Region ripping

[se00ld]

I have recently purchased a Sony 510A and I am quite pleased with it's performance. But when I burn to disk it copies the region as well. I have tried to overcome it in 2 ways, by using DVD shrink 2.2 and setting region free when copying to hard drive and also by using DVD decrypter, by Tools>IFO>Region patch>Region free on the selected IFO files from DVD Shrink but neither seem to work. Please could anyone give me any suggestions of how to overcome this. Cheers..

[burninfool]

Use Ifoedit to make region free.
http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow/

[Justin42]

When you rip in DVD Decryptor, there's an option to remove the RCE and the like-- it sounds like you're patching it after it's ripped. I've had no problems doing it at rip-time. (I've done Region 2 PAL copies and Region 2/3 NTSC ripped to region free in DVD Decryptor)

Of course, this doesn't defeat any PAL/NTSC issues, so if you're ripping Region 2 PAL discs and making them region free, they still won't run on most Region 1 NTSC players. (you may know that, just wanted to point it out)

[tazdevl]

If you have a regular DVD drive... you can always check and see if you can make it region free in the BIOS with a firmware update. That want don't need to worry about things.

If you do have one, you can check here to see if there's a firmware fix.

http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php

The 510A won't add a region if the source doesn't have one to begin with.

DVD drives are pretty cheap ~$30... might make sense to get one if you plan on backing up a lot of DVDs. I'd recommend a LiteOn LTD-166S, good drive and there's a region hack out for it.

As previously mentioned, you can make the files region free with DVD decrypter before you encode and burn.

[se00ld]

In DVD decripter I am using the ISO mode which should sort out all the region protection anyway. Tazdevil maybe closer the mark for I am using DVD region killer to read the original disks on a Sony DDU1612 Rom, which is usually set at region 1, which is the region I am reading and after encoding it ends up being the region in which it writes in (when I want/have selected region free). There is a region change option in DVDdecripter which asks you to make sure you have a disk of that type in the player first before you change it, (also says that number of times you can change it will decrease) is this wise to do, would it act as a firmware update?.

Also in Tools>settings - advanced options there is RCE protection region which is set at 1 should this be changed?. (is this what Justin42 was going on about ?).

If Justin42 is using the IFO setting how do you chnage the region before encoding for it asks you to select from file the IFO/BUP files you want to change.?

I have read the guide on DVDdecripter but I can't seem to make it out.

Further help would be much abliged Cheers..