walking Dead Season 6 Full Episodes in any formats including DVD, Blu-ray, AVI/H.265/MP4/Tivo/VOB/MTS etc to any video formats you want for smooth playback. (read review to learn more)

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Step 1. Click "Add video" button to add your video files to the program. Or directly drag the video you want to convert to the left item bar.

Step 2. Click "Format" bar, and select .mp4 from "Common video" or "HD video" to fit your any devices, or select the format from iPhone, iPad, Samsung, TVs, Xbox, PS4, PS3, etc according to your device.

Tips: The default settings may not satisfy you, and you can click the "Settings" button to change the settings by yourself including video resolution, bit rate, audio sample rate, audio channel etc. for full screen playback smoothly. Or keep no changes, which is also a good choice.

Step 3. Click the "Start conversion" button on the main interface and the software will start to convert Walking Dead Season 6 Full Episodes to your desire format quickly. When the conversion finishes, click "Open" to find the converted video files. Then you can effortless transfer the video files to your devices for playback on the go.

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Can Samsung TV play WMV files from USB?

Samsung LED TV, smart TV, 3D TV and 4K series TV are very popular on the HDTV market, many users choose to buy Samsung TVs because of its high quality and beautiful design. Nowadays more and more users choose to play videos and movies on Samsung TV through USB flash drive or NAS devices, with this method it is very convenient to access to the videos or movies that we want to play. But, not all the video formats can be supported by Samsung TV, recently a lot of Samsung TV users have encountered the issue to play videos in various formats, such as WMV, M4V, etc. Can Samsung TV play WMV files from USB? The answer may be disappointed, from Samsung TV user manual or product page you will find the info that WMV is not supported video format of SamsungTV, but take it easy, keep reading to get the best way to play WMV on Samsung TV via USB Flash Drive.

How to play WMV on Samsung Smart TV via USB?

First read Samsung TV supported formats. After knowing the playable formats, let us talk about how to lay WMV on Samsung TV through USB port? According to the results of searching and tests, the best way is to convert WMV to Samsung TV supported format like H.264 MP4, and then you will be able to play WMV videos on Samsung TV through USB flash drive with compatible format. In order to convert WMV files to Samsung TV compatible format, you will need a professional WMV to Samsung TV converter, here we introduce the best Samsung TV Video Converter for you, the software is called Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (Mac), which is the best TV Video Converter on the world, it is very powerful that can convert HD videos, Blu–ray movies and DVD movies to any video formats you need.

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How to Convert WMV to Samsung TV via USB with iFastime Video Converter Ultimate?

Step 1. Click "Add video" button to add your WMV video files to the program. Or directly drag the video you want to convert to the left item bar.

Step 2. Click "Format" bar, and select Samsung TV .mp4 from "TVS" to fit Samsung TV.

Tips: The default settings may not satisfy you, and you can click the "Settings" button to change the settings by yourself including video resolution, bit rate, audio sample rate, audio channel etc. for full screen playback smoothly. Or keep no changes, which is also a good choice.

Step 3. Click the "Start conversion" button on the main interface and the software will start to convert WMV to Samsung TV friendly video formats immediately. When the conversion done, click "Open" to find the converted video files. Then you can effortless transfer the video files to Samsung TV via USB for playback on the go.
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Playing RMVB by Converting RMVB to Samsung TV

Q: “I have some files in this format, RMVB, but I can't play those with the Plex App from the Samsung Appstore, it always says: Unsupported Video Codec, there's a way to fix this?, or how to download the right codecs for this TV?”
Answer: Nope, the TV has a hardware player only, so updates would need to come from Samsung in a firmware update, but that won't happen.

Your best chance is to use transcoding if your PMS server can handle it.

Go to preferences > Player and enable "Force Local transcoding" in the app.

Now try again.

Note: Only do this for movies with unsupported codecs.

The next version should recognise the bad codecs and handle this better with auto transcoding.

