Apple TV Streaming

The Washington Post’s new Apple TV app to support live streaming

The Washington Post today announced it will livestream the DNC-sanctioned Democratic primary debate, hosted by The Washington Post and Univision News with Facebook, on The Washington Post app for Apple TV. The debate will take place March 9 in Miami, and The Post will also make the livestream available on its desktop and mobile sites.

The Post will provide live reporting and analysis starting at 8:45pm, during six debate intermissions, and immediately following the debate. It will be anchored by Chris Cillizza, founder of The Fix blog, from The Post’s Washington headquarters and will include contributions from The Post’s Ed O’Keefe joining from the debate hall in Miami and other political reporting staff.

“We’re excited to give users the ability to watch this debate live on the new Apple TV,” said Micah Gelman, director of editorial video at The Washington Post. “We have also improved the live video experience on our desktop and mobile sites to make it easier for users to choose from multiple simultaneous breaking news and campaign events.”

During breaks in the debate, viewers will get a front-seat look at a live watch party in Miami and The Post will continue the live discussion with anchors and guests in Washington and inside the debate hall. The Post will also engage those viewers on Facebook, sharing behind-the-scenes video for Facebook Live, getting analysis from the debate moderators leading up to the event and directly after, as well as sharing real-time observations from Post reporters throughout.

Apple TV users can download the app by visiting the App Store for Apple TV and searching for The Washington Post. Users visiting The Post can easily access live-viewing of critical election coverage such as candidate speeches, press conferences, and breaking news events as they are happening. Facebook users can follow The Post on Live by visiting The Post’s Facebook Page.

“More and more people are using multiple screens to engage with the news, and Facebook Live is a great way to take them behind the scenes and into a conversation with our reporters,” added Gelman.

The Post’s video team is focused on creating platform specific content to engage users interested in visual, interactive, and timely political coverage by offering live chats on Facebook with political reporters, vertical videos on trending campaign topics, and 360 degree video to bring audiences closer to the campaign scene.

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Apple TV Streaming Service Hits Another Wall: CBS CEO Says

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves recently made a statement that puts a damper on those who are waiting for the Apple TV Streaming Service.

Last year, Apple looked around for partnerships with media companies in order to launch its own streaming
service. According to Moonves, Apple TV's plans were ambitious. The company wanted to offer its subscribers a select bundle of channels, at an affordable price of $30 or $40, tops.

"Apple is having conversations with everyone about doing their own streaming services," Moonves told Bloomberg in October 2015.

However, the big players in the television market and content creators did not see eye to eye with Apple and no agreement came to be.

"We had conversations awhile back, and we haven't had recent conversations with them," Moonves declares during a CNNMoney interview.

The CBS leader points out that Apple is not the only one looking to monetize the media company's content. He exemplifies by naming a few other digital companies that seek to team up with CBS, such as Amazon or Facebook.

Moonves underlines that Amazon and Netflix were both involved in "buying new programming," which increased the revenue of CBS significantly in the latest years. He adds that the business model of content providers changed at an accelerated pace.

"Something like [40 percent] of the revenue that CBS is getting didn't exist five years ago," he notes.

Moonves refused to answer the CNN reporter's question regarding whether or not Apple will launch its own TV service in 2016. Basically, the CBS leader discreetly confirms what previous reports stated: that Apple is taking its time (read: postponing) the launch of the Apple Streaming Service.

Apple intended to offer a monthly subscription package providing users with a few popular channels. However, media trusts did not see this quality over quantity as a good omen and negotiations reached a stalemate.

Should Apple call the right price, there is a chance that CBS would eventually be part of the tech company's streaming service.

Even though Sony and Dish Network both give access to a cable-like bundle of channels via the Internet, Apple's announcement that it considers providing the service created a bit of hype.

No official information from Apple exists on its upcoming TV strategy.

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Watch Bluray DVD movie on Amazon Fire TV

This article will guide you the best approach to Convert and digitize Blu-ray/DVD to Fire TV.

Amazon Fire TV is a simple square box. It's 4.5 inches on each side and 0.7 inches thick, so it has a wider diameter than the Apple TV. But it's also thinner. On the back of the Fire TV, you'll find the power jack, a USB port, and connections for HDMI, optical audio, and ethernet. Amazon Fire TV is a an Internet-connected device that lets you watch video from Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Crackle or a few other outlets and play games with or without a controller, which is sold separately.

Watch Bluray DVD movie on Amazon Fire TV

What about your own Blu-ray and DVD disc? Have you tried to look for an app to digitize your movie collection from DVD and BD sources on Amazon Fire TV? Read on to discover the best solution of play and watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on Fire TV.

