Somebody has sent me a DVD from America (NTSC region 0) which refuses to play properly in my DVD player. The picture is fine but the soundtrack is rubbish. I ripped it to the Mac and it plays perfectly on that, so I tried using Toast to burn an mp4 disc but the sound is still rubbish. So I used Toast to convert it and produce a .dv disc, which is still no improvement. Any ideas Gentlemen? (G5 Leopard)
I've been a bit busy the last few days, so here is the promised update: I emailed the lads at DVDR Pro and received a nice reply from a chap called Alex. He sent me a later version and said I should click on 'Rip & Convert', which I did. I had to cancel it the first time as I wanted to go to bed. Started it nice and early the next day, and I thought to myself, 'Wow, this will be a really REALLY good disc'. Eight and a half hours it took, but I just didn't care any more, what with the superb quality I was anticipating. Well, you know how it is; better to travel hopefully than to arrive, isn't it? In this instance a resounding YES! Because the resulting disc was, yes, you've guessed it, crap. Thanks very much, Alex, for wasting so much of my life.
Hallo, Lionel, yes, nothing wrong with the player apart from being a not too terribly expensive one, not half as good as the Phillips one that recently expired.
Hallo Tony, If Handbrake works I shall kick myself because I've had it for years without realising it was capable of that. I'll give it a try, thank you.
Nope, still rubbish. Two curious things though. I noticed whilst playing it on the Mac that the commentary was coming from only one speaker and the musical background from the other. Whilst converting it with Handbrake, although the progress bar was constantly progressing the ETA was initially climbing until about 4h33mins when it gradually went down to 4h29, the up again to 4h31 and climbing then descending to 4h29 then up again. At which point I gave up, burned the disc and found it to be crap.
It ripped it in six minutes, which is a big advance over eight hours, but the result is still crap. did I make a mistake in telling Toast to re-encode it to PAL?
Eric Jervis 