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CSensible

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1. April 2009 @ 02:47

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I belong to a group on a forum site of a punk band in the UK. We do concert DVD tree?s and send them back and forth to each other. I currently made one and treed it and it worked fine on my DVD player. Needles to say I took for granted without thinking and made the DVD in NTSC regional code.

The problem is, is that I have a lot that were sent to me from the UK, and more then likely they made it in the PAL region format and I can only play it on my computer. I realized that when I got a disc error on my DVD tonight when I popped it in the DVD player. I used DVD shrink to free the region code, then turned it into an ISO and used imageburn to burn the disc.

I tried playing the new one I made and it wouldn?t play. I was thinking it was my DVD player but remembered the disc I created and my DVD player played it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I?d really love to watch these on my T.V.

Thanks in advance...

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attar

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1. April 2009 @ 06:56

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Rip the DVD to a folder (you probably did that already with DVD Shrink).

If your DVD player is DivX certified, you could convert the files to avi using AGK.

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/...sing_autogk.cfm

If you want to keep it in DVD format:
Convert the VOB's to one large .mpg using VOB2MPG (requires .net framework 2)

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG

Reauthor the .mpg to a new NTSC DVD using DVD Flick (remember to set it up for NTSC).

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_...s/dvd_flick.cfm

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CSensible

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1. April 2009 @ 12:31

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Thank you very much for the reply. I am going to try your second option because I would like to preserve the way the person originally put it together with the menus.

I'll let you know how things went. I just tried DVDFAB on a recommendation and it didn't work:(

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attar

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1. April 2009 @ 12:41

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There's a problem if there is a menu on the original PAL disk.
You can't carry it over to the NTSC disk - DVD Flick does allow the creation of a menu, but the choices are limited.
The option is to take the new .mpg file and create your own DVD and menu using DVDStyler.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_...s/dvdstyler.cfm

edit:
There is another possibility possibility to keep the original menu - but it's a coin flip as to whether it works.
It involves ripping the disk then changing some flags in the files, then burning the new disk.
The instructions are on one of my posts here.
Let me find it and I will post the link.

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attar

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1. April 2009 @ 12:49

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http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/751542#4553299

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_.../vobblanker.cfm

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