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How to Enable DVD to playback on Roku 3 for Mac?

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EmilyFaye


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How to Enable DVD to playback on Roku 3 for Mac?

Do you want a cheap, easy way to just watch pretty much every Internet video streaming service out there? Then, you need a Roku box. Do you want to enable your large DVD colletions to your Roku 3 for watching? Reading this article and get the easy way.

Q: “I have been recevied a Roku 3 and i like the streaming box “Roku 3” which has amazon instant video. Every year, my family will have a big party and all the members will get together. We have a very nice time on each year's party. At this year, I will recording the party and sharing with my family. while when I share the video or the DVD, it is really a big problem. I was wondering if you guys had some ideas of which software to get and help me out?”

Q: “In spite of the two Mac laptops, the Mac Mini and my wife’s iPhone, we don’t really consider ourselves an Apple household. But more importantly, the Apple TV wouldn’t connect to either Amazon Instant videos or HuluPlus, so we choose the Roku 3. However, we can not play our DVDs on this and we feel upset and Hesitated whether we made the right decision. So, any suggestion about put DVD for placyback on Roku 3 for our Macbook?

A: Without a doubt, the answer is yes. To solve Roku won't play DVDs issues; a recommended fix is to convert Roku unsupported DVDs to Roku more compatible MKV or MP4. Pavtube BDMagic for Mac is just the right DVD to Roku Converter which is especially designed to convert all kinds of DVDs to Roku supported format. This guide show you best way to get the DVDs to playback on Roku 3 for Mac.

A workaround to streaming DVD to playback on Roku 3 for Mac:

1.Launch the highly recommended DVD to Roku3 Ripper. Insert your DVD movie to disc drive, and click “Load Disc” button on Pavtube BDMagic interface to load DVD from ROM; it also support importing DVD ISO and DVD folder AND Blu-ray discs.

2.Select the main title and set subtitles/audio language you'd like to preserve.

3. Select a format for conversion. To convert Blu-ray to MKV/MP4 video, press on "Format" and choose "MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)" or "H.264 Video(*.mp4)" format from "Common Video" option.

Tips: The following media file formats are supported

Video — MKV (H.264), MP4 (H.264), MOV (H.264), WMV (VC-1, firmware 3.1 only)
Music — AAC, MP3, WMA, FLAC (firmware 5.3 and later), WAV (firmware 5.3 and later)
Photo — JPG, PNG, GIF (non-animated)

4.Start ripping DVD movie to MKV/MP4 for Roku 3 playback.

5. After conversion completes, press "Open" to locate resulted converted files and put these to your Roku 3.

Source:http://open-media-community.com/2014/06/20/enable-dvd-to-roku-3-for-mac/

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