DVD Burning Question

[Will Rickards]

I'm a newbie when it comes to DVD burning.
We only have region 1 encoded ones here.
But I just got a new dvd burner.
So I thought maybe I can just copy it onto a DVD-R and make it regionless or something. So I impulse bought a three pack of DVD-R blanks to try this out. I'm making backup copies of DVDs I already own. They need to be playable in DVD players in Italy.

How do I do that?
I've got a BENQ DW1640 burner and the nero it came with and windows XP Home edition.

 

[timwhit]

You can rip the DVD with DVD Decryptor. And you can burn the image with that program as well. However, if your DVDs are too big I would get DVD Shrink to take out the Extras on the DVD that you don't need. Both of these programs are free.

 

[Mercutio]

dvd shrink is marginally harder to find than it used to be. Visit afterdawn.com to get a nice, working copy.

 

[Handruin]

If you can't find dvdshrink at afterdawn, send me a PM and I'll give you a link to it. If you have nero, DVD shrink will burn the disk for you using nero. I've had no problems burning them this way.

If you've got some time to kill, check our doom9.org's guide section.

 

[Will Rickards]

Ok I used dvd decryptor to get the file onto my hard drive.
How do I write the region free dvd? Or region 2 dvd?

 

[Handruin]

Is the ISO/Files small enough to fit onto a 4.7GB disc (unless you plan to burn dual layer)? If not, you'll need to use dvdshrink to recompress the files. DVD Shrink will burn it to disk for you after shrinking if you have nero installed. If you used DVD Decryptor, then it should already be region free. If not, dvd shrink will make it region free.

 

[Will Rickards]

The first one I tried is single layer and small enough for the dvd-r disk.

 

[Mercutio]

If it's a little guy and you're using DVD Decrypter, go to Mode, ISO, Write and then click "Source" to choose the ISO file you want to write.

DVD Decrypter is a very handy tool.

 

[Will Rickards]

I just want to be sure it is region free and can be played in anybody's dvd player. It is burning now.

 

[Will Rickards]

All three were 1 layer and small enough to fit on a dvd-r disk.
After burning they play fine and dvd decryptor reports all regions.
I tried them in the dvd player here and they work fine.
Hopefully when I send them over there they will still work fine.
Thanks

 

[CityK]

Hopefully when I send them over there they will still work fine.

Did you take PAL into consideration Will?

 

[Will Rickards]

PAL?

 

[Mercutio]

Eurolander-types have a different broadcast standard for their TVs, which has a few more scan lines but refreshes a little less often.

Not to worry, MOST dvd players seem to be able to handle that conversion without any hassle.

 

[time]

It's not just Eurolander types - AFAIK only North America and Japan use NTSC (just checked, also Taiwan, South Korea and some tiny South American countries).

And it's more than just a few scan lines (625 vs 525). PAL offers 576 viewable lines - 20% more resolution than NTSC's 480. Then there's the vastly superior color accuracy and the significantly improved contrast.

And I nearly forgot NTSC's combing problem.

 

[timwhit]

How about PAL running at 25 FPS and since most film is 24 FPS PAL runs about 4% faster than it should.

 

[time]

You can't see the 4% - it's like trying to determine whether a car is travelling at 48 or 50mph. Better that than mixing fields like NTSC.

 

[Handruin]

NTSC: Never The Same Color

 

[Will Rickards]

Here I thought DVDs were dvds and the dvd player decoded it to play in PAL or NTSC. Why can't it be simple?

 

[Fushigi]

NTSC: Never The Same Color

Never Twice Same Color.

 

[LiamC]

PAL NTSC. Isn't this the same as the HD wars? 720p/1080i or something? Anybody have a good primer?

 

[mubs]

SÉCAM's angry that no one's mentioned it.

For a pictorial representation of what's used where, look here.

William, this link tells you more than you will ever want to know.

BTW, a (former?) member of SF is on the front page of Wikipedia today!

 

[LiamC]

Very cool mubs, and I didn't know we had a member called Patience Cooper

 

[Tannin]

NTSC is a dated, horrible, inferior old standard that would have been abandoned along with the inch, the Farenhight degree, and the fluid ounce many years ago if it wasn't still used in a technically backward and deeply conservative country called ....

No no, wait. I think they still use those other things too. No-one knows why.

 

[Mercutio]

Bitch all you want about fluid ounces and NTSC, but I'll take the sensitivity of Fahrenheit degrees over the Celsius any day!

 

[mubs]

William: they changed it between then and now. It had The Giver on the front page.

 

[Mercutio]

Been a while since we've seen flagreen here...

 

[LiamC]

mubs, I saw The Giver (book Loius Lowry) and knew what you meant. I was just being silly.

 

[Handruin]

I'm guessing all the political wars drove him away... :-?

 

[Tannin]

1: I defy you to tell the difference in a proper double blind test between 68F and 69F. Hell, I don't reckon you could reliably tell the difference (under scientific test conditions) between 32C and 33C. Nor could I. of course.

2: Now there is another extraordinary thing about this backward country we were talking about: a curious inability to understand an admitedly difficult mathematical concept called the decimal point. Hint: it is properly used, among other things, for quoting share prices. I mean, "US Steel closed at 27 and five-eighths" - what century is this?) One of the nice things about these decimal point thingies is that you can be as sensitive as you like. "It was 26.40932C today." Or instead of being half persuaded to my point of view, you could be 47.30496510034% persaded.

3: They do it in the US, therefor it must be wrong.

 

[LiamC]

...but I'll take the sensitivity of Fahrenheit degrees over the Celsius any day!

You care whether it is 12°F or 13°F? I'd just call that cold in my Celsius world

 

[Tea]

Tannin, I think you spoiled your pitch with that last one. (Point #3.) Sort of gave your bias away, didn't you?

 

[Tannin]

You mean no-one guessed already?

 

[The Grammar Police]

Read what I said. If you think I implied something, read what I said again. The implication could be in your reading.

Not possible. An implication is always in the source material. Always. By definition.

When reading, one can only infer, never imply

 

[Mercutio]

1: I defy you to tell the difference in a proper double blind test between 68F and 69F. Hell, I don't reckon you could reliably tell the difference (under scientific test conditions) between 32C and 33C. Nor could I. of course.

I also enjoy the face of a digital timekeeping device, which indicates that it is 7:43:18 as I type this.

 

[LiamC]

Not possible. An implication is always in the source material. Always. By definition.

When reading, one can only infer, never imply

I bow to your superior wisdom.

Fixed. Now that's two new things today.

 

[me]

I can tell you that, during normal breathing, the naturally occurring moisture in my nose begins to freeze at exactly -18.5 degrees Celsius. Everyone has their own unique temperature at which that happens. It's a very handy, very accurate temperature mark.

Or was that too much detail for you?

:lol:

 

[Tannin]

The Soup Nazi recommends CloneDVD 2. Copies, shrinks, and burns all in one go. Unlike DVD Shrink, it allows you to retry if you have a read error (like a scratch or something).

 

[Mercutio]

Just exactly does CloneDVD2 measure temperature?!?

 

[Tea]

Tannin, WTF? You are on topic! (Never thought I'd see the day.)

 

[Tannin]

(sorry. won't happen again.)