How to make a region free disk

[aussierobbe]

Hi there
can anybody help please i would like t make a region free disk i have home movies and would like to be able to send them to Australia but they are region 4 and i am region 2 i have sent disk before but they will not play in normal DVD players i think its that i am making them on a region 2 rom i know there is anydvd to play any region dvd's
Would love some help
aussierobbe

[redwudz]

If you created and burned a DVD disc, it would be region free by default. Same if you ripped a commercial DVD disc and created a backup from it. To create a regional disc, you would have to choose that in the DVD authoring software. Not often done, especially at the default settings.

More common would be problems with NTSC, used in the US and some other places and PAL formats used in most of Europe. But most PAL DVD players play NTSC discs, though fewer NTSC country players can play PAL.

And welcome to our forums.

[aussierobbe]

Hi there

Thank you for that i have made dvd disk and sent them to Australia but none of them seem to work perhaps i should use PAL Australia
do you think that would help and another thing i thought of is to make an old dvd rom region 4 just to see if it works

[redwudz]

If they can't play a NTSC disc, the region it was in wouldn't matter. They may have an older DVD player that can't play NTSC DVDs. You could try converting the DVD files to PAL format, but that tends to cause other problems such as jerky playback or out of sync audio if not done correctly.

PAL video is 25 Frames Per Second and NTSC is 29.97 or 23.976 FPS.

[jman98]

It is VERY VERY unusual for an NTSC DVD to not play on DVD players sold in PAL countries. You're looking at a 5% chance at best that this is your problem.

It could be a variety of things. We know nothing about how you made the discs. You could have made them incorrectly. You could have used poor quality media. Or you could have done everything right and they just have a really bad (and/or old) DVD player that barfs on your discs.

No offense aussierobbe but it is nearly impossible for consumers to burn DVDs on their own with region codes on them. Your posts suggest that you don't have the knowledge to do this. You really have to know what you are doing to do it at all and it's almost impossible to find programs that can do it. Even the studios typically get the region coding done by the mastering plant. Scenarist, a professional DVD authoring tool that is very expensive, can't even set region codes in it. I'd be better off buying lottery tickets as an investment strategy than believing that you did this somehow without realizing it. So I completely discount the possibility that region codes are your problem here. Your suggestion to burn a DVD ROM is not a good one either. There are no region codes on DVD ROMs.

[KBeee]

Most DVD players in Oz seem to be region free, so if your disk won't play in ANY Aussie player then I'd suspect it's not a region issue, but something else.
You say you're in Region 2 which is generally PAL (same as Oz), unless you're in Japan where you'll be NTCS Region 2.