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Oh yes, agreed, hence my perseverance here! I’m “familiar” with that link …. ie, read often but only partially understood. Another example; a friend had an NTSC DVD that would not play on his PAL set-top player/TV. The patch method enabled him to play it OK (ie it looked OK to him) … and therein lies the answer. If it works acceptably, it’s a workable solution, so it’s worth knowing about. Thanks for the heads-up on the other technical info …. I have Procoder Express, it’s a great app. I’m loath to get too much into VOB editing; so far I seem to be able to do most of what I need relatively painlessly. Cheers, Mark

Blutach, Ref http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/Con..._DVD_page1.html So is Most countries in the world use the PAL video standard which has a frame rate of 25 frames per second (fps). The US, Canada and Japan use NTSC which has a rate of 29.97 fps. Most DVD’s are encoded from videotape with a rate of 24 fps and are interlaced. The MPEG streams on the DVD contain instructions regarding how to treat the video information for display depending upon the type of DVD player. For example, to play a stream in PAL format, each frame of the video is shown twice, video and audio data is interlaced and both audio and video are “speeded up” by 4%. The audio then becomes slightly sharp from its original recording, The data can be displayed non interlaced (progressive scan) for component (RGB) video and on computer monitors. relavant/not true? I'm just trying to increase my understanding! Mark

I'll have to tell the family in teh States to look a bit closer

Blutach, Thanks for the guidance. Does that mean that the DVDs that are working OK at the moment have indeed cut it?! Or am I just lucky?! Mark

There is much posted here, but please also check out the great info at http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/Con..._DVD_page1.html In summry : 1. Get Video_TS folder (however that may be done ..... ) 2. Modify .IFO files using the free IFOEdit application to convert PAL to NTSC 3. Burn Simple, and it's always worked for me, even with episodics. Cheers, Mark

Thanks for the explanation! Mark

Hi there, Long time user of DVDD to burn video DVDs, and other apps to burn data, mixed content etc. Having read the available info on the Build mode, I just want make sure I'm not missing something .... With something like Roxio, you have to tell it what DVD type you want to burn, ie, you can't just copy the VIDEO_TS folder using a data-type burn, you must say that it's a video, etc. How does ImgBurn deal with this? For instance, if I burn a folder of mixed content (VIDEO_TS & data) using the Build mode, will the DVD be seen as a video DVD on a set-top player and (effectively) both types on a PC? This is quite important to me as I want to use ImgBurn on my work PC to burn DVDs of any type …. I’m not allowed to install Roxio and the like, but I can get away with ImgBurn Cheers, Mark

Ah! Gotcha! By the way, the Build mode is just fantastic .... I have struggled before to effectively add other data to a DVD video, and this mode makes it as simple aa a single button click. Marvellous! Read & understood I always wondered why DVDD asked for the MDS file ..... without trying it at this late hour, I presume the ImgBurn Read mode creates the ISO & MDS files as before, so the direct write to a dual_layer will therefore work as before..... Cheers, Mark

I have just discovered ImgBurn as the successor to DVDD … (I am very familiar with the latter). In DVDD, to copy a dual-layer original, I would simply read (create an ISO image) and write directly to a dual-layer DVD. In ImgBurn, the Guides now discuss setting the layer break …. surely, an ISO image created from the original dual-layer DVD would have the layer break defined within it, so once again it would just be a case of writing the image … or am I missing something?! Cheers, Mark