Will MacBookPro play Reion2 PAL formatted DVDs?

Most optical drives in computers are shipped without having set a region code. Here in the US, you are generally only allowed to change that region code 5 times, so if you have set it to Region 1 (US) and you want to change it to a new Region to plan the PAL discs, then you will have 3 changes left, so make sure that you keep this in mind because once you make that last change, you will be stuck in whatever region you select...

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PAL format DVD

Several months ago, we used our Macbook Pro DVD player to play a PAL (European) format DVD. We just tried to play another PAL format DVD and the DVD Player won't accept it. Can the Macbook PRO DVD player play PAL format DVD's or can it be set up to play

NTSC/PAL is not the same as region settings. NTSC/Pal is like Mac vs. PC. Two different equipment formats accomplishing pretty much the same thing. Region settings are the motion picture industry controlling the regional distribution of movie releases. They don't care if it is PAL or NTSC.
Have you tried playing it with VLC?
VLC media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - general media player that plays just about anything.

Can the dvd player support PAL formatted dvds?

Hi,
I'm moving from the States to France, and I'm wondering of the dvd drive supports PAL formatted dvds. If not, is there an easy, user-friendly way to convert from PAL to NTSC?
Thanks!

The entertainment industry mafia does not allow commercial DVDs to be "region free". However, a so called "Region 0" DVD can play anywhere, as is the case for most music DVDs. Playing it will not force a region change on the drive. More info on this controversial issue can be [found here|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVDregioncodes]
Note also that [the VLC player|http://www.videolan.org> can let you play most, if not all, DVD's directly on your Mac regardless of the region and without causing region changes. It also lets you play video/audio files in a great variety of formats.

MacBook pro will not play a commercial video dvd?

My 17" MacBook Pro will not play a commercial movie DVD. The computer appears to referance the disc 5 times then ejects the disc. I have never played any video on this computer before and I have had the computer for 2 year. I can not get the settings correct or something. If anyone has any suggestions on this problem please let me know.

Can you describe in a handful of bullet points:
what content you are exporting (slideshows, home movies)
how you did it in Aperture
how exactly you burned it (program, settings, etc..)
We need a bit more info... before you start reaching for your wallet
But I must say, I nearly agree with ClayG on the replacement. DVD superdrives are cheap these days.
Depending on how often you use it to watch or burn, I woudln't even bother having it fixed.
If you use it once a week and are not on the road when you do, just get an external bus powered one - it will likely have a dual USB cable, so you'd need two USB sockets - I got one and it worked well

My dvds that are made from iDVD will not play in a standard dvd player. Can anyone help me?*

I am running iDVD v 7.1.2(1158). I used to be able to make dvds that would play in a standard dvd player. As of today I cannot. I do not know what has changed and I do not know what needs to be updated. Can someone assist me?
The dvds that I can make will play from a disk image and they can play perfectly fine in a computer but not in a standard dvd player. I am using an external dvd burner, (The same one have always used) to create the dvds. I am using iDVD to author them.
Here is a list of my hardware.
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-5120D:
Firmware Revision:          A102
Interconnect:          USB
Burn Support:          Yes (Generic Drive Support)
Profile Path:          None
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:          To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
iDVD:
Version:          7.1.2
Last Modified:          7/19/11 8:19 PM
Kind:          Intel
64-Bit (Intel):          No
Get Info String:          iDVD 7.1.2, Copyright © 2001-2011 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
Location:          /Applications/iDVD.app
Can anyone help me? The dvds are not even detected