The task of converting Blu-ray/DVD to Fire TV would be as easy as blowing off dust if you get a practical and professional Blu-ray ripper software. Here, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is made for converting and copying Blu-ray, DVD and other videos to Amazon Fire TV for freely playback. Plus, it has the optimal presets for Kindle Fire HD X, iPad Air, Galaxy Note 4, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, etc. If you are running on Mac OS X, please turn to the equivalent Mac version entitled iMedia Converter for Mac. Here is the detailed steps for know about how to rip and convert Blu-ray and DVD to Amazon Fire TV.

Note: If you the movie you wanna convert are Blu-ray, you need a Blu-ray drive.

Then, let's begin the conversion process.

Digitize your Blu-ray/DVD movies for playing on Amazon Fire TV

Step 1. Run the Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, insert Blu-ray and DVDs and load them by clicking "Load files" or from BD/DVD folder, ISO image file.

After completing movie content loading, this BD/DVD ripper software will analyze your disc and display all the available segments. The app will also automatically choose the recommend title to rip.

Step 2. Specify "Format" to select target video format; Specify "Browse" to preserve the converted videos.

Click the format bar to follow “HD Video”> “H.264 Video (*.mp4).” You can also choose other compatible video formats for your Amazon Fire TV. And you can also remux Blu-ray onto TV via HiMedia 900B, get DVD collections into Plex and enable 2D/3D Blu-Ray and DVD Playback in XBMC.

Amazon Fire TV Content Format Supported:

Video: H.263, H.264, MPEG4-SP, VC1
Audio: AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, HE-A, PCM, MP3

Tip: You may make personal settings before the ripping start. If you have special requirements on target video, click "Settings" to customize video size, bitrate, frame rate and sample rate.

Step 3. Just click Convert Button, and you can do other things before the Blu-ray/DVD ripping process is completed.

After that, click "Open" button to get the converted vdieo files. Connect a USB memory stic or USB cable of a digital device to your computer. And transfer the converted video to USB flash drive or your SD card. Connect USB flash drive/digital device to TV's USB interface. Then you can watch Blu-ray DVD movie directly on your Amazon Fire TV via USB.

Photos or videos you take on your phone or tablet can be automatically uploaded to Amazon Cloud Drive, so they appear on your Fire TV within seconds.

1. Go to Amazon Cloud Drive (https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive).
2. Click on the Photos & Videos tab in the page header.
3. Click Add Photos & Videos.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to upload the photo or video.

Open Amazon Fire TV, select the uploaded videos then watch them freely. Have you learnt how to rip and convert Bluray to Amazon Fire TV now? If you think it is easy, just have a try.

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Add External SRT Subtitles to AVI Video on Mac

You don’t have to be a movie buff to appreciate a good foreign film, but unless you know the language, you will need to watch with subtitles. Or, If your video doesn’t include any subtitles, you can add a .srt file to this video folder, then you will be able to get a video with subtitles by converting to AVI files on Mac. Adding SRT subtitles to your AVI videos can be fairly easy. Here, we will show you an example on how to download External SRT Subtitle or Create Your Own SRT and add an external .srt file to an AVI video.

Part 1: Download External SRT Subtitle or Create Your Own SRT before Adding to MP4 Video

SRT file does not contain any video data, it is a simple text file you can edit by any text editor (translate subtitles into another language). The purpose of srt subtitle file is to use it with desired movie file together to display subtitles when you play video file by any player supporting srt subtitles. As a result, you'll need to add subtitles of your preference while appreciating a foreign movie, unless you know the language. (Related: Top 5 Subtitle Download Sites).

This part is available for people who do not have any .srt subtitle or who want to add some of their own words to the .srt subtitles displayed onscreen. If you have saved SRT subtitles you need, just skip this part and directly move to part 2.

Download SRT subtitle: You can put "movie title" + "your preferred language" + "subtitle" as the search strings and select the subtitle file saved in .srt for an effective SRT subtitle file searching. Alternatively, finding the needed subtitle in .srt format from those popular subtitle download sites like Moviesubtitles.org is also a practical way.

Edit or make your own .srt file: Here we take Notepad as an example. Just open Notepad, create the subtitle you like in the text editor, click menu File->Save As; change the subtitle file name based on your name of video file and save it in .srt format.

