Region coding on burned disks.

[sambat]

For amusement I used IfoEdit to change the region code on a burned DVD to region 2.
My region 1 players rejected it and my region 0 player accepted it - as I expected.
I was surprised that WMP played it ok on the PC as my burner is a regular RPC-2 unit.
I don't have a commercial region 2 disk to compare, but wonder if there is another location on it that would be honoured by the burner.

[jman98]

Just a guess, but maybe WMP does media detection first secretly and if it finds a consumer burnable DVD disc, it doesn't bother to check region codes as they should not, in theory, exist anyway. Could save some lines of code that way.

[bat999]

Erm... How did you manage to change the region code on a burned DVD?

Do you mean that you ripped the DVD onto your hard drive, then changed the region code then burned it again to another disc?

[sambat]

Yes.
Open the DVD using IfoEdit.
Select 'VIDEO_TS.IFO
Click on VMGM_MAT
Note the Region coding and insert the value required.
253 is Region 2
254 is Region 1
0 is All regions

[bat999]

Yes.
Open the DVD using IfoEdit.
Select 'VIDEO_TS.IFO
Click on VMGM_MAT
Note the Region coding and insert the value required.
253 is Region 2
254 is Region 1
0 is All regions

Do you mean that you ripped the DVD onto your hard drive, then changed the region code then burned it again to another disc?

[sambat]

Just a guess, but maybe WMP does media detection first secretly and if it finds a consumer burnable DVD disc, it doesn't bother to check region codes as they should not, in theory, exist anyway. Could save some lines of code that way.

Is it the burner or the software that looks for the region code.

[jman98]

Just a guess, but maybe WMP does media detection first secretly and if it finds a consumer burnable DVD disc, it doesn't bother to check region codes as they should not, in theory, exist anyway. Could save some lines of code that way.

Is it the burner or the software that looks for the region code.

I think it's the software and I'll tell you why. VLC doesn't check region codes and it plays DVDs. So I would not discount my suggestion above as being what happened to you.