• Material used: Video-Codec and Photo file format and Audio file format - matters too. I use
- Video - StreamingDV .dv or AIC
- Photos as .jpg (only)
- Audio as .aiff 16bit 44.1kHz or 48kHz (ONLY - never .mp3 or directly from iTunes - all converted to .aiff first)
With this I do not mean any setting in iDVD - BUT the raw material used in iMovie / FinalCut / Avid 100 / Adobe Premiere
As this usually matters - later in iDVD
How did You Export from Video-editing program used ? I prefer
• iMovie HD6 - just drop the movie project icon (NOT iMovie Icon - the PROJECT one) over into iDVD big menu window (avoiding - drop-zones as they are for other tasks)
• iMovie'08 to '11 - Share to MEDIA BROWSER - AND AS MEDIUM - not HD or other resolution as iDVD does a bad downscaling job.
• iMovie'13 (version 10.0.x) - Share as 480p - Import this into iDVD
• FinalCut (Pro or Express) - Export as QuickTime .mov - NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION - IMPORTANT
• Adobe Premiere - I don't know - not tested Yet
• Avid 100 - I don't know - not tested Yet
Cleaning the DVD-burner - If it Burns DVDs OK then that's may be not the problem - But if it only burns CDs OK then either the DVD-burning-laser is dirty or broken.
It is very easy to kill this DVD-laser as it over-heats if one burns several DVDs in a row. I only burn three at a time - then let it cool down for 30 minutes till next batch of three DVDs.
Yours Bengt W

How do I export a PAL format dvd into i movie

I have a dvd of my Vegas holiday that is in PAL format and I have no idea how to get it onto i move. I am a newbie to Apple so laymans terms would be helpful to let me know what to do.
Cheers Newbie

Perfectly reasonable request! We all start out knowing nothing, then hope to learn a little every day!
So, let's start by why you have to convert: a DVD is in a compresed format called mpeg2, which is standard across all DVDs. This is what is known as a 'final delivery format' and is not suitable for editing. Because is is compressed, a 4.7GB DVD can hold a two hour movie (dual layer DVDs twice that), whereas the DV stream from a video camera, which runs at about 13GB per hour, is not compressed and IS intended for editing.
In other words you have to 'reverse engineer' the DVD back to an uncompressed format in ordfer to edit it. There is a penalty for doing this in terms of slight quality loss, but it is one you can live with.
When you have your DVD as an icon on your desktop, double-click it, and it will open to reveal a TS-Folder containing a number of various files, some called VOB. These are the constituent parts of any video DVD.
When you have downloaded and installed mpegStreamclip, and purchased and installed the Apple mpeg2 plugin, open mpegStreamclip and drag the entire TS Folder into its window. Then using the various menus available to you (just explore them and you will get the hang of it) ask it to convert to DV.
That DV file, which will be many times larger than the original TS Folder, and which can a while to create (be patient - make coffee or prune the roses!) is what you can now import into iMovie for editing etc.
When you have finished doing that, you then have to turn the project back into a DVD.
I don't know what version of iMovie you have, but this should help:
iMovie 9 tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
and also this:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html
A good guide to iDVD 7 can be found here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html
Please feel free to post back if you have more questions!

Converting PAL format DVD to NTSC formats

THis might be a wierd one, but i was wondering if anyone knows hot to convert a DVD with PAL format (which are used in most european countries) into a NTSC format (which is used here in the states). I dont know if there is a software i need, or any of my apps on the computer will change the format for me.
thanks

There is some useful information here:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6017.shtml

Making a PAL format DVD

I want to send some DVD footage that was shot in NTSC miniDV format to a friend in Australia to view on his PAL TV. Is it as simple as bringing the NTSC DV footage into my mpg converter and using the PAL settings there to make a DVD for him? Or do I need to convert the DV footage to PAL from Premiere during the export first? Doing the latter doesn't make much sense to me, but I've never done this before, so I thought I'd better ask someone who has first.
Thanks

When it comes to digital equipment, it should be no reason for not playing both PAL and NTSC (could be a programmed lock of course).
It is more about the TV-sets than the DVD-players. An analog PAL TV can cope with NTSC signals quite fine as long as the right output from the player is used. In the days of VHS tape, that meant to use the RGB signals (if I remember right), if composite was used, NTSC tapes would be displayed in B/W. Nowadays when SCART cinnectors are used, it's not a problem anymore (for most people).
NTSC TV's (analog ones) has never been able to deal with the PAL sync frequencies, no matter what the players have been able to play.
Anyway, just do as Jim said, send the NTSC version, it would probably be better displayed in a PAL-land than whatever Premiere alone could be able to produce when it comes to NTSC to PAL conversion.
PS! Zone is another animal though, but I still haven't had a DVD set top player that I couldn't make zone-free.
Dag

I burned an edited movie to disc using H.264 codec and a second movie to MPEG -4 Video both worked well on my iMac but will not play on my Sony DVD Recorder/Player which accepts both DVD RW and DVD-RW. Any suggestions?

