Do VCD's need to be region encoded 2 B played in DVD player?

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Sorry for the poor grammer,trying fit the question into the subject line!
For the most part,I know all standalone DVD player's are region locked,(eg:in Australia its region 4).
I had been creating VCD's of my old video collection, but when playing them in a friend's PC's DVD-ROM drive to test them,I didn't realise that they wouldn't play as the drive wa configured to play region 4 DVD's.

Now I'm worried that my home made VCD's won't play on a typical region-locked (region 4), stand alone DVD player if I haven't got any region setting's on them.

Neither TMPGenc,or Nero give anything in the way of region encoding, so my question is,will normally,(ie: Virtual Dub/AVI captured AVI converted to mpeg in TMPGenc,& burnt as a VCD in Nero), created VCD's without any region settings etc, play on a normal stand-alone region locked DVD player?

[lattedfw]

Video CDs don't have region coding, so they should play in any DVD player of any region coding that can play Video CDs. The only slight hitch might be a PAL or NTSC VCD played on the opposite-format DVD player, but even then most will convert it on the fly.

Not all PC DVD playing software can play VCD's, which may be why your disc didn't play. I usually just play the VCD's .dat files in Windows Media player. There's a lot of info on this site regarding VCD-playing software for PCs.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Thank you lattedfw. I've been testing them on my CDrom drive using WinDVD, but had been concerned that my efforts would've been in vain. That's handy to know if/when I can get a DVD player,thank you.