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Different Ways to Remove Blu-ray Copy Protections

We all purchase Blu-Rays with all kinds of media content: movies, games, music, software, etc. However, as we use those discs, their quality wanes with time and, after a few years, they become unusable. In addition, in a similar manner as DVD, the Blu-ray Disc format also has a region coding and copy protection system, which means that you are prevented to use the Blu-ray disc you purchased for some personal use, such as making a backup to prevent scratch or watching the Blu-ray movies on mobile phones or tablets. If so, it's the dead end? Of course not, keep reading on you can get the ultimate solution to remove Blu-ray copy protection and backup your Blu-ray collection easier and faster.

Best Way to Fastly Remove Blu-ray Copy Protection

Because the Blu-ray disc adopts many copy protection like BD+, AACS, region codes, Cinavia, UOP, Digital Rights Management, High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection and BD-ROM Mark, etc, only a few programs can decrypt commercial Blu-ray Discs and rip them for backup. Among them Pavtube ByteCopy (review) stands out and unquestionably becomes the best one, alternative to any free Blu-ray copy software when you got any Blu-ray copying problems.

As a professional Blu-ray copy program, Pavtube ByteCopy could easily backup Blu-ray to various video and audio format, such as H.264, H.265, MP4, M4V, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc. More:

>>> Bypass all copy protection including AACS, BD+, Cinavia, UOP, DRM, BD-ROM Mark and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. 

>>> Keeps constant update to bypass copy protection such as MKB61 and MKB62 encryption used on most of the recently new Blu-ray movies.

>>> Full disc copy of Blu-ray with original structure or Main movie copy without unwanted comments, ads, trailers, etc.

>>> Lossless multi-track MKV copy from Blu-ray with all the subtitle languages and audio tracks.

>>> Edit Blu-ray movies by trimming, cropping, merging, splitting, watermarking, deinterlacing, flipping, apply special rendering effect, change video picture effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc. 

>>> Adjust output profile parameters such as video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, and channels to get better output video and audio quality. 

The Pavtube ByteCopy has two versions available: Windows version and Mac version. Free download the right one based on your computer's operating system to experience how to remove Blu-ray copy protections in following two parts.

Part 1: Remove Blu-ray Copy Protection to Make a Backup with Pavtube

Choose Any Way to Remove Blu-ray Copy Protection and Backup Blu-rays:

Method 1: 1:1 Full disc copy of Blu-ray

Pavtube ByteCopy can create intact Blu-ray folder backups from commercial Blu-ray disc movies, keeping M2TS streams with best audio & video quality, without losing Meta info like audio tracks, subtitle streams, chapter markers, etc.

1. To create an intact Blu-ray folder keeping original file structure and movie quality, insert Blu-ray disc into the BD drive, launch Pavtube ByteCopy, press “Load from Disc” icon and select desired disc drive. The whole disc is selected once loaded, navigate to Output area and click “Browse” to specify a destination folder for the backup folder.

2. In the main screen, press “Copy the entire disc” button. The Conversion window appears.

3. After a few minutes, you can find the full Blu-ray backup folder in the destination folder by pressing the “Open output folder” tab in “Conversion” window or the “Open” button in main screen. The decrypted Blu-ray folder contains all information and contents in the original Blu-ray disc, divided into a BDMV folder and a CERTIFICATE folder. You can then play the BDMV folder on computer with media player.

Method 2: Main movie copy

Besides making a 1:1 full disc copy of Blu-ray with original structure well preserved, you can also make a main movie copy without any unwanted ads, comments, trailers.

1. Import Blu-ray movies by clicking “File > Load from disc”. DVD discs/folders/ISO Image files/IFO files and Blu-ray folders/ISO Image files are also allowed here.

2. From "Format" bar, by choosing Copy > Directly Copy, you are ale to copy the main movie file in its original format without quality loss.

bdmagic directly copy

3. Just click the red button “Convert” on the main interface to realize Blu-ray main movie copy. As for directly copy Blu-ray here, you will get .m2ts as output. And you can playback the output Blu-ray M2TS files on your computer with many free media players such as VLC Media Player, KMPlayer, MPlayer, Windows Media Player.

Method 3: Remux Blu-ray With Zero Quality Loss

Remuxing is quick and retains the full quality of the original Blu-ray disc but the resulting files can be quite large. It is prepared for those who don't care that much about extras in the source Blu-ray discs and want to save space while having the movie in a new container so they can play the Blu-ray movies easily with any video player with the same quality as that of the untouched.

As the best Blu-ray Ripper in the world, Pavtube ByteCopy also can remux Blu-ray rapidly to some other containers like AVI, WMV, MP4, TS. Follow the steps below:

1. Install and launch this best Blu-ray remux program. Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, and click “Load from disc” icon to load your Blu-ray movies. 

2. Click “Format” to open the drop-down window. In the remux category, you can choose which container to remux Blu-ray to. Here,we choose to remux Blu-ray to AVI.

remux to avi

3: Hit on the “Convert” button on the main interface to start to remux Blu-ray to AVI, MP4, MKV without quality loss. Once the process ends, open the output folder to locate the Blu-ray remux.

Part 2: Remove Blu-ray Copy Protection to Enjoy on Mobile Devices

In this section, we will show you how to remove Blu-ray copy protection with Pavtube and convert Blu-ray to common video/audio formats.

Nowadays, more and more people own two or more devices, usually a smart phone and a tablet. For Blu-ray owners who has recently got a new smartphone or tablet like Samsung Galaxy Note 8, iPhone 8, Huawei MateBook, etc, you may come the idea to transfer your favorite Blu-ray movies to these mobile devices for watching when you are out for travelling? As mobile devices have no Blu-ray player software or Blu-ray drive, you need to use Pavtube ByteCopy to remove Blu-ray copy protection and then convert Blu-ray movies to common video and audio formats like MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, MP3, M4A, etc.

1. Launch Pavtube, click "File" > "Load Disc" button to browse to disc drive and import source movie into this app.

Tip 1: Pick up the preferred Subtitle track and Audio stream on the software UI. For movies that include a foreign language, you are allowed to tick off forced subtitle box and just display subtitles when this foreign language is spoken.

2. After Blu-ray importing, select your desired file formats or device preset profile formats from "Format" bar. You could choose to copy Blu-ray movies to MP4, FLV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Samsung, HTC, etc. To keep all different audio tracks like Dolby TrueHD 7.1/5.1 stereo passthrough, different languages for the subtitles, the best suggestion here is to follow this path: "Format" > "Multi-track Video" > "Multi-track MP4" or "Lossless MKV"

Output digital file formats

Tip 2: Click "Settings" icon, you can adjust video and audio parameters for the output format or device, including: video codec, bit rate, frame rate, channel, audio codec, resolution, etc.

Tip 3: If you want to trim the unwanted parts or adjust the aspect radio to best fit your playback device (i.e. if you are taking a 4:3 video and watching it on a 16:9 screen and can't stand the black bars, you can get rid of them here), you could click "Edit" to make them.

3. Click "Convert" button to start to remove Blu-ray copy protection and convert Blu-ray to digital format for mobile devices.

Now you know it’s very easy to remove Blu-ray copy protection and rip copy protected Blu-ray movies to video files. If Pavtube ByteCopy is your choice, click the button below to get a full version now.

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