When you make a DVD with DVD Styler, in some DVD players, you won’t get to see them.
If you’re on the PAL side, then there shouldn’t be nothing wrong with it, but if you live in the NTSC side, you might encounter into problems.
You often will get the error message of “This DVD is not NTSC”, “DVD is PAL” or something similar to it.
I know, you’ve made every possible settings as NTSC. I ran into the same problem. But unfortunately, DVD Styler has a bug that makes your DVD into PAL instead of NTSC.
Before you go on forward, some screenshots are in Japanese, but Media Player Classic and IfoEdit softwares are in English so you get the idea as its easy enough.
Analysis of what’s wrong.
- When you try to play it on a DVD player, you get “Not an NTSC disc.” or its in PAL so you can’t play it bro”.
Confirming the symptoms
- When you play it on Media Player Classic you can play the DVD.
- In Media Player Classic, when you open the “VTS_01_0.IFO” file and look at the property in “MediaInfo” tab, its size is at 720×576 which is PAL and the format is also in PAL.
- But when you open it in gspot and look at the VOB files, its in NTSC format and the size is in 720×480.
- And ofcourse, all settings inside DVD styler has been set to NTSC.
Solutions
- Using IfoEdit, rewrite the portion that says PAL to NTSC for “VIDEO_TS.IFO” and “VTS_01_0.IFO”.
- After, burn it.
- or just Upgrade to DVD Styler 2.3 which seems to have fixed this NTSC/PAL mixed problem.
Organizing the Symptoms
- Trying to play it on the DVD player, it says “Cannot play because its not NTSC format” or “its in PAL format”.
Cannot play because its not NTSC
Confirming the Symptoms
- When you play it on Media Player Classic you can play the DVD.
- In Media Player Classic, when you open the “VTS_01_0.IFO” file and look at the property in “MediaInfo” tab, its size is at 720×576 which is PAL and the format is also in PAL.
- But when you open it in gspot and look at the VOB files, its in NTSC format and the size is in 720×480.
- And ofcourse, all settings inside DVD styler has been set to NTSC.
Solutions
- Using IfoEdit, rewrite the portion that says PAL to NTSC for “VIDEO_TS.IFO” and “VTS_01_0.IFO”.
- After, burn it on DVD.
- IfoEdit http://www.ifoedit.com/ – I used IfoEdit 0.971
- DVDStyler http://www.dvdstyler.org/ – Above was written using DVDStyler v2.2 and DVDStyler v2.2 rc 2.