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...some my old DivX movies to DVD format so I could burn them to disc and play them in my standalone player. The conversion using this tool was no problem, very painless, and I used Nero to create the disc. The DVD+R played on the computer via WinDVD, but when I dropped the disc in my Sony DVD player to give it a while, I got the "area" error message telling me it couldn't play the disc. I take this to mean that it's been encoded for a region different than region 1. I went back into Winavi and there is nothing in the options that's obvious to me as being a means of changing this region encoding. Okay, am I wrong to think that this is a region encoding issue? Could it be something else?
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Re: Used Winavi to convert...
Wed, August 25, 2004 - 6:37 AMMy best guess is that your DVD player does not support the DVD+R format- some players have trouble with all of the recordable formats, including CD-R. My HP DVD Wirter is first generation and only burns DVD+RW discs and I have not been able to get any of the discs to play on 3 of my 4 players or any of my friends' players.
DVD+R/RW is a format supported by the DVD+RW Alliance: Dell, HP, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Philips Electronics, Ricoh Company, Sony Corporation, Thomson Multimedia, and Yamaha Corporation. They keep claiming that +R and +RW are compatible with 90-95% of all DVD Players and that is just not the case based on my experiences and things I have read from other users and reviewers.
Here is the DVD+RW Alliance's list of compatible players:
www.dvdrw.com/why/compatoverview.htm
Here is a list that includes third party players, as well.
www.dvdplusrw.org/Search.asp
DVD-R/RW is much more compatible from what I have seen and that is what prompted to me to buy the new HP 530i DVD Writer which supports all 4 DVD recordable formats as well as dual layer media. -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 7:52 AMOh no, it's no problem at all with the DVD+R format, I have dozens of DVD+R flicks that play fine on that machine. I have a sinking feeling that somehow, this software encoded the flick in something other than region 1, thus the "area" error message that comes on the screen. I'm just picking everyone's brains to see if I might be WAY off base thinking this. Good call on the DVD+R thing, though, if I had no prior success with getting those movies to play, I would suspect the disc as the culprit as well. -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 8:28 AMOkay, here's the deal...as I said above, I converted a DivX above, and the DivX in question was "The Empire Strikes Back," a DivX I've had for a while. Obviously, there is no DVD source to pull that from, somebody had to have gotten it from a laserdisc, since this version is the original, non-jazzed up stuff that Lucas is putting out. That's the one that wouldn't work when converted to DVD format and burned to +R. Now, I made a second run, this time with a DivX of "Buffalo '66," and lo and behold, THAT one plays fine in the player. This was content related for some reason. Strange. -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 10:06 AM"Now, I made a second run, this time with a DivX of "Buffalo '66," and lo and behold, THAT one plays fine in the player. This was content related for some reason. Strange."
I would probably do a second run at ESB just to make sure. Something could have gone wrong during the burning process. -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 10:19 AMTrue, but it's strange that both played on the computer. Oh well, I might dig up another DivX and give it a whirl this afternoon. -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 11:10 AM"True, but it's strange that both played on the computer. Oh well, I might dig up another DivX and give it a whirl this afternoon."
Hmmm...
So we know it's probably not a region code problem and probably not a DVD media brand problem and it also looks like it's not an encoding problem since the ESB disc played on your computer.
So what does that leave? You say you're converting a DiVX file to MPEG-2 using WinAVI? Have you ever used WinAVI for other types of conversions? What Nero software did you use to burn the DVD+R? -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 11:13 AMThis is my first time running WinAVI through its paces, and my Nero version is 6.0.0.20, which is a little behind (I think there's 6.3 available). And yup, it's DivX to MPEG-2. -
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Wed, August 25, 2004 - 11:28 AM"This is my first time running WinAVI through its paces, and my Nero version is 6.0.0.20, which is a little behind (I think there's 6.3 available). And yup, it's DivX to MPEG-2."
Nero Burning ROM 6.0.0.20?
Have you tried to play the ESB DVD+R on any other DVD players?
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Re: Used Winavi to convert...
Wed, August 25, 2004 - 8:36 AM"Oh no, it's no problem at all with the DVD+R format, I have dozens of DVD+R flicks that play fine on that machine."
Same here, but I still get discs that my player will not recognize even if the player has had no problems before. Sometimes the burning process doesn't get carried off correctly.
I still think it's a problem with the disc itself and not a region problem because you have to specifically select the region to be burned in and the default for your software should be Region 1. Did you check the disc when you played it back on your PC to see which region it's set at? All my DVD software players are set at Region 1 so they wouldn't recognize that disc either.
What brand of DVD+R discs did you use? I have a friend who has had problems with certain brands of discs being recognized by DVD players. I'd recommend trying a different brand just to eliminate that as a possible problem.
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Thu, August 26, 2004 - 1:02 PMOkay, I give up trying to figure this one out. This is the latest. After converting "The Empire Strikes Back" (played on computer, not on standalone player) and "Buffalo '66," (played on both), I picked a random DivX file, this time the Jarmusch flick "Ghost Dog." The same damn thing happened with this one that happened with "Empire...," the thing plays on the computer put generates an error in the standalone DVD player. -
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Thu, August 26, 2004 - 4:40 PMThat is just odd. Something on those two DVD+Rs annoys the standalone player.
Did you say that your DVD Software on your computer plays Region 1? I would check and see what region the ESB and Ghost Dog discs are encoded at. If it turns out that they are Region 1 then the only other thing I can think of is the DVD player is being pissy about how the DVD+Rs were encoded.
How many different standalone DVD players have you tried them on? I would try them on as many players as possible. If they don't play on any of them then my guess is they may not be encoded properly enough for anything but DVD-ROM drives to read. if they play on the others then maybe your DVD player needs to have its firmware upgraded.
The monkey wrench in this equation is the Buffalo '66 disc.
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