LBX PAL DVD to NTSC LBX DVD?

[Lelie]

I was able to buy (on Amazon Germany) a nice widescreen PAL copy of the Disney movie of a few years ago, Rocketman (in Germany it's called Spaceman, but it's the same movie) because Disney never sold the DVD in the US in NTSC. I have long sense modified my DVD player to play PAL movies, so I thought no problem. Wrong. The LBX is streatched up to full screen height. Bummer. So, I figured I would convert. I've done it before for another PAL I bought, and DVD2SVCD does the LBX conversion right; I did it for Swan Princess (again a never on DVD in the US...). But now I've got a DVD burner, so I figured I'd just convert and stay DVD. So I ran DVDDecrypter & DVD Fab. I got a DVD-R that's now NTSC... and my computer DVD player knows it's LBX, but my stand alone DVD player STILL streaches it out full height. I e-mailed DVDDecrypter (and paid a little contribution) but they haven't suggested anything yet. Any ideas (other than doing a SVCD, which I know works)?

Larry Elie

[Gurm]

Sounds like something's going wonky with your player's autodetection of whether to do 16x9 stretch or not. Have you played with the player's settings?

- Gurm

[Lelie]

Yes. The easy test is to play a NTSC 16/9 movie, and see what you can or cannot do to it. They work fine. Again, the movie is fine on the computer, but the player just refuses to let it be other than full screen.

[mazinz]

also check the ifo file that was made for the disc. Perhaps its giving wrong info about the movie (that can sometimes screw up the letterboxing on machines ex saying a film is 4:3 when it should be 16x9 letterboxed)-- and in one case i had that was the problem

[Lelie]

Good idea. Where's the ifo file at, what folder dir?

[mazinz]

first you need an app called ifoedit (it is in the tools section on this site). then using ifo edit, you would open up the "video_ts.ifo file" this is located in the video_ts folder on your dvd (or dvd folder if you still got it on your hard drive). It will show you how many play items you have. In your case if you have just the film, it would say 1 title set, and it i will give you all of the info about it. If you see the info is wrong, double click it and it will let
you correct it. then just save.. Next you would have to open up the ifo file for whatever title the actual fim is and do the samething there

[Lelie]

AHA! Ifoedit shows me that the disc I burned is STILL PAL! All that work! Macrovision is now stripped, and it's now region free, but still PAL. So how do I convert an LBX PAL to an LBX NTSC?

Larry Elie

[mazinz]

their are quite a number of how to guides and psot about that topic on this site. Check out the guides section or do some searches in the forums, and you will get a lot fo results