Region coding on ripped DVDs

[JamieK]

Dear All,

I have been experimenting with ripping DVD's(for backup purposes of course) with some success. My only remaining problem seems to be that some form of region coding seems to have remained on the disk as although I can play the ripped DVD on a PC or region-free home player when I asked a friend to try the disk on his home region 2 player it informed him the disk was not playable due to the region coding. My ripping method is as follows:

Region 1 disk, total size(including menus) < 4.7GB

1. Smartripper(file mode)
2. Ifoedit(to remove region coding from .ifo files)
3. Nero 5.5.9.0
4. Pioneer A03

Any ideas as to why there is still region coding would be much appreciated.

Regards,

JamieK

[snowmoon]

RCE ( Region Coding Enhancemant ). They add programming code to the disk to query the player multiple times to if various regions are allowed. The good players will lock into region mode when such disks are detected, but some do not.

Do a google for RCE disks/copying and I'm sure you will come up with some information on how to fix it.

[JamieK]

I don't think it's RCE protected as it is quite an old DVD, pre-RCE.

Thanks,

JamieK

[Niceone]

have you tried enabling the setting "region free" in smartripper as well?

[JamieK]

Yes, it was set when I did the rip to HDD. I'm going to try DVDDecrypter and see if that does the same with this disk.

Thanks,

JamieK

[buckonine]

you can also load each ifo into ifoedit and click on region free. i have found a few discs that have region encoding on multi ifo's