I am having problems getting working DVDs from DivX and XVid files I've downloaded. Sometimes they work, but sometimes my DVD player chokes on the region code.
Believe me, I've gone through all the threads I could find looking for an answer.
I start with either VSO DivXtoDVD or AVI2DVD, both of which work well and give me the .VOB etc. files I need. I then burn them to a DVD-R with Nero.
Problem: The DVD I get plays just fine in my PC, but won't play in my Sony DVD player on the TV; I get a region-code error.
This seems weird, because I'm starting from a DivX or XVid file -- I didn't think they had region codes. And also because they play on my PC but not the Sony player. (And the Sony plays other DVDs no problem.)
I've burned with Nero and with Sony's DVD Architect, but I don't remember which I used for which disks. (I've used HP DVD-Rs as well as gen-u-ine Taiyo Yuden.)
Any suggestions out there? I have tried over and over, even using DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter on these unplayable disks. I tell it to strip the region codes, but I still end up with a disk that plays on my PC but not on my TV.
Is it possible that Nero is the problem? Could it be my player? (It plays other disks just fine.)
No, it just seems that you made a region 2 DVD and you have a region 1 system DVD player (or vice versa).
You choose the wrong output type in TMPGenc's wizard, for instance.
Believe me, I didn't believe my eyes when I watched the line
Quote:Take the paper in front of you that you used when you wrote down the fps value from AVIcodec. If the fps is 25.000fps, you should select DVD - PAL and if the fps is either 23.976 or 29.97, you should select DVD - NTSC
It's absolutely wrong, and I'll warn Afterdawn about it. I mean, you can create a PAL or NTSC M2V movie even if the AVI type doesn't match your system (this is whan encoding means).
If the guy who made that AVI used a 25 fps MPG, it created a 25 fpsAVI. That 25 fpsAVI can be converted into a 23.976 fps MPEG, why not (and vice versa, of course)?
Therefore my sugegstion is: don't believe the guide and choose the M2V type (PAL/NTSC) according your system, not according the AVI's type.
Hmm... but how did I create a region 2 DVD if A) DivXtoDVD is set to region 1, and B) it plays just fine on my PC? I'm just using Windows Media player, so I'm guessing a region 2 disk won't play at all.
It's odd b/c this doesn't happen all the time. One DivX makes a fine DVD; the next one gets me a region error.
