Need rergion help.....

[DVDDave]

a friend of mine purchased some old Frank Sinatra Show DVD's from e-bay. they are DVD-R and came from the U.K. i can copy with DVDSHRINK, DVDDYCRYPTOR....with ANYDVD running and they all will not play in a standalone due to region coding. i even used ULEAD Moviefactory and captured the whole DVD as an MPEG, then output to a VIDEO_TS folder. the folder came to over 9 gigs so i ran DVDSHRINK, burned again and still can't play because of the region. everything else that i back up works fine.

any ideas?????

[RowMan]

Usually, DVD-Rs are not region coded. You say your discs came from the UK which uses the PAL television system. Are you sure your standalone player will play PAL DVDs? What message do you get (if any) from your player when you try to play one of the discs?

[lenti_75]

Usually, DVD-Rs are not region coded. You say your discs came from the UK which uses the PAL television system. Are you sure your standalone player will play PAL DVDs? What message do you get (if any) from your player when you try to play one of the discs?

teh same, you have PAL files, the region is not the problem.

[jimmalenko]

Nothing to do with region. I think your TV needs to be able to display PAL as well as your DVD Player.

[DVDDave]

is there a way to convert pal to ntsc?? like i said in my first post, i captured it all in MPEG via ULEAD Movie Factory, then converted the MPEG back to DVD Video_TS folders, and then DVDSHRINK, and i still get an error message saying "Disc Playback Prohibited By Area"...

[jimmalenko]

is there a way to convert pal to ntsc?? like i said in my first post, i captured it all in MPEG via ULEAD Movie Factory, then converted the MPEG back to DVD Video_TS folders, and then DVDSHRINK, and i still get an error message saying "Disc Playback Prohibited By Area"...

You *can* set the region on a DVD-R but I for one couldn't think of any possible reason why you would bother, unless your DVD player can only play discs from a certain region, and there does not appear to be a region-free hack/mod. This often gets mixed up (and forgotten) in any PAL/NTSC/Region discussions. You can rule out this from being a problem pretty quickly if you know for sure that your player plays region-free DVDs, and you're setting DVDShrink to make region-free also. If it's not this, then it's a PAL/NTSC conversion. Have fun !

[DVDDave]

it is most definetely a PAL/NTSC conversion as i have backed up a few movies today using shrink with the same settings. and they all play fine.

[jimmalenko]

it is most definetely a PAL/NTSC conversion as i have backed up a few movies today using shrink with the same settings. and they all play fine.

Cool. Just thought I'd mention that