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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Windows => Topic started by: rsg on September 03, 2017, 11:59:17 am

Title: Playing a PAL DVD in North America
Post by: rsg on September 03, 2017, 11:59:17 am

Is it possible to play a PAL format DVD here in North America (NTSC land) through Media Center?

Title: Re: Playing a PAL DVD in North America
Post by: blgentry on September 03, 2017, 12:27:40 pm

I don't use MC to play back physical discs.  I only play files from hard drives.  Most of these come from physical optical discs that I rip to files.

I have a small number of PAL DVDs that I have ripped using MakeMKV.  Conveniently, MakeMKV doesn't care about the region coding one bit.  It just takes an extra 10 seconds to do some kind of workaround, and then rips it at full speed.

The 25 fps nature of the PAL video in the file is handled transparently by MC.  These rips play like any other video file with no issues.

Not sure if that is what you wanted, but it's worked for me.

Good luck.

Brian.

Title: Re: Playing a PAL DVD in North America
Post by: Awesome Donkey on September 03, 2017, 12:43:40 pm

If you're trying to playback physical DVDs you'll need software like AnyDVD to playback PAL DVDs in NTSC regions.