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Old 2005-11-29, 01:48 PM
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Re: dvd playback problem

from what i could find, it seems this is a PAL player [i could be wrong, but all the links google spit out were european]...i'm guessing you might be running into a NTSC vs PAL issue.

for the show thats not working, you can try this "cheat" rherron posted...it works *most* of the time [if indeed the problem yer having is NTSC/PAL]...you can get the program ifoedit [freeware] at one of the following sites:
http://www.ifoedit.com/
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/vi...ls/ifoedit.cfm
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/ifoedit-basic.htm

here's the guide for the cheat:
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Originally Posted by rherron
You can use a program called IFOEdit to sort of trick your DVD player into playing PAL DVDs, and it is VERY, VERY easy to do.

Using IFOEdit, open .IFO files. The program will have two windows of information. In the bottom window there will be lots of lines of text. Look for the lines (there will be 1 or 2 or more depending upon which IFO file you are looking at) of text containing the word "PAL." Double click those lines. A dialog box will open. There is a button to select PAL or NTSC. Select NTSC. Save the file. It will ask if you want to change the .BUP files as well. Answer "Yes." You're done. Burn away.

This is not a true conversion (PAL to NTSC) but changing the info files like this will trick many DVD players into believing this is an NTSC recording. I have heard it will not work on all DVD players but it works great on mine. No problems whatsoever. It does nothing to alter the actual video files, so there is no deterioration of the quality. It is my understanding that many (most?) newer DVD players are capable of playing both NTSC and PAL though they are not sold that way (perhaps because of pressure from the movie industry because it helps make it easier for them to maintain its region encoding system -- just a guess).

The worst thing that could happen is that it wouldn't work on your player and you'd have wasted $.50 cents on a DVD+R. Back up every file in the "VIDEO_TS" folder that is not a video (VOB) file and if this doesn't work for you you can restore the folder to it's original state (this is also a good idea in case you ever wish to trade the show or reseed it, etc.).

Rob
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