Playing a USA home DVD in Germany

[Rayi]

I made some home movies in Roxio 9 in the USA and I would like to send them to someone in Germany. Is there anything I should do so they would be able to view them in their DVD player. thanks

[Beerman]

I made some home movies in Roxio 9 in the USA and I would like to send them to someone in Germany. Is there anything I should do so they would be able to view them in their DVD player. thanks

I think Germany is using PAL so you might want to convert them to PAL format. Might be useful to ask them what their players are capable of first.

[gi7omy]

All of Europe (escept France and Russia which use SECAM) uses PAL (625 line, 25 fps and Phase Alternate Line chroma)

[malatekid]

If indeed you confirmed that you need the PAL standard, once you are in MyDVD program of the Suite, choose File-->Project Settings. Then select PAL in the dialog box.

[Rayi]

If indeed you confirmed that you need the PAL standard, once you are in MyDVD program of the Suite, choose File-->Project Settings. Then select PAL in the dialog box.

 

I don't suppose there is any other way to convert it to PAL, other than redoing all my home movies. I only have iso images presently.

[Beerman]

I don't suppose there is any other way to convert it to PAL, other than redoing all my home movies. I only have iso images presently.

I've not used this as I live in the States but you should be able to use Disc Copier in Compilation Mode. Add your movie, and click options then in the Video File Conversion section, choose PAL and you can output to another Disc Image or to disc.

The only thing is testing it if you don't have a PAL player.

[malatekid]

Use the Disc Image Loader program of the Suite. Then load the ISO file. Expore the emulated drive and copy the Video_TS folder to your hard drive. Once done, open up Videowave and bring in the VOB files (in some cases, some users reported changing the file extension of the VOB files to mpg to get it to work in Videowave). Preview the movie and then save the Videowave production.

 

Open MyDVD and do teh "File-->Project Settings" and change to PAL. Add the Videowave production. Do whatever authoring you need to do (menus, buttons, etc) and save project. Then burn to image file. Open Disc Copier and burn that image file to DVD.

 

Let us know how it goes.

[Rayi]

If indeed you confirmed that you need the PAL standard, once you are in MyDVD program of the Suite, choose File-->Project Settings. Then select PAL in the dialog box.

 

I essentially redid the video and used MyDVD to set project to PAL. But I noticed that the movie does not play well in my computer. It is somewhat jittery. I thought PAL would play ok in a computer.

[Beerman]

I essentially redid the video and used MyDVD to set project to PAL. But I noticed that the movie does not play well in my computer. It is somewhat jittery. I thought PAL would play ok in a computer.

I've gotten PAL to play OK in a computer but it was not one I converted myself but a home made video sent to me by someone who made it in PAL. AFAIK PAL should play fine in your system. It's possible the conversion was not good.

[Rayi]

I've not used this as I live in the States but you should be able to use Disc Copier in Compilation Mode. Add your movie, and click options then in the Video File Conversion section, choose PAL and you can output to another Disc Image or to disc.

The only thing is testing it if you don't have a PAL player.

 

I keep getting an unspecified Error [0x80004005] when I try to burn to DVD. When I locate my iso, it gives me 2 parts. The actual movie and the intro. So I select both.

[malatekid]

The PAL video created using Disc Copier (from an mpg source) plays fine on PowerDVD player.

[Rayi]

Use the Disc Image Loader program of the Suite. Then load the ISO file. Expore the emulated drive and copy the Video_TS folder to your hard drive. Once done, open up Videowave and bring in the VOB files (in some cases, some users reported changing the file extension of the VOB files to mpg to get it to work in Videowave). Preview the movie and then save the Videowave production.

 

Open MyDVD and do teh "File-->Project Settings" and change to PAL. Add the Videowave production. Do whatever authoring you need to do (menus, buttons, etc) and save project. Then burn to image file. Open Disc Copier and burn that image file to DVD.

 

Let us know how it goes.

 

Changing VOB files to mpg would not open in VideoWave either. VideoWave does not recognize those files. But they would open as mpg files in Windows Media Player. Although, it was interesting to know that iso files can be changed to VOB files. I was able to play the movie using DVD pro. Unless you are meaning for me now to redo the main movie using the mpg file which I already was able to do, as I still have the orginal avi file. But I was hoping to not have to redo everything.

[Beerman]

Regarding my info in post 6, I have tried a number of files in Disc Copier v9 (Vista if that matters) and I have not been able to force it into PAL mode. However, using Video Copy & Convert in v10, was successful in doing so on 2 out of 3 files I've tried. The unsuccesful file was an mpeg4 file while the other 2 were mpeg2 files.