How to Stream Blu-ray movies via DLNA

DLNA is the solution to connect and enjoy files including videos, music and photos via home wired or wireless network. That must be wonderful to play your Blu-ray collection on DLNA certified TV or stream 1080p Blu-ray to other DLNA enable devices. However, it's not as easy as you thought. Blu-ray is not supported by DLNA at the moment. In usual, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 are the typical supported formats by DLNA. For this purpose, this article will show you how to rip and convert Blu-ray to DLNA compatible format within 3 simple steps.

To make Blu-ray files DLNA compliant, we can rip Blu-ray to DLNA supported HD file formats by using Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper. It is a yet professional Blu-ray Ripping software, which comparatively has better output quality and intuitive interface. With it, you can rip Blu-rays and lossless re-encode Blu-ray to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 format and compress 1080p Blu-ray to compatible size for DLNA. Of course, this Blu-ray ripper can help you convert commercial Blu-ray movies to AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, etc as well. Its merging, cropping, trimming, adding subtitles ability are what many competitive products lack of. If you are Mac users, please turn to Blu-ray ripper for Mac, which is compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, etc. Just learn the detailed guide on the whole process from converting Blu-ray to DLNA supported video.

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How to Rip Blu-ray movies to DLNA for streaming

Step 1: Load Blu-ray content

Install and launch Blu-ray to DLNA Converter, and then click the disc icon to import your source movies to this program. All imported Blu-ray movies could be previewed on program right viewing window.

Step 2: Decide output format

Click Format bar and choose a DLNA supported video format. MPEG-4, MPEG-2 from "Common Video" are all the proper choices. If you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose HD Video > MPEG-4 HD Video(*.mp4) or MPEG-2 HD Video(*.mpg) as output format.

Tip: Click Settings button to adjust video, audio parameters. As for DLNA streaming, select a proper bitrate and resolution based on your WLAN bandwidth.

Step 3: Start ripping Blu-ray to a DLNA compatible video

Click Convert button to start converting Blu-ray media to DLNA compatible videos.

After the conversion, click "Open" to quick locate the converted video; now you can stream converted Blu-ray files over DLNA to HDTV, PS3 and other DLNA compliant device for enjoyment anywhere you like.

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