Region Problem after burning DVD

[Homebrew101]

I live in the USA, my standalone DVD player (Sony) is region 1. My Lite-On DVD burner in my pc is set for region 1. I download DVD via bit torrents of music concerts and have successfully burned many to dvd using Nero Express on Maxell dvd+r's.
I just burned a dvd that my standalone player (Sony) will not play citing that it is "prohibited by area limitations" which I assume to be referring to the region code. I burned the dvd with Nero Express. It plays fine on my pc with PowerDVD.

I have since burned other dvds that play fine on the Sony.

What went wrong? Nero? The original files? Should I just try it again and hope it was a fluke? Can I search the files for a region code or is that message from my Sony not even region related?

[guns1inger]

Chances are that it isn't anything to do with regions, but format. I will bet you a beer that the DVD you downloaded is PAL format, and you have only NTSC players.

This leaves you with two choices;

1. Buy a dvd player capable of playing back PAL material (the easiest and best option),

or

2. Convert the DVD to NTSC format. There are plenty of guides to do this, however you will reduce the quality and put yourself through a great deal of pain to do it.

[mats.hogberg]

my standalone player (Sony) will not play citing that it is "prohibited by area limitations" which I assume to be referring to the region code

A good assumption, but probably wrong. My bet is that the DVD is PAL while your player just plays NTSC. RCP is 99.9% only to be found in originals, and is removed by default by most DVD backup applications.

/Mats

[Homebrew101]

Thanks, it sounds like you're both right, the file stated that it was NTSC and the frame rate is 29.970 but I have received a reply from another that tried to burn it that it is PAL as far as he could tell also.

[jman98]

Homebrew101 - The Teco Bit Rate viewer (http://www.tecoltd.com - get the free version - you don't need the one you pay for) can tell you whether you have NTSC or PAL video. It won't say "NTSC" or "PAL", but it will tell you the resolution and frames per second. 24 fps or 29.97 fps is NTSC. 25 fps is PAL.