Friday, March 31, 2017

Handle with Blu-ray Region Code for Playing on PS4/PS4 Pro

If you want to get rid of the Blu-ray region codes and play different region Blu-rays on PS4/PS4 Pro anywhere, just read on.

Blu-ray discs have region codes, but most studios don't enforce the region code restrictions, which are way more lax than for DVDs. There are 3 separate Blu-Ray region codes. These codes are classified alphabetically as Region A, Region B, and Region C. Blu-ray discs that have been manufactured in region A are embedded with region code A, and are therefore only usable with players from region A. The same is applicable for regions B and C.
RegionAssigned Countries
ANorth America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
BEurope, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand
CPakistan, India, China, Russia, Central and South Asia


Then how to play Region A, B, C Blu-ray movie on PS4/PS4 Pro? Here’s the suggestion. Use one easy-to-use Blu-ray Ripper to remove region lock from commercial Blu-rays and rip commercial Blu-ray discs to hard drive, and connect the hard drive with PS4, PS4 Pro, then you can play the Blu-ray movie from hard drive freely.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

PS: If you are Mac users, this Blu-ray to PS4/PS4 Pro Converter for Mac should be your best choice.

Step 1: Import the Blu-ray movie to the best Blu-ray to PS4 Converter.
Launch the best Blu-ray to PS4 Converter and click icon like a disc or disc folder to load your Blu-ray movie from disc to the best Converter.
Tip: Freely select the subtitles for you Blu-ray movies from the “Subtitles” option. Thus, you can transfer Blu-ray movie to PS3 with preferred subtitles. No worry about your Blu-ray drive can't read the Blu-ray Disc because of the incompatibility of region code, this Blu-ray Ripper will automatically bypass the Blu-ray region code.

Step 2: Select an output format for PS3 and set the output folder as you need.
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”. From the sublist, the H.264, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV formats are compatible with PS3. Of course, you can also choose the output format from “PSP/PS3”. From the sublist, the “PS3 Video(AC3 5.1)(*.avi)”, “PS3 Video(480P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)”, “PS3 Video(720P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)”, “PS3 Video(1080P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)” are all the friendly formats for you to choose.



Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface freely and optimize the output file quality.

Step 4: Start converting your Blu-ray movies of different Regions(A, B, C) to PS3.

Click the "Convert" button; it will rip/convert Blu-ray movies of different Regions(A, B, C) to PS4/PS4 Pro immediately with the CUDA acceleration technology support. You can find the process in the "Conversion" interface.



After the Blu-ray movies of different Regions(A, B, C) to PS4/PS4 Pro conversion, you will be able to get the output files for PS4/PS4 Pro via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Afterwards, you can transfer the output video to PS4/PS4 Pro and then you can play Blu-ray movies of different Regions(A, B, C) on PS4/PS4 Pro freely.

Additional Tips:

Currently there are many topics about how to play videos on PS4. As most guys complained, the PS4 does not support external HDD, and you cannot view movies on PS4 through USB as well. Luckily, there is a workaround for you to get videos from PC to PS4. You can just stream your video files to PS4 from PC via Plex:

1. Download Plex Media Server from https://my.plexapp.com/downloads and set up your media before signing into Plex through the Settings.
2. Then, you navigate to https://my.plexapp.com/ on your PS4 through the browser and sign-in.
3. Head to your media server and voila. You have access to all your DLNA media.

(Alternative way) Using Brorsoft Video Ultimate Windows | Mac to convert all kinds of videos to any popular video/audio files

It can rip DVD, Blu-ray to almost all video and audio formats, such as convert DVD to AVI, Blu-ray to MPEG, MKV to WMV, Blu-ray ISO to MP4, VOB to FLV, MTS to MOV, MXF to MKV, 4K to 1080P, XAVC to ProRes, etc, so you can play or share DVD/Blu-ray/Videos on iPhone, PS Vita, Apple TV, Xbox, WDTV, Nexus 7, and more media devices in a more convenient way.



More Guides:

Watch Blu-ray on Apple TV 4/3/2
Play Blu-ray movies Through USB Flash Drive
Convert DVD VOB files to Playback on Amazon Fire TV

2 comments:

  1. Great solution with Brorsoft Video Ultimate. However, I also use free programs like Handbrake or VLC to do that. Maybe below guide can give you another train of thought on how to Handle with Blu-ray Region Code for Playing on PS4/PS4 Pro.

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