Posted by kim on 08/11/07 17:53

<jeffambrose424@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1186628033.108446.144650@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> 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.

This may or may not be relevant but for reasons its author is not allowed to
discuss the latest version of VobBlanker will not work with AnyDVD or
similar programs. See: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic328812.html

(kim)

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