Problems with playing dvd back-ups on playstation 2

[Gandalf the Great]

Hi, my aim is to back up a movie of mine & be able to play it on my PS2. I have made a number of back up copies which work on my friends dvd player but these do not work on my PS2. At the moment I am using 'Arita' 1x dvd-r media. Does my PS2 need to be chipped or something to enable playback? At the moment it does not even recognise that a disk is in the drive. Or could it be that the back up I have created is a NTSC version whilst me PS2 is PAl? Any help would be great, thanks in advance.

[DeleriumMDK]

video format matters, as does media type. Some PS2's are picky about certain media types. DVD backups of movies should play on an unmodded PS2. Try a PAL Format disc on a higher quality DVD-R, take it from there.

[loughary]

No, some PS2’s play – media or + media or both. I would recommend trying some different media. I have a version 3 PS2 and it plays – or +. It may be the software that you’re authoring/burning the DVD I have never had a problem using DVDDecrypter to burn.

[glockjs]

different media

[Gandalf the Great]

Ok I'll try these ideas, thanks alot ppl.

[Gandalf the Great]

I tried ripping a different movie, this time choosing a PAl format film. I tried it on my PS2 & it worked fine. Thank you again for your help.