Burn Blu Ray Disc with Free Burning Software

Looking for blu ray burning software to burn Blu Ray Disc? Here's 5 free Blu Ray burning software(Burnaware Free, CDBurnerXP, StarBurn, ImgBurn and Ashampoo) that allow you burn Blu Ray discs with Blu Ray burner without any cost.

BurnAware Free (http://www.burnaware.com/)

BurnAware Free is a free burning software which allows users to write all types of files such as digital photos, pictures, archives, images, documents, music and videos to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. With BurnAware Free, you also will be able to create bootable or multisession discs, high-quality Audio CDs and Video DVDs, make and burn disc images, copy and backup discs.


CDBurnerXP (http://cdburnerxp.se/)

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.






StarBurn (http://www.starburnsoftware.com/downloads)


StarBurn is a free and powerful tool that allows its users to grab, burn and master CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. It supports all types of optical storage media (including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) and a wide variety of burning hardware.


ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download)

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/ DVD/ HD DVD/ Blu-ray burning application. It supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.








Ashampoo Burning Studio (http://www.freewarefiles.com/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-FREE_program_41028.html)


Ashampoo Burning Studio is can do CD, DVD and Blu-Ray burning, multi-disc file backup, burn multiple discs, disc verification after burning and more. Besides, you can rip music tracks from Audio CDs and create or burn disc images in ISO or BIN/CUE format using Ashampoo burning studio.

Playback Blu-ray in Windows Media Player on Win 7

The Windows 7 Codec Pack (http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-Codec-Pack/3000-13632_4-10965840.html?tag=dropDownForm;productListing;pop) is an easy way to install all main stream codecs to play movie and music files downloaded from the internet or ripped from original discs. Installation is made simple with an easy install option and the most functional setting are automatically applied. Popular file types are set to play in Windows Media Player automatically, although the codecs will work in every player. 

Codecs for encoding and editing are installed by the pack with settings automatically applied to suit most encoding, ripping and editing applications.The codec pack includes both 32bit and 64bit codecs enabling it to work with 32bit and 64bit versions of Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Media Player.

Files supported include .mkv (Matroska, Blu-ray format) .avi .bdmv .evo .mp4 .m4v .m4a .flv .webm .ogm .ogg .ts .ps .ac3 (Dolby Digital) .dts (Digital Theater Surround) .mpg .mpeg (MPEG2) .flac .ape (Monkey Audio) .aac (Advanced Audio Coding) .ofr (OptimFrog) .mpc (Musepack) .wv (WavPack) and many more Compression types supported include 10bit x264 (Hi10p), x264, h264, AVC, DivX, XviD, MJPEG (Morgan JPEG) MPEG4 and many more.

Convert Blu-ray to iPad FOR FREE

Using two free software, DVDFab HD Decrypter and Handbrake, we can convert Blu-ray to iPad-compatible MP4 format. Since Blu-ray size pretty big, make sure you have around 50GB space on your hard drive during conversion.

Blu-ray drive (http://www.ebay.com/sch/elaine_house/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3692)
Any, sites like ebay.com have great quality drives for around $50 these days.

DVDFab HD Decrypter (http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm)
We use it to rip Blu-ray (both protected or not protected) first to your hard drive, and then use Handbrake convert it for iPad.

Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php)
It converts a ton of different formats to iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, etc. It can go straight from Blu-ray disc to iPad format, but it doesn't take out copy protection like DVDFab HD Decrypter does for us.


First: Rip Blu-ray to Hard Drive

Step 1
Launch DVDFab HD Decrypter. At first screen where you choose which functionality you want to use, select the last choice HD Decrypter, then click Start DVDFab.

Step 2
With your Blu-ray in the drive, you should automatically be prompted to choose the region of your Blu-ray. If not, just load it up in software. DVDFab will load your Blu-ray, which will take a minute or two.

Step 3
Next, click Main Movies button from the left menu. This will bring up a list of titles on your Blu-ray. The main movie will always have the longest playing time, so check whichever is obviously longest. Now set output destination for the Blu-ray from Target, make sure you have enough space! When this is done, click Next, and click OK on the pop-up box.

Step 4
On the next page, your Blu-ray movie will start ripping. The estimated time remaining is depends on your PC configuration. When finished ripping, just hit OK, Finished.

