I have a few all region DVD's that I bought in Thailand that won't play on my home DVD players (and Panasonic recorder) but they DO play on my PC (Sony DRU-500AX). Opened 'em up in DVD Decrypter which confirms all regions and no copy protection. Decrypted and burned one to DVD-R (thinking that the orignal may have been DVD+R and it was a compatibility problem) but even the copy won't play, except on the PC. Any idea what's going on with the tabletops refusing to play ("Cannot play this type of disc" error message)? Thanks!
possible the way they have been recorded that they are not compatible i.e. burnt using the wrong udf format for you players, or have you tryed changing your dispay in setup to auto rather than pal, my freind had this problem with his toshiba coming up disc error on a region 0 disc,
Actually, it's NTSC. Weird thing is that the DVD's will play fine on several laptops I've tried but no luck whatsoever on tabletop DVD players. Weird!
Thanks for the spelling correction. I'm sure you had no idea what I was on about because of that. LOL Does your stand alones (tabletop) player play both NTSC & PAL?
Just NTSC, but all of the other DVD's were ok so I doubt they are PAL. Do any of the decrypter programs or anything specify NTSC or PAL as a format?
Probably what sheppy124 stated. Could also be crap media. Try and run a disc through ifoedit and MAKE it region 2 see if this helps.
Don't know if it makes any difference or not but when I ran it through DVD Decrypter in IFO mode it came up with this: E 18:14:37 Reason: Function 'UDFFindPartition' returned 0 It didn't have a problem in ISO mode though but the DVD still refused to play other than on a PC drive.
Never seen that before but (only speculation) looks like a format problem (ie the format it was copied in) Iso mode basically takes a picture of the disc layout (image) and looks at exactly WHERE all the information is and mirrors it onto a disc, so it wouldn't surprise me that it read it ok. Have u tried copying THAT image back and tried it?
I was able to make an ISO image successfully and copy it to disc (Fuji) but that one ended up the same as the original...won't play on a tabletop player. DVD Decrypter can't rip it in "File" mode or "IFO" without an error message. Darned if I know what those Thai buggers did to burn them like this!
What tabletop players have u tried them in? r they ABLE to play dvd-r? Have u checked compatibility www.dvdrhelp.com in the players compatibility section? This is interesting actually as nothing I could see would prevemt it from playing. If u put the disc in and go into windows explorer - What files come up are they ifo/vob/bup? or MPEG
I've tried to play them on 2 different Panasonic players and on my Panasonic DVD Recorder/Player (the one with the hard drive). Most of the ones I bought in Thailand work fine, it's just a few that don't. In Explorer, I can see the IFO and BUP files without a problem. Maybe I'll try someone else's tabletop Sony or something. Beats me. I've looked everywhere and haven't come across this problem anywhere.