I burned an edited movie to disc using H.264 codec and a second movie using MPEG-4 Video. Both played well on my iMac but would not play on my Sony DVD Recorder/Player which accepts both DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs. I have tried other 'codecs' DV-PAL; DVCPRO-PAL; DVCPRO50-PAL; AIC; and finally share to iDVD. iDVD works on both my iMac and DVD Recorder but the picture is very poor with major shimmering which is unwatchable. Can anyone assist? The other codecs I used either do not pay on my video recorder or fail when I play them back on my iMac. I am at a loss as to what I can do. I am from the UK so using PAL is essential.

If the source video is interlaced, you may have problems using iMovie. It de-interlaces everything on output which can cause picture to look strange. Final Cut Pro X supports interlaced video, but it costs a lot more.
Standard DVD Players don't support H.264 or MPEG4. You might want to look at this article on transferring HD video to DVD. I wrote this article mainly for Final Cut Pro, but many of the same principles apply.

4 digital copy movies and it says my ipad will not play because the format is not supported by my ipad but i just had rio on it and it played just fine please help

Hello i have a issue i have a i pad gen 1 and tryed to put some more movies on there 4 more the new fast five,x man,another x man and unstopable and it says my i pad will not support this format but i had Reo on there and it worked just fine and i tryed the advance options trying to make a new i pad but its grey so please help me out

iOS devices cannot play every format that can be played on other devices. You can convert unsupported formats to a supported format for import to your iOS device.
Here's one solution to use if you're ripping DVDs:
http://www.ipadvideoconverter.com/
Here's a little guide on the use of periods at the ends of sentences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop

Apple Tv will not play half of my DVD's converted to .mp4

Hi,
I have converted about 20 of my DVD's to the .mp4 format using Visual Hub, I used the same settings for all the rip's, my ATV will not recognise about half of them saying it cannot play this format, any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I have more detail below:
video dimensions: 608 x 320
bit rate: 65kbs
Mpeg-4 video file
Codec H.264
PS they all play in quick time & Itunes !!!!!!
Very frustrating

I'm not sure how I would answer your question about circuit city and c/net, they may just flout the law or rely upon you using whatever they offer in a legal way.
The issue about copying DVD's is 2-fold and perhaps maybe three fold. In some countries you may be able to back up DVD's for personal security, but a second law may kick in which forbids you to circumvent DRM or copyright protection, sure in most cases one is not possible without the other but that's just how it is.
Additionally  may have agreed with the content providers to discourage such activities and hey these are their forums and their rules and it's only reasonable to respect that.

I removed my optical drive because i added an ssd hard drive. when i plug in the dvd to usb it will not play from the macbooks dvd program. the error message is there was an initialization error, a valid drive could not be found.

I can go into disk utility and see the optical drive and mount what ever cd is in the drive and quicktime will play it. but i would like to have the dvd program recognize the optical drive and open what ever is in it.

Freakin amazing! I installed a new 1TB Samsung SSD in my main hard drive slot and moved my old hard drive into my DVD slot and moved my DVD to an external DVD case and it would never work with movies, only software disks. I have Late 2011 Macbook Pro running Mavericks with 1TB Samsung SSD and a 512GB HDD in the DVD slot with my DVD in an OWC external DVD case.
I tried this trick but at first, this did not work because OxED was saving the new file as a text file and not a unix file. I was perplexed until I read the comments below the article and found the tip to use Terminal to change the saved file to a Unix file. I have never used Terminal before and I had no clue what I was doing, but I just followed the steps to a T and it worked. It took two tries with Terminal.
The comment mentioned "Code:" so I typed that along with the rest and it didn't work. I tried it again and this time just typed
chmod +x (with a space after the x) then dragged and dropped the saved dvd file from my Desktop into Terminal and hit enter. Worked great. Thank you. I have my DVD player back.
I also had to play around with some permissions and I had to remove the original file completely from the "A" folder, before I dropped the new file back in.
Took a little work, but I am back up and running. Thanks to all who contributed to this and yet OWC definitely needs to have all this in their manual or even provide a disk or software download that does this automatically.
Here is the trick: http://macenstein.com/default/2011/07/how-to-get-your-external-super-drive-worki ng-in-lion/
Be sure that the new file saves as a Unix file. If it doesnt save as Unix, you will need to:
Open Terminal.
Type: chmod +x
…with a space at the end (and do NOT press enter yet).
Then, drag the saved file you want to change from whereever it is saved and drop it on top of the Terminal window. The file path and filename should automatically fill in (and you should ensure that there’s a space between “+x” and the file path).
Press enter.

