Softmod For Making DVD Region Free

[dlsmd]

the only thing i can think of is to use DVD Shrink to rip the dvd then burn it to a dvd as no region and it should work on all dvd players tho you ight get black bars on eather the sides or the top and bottom also you would need the s-video or better hooked to your tv to display your video because compsit will jump around on the screen

[TnA]

the only thing i can think of is to use DVD Shrink to rip the dvd then burn it to a dvd as no region and it should work on all dvd players

No, that would not work as the issue rely on the Video-Mode in which a Video-DVD/VOB is encoded.

The NTSC-PS2s simply do not decode PAL-Video-DVDs, but PAL-PS2s do decode and play both PAL&NTSC-Video-DVDs.

tho you ight get black bars on eather the sides or the top and bottom also you would need the s-video or better hooked to your tv to display your video because compsit will jump around on the screen

If the conversion is good, he won't have any black borders; speed-up; or other issue...
Also,.... Whenever I looked a Video-DVD on a PS2 with Composite-Cable, I never saw any 'jump(ing) around on the screen', like you described...

[dlsmd]

No, that would not work as the issue rely on the Video-Mode in which a Video-DVD/VOB is encoded.

The NTSC-PS2s simply do not decode PAL-Video-DVDs, but PAL-PS2s do decode and play both PAL&NTSC-Video-DVDs.

it works for me i backup all of my dvds

If the conversion is good, he won't have any black borders; speed-up; or other issue...
Also,.... Whenever I looked a Video-DVD on a PS2 with Composite-Cable, I never saw any 'jump(ing) around on the screen', like you described...

this was ment as if you have a pal dvd\game playing on a ntsc machine (or vice versa) machine and use a Composite-Cable the image would display correctly(it will be eather jumpie, gray or both) but withe a s-video or component cable the tv is controled by the console

the video will display in proper scale but Composite wont display properly

[TnA]

it works for me i backup all of my dvds

You have an NTSC-PS2 and are playing PAL-Encoded Video-DVDs on it?
What about a video, to proof it?

this was ment as if you have a pal dvd\game playing on a ntsc machine (or vice versa)

First off,... No, it won't work vice-versa (only on PAL-PS2s) and you can't compare it to games.

All PS2s are capable to output the same V-Modes.
Now, NTSC-PS2s simply do not start playing Video-DVDs, if the VOBs are encoded in PAL (even thought it is technically capable). PAL-PS2s do not have this limitation. They start NTSC-Video-DVDs.

machine and use a Composite-Cable the image would display correctly(it will be eather jumpie, gray or both) but withe a s-video or component cable the tv is controled by the console

the video will display in proper scale but Composite wont display properly

What the heck are you talking about?
This 'jumping' only occours, if the TV doesn't support either of both main-frequencies, be it 50Hz or 60Hz.

The V-Mode (all: frame-frequency; frame-resolution; Colour-Carrier-Frequency and even through which wire a colour is sent do the device, which handles the input [normally a TV, CRT, TFT, LDC, Plasma, OLED and so on...]) is controlled by the console in every case, regardless which cable you're using!

[dlsmd]

You have an NTSC-PS2 and are playing PAL-Encoded Video-DVDs on it?
What about a video, to proof it?

yup thats it
and i am sorry but i have no way to make a video

to use dvd shrink to do it you need to Re-author it and have eather an s-video or a Component cable so it can send the video info directly to the tv for it to decode

[jicksun007]

Is there one? I got a US PS2 here and I got a PAL DVD of Pearl Harbor. It doesn't play even in SMS. Tried searching but all discussions I found so far are for the PS3.

Yes, we are all more concerned about ps3 news, ps2 some parts hard to find now

[TnA]

yup thats it
and i am sorry but i have no way to make a video

to use dvd shrink to do it you need to Re-author it

Re-authoring means, it also re-encodes the video-stream (a.k.a. for example from PAL to NTSC)... It is possible that the V-Mode is still PAL, but the PS2s DVD-Player doesn't recognize it, thus allowing it to be decoded.

and have eather an s-video or a Component cable so it can send the video info directly to the tv for it to decode

What are you talking about?
If you mean 'let the TV decode the digital content/MPEG2-Stream', that's not possible...
If you mean 'use a wire which send the colo(u)rs in seperate wires', that is indeed a good advice to get a better picture at all...

Btw.: I'm not sure if an S-Video-'Wire' (even) has seperate 'lines' for these colo(u)rs, or if they are all modulated into one, like it is done with a 'Composite-Wire'.

[SP193]

Re-authoring means, it also re-encodes the video-stream (a.k.a. for example from PAL to NTSC)... It is possible that the V-Mode is still PAL, but the PS2s DVD-Player doesn't recognize it, thus allowing it to be decoded.

When you re-encode/re-author the video, the source has to be descrambled first.
When the video is ripped from the disc by a program for encoding, the video has to be descrambled (Usually done by the DVD drive).

If that happens, the DVD video becomes "region-free".

I've done that before, to get a region 5 disc to be played on one of the region 3-only DVD players I used to use.

Of course, something that will be very great is a piece of software that makes the PS2's DVD player region free.

I know that it's not a hardware limitation, as the first Playstation 2 was *region-free* when the user pressed a certain combination of buttons when using the DVD Player v1.00.

[TnA]

When you re-encode/re-author the video, the source has to be descrambled first.

True, but that is an entirely different 'thing'.
The problem is, that the PS2s DVD-Player (on NTSC-PS2s) simply doesn't decode Video-DVDs, which are encoded in PAL.

The sectorbased scrambling (CSS=Content Scrambling System) and the 'region-restriction'/DVD-Region [which is defined by the files] isn't a problem here...

When the video is ripped from the disc by a program for encoding, the video has to be descrambled (Usually done by the DVD drive).

To be exact,... The Video-Files/Sector-Content (the User-Data-Block in a sector) has to be 'descrambled' to retrieve the Video-DVD-Files (a.k.a., those in 'VIDEO_TS') in non-encrypted form.

The Video-DVD-Files then get demuxed (without file-output of demuxed streams, but still it is somekind of demuxing/'reading the container-file') and the Video- and Audio-Streams get 'decoded' (in this case it is a 'lossy encoding method').

If that happens, the DVD video becomes "region-free".

I've done that before, to get a region 5 disc to be played on one of the region 3-only DVD players I used to use.

Of course, something that will be very great is a piece of software that makes the PS2's DVD player region free.

I know that it's not a hardware limitation, as the first Playstation 2 was *region-free* when the user pressed a certain combination of buttons when using the DVD Player v1.00.

Like I said,... The issue is not in any way linked to it (region-restriction and sector-scrambling),...

[kevstah2004]

What about trying a decrypted pal dvdplayer.elf on a ntsc console