RFI: Creating A Regionless DVD Copy From A Region Specific DVD

I have a region-free player but my friend does not.

Neither does this friend ;)

I don't know what the DVD ripping process entails, but if you burn the copy with DVD Studio Pro you can change the region to whatever you'd like. iDVD should be able to do this too.

i can ask a friend who sends me dvds from england, how he does this (he doesn't always change the region, because i have an all-region player, but sometimes he does).

I thought this said "Religionless"

gygax, what kind of dvd writer do you have? (I'm looking for a recommendation).

See, you're gonna need a Regionsucker for this, cause you're gonna have to suck the Region out of that DVD...

I have a pioneer 6x DVD writer that came with a VAIO.

If it is a dvd5 rip it with dvddecrypter- www.dvddecrypter.com - which is free and the best ripper anyways. It will create a region free iso on your hard drive. If you need to shrink it from a dvd9 to a dvd5 rip the full 9 gigs to your drive as a image and then give DVD Shrink a try. It is free and does a good enough job - http://www.dvdshrink.org.

Thanks, it is indeed a DVD9 encoded at MPEG-2. Sounds like some work but I will see what I can do.

pay 60 fucking bucks and get a yamakawa 218, then follow these instructions. Tell your friend "Merry Christmas! DVD Ripping supports terrorism!"

in SETUP enter
"13698888"
You'll see a bunch of numbers/letters near the bottom of the screen.

Then the field called "VERSION" will appear.

Move Cursor on VERSION and open with PLAY button.

(Note: at first it may be hard to make out the "VERSION" option, but just scroll down, you'll see it).

Use Cursor buttons to go to the REGION CODE setting, and enter the desired code.

NOTE: your options are 0-6. Selecting "0" seems to make it code-free.
Then go back to SETUP to save

NOTE: (I tried a Region 1 "Monsters" DVD as well as a Region 2 "Spirited Away" DVD, and both worked with this setting).

It looks like there IS a way to change REGIONS in the "normal" (not hidden) menu -- it's in preferences (and even shown in the pictures in the owners manual).
However, the user might want to use the "13698888" method instead (described below in my other post)
for two reasons:
(1) If you use the "13698888" method, you don't have to keep changing it each time you put a disc with a different region in, and...
(2) Somehow, when you use the "13698888" method and set the REGION to 0 using this method, it turns the UOP off!!

No thanks Tombot, I have a fantastic regionless DVD player (pioneer 700 series w/ built in PAL/NTSC convertor for US TVs). This is just a quick rip of a commercially unavailable film for a friend.

svend, do i lose any subtitle tracks in the DVD9 to DVD5 shrink?

ok, new question:

on my mac (os 10.4) i am told i can use "grab" to make screen grabs. however "grab" will not function when i'm playing (or even pausing) a dvd. if i want to make screen captures from a dvd, what do i do??