If your PMS server can’t handle it or want to play RMVB files on Samsung Smart TV perfectly, you need one professional video converter to convert RMVB files to Samsung Smart TV supported formats. There are many video converters in market now, but what you need is one excellent, safe, universal converter. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (Mac) is your smart choice, which can convert RMVB files to Samsung Smart TV playable videos for your nice playback anytime. Besides RMVB, this easy-to-use Samsung TV converter also can convert RMVB, MKV, WMV, AVI, AVCHD,MPEG-4, .ts, H.265 etc to Samsung TV for smooth playback. (read review)

Hot features of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate:

Convert RMVB and other SD/HD/4K, even DVD, Blu-ray, DVD/Blu-ray ISO to Samsung TV
Output formats for Samsung TV, LG TV, Panasonic TV, Sony TV etc
Convert RMVB, RMVB, H.265, MP4, AVI, Tivo, MXF, VOB, MOV etc to portable device like iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Air 3, Galaxy TabPro S, Galaxy Tab S2, Galaxy Tab 3 (Lite) Kids Edition, LeapFrog Epic etc
Works well on Windows/Mac-based computer, includes Windows 10, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
Batch conversion and super fast conversion speed

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Solve Samsung TV Not Playing RMVB by Converting RMVB to Samsung TV

Step 1: Load RMVB videos to the RMVB to Samsung TV converter

Click "Add video" button to import the RMVB files you want to convert to Samsung TV. Alternatively, you can directly drag & drop your RMVB videos to the program.

Step 2: Choose MP4 as the output format for Samsung TV

Here, you just need to select the optimized presetting provided by this app. Click "Format" bar and choose "TVS > Samsung TV (*.mp4)"as the output video format which is suitable for Samsung TV and also for USB Port or DLNA streaming.

Tips:

1. If you want to personalize your RMVB videos, you can trim videos to get the wanted segments, crop the black bars, adjust video effects and insert (*.srt and *.ass, *.ssa) subtitles.

2. To get customized MP4 videos, you are able to click "Settings" button to adjust all the settings in the following window to customize the output file quality, including codec, size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel.

Step 3: Convert RMVB to Samsung TV compatible-format

If you have done all these settings, just click "Start conversion" button to start converting RMVB videos to Samsung smart TV format you select. Once the converting progress is finished, you can now get converted files and transfer to your hard drive and play it back on your Samsung TV via a HDMI, USB cable, USB stick, NAS or other media streamers as long as your Samsung TV has DLNA support.

Blu-ray movies on QuickTime on Mac OS X El Capitan

What is the first media player on Mac OS X El Capitan? Quicktime will be the one. Not because it is bundled with Mac OS X, just in that it's powerful media technology that works on Mac OS X El Capitan with just about every popular video or audio format you come across. Its playable audio and video formats just like the same sheet:

Although QuickTime supports many video formats, as we all seen, Blu-ray is not in the list. So if you have many Blu-ray movies, no matter from your paid Blu-ray discs or downloaded from internet, how do you watch Blu-ray movies on QuickTime Mac OS X El Capitan?

Pavtube BDMagic for Mac is exactly designed for this problem. This Blu-ray to QuickTime converter enables you to rip and backup Blu-ray to QuickTime playable formats at ultra fast time with high video quality. What’s more, it is updated to support the Mac OS X El Capitan and Yosemite 10.10. So you can rip Blu-ray on your Mac OS X El Capitanand Mac Yosemite 10.10/10.9. It also can play Blu-ray movies of region A, region B and region C.

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How to rip Blu-ray to QuickTime playable format?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

Click the "Folder" icon on the top menu bar to load your Blu-ray disc to the program

Step 2: Choose QuickTime MOV format

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down selection, define "MOV-QuickTime (*.mov)" as the output profile format.

Step 3: Start to rip Blu-ray to QuickTime

Start to rip Blu-ray to QuickTime format process on OS X El Capitan by hitting the right-bottom conversion button. When the conversion is done, locate the ripped Blu-ray in the output folder.

Now, you can freely enjoy your Blu-ray movies on QuickTime on Mac OS X El Capitan.

In addition, this Blu-ray Ripper actually can convert Blu-ray, ISO to H.265, M3U8, MP4, etc, for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV directly. Besides, it also has powerful function to extract FLAC audio.

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Ripping Blu-ray to H.265/HEVC MP4 on PC

HEVC/H.265, the successor to AVC/H.264, more than triples the existing AVC intra-frame prediction modes to achieve significant bitrate savings, It is targeted to next-generation HDTV displays and content capture systems that feature progressive scanned frames and display resolutions from QVGA (320×240) up to 1080p and Ultra HDTV 4320p (7680×4320.) It is a codec that can offer up to 50% reduced bitrate at the same quality when compared to AVC/H.264.

In this article, I will show how you can convert your Blu-ray to H.265/HEVC MP4 on PC to greatly reduce the output size in a simple and fast way.

