Need region burning help!!!

[sport404]

Hi, a friend brought over a dvd in .iso form. I burned it and tried playing it in my dvd player and it says this disc doesn't match this tv format type. But i can play it in a region free dvd player fine.

Does anyone know how to take this .iso file and make it region free. I want to be able to watch it in my regular dvd player. I just can't seem to make the .iso file region free. I also extracted the .ts folder of out the .iso file but still can't see how to make it region free. Dvd shrink won't even load the TS folder.

Any Ideas!!

[yoda313]

Hello,

Have you tried dvd decrypter??? It handles iso.

Also - is there a chance it's a pal disc (Europe and other countries)??? If so then you'll have to do the pal-ntsc conversion. Just a thought.

Kevin

[canadateck]

Sounds like it is PAL?

[lenti_75]

use dvdshrink on the disc....not sny folder

[sport404]

yes, my mistake I believe it is a Pal and i need to go to Ntsc. Anyone know of any free good converters out there??

Thanks again guys!!

[DVFun]

Maybe this will help:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=212203

[sport404]

Yeah that kinda helps. But my files are already in an image .iso form. I can use isobuster and extract the .vob files out. I was just wondering if there was a one step program floating out there that will encode it to ntsc.

Thank again guys!

[guns1inger]

If you aren't fussy about quality, the apparently DVD Santa can do this. Remember, quality will take a back seat if you want to do this the easy way.

[sport404]

Do you know how much qualitywe are talking about here? I will try one and watch it and see if I notice much difference.

Thanks guys for all the input!!

[TBoneit]

I just did one PAL to NTSC using TMPGEnc Xpress
3 and let it run overnight....2 Pass. I already had licensed the AC3 plug-in so It was auto recognized and use.

I selected to use the DVD files I had already ripped to the hard drive ended up with 1 big mpg with AC3 sound that I added to TMPGEnc DVD Author 2 times as it was a dual episode DVD. Trimming off the parts to end up with two discrete episodes on thge menu, Then I Trimmed out a dance number as a motion background for the menu.

It took a fair time probably because of the AC3 audio and 2 pass encode?
Easy to use. I just selected output size to fit a DVD 4.7Gb. That option auto sets Bitrate.

I just started another one that is an almost 3 hours long movie before coming to work today. It started out showing 13.5 hours to finish but that was already dropping down before I turned of the monitor.

System P4 3.0Ghz 1Gb Dual Channel DDR so my machine is not a real slow machine. Reading from 1 drive and outputting to another too.

Output quality looked good on the computer and I'll be looking at it tonight on the TV

I chose this program so That I could work from the DVD rip directly into the program and back out as AC3 to convert those PAL format DVDs to NTSC DVDs.

3 steps
DVDDecrypter
TMPGEnc Xpress
TMPGEnc DVD Author, Burn direct or Nero

Quality before speed! YMMV however.
Cheers

[sport404]

Tried the dvd santa but it kept giving me error messages when trying to load the TS folder files and crashing out. Will try the next method.

Thanks!