hi , i have a Sony DVD drive in my PC i want to backup a russian movie on my dads computer he has laptop with a dvd drive it plays and burns on his PC (He uses CloneDVD) but in my PC it doesnt play or burn i tried sevral russia movies but wont play i use DVDX copy it works nicely with english DVD's real nice quitlity but when i put in a russian movie it cant read the disc? should i change my drives settings or download a soft for it or somthing. Please note in reply no i dont know what models they are or anything like that about the drives and yes i am doing this legegaly all i want to do is back them up cuase im not a very carful person.(i broke 10 disc in 5 days thats alot of bad luck) Please Help
They are probably in PAL format just as all European video are--unlike the US which is in a different format NTSB I think
um....that wasnt realy helpful , no offense but this is Forums pl that need help type here , and that waz no help thta waz what u thought , but im asking maybe for a link to a site that maybe i could download a progarm that will enable this
1-finding drive models is simple, go to my computer, right click any of your drives, go to hard ware, it will list all installed discs/optical drives 2-NTSC/PAL shouldnt apply to computer monitors, only tvs. The problem you will get though is region settings (only get 4 changes to a rom). Download DVD43/AnyDVD and run that while you open movie, it will make it region free. Or for a paermanant fix find a hacked firmware for your drive (follow the instructions) 3-Try dvd decrypter to rip to hard drive and shrink to burn, there free and better than xcopy imho 4-Once youv ripped to hard drive you will need to encode from pal to ntsc or vice versa only if your tv cant switch between pal/ntsc. some can some cant