I have a DVD sent to me from someone in England, I live in the US. It is a TV show recorded onto a DVD+R disc. I can play the disc on either of my computers with no problem, but when I insert it into my BluRay player, a new Samsung BD-C6500 it just ejects the disc. It will play in one DVD player I have, but not on another. The dics is region free, and I have tried making a copy that is just region 1, but it still just ejects the disc. I have tried both DVD+R and DVD-R discs. I have many other discs made with DVD Shrink that play just fine on this player. There are two folders on the disc: Audio_TS which is empty and Video_TS which contains 8 files. Video_TS.BU Video_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_01_1 VTS_01_2 VTS_01_3 VTS_01_4 I would appreciate any suggestions on how I may convert this to play on my BluRay player.
The disk is probably PAL format (720*576 @ 25 fps) and your US player will not play it regardless of it being region free. Certainly, if you just want to watch the feature and disregard the original menu, it's easily done by converting it to NTSC. If you want to try and preserve any menu that may be there, it's a little more complicated. However, some of the other forum members have suggested procedures in the past - Sit tight, and you may get further suggestions. DO you need to preserve the original menu ?
Thank you for your suggestions. I did not think it was PAL or it would not play on my computers and the one stand alone DVD player. There are no menus on the disc. Is there a way to look at the file to tell if it is PAL or NTSC? Do you suggest a particular progam to try for converson?
HI, first of all make sure you have Windows set up to display file name suffixes properly. Control panel/folder option/view tab deselect "hide extensions for known file types" Copy the complete DVD contents (the video_ts folder) to the hard drive. You don't even need Shrink for this, Windows Explorer will do, since the disk is not copy protected in any way. Use a program such as Mediainfo http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MediaInfo and open one of the main VOB files, eg. VTS_01_1.VOB. It will tell you the resolution (720*576 PAL or 720*480 NTSC) and it should be quite clear whether or not its PAL. If it is, converting it to NTSC will give the best result. Let us know.
Thanks everyone on the information about Mediainfo. I used it to check the disc, and lo and behold it is PAL as you suggested. Now all I have to do is to find the best way to convert to NTSC. I see in the guides section there are several programs suggested for doing this. Any suggestions on the best way to go would be appreciated. Thanks again for the help.
I would use DGindex to index the VOB set and demux the audio. DGindex creates the D2v project file. Then I would install AVStoDVD (which installs Avisynth and Haali splitter if they're not already installed). Also install Imgburn if it's not already installed. Open AVStoDVD preferences and select NTSC project. The preference defaults are pretty good; you may want to check the temp and output directories. Feed it the D2v (the indexed video) and the demuxed audio, then start the process. When its done you'll have a new audio_ts (empty) and Video_ts folder which you can burn to disk with Imgburn. Probably many ways to do this task, this is just one method.