M2v files from compressor will not play in QT or DVD Studio Pro

I have 2 hours of HD footage that I am trying to put on a DVD. I tried exporting the entire thing (twice) to an mpeg2 but the resulting file would not open and froze quicktime. I then tried exporting the chapters individually. Even though I tried this twice, only the first clip worked. I then copied each chapter into a new sequence in FCP and exported each sequence to Compressor. This time, I could only open one of the 15 or so files in QT, but I could not even import that into DVD Studio Pro (it said it was an invalid file type). I have been using all the same settings, so I am not sure why chapter 1 works fine everywhere, chapter 2 works in QT but not DVD Studio Pro and the remaining chapters do not work anywhere. Anyone got any ideas as to what to do/try next?

I know that it will take a while, but after two tries exporting the whole thing and the result not working, I broke it up into smaller, 10 minute sections hoping that the computer would be able to handle them better and if one is bad, it is easier to fix than re-doing the entire thing.
The Compressor settings I am using: DVD Best Quality 150 minutes with all the default settings except that I put stream usage at HD DVD. I have also tried using Fastest Encode 150 minutes, also changing the stream usage.
I exported 20 minutes with Fastest Encode and changed the file format to 'H.264 for DVD Studio Pro' and it worked, but it is a mov file that is much bigger than the mpeg2 (m2v) file.
I started the compressor to work on the remaining hour at night and then left it until the next afternoon, but when I came back, it said there were 60+ hours remaining, but FCP was counting off the frames. I left it for another couple hours, hoping that compressor was simply estimating wrong, but when I came back, it said there were 93 hours remaining until it would be done. I canceled it and restarted the computer.

PAL/NTSC DVD player question

Greetings, Can I play a PAL format DVD from the UK in my Powerbook? Here is the info. from system profiler:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E:
Firmware Revision: GAN7
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
I have read that if you play a PAL format DVD more than five time my settings will be permanently locked in the PAL format, and I will no longer be able to play commercial NTSC DVD's. Which would be bad. I do travel allot with the Powerbook and watch movies on the plane. Should I consider converting all PAL DVD's into NTSC? If anyone could shed light on this please advise. Thanks.

Here's the work-around I use, which just requires that you have enough free space on your hard drive to hold the entire VIDEO_TS file (up to 8 GB): Download the freeware program Mac the Ripper (Google it, then find a site that MacroVision hasn't hacked into and shut down, and proceed with the download and installation). Insert the DVD you want to watch. The DVD player in your Mac will then ask you if you want to use one of your few remaining region switches. IGNORE that dialog box altogether--just leave it open without selecting anything (if you select CANCEL it'll eject your DVD, so don't do that).
Open Mac the Ripper and following the clear instruction manual to set the controls properly copy the DVD into your Mac (I choose to save the file in the Movie folder). Takes about 20-25 minutes for most movies, and the copy you get is stripped of region coding. When that is done, close MTR, go back to the dialog box of your DVD player, hit CANCEL, and let the disk eject. Then reopen the DVD player, and have it open the VIDEO_TS file. Playback will proceed as if you were watching the DVD itself.
PS-if you want to burn a DVD backup stripped of region coding, you can use DVD2oneX2, a file-compression/DVD burning program available for a free 30-day trial, $30 thereafter. Works very well. Good luck & (hopefully) enjoy!

Non-US Format DVD- Will it work?

Hi,
I have your standard macbook and was wondering if it would play non-us format dvds?
any help is much appreciated.

I have your standard macbook and was wondering if it would play non-us format dvds?
It will. If the region code is different, you will be asked to change the code, and it can only be changed a few times.
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Will MacBookPro play Reion2 PAL formatted DVDs?

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