GuyFromMemento
7th April 2004, 01:30
As my introductory post, I should get a few things out of the way.
*shakes everyone's hand* Hi.
And also potential apologies--I was trying to decide if this should go here or in a more general forum. Feel free to move it if you think I chose poorly. And yes, I have lurked and searched, and I've read a lot of things which have shaped my inevitable question...
But first a story, since it'll help put things into perspective, and since who knows--someone else might find it useful.
I'm a fan of a movie. I have it on DVD too, and like most DVDs it plays in DVD players and I watch it now and then. This movie is also not in English, but it has English subtitles which work. Sadly, they're buggy. Most scenes are great, a few are horrible. Oddly enough, there's another release of said DVD, a European release with much better subs but horrible NTSC->PAL converted video. So I read the guides, demuxed the video, remuxed with the better subs, and burned it (Many thanks to the sticky in the Sub forum which detailed the procedure. I appreciate your work). I tested the image first in PowerDVD 4, which is what I have, and it was great. I tried playing it in my PlayStation 2 (since several times I've heard it's good for testing), the menus (which I didn't mess with) were fine, the video itself refused to play beyond two seconds. A search told me the problem was the software--IFOEdit, and that IFOEdit didn't like NTSC very much. Not a problem, I'll use ReJig or some other type of software.
Now to tie it back into the topic subject.
The image I made first played perfectly in PowerDVD, but PowerDVD is well known for playing just about anything, no matter how buggy. Great for a product, but bad for my testing. I don't have a lot of DVDs to test with, and finding DVDs here other than Wal-Mart quality is not easy. So rather than burn DVDs which can only be read on computers, does anyone have any opinions on which software DVD players are really really picky, and can help me test my project without using a DVD?
*shakes everyone's hand* Hi.
And also potential apologies--I was trying to decide if this should go here or in a more general forum. Feel free to move it if you think I chose poorly. And yes, I have lurked and searched, and I've read a lot of things which have shaped my inevitable question...
But first a story, since it'll help put things into perspective, and since who knows--someone else might find it useful.
I'm a fan of a movie. I have it on DVD too, and like most DVDs it plays in DVD players and I watch it now and then. This movie is also not in English, but it has English subtitles which work. Sadly, they're buggy. Most scenes are great, a few are horrible. Oddly enough, there's another release of said DVD, a European release with much better subs but horrible NTSC->PAL converted video. So I read the guides, demuxed the video, remuxed with the better subs, and burned it (Many thanks to the sticky in the Sub forum which detailed the procedure. I appreciate your work). I tested the image first in PowerDVD 4, which is what I have, and it was great. I tried playing it in my PlayStation 2 (since several times I've heard it's good for testing), the menus (which I didn't mess with) were fine, the video itself refused to play beyond two seconds. A search told me the problem was the software--IFOEdit, and that IFOEdit didn't like NTSC very much. Not a problem, I'll use ReJig or some other type of software.
Now to tie it back into the topic subject.
The image I made first played perfectly in PowerDVD, but PowerDVD is well known for playing just about anything, no matter how buggy. Great for a product, but bad for my testing. I don't have a lot of DVDs to test with, and finding DVDs here other than Wal-Mart quality is not easy. So rather than burn DVDs which can only be read on computers, does anyone have any opinions on which software DVD players are really really picky, and can help me test my project without using a DVD?