DVD out of region error ?

[bdunn]

anyone know what out of region error is. I have a single DVD that doesnt work in any drive I tried it in. The rest work

[Donkey]

I assume you are trying to play a DVD from a region that the drive won't allow. DVD drives come in regioned flavours though most nowadays a patchable to play any region. WHat sort of drive do you have? go to http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/ and see if there is a patch for your drive.
It could also be either windows or the playback software that is causing the region problem.
I suppose the first thing to find out is what region the DVD is and WHat region the drive is and work from there. If they are fropm the sme region and the software is also okay then i have no other ideas.
Rod

[Etruscan]

Here is a link to an Asus page (http://www.asus.com/Products/Techref/Multimedia/dvd.html) that describes the "regional" policy of DVD encoded movie files. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a map of the regions and an explaination of the code.

Also, I am interested to know if you find out why it doesn't play. I was going to buy a DVD that has no code number. I didn't because I thought maybe it wouldn't play, unless I changed the code on the player. If that is the reason yours doen't play, post and let me know, all right.

[codybear]

go find DVD Genie
http://www.tweakfiles.com/drives/dvdgenie.html

[This message has been edited by codybear (edited 06-21-2001).]

[bdunn]

Thanks for your advice. I didn't realize they were region coded. I bought this one while vacationing overseas.

[Donkey]

That explains it. Go to the firmware page i gave above and see if your drive is patchable? (it is a DVD drive on your computer right?) then get dvd genie as sugggested by codybear and all should be fine. If you need more advice just ask!
Rod