Tips: The SRT subtitle needs to contain the following parts while creating the SRT subtitle:

1. The number showing which subtitle it is in the sequence.
2. The time that the subtitle should appear and disappear on the screen.
3. The subtitle itself.
4. A blank line indicating the begin of a new subtitle.

Part 2: How to Add SRT Subtitle to AVI File on Mac

To load your desired subtitles to any format movie you have, we highly recommended our Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac (Yosemite 10.10 include). With it, you can add subtitles to AVI video for either saving to a video file to play virtually anywhere. It supports adding all kinds of subtitles to AVI video whatever the subtitle is in .srt, .ass, .ssa, etc. Moreover, It also helps to set the subtitle size, subtitle style, etc according to your preference. Aside from inserting subs to AVI, it also can add watermark/effect/audio track to AVI, trim AVI, crop AVI, and etc.

The following is a step by step guide on how to add subtitle .srt to AVI video file with the help of iMedia Converter for Mac. If you are on Windows, please get Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Here is reason why you choose Pavtube for Add SRT Subtitle to AVI File.

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Step 1. Import AVI video

Click "Add" button to import the AVI video file which you want to add subtitle .srt or .ass/.saa to. Or simply drag and drop the AVI video into the interface of program.

Tip: Before loading source video, you need copy .srt file to AVI video folder, rename .srt file according to the video name. And if you add more than one .srt files to the AVI folder, you can rename the .srt file name like this: if source AVI file name is “michael.avi”, the .srt file names can be “michael001”, “michael002”, etc.

Step 2. Embed subtitles into AVI video

Click on "Edit" button, the video editor will pop up. Tap "Subtitle" option and check the "Enable" icon. Then, by clicking on "Browse" to import your *.srt, *.ass, *.ssa subtitle file you've downloaded. After the subtitle is loaded, you can preview it.

Tip: You can change the subtitle size, style, font if necessary. When everything is done, simply click "OK" button. Plus, you can also add watermark, apply effects, and crop, trim your AVI files in the above video editing window.

Step 3. Set output video format

To add subs to AVI (to keep the output video as AVI with subtitle), click the "Format" drop-down button to select AVI format from the Common Video profile.

Step 4. Finish AVI subtitles merging

Click the "Convert” button to start adding SRT or ASS, SSA to AVI video, when the conversion is completed, the subtitles file will be embedded into the output AVI video. Now you can play your AVI files with SRT subtitles on Mac at anywhere.

Note: Once you have merged subtitle text and video into one file, the subtitles would be hard subtitles and become a part of video, in other word, you cannot turn it on or off during playback.

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Play Any Video on 4K Ultra HD TV

People who has purchased a 4K TV and is still waiting for the compelling 4K content to arrive may wonder to know the possibility of playing common SD, HD or full HD content on your 4K Ultra HD TV? The answer is depends, like HD TV, 4K TV has limited support for video playback, in addition, the mismatch of file resolution of your video and 4K TV will cause bad video playback quality. Therefore, it is not an easy work to watch any video on 4K UHD TV unless you are an expert in this area.

To help user simplify the process of watching common video on 4K UHD TV, Pavtube has upgraded support for TV profile output. Just download Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate/Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, you will be able to directly output any video to Samsung/Panasonic/LG/Panasonic TV profile optimized file format with all the suitable profile parameters. In addition, you can also upscale SD, HD and full HD video to 4K UHD with a resolution of 3840*2160 in the output “Profile Settings” window.

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How to convert and play any video on Samsung/Sony/Panasonic/LG 4K Ultra TV?

Step 1: Add source files to the program.

Start up the program on your computer click “File” > “Add Video/Audio” or “Add from folder” to import source files to the program.

Step 2: Choose TV optimized output file format.

Go to “Format” bar, from its drop-down select, choose TV optimized file format to output according to your 4K TV brands, for example, if you own a LG 4K TV, you can select “TVs” > “LG TV(*mp4)” as your desired output file format.

Step 3: Upscale to 4K resolution.

Click “Settings” icon on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, enter “3840*2160” in “Size(pix)” brackets, so that you will be able to upscale your SD or HD content to 4K resolution content for 4K UHD TV.

Step 4: Start Video to UHD TV conversion process.

After all the setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button under video previewing window to start the video conversion process.

When the conversion is completed, you will be able to watch more sharper and detailed videos and movies on 4K Ultra HD TV.

