Copying Blu-ray movies to NAS for Playing on Roku 4/3/2

Summary: This article aims to show you how to rip and convert Blu-ray to NAS for streaming and playing on Roku 4/3/2.

The Roku is a tiny box that connects to your television and allows you to stream video content from the Internet. On the other hand, Roku also enables you to play movies locally through NAS/USB or other storage devices. If you have lots of Blu-ray collections at hand, ever thought of copying them into NAS, and then through its DLAN server, streaming them into Roku 4/3/2 for enjoying on HDTV? However, a harsh fact stands in front of us, it's very painful to copy Blu-ray movies to NAS directly, let alone to stream these Blu-ray from NAS to Roku 4/3/2. For this reason, this article aims to help people to find an all-in-one solution about Blu-ray ripping for Roku via NAS as the following paragraphs.

To backup dozens of Blu-ray movies to NAS device, you need to get the content off the Blu-ray disc as a protection-free and easily readable element for NAS and rip the Blu-ray movie files to Roku/NAS supported formats. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def Blu-rays, but it still cannot yet protected Blu-ray discs. The way it can with regular Blu-rays, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step. Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper is the bee’s knees, which can help you fast rip Blu-ray discs to a format playable by NAS while keeping the original quality.

With this Blu-ray to NAS Converter, you can stream and play Blu-ray movies on Roku via NAS without any format issues! What’s more, this program comes with a built-in video editor that allows you to edit your movie files by trimming, cropping, adjusting video effects, etc. Of course, it can also enable you to rip Blu-ray for directly playback on Android, iOS, Windows based devices. If you are using Mac, you can also use the Brorsoft Blu-ray ripper for Mac.

Download Blu-ray Ripper for NAS:

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How to Rip Blu-ray movies to NAS for DLNA Streaming on Roku 4/3/2

STEP 1. Add Blu-ray files

Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run the Blu-ray ripping software and click "BD/DVD disc" icon to load your Blu-ray movies. As you can see, you can preview the loaded Blu-ray files in the right preview window and select Blu-ray audio track/subtitle. DVD disc, DVD folder, ISO/IFO files are supported as well.



STEP 2. Choose output format

To convert Blu-ray to NAS storing and streaming, just click on the dropdown menu of "Format", and then choose MKV, H.264 MP4 from Common Video profile list. If you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose HD Video > H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) or MKV HD Video(*.mkv) as output format.



STEP 3. Start converting Blu-ray to NAS

Press the "Convert" button to start ripping Blu-ray movies for NAS streaming. When the conversion finishes, click Open button to find the output files. Make sure the wireless network connection is accessible among the NAS and HD TV or other media players. Now connect your NAS to your computer and copy the converted Blu-ray to NAS for streaming with Roku or save them safely.

How to Stream Blu-ray movie from NAS to Roku for TV

If you are a Roku user with Synology NAS, expand your video library with DS video. Available on the Roku Channel Store, DS video allows you to easily stream videos from your Synology NAS server to your home TV. Your Roku can access the video library on your DiskStation, letting you watch videos or stream live TV. Your entire video collection can be easily categorized to suit your needs. Video management stays simple on Roku. Enjoy!

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How to Rip Blu-ray to MP4 Video on Mac/Windows

Summary: This article mainly shows you how to rip Blu-ray to MP4 without quality loss, so that you can watch the Blu-ray movies more conveniently and freely.

Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a great way to keep feature films. The conventional BDs contain 25 GB per layer, while the capacity of the dual layer discs is 50 GB. However, Blu-ray is not the friendly of format. It is copy protected, making it is hard for users copying its contents to the hard drive on your Mac/PC, let alone to play or edit them freely. So if you want to extract the movie contained in Blu-ray and transfer them to an iOS device or portable player to play movie on the go, or just backup the media of Blu-ray on hard drive, in that case, you will need to convert Blu-ray to MP4 or other common formats. In this article, you'll learned how to finish the Blu-ray to MP4 conversion quickly while reserving the original video quality.

As well know, as a quite hot file extension, MP4 is widely used for portable media devices and video-sharing websites, and supports to be compressed to smaller file size, while still maintaining high video quality. So after converting Blu-ray to MP4 video, then you can freely watch Blu-ray movies on iPad, Apple TV, Android tablets and other devices. Actually, there are many of ways to handle the task efficiently, but our recommended suggestion is taking advantage of a program called Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac.

With running it, you can get MP4 video from Blu-ray disc with fast ripping speed and high video quality. With full Blu-ray supports, it is capable of removing AACS and BD+ copy-protections as well as converting Blu-ray to all other regular video formats like MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, WMV, etc. Moreover, video editing functions like clip, rotate, add watermarks, adjust video effects, etc. are provided. The equivalent Windows version is Blu-ray Ripper which is able to
convert Blu-ray to MP4 on Windows (Windows 10 included). Now free try the Blu-ray ripper and follow the guide to accomplish the conversion.

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How to rip Blu-ray to MP4 with ease
1. Add Blu-ray movies

Install and launch the best Blu-ray Ripping program. Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, and click "BD/DVD disc" icon to load your Blu-ray movies. You can also import movies files from Blu-ray folder, ISO. Soon after loading, you will find all titles and chapters for the Blu-ray disc. You can select preferred subtitles and audio track.



2. Choose output format

Click Format bar and select MP4 format as the output format from the drop-down list of "Common Video" or select a proper format from the category of iPod, iPhone, iPad or PS3 for your multimedia devices.



Tips: Within this Blu-ray to MP4 converter, you could adjust video and audio parameters of output MP4 files like video codec, audio codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, channel, etc. by clicking the "Settings" button.

3. Start ripping

Finally, click the big Convert button on the bottom right corner to start ripping MP4 videos from Blu-ray.

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