Rip 300 DVDs to TIVO Bolt Boxes for Plex Media Server

John Salley

Jan 26, 2017 12:43 pm / Posted by John Salley to BD/DVD Backup, NAS

DVD is a physical media that is only limited to being played by DVD player device provided with DVD-ROM. For playing more flexibly, transferring it into a media server would be a popularly acceptable way. If you have a large personal DVD collection over 300 movie DVD’s and want to save them using PLEX server to play on the TIVO Bolt boxes all over the house. But still have no idea? This guide intends to show you how to convert video from a DVD to H.265 format to play the movie on your TIVO Bolt boxes. Hope it will give you some help when you want to convert 300 DVD files to TIVO Bolt boxes through Plex Media server.

Preparation:

To rip and backup DVD discs, what you need is a DVD ripping tool. Pavtube BDMagic is the bee’s knees, which can help you finish DVD conversion bypassing DVD copy protection. With it, you can convert DVD to almost all regular video formats like H.265 MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, etc. and even extract MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, etc. audio from DVD movies. Best of all, it allows you to copy your DVD to hard drive with original structure or main movie only. If you’re using a Mac, please turn to Top DVD to TiVo Ripper for Mac, which enables you to convert DVD to TIVO Bolt boxes via Plex Media Server on Mac OS Sierra.

Key Features of Top Pavtube DVD Ripper for TIVO Bolt Boxes:

* 1:1 backup DVD/Blu-ray with original video structure on Windows.
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* Rip DVD/Blu-ray to Hard drive in MP4, MOV, M4V with excellent video quality.
* Make users choose desired subtitle, forced subtitle, keep multiple subtitles, extract srt subtitle from DVD/Blu-ray movies and to add external subtitle to DVD/Blu-ray movies.
* Supports 300+ main stream output devices such as iPhone 7, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s/6s Plus, iPad Air 3, iPad Mini 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Samsung TV and so on.
* Enables users to adjust video codec, bitrate, frame rate, size, audio channel, codec, bitrate and display aspect ratio.
* Compatible with Windows 2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10.

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Here, this best DVD to TIVO ripper can offers you different ways for backup and best settings for playback. Just follow the one as you need.

Method One: Store 300+ DVDs to Tivo Bolt Boxes With H.265 MP4 Format

After searching the disc you want from the 300+ DVD discs will be a headache. So it will be a good idea to copy your 3OO+ DVD Movies With H.265 MP4 format so that you can view them through Tivo Bolt Boxes. Follow the bellow steps to rip 300+ DVDs to Tivo Bolt Boxes With H.265 MP4 Format.

Steps: Convert DVD to Tivo Bolt Boxes Compatible Format

STEP 1. Import DVD Movies

Insert your DVD disc to the drive, then launch the DVD ripping software and click the “Load Disc” button to have the DVD content imported. You can also add VIDEO_TS folder, DVD ISO files are the source files for converting.

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STEP 2. Decide Output Format

Click Format bar and choose H.265 MP4 from Common Video, which can be recognized by Tivo Bolt Boxes/Plex well. MKV is also a good choice; as a container format it takes whatever you give it.

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STEP 3. Advanced Settings

With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original DVD while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality. Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset.

STEP 4. Start Ripping DVD to Plex/Tivo Bolt Boxes

Hit the “Convert” button at the bottom of the main interface to start the conversion. It will automatically convert DVD/VIDEO_TS/ISO to Tivo Bolt Boxes/Plex Media Server compatible video files.

Once the conversion is finished, click “Open” to quickly find the converted movies. Then, Tivo Bolt Boxes/Plex will recognize, catalog, play and stream them just fine.

Note:If you have the ripped DVDs that maintain the original DVD file structure(VIDEO_TS), you still need a DVD ripper to reformat these DVD files. It because that Plex states VIDEO_TS and other image file formats (ISO, etc.) are currently incompatible with the streaming system. It has to be repackaged or encoded into a file that can be streamed by the Plex media server.Pavtube DVD to TiVo/Plex converter can also be your wise choice for it fully supports converting DVD VIDEO_TS folder and ISO image files.

Method Two: Watch DVD on Tivo Bolt Boxes with Dolby Digital 5.1

To get better audio quality in DVD disc to play on your computer and Tivo Bolt Boxes Media players, you could choose to keep Dobly Digital 5.1 audio when ripping DVD discs. Then how to rip DVD to videos with AC3 surround sound? Here we go.

Steps: How to Rip DVD movies in 5.1 Surround Sound

STEP 1. Load your DVD movies

Insert the DVD disc into your computer’s DVD drive and click the “Load DVD” button to import the DVD movie you want to rip to the program.

STEP 2. Choose output format keeping 5.1

Select the whole disc, and you are allowed to choose output format via clicking the Format bar.

tivo-bolt-supported-format

To preserve original Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, you can choose MOV, MKV, H.264 MP4, MPEG-4, etc from Common Video and click Settings icon to set 5.1 channels as the output. Of course, you can also modify the video bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc if you want.

STEP 3. Start ripping DVD with 5.1 surround sound

Before start conversion, select subtitles you want keep with the output video from the option. Then, hit the big Convert button, it will start converting DVD movies to MKV/MOV/MP4/WMV videos with the original Dolby Digital 5.1 saved. So there you have it. Pretty simple.

Method Three: View DVD on Tivo Bolt Boxes Through Plex For HDTV

Note: If you are going to stream the DVD movies with Tivo Bolt via Plex Media Server for watching your large screen TV, the program also gives you the chance to directly output Vizio/Samsung/Sony/Panasonic/LG TV preset profile format so that you don’t need to do any extra complicated profile settings.

Choose TV preset file format

To watch movies on TV via Plex Media Server interface on Tivo Bolt, you will need to choose TV customized file format according to your TV brand.

Conclusion:

Now, you can upload DVD to TiVo Bolt Boxes device, convert video files to TiVo. This guide will help you out when ripping DVD movies to TiVo Bolt Boxes compatible format and transfer the converted files to your TiVo through Plex Media Server. Quickly and legally!

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