Second: Convert Blu-ray to iPad Format

Step 1
Open Handbrake, click iPad option from Presets on the right-hand side (you could choose other presets if you'd like to convert to another device). Then uncheck the "Large file size"  button to prevent running into huge file sizes without any noticeable change in quality.

Step 2
Click Source button in the upper left, select Video File from drop-down menu, navigate to where you save the ripped Blu-ray. Go into BDMV folder, and then into STREAM folder. There should be only one file, a .m2ts file. If there are multiple files for your case, it will be the largest one. Lastly, you can change the output folder by clicking Browse button. We keep the default, and changed file name to Sunshine for easier to recognize.

Step 3
Handbrake will load your Blu-ray file briefly, and then it's ready to convert to iPad (MP4) format. Just click Start at the top. There are options to watch video preview while it converts, but you need VLC Media Player installed and we found it's buggy. Our conversion  took about an hour.

Step 4
When done, you'll have a video file ready to put into iTunes and transfer to iPad. The default extension is .m4v, which is iTunes-friendly version of .mp4. Navigate to your new video, drag it into iTunes, and then drag it from iTunes library into your iPad's library.

Step 5
You've now have your Blu-ray on your iPad! Handbrake's iPad presets create a beautiful, high-def video that doesn't take up too much space. Perfect for plane rides, vacations, or late-night movie watching in bed.

System Requirements for playback Blu-ray 3D on PC

Here's what you need in order to playback Blu-ray 3D movies on your PC:

• Compatible NVIDIA GeForce GPU
• HDCP-compliant 3D Vision-ready display. Please check the 3D Vision system requirements page for a full list of displays.
• Microsoft® Windows® 7 32-bit or 64-bit
• 2x speed Blu-ray drive
• 3D glasses for PC
• Blu-ray 3D-enabled movie player application*

* NVIDIA works with ArcSoft, Corel, CyberLink, and Roxio to ensure their latest players offer exceptional Blu-ray 3D playback when paired with GeForce GPUs and 3D Vision technology

Info is based on Nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-blu-ray.html

Rip Blu-Ray to PC for Free

This article is for ripping blu-ray to PC only, the target is backup blu-ray disc on your hard drive.

Step 1.
Download Blu-ray Disc Ripper, install and launch the software.
Hint: For Windows Vista/XP must have .Net framework 2.0 installed. UDF 2.5 file system is also needed if you use Windows XP so that Blu-ray files are visible to Windows.

Step 2.
Choose "Source" and "Destination" folder, input CPS Key, and click "Start".
Hint: If your Blu-ray files (.m2ts, .mts, .m2t) are already decrypted, for example as a result of AnyDVD HD running on the background, just check "but do not decrypt .m2ts files".

Minimum system requirements for blu-ray playback

Playing high-definition or 3D content from a Blu-ray Disc is much more demanding on your PC resources than playing DVD movies. The following specifications are system recommendations for playing Blu-ray Discs on a PC. Information is subject to change, but will be updated periodically.

System Requirements for Playing Blu-ray Discs on PC*

Processor Dual or quad core processors recommended For the full list of supported processors, please click here Disc Drive Blu-ray Disc drive Video RAM 256 MB graphics card memory or more Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP (with Service Pack 2 installed)

System Memory (RAM) 512 MB (minimum), 1 GB or more is recommended Graphics Card For information about the latest graphics card support, please click here Display Devices HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant display (DVI, HDMI connections) for digital output Software please see our freeware post

*Information is based on CyberLink (http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/bd-support/enu/system-requirement.jsp)

Blu-ray speed differences

Below is answer from Bly-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_speed):

According to the Blu-ray Disc specification, 1x speed is defined as 36Mbps. However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps).

Blu-ray also has the potential for much higher speeds, as a result of the larger numerical aperture (NA) adopted by Blu-ray Disc. The large NA value effectively means that Blu-ray will require less recording power and lower disc rotation speed than DVD and HD-DVD to achieve the same data transfer rate. While the media itself limited the recording speed in the past, the only limiting factor for Blu-ray is the capacity of the hardware. If we assume a maximum disc rotation speed of 10,000 RPM, then 12x at the outer diameter should be possible (about 400Mbps). This is why the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) already has plans to raise the speed to 8x (288Mbps) or more in the future.

More info from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Recording_speed