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Play 4K UHD Videos on 4K HD TV for 4K HD Experience

4K Ultra HD provides new standard of high definition, and undoubtedly be the future of TV resolution. Technically, 4K refers to the 4096×2160 Digital Cinema resolution, whereas 3840×2160 should be classed as Ultra HD, but the term “4K” is just so much catchier. Do you have some 4K videos recorded by camcorders or downloaded from online websites? Maybe you have, after got the 4K videos, you may want to watch 4K videos on HDTVs, like 4K TVs or smart TVs, is it easy to play 4K files on 4K HD TV?

The answer may be disappointed, because most TVs on the market can’t play 4K files smoothly, besides, 4K videos usually in special video format, such as MXF, as we know most HDTV can’t play all the HD video formats, the supported video formats are limited, so you will meet with video compatibility issue when you play 4K files on 4K HD TV.

How to enjoy any videos on 4K TV? Don’t worry. From LG LED/Smart/4K TV official product page you will learn that 4KTV only supports MP4 video format from USB flash drive, if you have videos or movies in other video formats like MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, MP4, MTS, VOB, M2TS, AVCHD, etc. In that case, a third-party 4K TV Converter is needed. Here, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate to solve the problem. Here is review.

Now, Just download the Ultra 4K HD TV Converter and follow the steps below to perform the conversion. For Mac users, you can turn to Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac.

Free download this Top 4K TV Converter for Windows or Mac, then just follow the 4 steps to complete the all kinds of movies to 4K TV suitable formats conversion.

Step 2: Define output file format. Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down option list, you can select "TVs" profile. Here, it has optimized MP4 format for 4K TV.

Step 3: Set video parameters. When 4K Ultra HD TV plays videos via USB, it will not support 4K resolution. If your Blu-ray/DVD, MKV, AVI, WMV videos etc is 4K, you need to downscale 4K to 1080p video in “Settings”.

Step 4: Start converting your favorite movies to 4K TV.

Now, you can easily create a true cinema experience at home, so you can enjoy sharper, more detailed images and any movies than ever before.

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Import Blu-ray to Final Cut Pro with Apple ProRes 422 Format

Q: “Recently, my friend bought me a great movie which called "The King’s Speech". I have purchased many Blu-ray movies in the past several years, now I need to use some clips of the Blu-ray movies in Final Cut Pro with my recordings, can you tell me the best way to rip Blu-ray and edit with FCP X? What software do I need? Thanks!”

Just as showed above, you may want to import Blu-ray to Final Cut Pro for editing. However, the Final Cut Pro only accepts DV, HDV, P2 MXF (DVCProHD), XDCAM, and 2K film formats and does not support Blu-ray importing. So, you will need to convert Blu-ray to FCP X supported format. Is there an easy way to convert Blu-ray HD contents into your own film? Now, You got the right place! Pavtube BDMagic for Mac can help you, With it, you can rip/convert Blu-ray movies to Apple ProRes 422 (Review: Types of Apple ProRes Codecs)for FCP without quality loss in a fast speed on your Mac OS X (El Capitan included). Below is how.

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“I use the program to allow me to edit clips in FCP X. I like to use Final Cut Pro X (10.1.3) from Apple because it’s really intuitive and fast. I find that I’m able to translate my editing ideas from initial thought to realization quickly and easily. Pavtube is just one of the best tool that allows me to pull in content from Blu-ray to help my clients realize their vision.”

Step-by-Step Guide: Rip/Convert Blu-ray to ProRes 422 for editing on FCP with Pavtube Blu-ray to FCP Converter.

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Note: For Ripping Blu-ray to FCP on Mac, a Mac compatible BD driver is needed.

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movie.

Install and run the Blu-ray to ProRes Converter for Mac, click "Add Disc" icon to add source Blu-ray/DVD Disc from disc driver. Or load from BD/DVD folder or IFO/ISO file.

Tip: This Blu-ray to FCP Converter not only can help you convert Blu-ray to FCP, but also enables anyone with Blu-ray files to use in any non-linear editor like Adobe Premiere Pro, iMovie, FCE, Avid Media Composer, etc as long as rip Blu-ray to a recognizable format.

Step 2. Choose output format.

Click the Format button, and choose "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as best codec for FCP.

Tip: Click on "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters. Bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and channels are all changeable in the following interface, so you can adjust them according to your own requirements.

Step 3. Convert Blu-ray to prores for FCP editing.

Click the “Convert “button to start conver blu-ray to Prores Converter for FCP under Mac. Click “Open” button to get the exported files for transferring to FCP with easy playback or editing.

What’s more? if you prefer to work with multiple audio tracks, another Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac can do this for you, it supports to preserve multiple audio and subtitle streams and leave out unwanted ones, retain chapter information, allow editing videos, etc.

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