Philips DVP-642 Problems

[priapos]

I have recently purchased this player. I performed the firmware upgrade and hacked it to region free. When I put in a pal dvd, the screen becomes distorted and plays black and white. Almost like trying to watch a cable channel that is blocked. I can hear the audio, but again, everything is distorted. What is the problem.

Thanks In advance.

[jman98]

You have to set the TV output to NTSC on the player. You can do this through a setting on the remote control under Video on the main menu. It sounds to me like your video output is set to either PAL or most likely AUTO and what is happening is that the PAL signal is being sent to a NTSC TV and the TV can't display it properly. AUTO means that the TV will display the video exactly in the format of the DVD - NTSC DVDs show NTSC video and PAL DVDs show PAL video. You need a multistandard TV to use AUTO.

[priapos]

Thanks, that was exactly the problem.

[wufei]

hhmmm instead of starting a new thread, i decided to post my problem with the player here. i hope that's ok.

i have a couple of .avi files that were encoded in divx 5.0 and the audio was in mp3. i burnt these files on a dvd+r medium and tried playing it with the player. it flickers. the sound came out right but the picture flickers. what could have gone wrong? the bitrate for the video was kinda large
(1953 kb/s). is this the problem? i burnt the files as is. do i need to convert it to a lower bitrate? and if yes, how to? if no, then what's wrong?

another question, is there anything that can be done to fix cut off subtitles? for example, my anime files that were burnt played fine but the subtitles were missing the bottom half. i can make out the top half but not the bottom half. it must have something to do with the display format? (4:3?, 16:9?) i tried changing those of the player's as well as my tv's. it didn't work.

any help is greatly appreciated. thank you!

[Zisguy1]

You may have to fiddle with resizing via Virtualdub (do small portions and burn to CD-RW to test) until you find a size where the subtitles show up OK, then convert all your anime files to that size.