Thursday, December 3, 2015

Stream DVD to Plex for playback on TV

Plex gives you instant access to your media collections - your home videos, photos, music, TV shows, and movies, so you can quickly find and stream what you want to any device, any time. Its platforms include Macs, PCs, Smart TVs, Roku, Apple TV, and more. Whether it’s your movie and TV collection or your music library, Plex makes your media look beautiful by automatically adding movie posters, plot summaries, cover art, and descriptions. Plex also allows you to share it all with your friends and family.

You may have a pretty large DVD collection, and wanna stream DVD contents to Plex Media server. However, Plex cannot support DVD files. Files like ISO or IMG and folder structures such as VIDEO_TS or BDMV are generally referred to as "disk image" formats, they're basically "cloning" the structure and content from a DVD or Blu-Ray optical disc. Simply put, these formats don't fit into Plex ecosystem.

What we need do if we want to share the DVD content via Plex and playback on TV? Actually, it can done effortlessly. what you need to do is to rip DVD into Plex Media Server and TV friendly format like MP4, MKV, etc.

To rip DVD contents for Plex Media Server, iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is highly recommended to help you finish the task. With it, you can easily convert the commercial DVD movies to Plex and TV compatible video files, such as H.264 MP4 on Mac or Windows with high quality and fast speed. This handy tool can also convert Blu-ray, H.265, M2TS, MP4, AVI, MKV, etc to Plex or PS3, Xbox, Roku, VLC, etc. It aims to solve the program by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical DVD discs to local computer, hard drive then stream over a home network via Plex Media Server for TV playback. It's professional in ripping and converting DVD discs, DVD ISO image, DVD copies and more. You can read review to learn more.

Now download the program and follow the steps below to achieve your goal smoothly.

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How to rip and copy DVD to Plex Media Sever for playback on TV?

Step 1. Load the DVD files

First, of all the process starts at the DVD drive, insert your DVD into the drive, then launch the DVD ripper software. Click "Load file" button to upload DVD folders.



Step 2. Decide output format

Click “Format” and choose “H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)” from “Common Video”, which can be recognized by Plex well. Or you can choose the output format from “TVs”.



Tip: 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 3. Start ripping DVD to Plex

Hit the "Start conversion" button at the bottom of the main interface to start the DVD to Plex Media Server conversion. Once the conversion is done, click "Open" to quickly find the converted movies. Then, Plex will recognize, catalog, play and stream them on TV just fine.

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