write DVDs for Zone 1 & All Zones

[wasssu]

Hi,

I have a DVD car player that play only 'zone 1' and 'all zones'. How can i write a DVD for zone 1? What program can i use (and what settings)?

Thank you.

[borax]

Usually 'home made' DVDs are created as region free. Therefore it should be no problem with any authoring program.

[wasssu]

if i download a dvd image from internet (torrents, etc.), this image has a zone protection?

[guns1inger]

Probably not, although we have a long list of posts that begin "I downloaded a DVD and now it won't burn/play/function . . . ", so be careful before you waste your time and bandwidth.

[jman98]

You need to be aware that "Zone 1 and all zones" may possibly mean "NTSC ONLY". I live in the USA and almost all of the manufacturers that sell electronics here seem to think that we have no need to play PAL video. You'll have to rip a PAL DVD and burn it and see if it plays or not.

Any DVDs you make yourself should not have region coding. If you rip a DVD and burn it to a new disc, it should not have region coding. It is almost impossible for consumers to create a DVD with region coding on it, so don't worry about that. I agree with guns1inger that anything can happen when you download videos, so there is always the possibility with a downloaded DVD that it might still have region coding on it although most of them will not.