Possible to change a region code of a dvd on your hard drive???

[UnknownRSXS]

Ive done a lot of searching but cant find an answer to this question. I have an image of a DVD on my hard drive that is region 2. Is their any way to change the region from 2 to region 1 without having to rip the movie again? Is there some way I can just extract the image and use some kind of program to change the region code?

Any help would be appreciated.

[BJ_M]

mount the image and use dvd shrink with no compression full back up and back up to another directory on your drive - very fast really

[loster]

DVDshrink can open disk images on its own

[UnknownRSXS]

Perfect. Thanks a lot guys.

[UnknownRSXS]

Well I gave it a try first making it region free and the second time making it region 1 but both times it failed to play in my region 1 dvd player. It works fine in my other dvd player which is region free. Problem is that I want my region 1 dvd player to play it cause its my home theatre system. Its a Panasonic SA-HT740 which has no hacks for region free so I need to make the disc region 1 but for some reason cant. Getting very frustrated with this thing. lol

[Noahtuck]

First off, when it was ripped to your HDD & burned back the region coding was taken off, or more accurately encoded to all region's IE: region free.

Second, if the original was a region 2 dvd it is prob. PAL & your player that won't play it prob. won't convert PAL to NTSC which is completely diff. from region coding.

[UnknownRSXS]

First off, when it was ripped to your HDD & burned back the region coding was taken off, or more accurately encoded to all region's IE: region free.

Second, if the original was a region 2 dvd it is prob. PAL & your player that won't play it prob. won't convert PAL to NTSC which is completely diff. from region coding.

This was exactly what I was thinking. I used ifoedit and verified the disk is PAL. Then upon a little digging through the manual for this dvd player, I looked under the video system info and only see NTSC with no mention of PAL whatsoever. I just assumed it would play PAL dvds aswell like my other player but I guess I was wrong. I guess I have a whole lot more reading to do now to convert this to NTSC. Found some good info here on converting PAL to NTSC, that ill have to try tomorrow when I have more time.

Thanks for all the help though. This site is great!

[Scorpion King]

How to convert a PAL DVD to a NTSC DVD using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5x by FulciLives