DVD player advice sought

[devonwoody]

I have made and copied some CD's will they play through a dedicated DVD player/TV?

If I send a CD to the USA will it play on their DVD machine and not muck up their region settings?

 

[Vormulac]

Hi Devonwoody,

Most DVD players will play a CD quite happily (I've never seen one that won't) assuming the CD will play in all machines - I only say that because sometimes home-made CDs can be a little bit contrary about what machines they will play in. As far as I'm aware there is no form of region encoding on CDs at all, there has certainly never been any issue with CDs purchased abroad working on players at home.
This would lead me to believe that there would be no case to answer about a 'British' CD knocking over the regional settings on an 'American' DVD player.

HTH

Vormulac.

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks above for advice, just to complicate matters though.
My sister sent me a DVD of our recent celebration and I have made CD copies would that have any region embedded in the CD do you think?

 

[RogerS]

DW...if the file on the DVD was a .wmv or .mov or similar digital format file then I think the answer is no. I think that to be on the safe side you need to burn to CD-R or CD+R rather than CD-RW (but then again, I may be talking absolute rubbish).

On a separate note I'm a bit worried to read in a recent article on the web that the lifetime of burned CDs (as opposed to mass-produced ones) is only reckoned to be two years (for cheapies) rising to around five years (for more expensive ones...if you are lucky)

 

[devonwoody]

Roger, I'm on my second Southern Comfort so I had better read that one tomorrow

 

[Vormulac]

Hi Roger,

I'm still using CDRs for stored data and music playing that I burned a long time ago (probably 7 odd years), and they were as cheap and yucky as you could get at the time! I've never had a CDR that used to work fail on me (touch wood).
DW, I guess if you've transferred the movie from DVD to CD then you've done so as Roger suggested as a single .mov or .mpg - I very much doubt there would be region encoding included in that. I could of course be wrong.
There is one way to check, I suppose. If you've created the new disk to run when it is inserted (like a 'shop-bought' DVD movie) then when you stick it in your pc, you should be able to look at its properties in whatever program you use to view movies and it should tell you what region it is (it's a long time since I watched a DVD on my pc, so I can't tell you exactly where you should be looking for that).
If, however, it's just a file on a disk, then I suspect it will be treated simply like any other chunk of data and not be region-specific.

Feel free to correct me, anyone.

Vormulac.

 

[Alf]

Chances are there's a simple cheat of the open-tray-press-button-x-y-and-z-close-tray variety to make the target DVD player multi- regional anyway...

Cheers, Alf

 

[engineer one]

i use roxio to copy, and as with most programmes, it asks you whether
you want to make the disc playable in other machines and other areas.

paul :wink:

 

[Woody Alan]

DW

The simple answer is the DVD your sister made originally, won't be region encoded as region encoding is not applied in home burns. It may be possible to add it but you would have to go well out of your way with the distinct intention of adding it. CD+R's have never been adopted and as far as I know have not been commercially available, because all manufacturers agreed on the Philps red/orange/blue etc book format. Dvd's stared as -r's and then another consortium came up with +r's as an independant group.

Cheers Alan

P.S it also sounds as if the medium on the DVD isn't "dvd" it's as said an avi which means that the dvd is only a data storage format in this instance and no region coding is possible.

 

[aldel]

I have read through John's post again and question is it a DVD or a CD?
If it is a CD then is it a movie or a collection of photos on the CD? If it is a movie then what format is it in?

Some DVD players can play DVDs, Video CDs or CDs full of jpegs.
Will it be viewed on a PC or a domestic player?

John you need to clarify what you have actually produced.
Re-Writable CDs will not be suitable.

Aldel

 

[devonwoody]

My facts:
I sent my sister a CD of photographs.
My sister sent me back a DVD (made on her Apple/mac)
The properties on the DVD show as File System UDF
I have made a copy of the CD that I want to send to American friends and its properties state file system BLANK.

The files and folders are as the screen shot below for both DVD & CD

It looks to me its just a video on a CD that I want to send to the USA.

Thanks for your advice.

 

[RogerS]

Probably too much information but here you go, DW

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=77646

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks Roger

So the way I read that web page was that the IFO folder does have some regional settings.

So I think I will play safe and not send the disk to the USA and cause any problems that might lurk on their DVD player.