Then how can we do to compress the size of Blu-ray files so that we can bring them with our H.265/HEVC players for watching? Here Pavtube BDMagic is quite intuitive. Even though you have no experience on Blu-ray ripping, you can know the each next step according to the instructions on the main interface. You can rip Blu-ray and DVD to H.265/HEVC MP4 and MKV up to 30x times speed using Nvidia GPU hardware acceleration and convert Blu-ray and DVD to H.264 MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, TS, MOV, M4V, etc by up to 500% speed with NVIDIA CUDA acceleration than the same action with no acceleration.
Main features:

Powerful Blu-ray/DVD Ripper: Converts Blu-ray/DVD and ISO/IFO files to H.265 video filess rapidly in high quality.
Wide Selection of Formats Supported: Converts any video files to various video and audio formats and popular media players
Fast-Speed Blu-ray/DVD Converter: If your computer have Nvidia CUDA/ATI AMD ready graphics card, you can have GPU encoding and the conversion would be faster. Note this function only works when you choose H.264 Baseline Profile.
Lossless Conversion: Converts Blu-ray, DVD video files without the risk of losing its original quality.
Additional Features: Edit tool videos, can create 3D video, 1:1 disc backup, copy main BD/DVD movie and etc.

Guide: Rip and compress Blu-ray to H.265/HEVC MP4 on PC with best quality

Step 1: Import Blu-ray movies to the best Blu-ray to H.265 Ripper

Load your disc to the Blu-ray drive room, and launch the Blu-ray to H.265 Ripper; click the disc button to import your Blu-ray movies to the program.

Tip:

Click the main file of your Blu-ray to select the subtitles for Blu-ray movies in the “Subtitles” option.

Step 2. Choose the suitable output format

From format bar, just choose “Common Video >> H.265 Video(*.mp4)” as your output format. Or select “HD Video >> H.265 HD Video(*.mp4)” to get HD quality.

To get H.264 video for output, just go to the ‘Common Video’ to select the ‘H.264 Baseline/Main/High profile (*.mp4)’ as your favorite. Or in the ‘HD Video’ item, ‘H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)’ is also available.

You can also choose the preset output format for spacial devices such as iPad, Apple TV.etc

Tip:

Before conversion, you can go to the “Settings” to set the parameters for your movie. To compress the file size, adjust the parameters to be smaller.

PS: Some quality will be lost if you compress them to be much smaller. So Pls ensure the movie quality before adjust the parameters.

Step 3. Rip BD to H.265/HEVC MP4

Click the Convert button on the main interface to start compressing Blu-ray. Once the conversion finished, you can get the ripped video as you wanted by clicking “Open” button. Sharing your movies with families and friends on TV or H.265 media players is easy for you!

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Rip 3D Blu-ray movie to SBS 3D MP4 video for playback on your 3D devices

The best 3D Blu-ray Ripper here assists you to rip and convert your Blu-ray to side-by-side 3D MP4 video and you can enjoy the 3D video with 3D player.“I cannot find any instructions on how to rip a 3D Blu-ray disc to side-by-side form. I’d like to make Blu-ray 3D to MP4 SBS backups. Is there a tutorial somewhere on your website?”

Maybe most 3D movie fans would ask the same question to either backup their 3D movies free from physical disks or prepare for future usage such as watching copied 3D movies on 3D player.

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To rip Blu-ray to side-by-side 3D MP4 video, Pavtube 3D Blu-ray Ripper- BDMagic is the best 3D/2D Blu-ray to Side-by-Side 3D ripper to assist you with ripping Blu-ray to side-by-side 3D MP4. Mac users could use 3D Blu-ray Ripper for Mac which is specially designed for Mac users to create 3D SBS MP4 video out of 3D/2D Blu-ray movies.

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Full Guide: How to rip 3D Blu-ray movie to SBS 3D MP4 video for playback on your 3D devices?
Step 1: Load 3D/2D Blu-ray Disc.

Open Pavtube Blu-ray to Side-by-Side 3D converter and load your source Blu-ray movie.

Step 2: Choose suitable profile.

From the “Format” drop-down list, you are suggested to follow the path “3D Video > MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video(*.mp4)” for ripping Blu-ray to side-by-side 3D MP4 video.

Step 3: Adjust profile presets (Optional)

If you like, you could set profile parameters to get better video quality, such as video codec, file size, video bitrate, frame rate, etc.

Step 4: Start ripping Blu-ray to side-by-side 3D MP4 video.

Double check above steps and you could click the “Convert” button on program interface to start ripping Blu-ray to side-by-side 3D MP4 video. After it finished, open output file destination, locate the created SBS 3D MP4 video and you could watch it on your 3D player.

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