Greek disc copy wouldn't Play

[MT Jazz]

A buddy of mine has a dvd from his sister in Greece, the dvd will play on my Apple G5 but will not play on any of our DVD players. I do not know much about how the dvd was recorded. I tried to burn a copy through Toast 6 after DvD backup but the results were the same. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to create a DVD disc that will work.

I am in the USA

Thanks
Mrk

[galactica]

interesting.... it probably wont play in the dvd players because of its region code... but is it Commercial or a dvdr?

2nd when it played in your G5 did it ask to set the region code of your drive?

or did it just start up?

when you backed it up did the backup play in apple dvd player??

[MT Jazz]

The dvd he has is a dvdr, and it started right to the menu on my apple dvd drive and the backup played fine on the apple dvd player.

Mrk

[MT Jazz]

if this is a region based issue, is there away to convert the files.

[maetel99]

The DVD may have MPEG-2 Audio, which most non-European players can't handle. If this is the case, you can look around in 220V electronics shops for a player that can handle it. The only other alternative is to extract everything and re-author the DVD in AC-3 or PCM sound.

[Vintageman]

Rip with DVD Backup set to region free and if it's under 4.3gb burn again with Toast.

[Vintageman]

Make sure to choose DATA under Toast and set it to DVD Rom (UDF), And most important make sure it's all capitol in the name and _ for spaces ( ex: XMEN_2 ).

[galactica]

the thing is.... when you copied the data over with DVDBackup did you test any of the .vob files to see if they play in VLC?

it could be something simple like a region code or RCE protection that was not removed.

best way is to see if they play at all....

better yet, try opening the backup video_ts folder in Apple Dvd Player and see if that plays....

if its a coding issue you may have to use IFOEdit under Virtual PC to remove the RCE protection

see the post related to IFOEdit
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=197425