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@Fred

a lot of the younger people are living on credit and not thinking very well. True story, kid next door is driving a large pickup to and from work similar to mileage you mentioned some days. Gas goes to $4 /gal last summer and the truck is eating his lunch with poor gas mileage, so instead of going out and buying a small gas efficient cheap work car(he doesn't need a truck for his work) he buys a $30,000 custom mini cooper station wagon. Looks cute, probably gets good mileage, but now he's underwater with a new car loan and gas is $2.25/gal. Wife is now pregnant and they're living with his inlaws. The younguns want it all right away.

 

garmon, sounds like my kids thinking also, you try to explain till your blue in the face and it goes right over thier heads, I wont argue with you there.

 

Translator needed for the third post in this thread

http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-77/need_help_burner_not_recognised_-787049/

"ok would that loose my burner too from all media that i try? "

 

Sorry, I give up on this one as well. I tried to explain to him that it's not the laptop, but probably just the DVD Drive/software.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-167/region_free_my_laptop_help-786958/

"when yea buy a laptop in Ireland. all laptops are regions."

If someone from Ireland can clarify this, I would be glad to be educated on the subject.

 

@dailun

it just occurred to me that if he is running anydvd then it would make the disc region free, but would it play?///anybody??

 

AnyDVD would let you but it costs. There's a free way but I refuse to link him when it's the first result in Google.

 

I tried to help him but since he (apparently) couldn't get past the fact that it's the DVD drive and not the laptop that is region coded I decided he was hopeless.

Then he started on about playing video files and that confirmed that he didn't have a clue.

 

Yeah anydvd isn't free, so that would work then? It was just a guess. I just assume everyone already has AnyDVD.

 

The last time I came back from the UK my niece bought me The Krays, of course it would not play on any of my DVD Players it was region 2, I thought I would be able to change it with AnyDvd to region 1 or even region free, no can do, I e-mailed slysoft tech support, they also told me it can't be done with AnyDvd to my disappointment.

They did tell me about a link on Afterdawn called, Convert PAL to NTSC

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/arc...terENG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090723

After checking it out it was over my head, way to complicated for me, if I'm not mistaken even if you can do it it says something about the quality will not be the same something or other, anyway if somebody out here can figure it out let me know how it comes out was it worth it or not.

You cannot get The Krays here in the states as region 1, crapolla, one of my favorite movies.

 

could just rip it instead.

 

Thanks Fred

I guess the drive wouldn't rip it since it won't play it. It was just a thought. Or would it rip it?? Fred, did you try that too, I bet you did?

 

Ta-da first result in Google when you search for region free DVD drive

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/articles/Hardware/Make_your_DVD_drive_region_free/

see it isn't hard...

 

You can make any dvd drive region free by flashing the firmware.. most can be changed anyway up to 5 times.. I usually dump the factory RF original and just reflash as and when needed.

 

garmoon, yes I did rip, I burned it, I don't watch movies on my PC, I have not tried veiwing it that way, I tried different setting with AnyDvd etc. but no go watching on my DVD players, thats when I e-mailed support at slysoft and found out the bad news.

Now what Kieth mentioned, I don't understand if that means being able to view your burns on your PC only or would that work on standalone players also after flashing?

 

So, Fred, you were able to rip the incorrect region disc with anydvd active? And obviously could burn it or watch the ripped files. Well that will be a work around fix for incorrect region discs. I'll have to remember that if I ever see one. Learn something new almost everyday but getting so old I forget each thing the next day, unless I write most of it down. LMAO now if I could only remember what that means!

 

The obvious way would be to rip it to a mpeg or avi then remaster..

Setting standalone players region free depends on make and model (some have very ordinary pc style dvd drives inside.. my old dansai has a samsung 604b.. a tevion has a rather obscure thomson 4x dvd-rom.. the cheap ones are usually all region.. the expensive ones are locked. Sometimes it's worthwhile opening them up and having a look at the drive.

 

http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-116/can_i_put_my_own_music_in_a_ps1_game-787729/

no --------- comment.. like it hasn't been done to death over and over for the last 15 years

 

garmoon, yes I did, I did make two burns after a couple rips using different setting with AnyDvd before I even called support, I never did try to view either one on my PC cause I don't watch movies on my PC so I never took interest in viewing it that way.

I did throw away the two disc's I burned, kinda wish now I didn't so I would be able tell you if there were veiwable on my PC, after not being able to watch them on my standalone and getting the news from support I just chucked them.

As varnull said about ripping them to mpeg or avi is the way I think it explains on the AD forum I gave previously, I did read up on that but like I said over my head.

I also read on another forum also how varnull explains about flashing your player, that wasn't an easy read either, actually that was really techie, I even called sony on that because I wanted to see if they could help on that subject, they were no help at all, they actually told me not to even try it because it can void the warranty not that I cared it's out of warranty anyway but they still didn't even want to discuss it with me. I tried different avenues because I really want to get my movie The Krays changed just can't find a simple solution.

Now what Blinkie suggests that sounds more less complicated e.g. like using this nerovision, I never heard of that one before, I did google it but ran into to much advertising sites. She also said she can't get the menu, I don't know if that would stop me from obtaining getting subtitles cause both my kids are deaf and I also use it cause my hearing isn't all that great anymore either so that loss would be important to me.

Either way I'm not gonna stop and see if I can find a simple solution or maybe one day The Krays might sell as region 1.

I could go out and buy one of those cheap standalones cause I hear many of them play almost everything, but just can't see buying it because of one movie.

 

The problem with the menu is they are usually jpeg still backgrounds with positioned active layers.. I could explain exactly how they work .. hehehe.. but I will just confuse you..

The difficulty comes because the actual sizes of the frames is different for pal or ntsc .. this makes the overlays not relate to the button positions in the background and the active layer overlays .. you have to rip the stills from the background then rebuild the menu entries (buttons and overlays.. actually all you need to do is position the active parts back over the image and set some stuff) properly... but still not for the easily frustrated... also even though it may be silent a menu needs a music track which usually loops.

If you feel real brave have a read through this little lot.. the later posts have info about menus and the like.. implied rather than specific.. you could build dvd games using info from the last couple of posts. http://afterdark13.11.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=75