Posted by jeffambrose424 on 08/09/07 02:53

Hello all,
I bought some European (PAL) dvds that I need to convert to DVDS
(NTSC) which will play in my home dvd player (Philips DVP-3050V). At
first, I used DVD Copy Fab or Arc Dvd Copy with Anydvd and the dvd
woulden't play in my home dvd player, but it played fine in my
computer. It also played fine on 2 other dvd players in a friends
house. The original causes a "region not playable" warning.

So I started to investigate converting PAL to NTSC. I've used IFOEDIT
0.971 and I manually edited all the IFO files to "NTSC" and burned the
DVD using VSO COnvertxToDVD. It worked in my home dvd player for the
first time, but the subtitles disappeared. The menus were intact.
Audio and picture were ok. For a second try, I used VOB Blanker 2.130
and the program crashed twice at 57%. I had enough HD space, so I
don't know why it crashed.

What do I need to do here? I'm not fond of the Nero programs, and I
would like to avoid the extraordinarily long instructions I've seen
posted around which are said to be "simple". I have many dvds to
process, so I would like a simpler approach like the ones offered by
IFOEDIT or VOB Blanker.

I'm almost there. I just want the subtitles.

Do I change some setting in IFOEdit that I overlooked?

I hope so.

I found an Afterdawn post with "larrylje" where he said the best
program to convert PAL to NTSC was ConvertXtoDVD. I use version
2.0.1.101. Will this version do the job? If it will, why can't I get
it to work? I click "action" > "convert" > I manually add all the
files > and it gives 2 error msgs. "Original files are too big to fit
on the media (9.18 gb)" and "Unsupported encoder for output stream
#1".

What am I doing wrong? I'm almost there.

System: Windows XP Pro SP2

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