Newbie Problem with AnyDVD HD and Regions

[burtonpark]

I have just started using ANYDVD HD to rip movies, and all seemed OK until I put a Region 1 DVD disk in the Drive. Using both PowerDVD or TMT, I get the region error page and cant play the disk, though AnyDVD clearly tried, it does not work. I am using Windows 7 64 bit OS, and latest 6.6.32 ANYDVD HD release.

Can Someone suggest what might be wrong?

Below is summary

Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.6.3.2)
SAMSUNG DVDWBD SH-B083L SB00 1126
Drive (Hardware) Region: 2

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)
Size of first Layer: 1770176 sectors (3457 MBytes)
Total size: 3401536 sectors (6643 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: DVD_VIDEO
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: PAL
Media is region free.

Structural copy protection not found.
Found & removed RCE protection!
Changed firstplay: Jump directly to TitleMenu!
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 2!

[mtbgtr]

PAL will not play in a Region 1 player. I had the same issue recently until I realized it was a PAL DVD and not AnyDVD's fault. AnyDVD does not convert to NTSC as of yet.

[burtonpark]

Originally Posted by mtbgtr

PAL will not play in a Region 1 player. I had the same issue recently until I realized it was a PAL DVD and not AnyDVD's fault. AnyDVD does not convert to NTSC as of yet.

Its a region 1 disc that I'm having problems with, so that will be NTSC.

I think it is because something is getting in between ANYDVD and the playing programme. Just deinstalled ImageBurn, but still got the same problem

[Ch3vr0n]

you need to set the DVD region on AnyDVD to the region of the disc. Should do the trick. You can safely reinstall IMGBurn as it has nothing to do with AnyDVD, PowerDVD or TMT3

Also untick this box

Changed firstplay: Jump directly to TitleMenu!

.

enabling this option can render discs unplayable.

[burtonpark]

Originally Posted by Ch3vr0n

you need to set the DVD region on AnyDVD to the region of the disc. Should do the trick. You can safely reinstall IMGBurn as it has nothing to do with AnyDVD, PowerDVD or TMT3

Also untick this box .

enabling this option can render discs unplayable.

Thanks, If I set the Default DVD Drop Down Region in ANDDVD HD to Region 1then I can play the Region 1 DVD, even though the drive is region 2, but I thought that ANYDVD removed the region information on the fly or does that only happen if you set to region 1 and do a rip? then the ripped version is region free can you clrify pls

Also I now don't think its entirely because the disk is Region 1, as I can play another region 1 disk OK, the disk I am having probems with is Region 1 Finding Forester which I beleive uses the RCE scheme, because I keep getting the map.

Having set the drive to Region 1 I've tried a rip and it works, but still would like clirification of whats supposed to be done.

[Ch3vr0n]

When you rip the disc, then yes the region code will be removed. You can then safely backup the disc and play it on any standalone tv player or pc drive. It does also remove the region code on the fly (see the status window), but to do this correctly. AnyDVD still needs to be set to the disc's region. Otherwise you risk getting the problem you've had.

I'm not sure if its due to the RCE but the RCE scheme (Region Code Enhanced) can be what caused this, as its an added "protection" layer to the standard region code protection. Most discs only have RC and not RC + RCE, wich can be why your other R1 discs played fine.

[mtbgtr]

Originally Posted by burtonpark

Its a region 1 disc that I'm having problems with, so that will be NTSC.

I think it is because something is getting in between ANYDVD and the playing programme. Just deinstalled ImageBurn, but still got the same problem

According to your summary:

Video DVD (or CD) label: DVD_VIDEO
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: PAL
Media is region free.

The video standard says PAL not NTSC, unless this is using the version of AnyDVD that reported the Video standard incorrectly, then my bad.

But then this raises another question of its stated as Region Free? Then it shouldn't matter what region your player is set to, right?

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by mtbgtr

According to your summary:



The video standard says PAL not NTSC, unless this is using the version of AnyDVD that reported the Video standard incorrectly, then my bad.

But then this raises another question of its stated as Region Free? Then it shouldn't matter what region your player is set to, right?

The current version (6.6.3.2) erroneously reports NTSC discs as PAL; that is a known bug (see threads here and here). It's just a display value that doesn't affect actual playback, but SlySoft is working on a fix.

The "region free" statement you're reading is normal for RCE discs. They were encoded as "region free" to trick early region-free players; a script then read the player's region and provided the movie if correct, or a "map of the world" screen if incorrect. Though some region-free players can now defeat RCE automatically, the only 100% foolproof way to defeat RCE is to set the correct region before inserting the disc; that's why the solution was to make AnyDVD's default region same as the disc. (That's also why the studios abandoned RCE; it proved too easy to defeat.)