qwerty Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) When burning a DVD video from video_ts files, it would be great for those who live outside the USA to have the option for the program to automatically read and patch the (ifo?) files so that they become region-free (ie, playable in all regions, not change from one region to another [eg. not swapping region 1 for region-4, but making the disk playable in all regions]). I believe that there are some utilities which do this, but it would be great to have it all in the one program. If this is not possible, perhaps an option to check the region of the files before the burn so they can be patched in another program. thanks, Edited January 13, 2009 by qwerty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 This isn't the job of a burning util and as regional encoding is a form of copy protection, ImgBurn won't ever touch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blutach Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 There's lots of utilities you can use - IfoEdit, DVD Shrink, PgcEdit to name just 3 (and almost every ripper makes DVDs region free). Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Thanks for your replies. The vob etc files I obtained and burned that prompted by request were not of commercially released material, but happened to have been encoded with a different region. I do understand and respect that you don't want to take your program into legal grey-areas. May I suggest an alternative (softer) request that would be legally OK? When the info/confirmation dialogue comes up just before a burn is initiated by the program, could the info also display if the disk will be burned NTSC or PAL, and perhaps the region the files have been encoded. That would give the user the opportunity to abort the process before burning a disk incompatable with their system. Thanks again, - R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I guess there's no harm in displaying that info, I'll see what I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOCOENG Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Not that I have an issue with region coding I think this isn't a bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blutach Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 The check for RC is simple, as it only means checking one byte in VIDEO_TS.IFO. However, this does not mean that there won't be RCE (which is based on commands in the PGCs) - in fact, there probably will be RCE. This would require ImgBurn to parse the IFOs and interpret the commands, which it doesn't do. So, having the RC in the log is ony half the issue and may not be 100% useful. Checking on PAL and NTSC should not be difficult, but note that I have seen DVDs (not commercial) with both PAL and NTSC material. The user can find out all this info for himself in any IFO editor - eg IfoEdit or PgcEdit. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 Thanks again for your replies. R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 2.4.3.0 changelog: "Added: Region Code and TV System details to the image information screen that pops up just before creating the image / burning the disc in Build mode." - Thanks for including these changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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