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CPTflconX
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 01:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok, I converted Hot Rod PAl to NTSC with IFOEDIT and everything went great! Now I have a question when I get a new DVD player that supports PAL + NTSC will the Converted PAl to NTSC DVDR work?

Also, I have some menu button problems. When I try choosing something in the menu's the highlighted thing that shows you what you are choosing doesn't appear. How can I fix this? Other than that everything works except the subtitles are a bit off the screen but that isn't a big problem.
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attar
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 14:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The converted disk should play in an NTSC+PAL standalone - it does in mine.
The menu problem with the highlight not lining up with the button on screen is noticeable on my 4:3 CRT TV, but not on my widescreen sets.
I haven't investigated it, because it's not a priority concern for me.

Note that the 4:3 set is connected to a Toshiba player - it might be the player and not the TV causing that problem.
The W/S sets are connected to Panasonic and RCA players.

The quick ways to convert the disk from PAL to NTSC are using Vobblanker or Ifoedit.
Sometimes Vobblanker misses a PAL setting and might not play in a particular standalone unit.

Other disks I find that if the 'VIDEO_TS.VOB' (FBI warning) file is not removed it won't play.

It all seems to be more voodoo than science.
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CPTflconX
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 18:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
On Widescreens is the subtitles problem also fixed? The DVDR's I've converted don't have any FBI warning's on the VIDEO_TS.VOB but there is a menu where you choose the menu language, how can I delete this? I think it's annoying, but it does work with that on my DVD Player.
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attar
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 20:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The subtitles appear ok on the WS.
Ignore the colour pattern on this pic of the TV - only the camera sees this.
I wouldn't try to remove an actual menu item in case it destroys the whole menu - in any case I don't know enough about the subject to mess with them.
Note that my mention of VIDEO_TS.VOB was not to imply that it could be removed with impunity.
Some times it contains both menus and warnings.




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CPTflconX
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 21:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Great! So I don't have to worry about the menu's + subtitles having difficulties, thank you for posting the image.

Where you mentioned that some discs didn't work with the FBI Warnings, how did you solve that?
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attar
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_ 		20. November 2008 @ 21:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Loaded the original ripped files into DVD Shrink.
Selected 'Re-author'.
The net result is that it removes everything except the main title (no menus, no extras - you still have your choice of audio and subpicture streams).
Saved it to a folder then used that as the source for Ifoedit/Vobblanker.

I should emphasize that this problem only showed up on one Toshiba player and I normally wouldn't use DVD Shrink to reauthor - I only wanted to see if I could get it to play on the machine - my other players accept the disks without complaint - some people cannot get this conversion to work period.It seems to be the luck of the draw
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