playing movies on dvd home players
 

:) hi everone out there i just wanted to see if there is any body out there that can help me with a little problom that i am haveing with play movies on my home dvd player with the movies i have donwload useing limewire pro 4.9.37 this is whats happening to me frist i was trying to play the movies on my playstation 2 and they would not play so then i was told that the playstation 2 will not play dvd+r record so then i got me a dvd player from best buy and i was reading the dvd player manual and it says that the dvd player plays movies record in a dvd+r discs and that it also plays movie in divx mp3 mpeg-4 jpeg vcd svcd format but when i try to play the movies that i have record on the dvd player plays some movies but other wont play or they frezze up on me not much but they do frezze and the movies i am playing on the dvd player or on mpeg-4 format and on a dvd+r disc so they should play on my player they do play good on my computer i have no what can be cauesing this to happen can it be that when i record the movies i use a software called 1 click dvd copy to copy the movies there most be something i can do to fix this but dont know need some help thank you








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a ps2 will play burned DVD's (mine does) it sounds like you need dvd burning software that creates a menu and title page onto the dvd when you burn it. that is what your ps2 and dvd player are looking for when you first pop in the DVD. If all the disk has is a movie on it, the machine doesn't know where to start the movie.

a good program for creating dvd's is WinnDVD creator 2, it works great for me.

Nero 6 or 7 or Roxio Easy CD/DVD creator will also do reliable jobs.

:D thanks for your replys:D

I find if I burn them in PAL the PS2 will play them also check what brand of disk your using, I use imation and my dvd will accept them, but it wont accept tdk......;)

WW

Just be aware that Australia, like the UK, uses PAL for it's TV and video systems while most of the world uses NTSC, except for France (and French Territories) they use SECAM.

So a PS2 made for the US would use NTSC while one made for the UK and Australia would use PAL.



UK Bob

Thanks Ukbob, I didn't know that......;)

I have dvd santa and you have the choice of PAL and NTSC, so if the kids want a movie I will burn in PAL so they can watch it on their PS2 and if its a movie for me I burn it in NTSC as the dvd player plays both.....

See Im still learning everyday and thats whats good about this forum.....

Again many thanks......:)

Yep local dvd players play both. I don't know about those in NTSC countries.

Hi LOTR, hows the weather down there...lol:D

You would think, lets say American players would play both as their supposed to be the most advanced country lol :D

DVD films & their Regions
 

WW & LOTR

The following may be of interest to you and could clear up some of the mysteries surrounding this subject.

Fist of all, the Hollywood film studios have split the world into eight distinct DVD regions, each regions DVD players are not allowed to play other regions DVD film releases. This allows the films studios to say when and where in the world a DVD film can be released, just like they can with cinema releases.

To keep this post brief, I will limit myself to the first four (well, 5 actually) regions only, as you can see from the screen print.

Region 0 DVDs can be purchased and played on any compatible equipment anywhere in the world, however R0 DVDs are mainly music videos. There are some main stream films released on R0 but these DVDs have a tendency to be heavily censored.

Region 1 DVDs and films are usually released in the US anywhere from 1 to 12 months before being officially released in the rest of the world. This has a curious knock on effect in that multi-regional DVD players are not very popular in the US, whereas in the rest of the world they are the DVD players of choice.

An example of this, in 2002 when Spiderman 1 DVD came out I was able to buy my region 1 copy a whole month before the official UK region 2 copy was available.

As you can imagine, I own a multi-regional player and I did my research before I made my purchase, this is what I found out:

a) Some region 1 DVD films are released before the same film gets it’s official UK cinema release.
b) Some US films do not get a UK release, they are unable to find a UK distributor.
c) Some UK DVD releases have additional censor or distributor cuts made to them, e.g. Raiders of the Lost Ark.
d) Some region 3 DVD films are released before the same film gets it’s official UK cinema release, e.g. Kung Fu Hustle
e) Region 3 and some region 4 DVD releases are cheaper than the equivalent region 2 copy of the same film.
f) Most region 3 films have the same release date as region 1.
g) I would be getting the ability to play any DVD film made for any of the main regions of the world.

I would like to add that the savings I have made on purchasing R3 & R4 DVDs has more than paid for the extra cost of purchasing a multi-regional player which, at the time, cost £50.00 more than the equivalent R2 only player.

Finally, I don’t know about Australia but here in the UK our main electrical and high street stores are not allowed to sell multi-regional DVD players, they can only be purchased from specialist shops or via the internet.





UK Bob

The BPI, the UK equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA rolled into one, has tried and failed twice to stop UK citizens from buying non-region 2 DVDs by going after the internet companies that sell DVDs sourced from around the world. So far our British courts have thrown out both stupid cases.

Thanks Uk Bob, wow great info. Very useful, I didn't know that there was such a vast difference....:)