Hi all

My movies are region 4, my burner is region 4, and anydvd is set to region 4. So when copying a region 4 movie, doesnt it finish as region 4 - not all?

How can I make anydvd create all region dvd when its set to region 4?

Rodney

Rodney

although you have AnyDVD set to your default region, when it decrypts you film it will become region free

Pity slysoft dont add a simple feature which shows what region code it finished as - if any - like show "ALL" if its all regions.

Rodney

AnyDVD shows it, just insert the copy and check the information window.

Don't do this, leave it to 1.

check your anydvd info window, I've bolded the relevant parts:

Summary for drive G: (AnyDVD 5.6.3.1)
Drive (Hardware) Region: 0

Media is a Data DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 1

Video DVD (or CD) label: 40_YEAR_OLD_VIRGIN
Media is not CSS protected.
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is region free.

RCE protection not found.
DVD structure appears to be correct.
Structural copy protection not found.
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!

Tru,
Why region 1 if he /she lives in Austrailia?

This setting is the default region for rce discs. As there are no rce discs other than region 1 (correct me, if i'm wrong) ... set it to region 1.

@ Tru

you have said this before to me and i set my default region to 1, it shoud be R2 for me, and i tried to copy a movie, i wasn't able to copy it untill i reset my default region back to 2. hope this info is usefull to you.


@ Brightspark

here is a copy if anydvd's info

Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 5.6.3.1)
Drive (Hardware) Region: free

Media is a Data DVD.
Booktype: dvd+r (version 1), Layers: 1

Video DVD (or CD) label: National Treasure
Media is not CSS protected.
Video Standard: PAL
Media is region free.

RCE protection not found.
DVD structure appears to be correct.
Structural copy protection not found.
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 2!

I have little knowledge of the various region settings since I only buy legitimate region1 disks and never have a need for messing with regions codes.
What confuses me with Brightspark's situation is, if that peson is in Region 4, specifically Austrailia, then there should be no rec protection if they are buying originals for that country.
As Bj proc stated he is in region 2, and by changing it to region 1, he was unable to copy an original.

I would like to agree here. To my knowledge there are no RCE protected discs outside of Region 1. But just to be on the safe side, I would suggest to set AnyDVD's default region to the region of the disc you wish to copy. If you copy a region 1 disc, set it to 1. If you copy a region 4 disc, set it to 4.

That's exactly my point, brightspark stated he/she was in region 4, Tru advised to change to region 1, I was confused as to why it was suggested to make that change.

I do not understand, why setting AnyDVD to Region 1 failed for Bjproc. In my tests I always leave AnyDVD set to region 1 out of convenience, and we have a lot of test DVDs from all over the world (Japan, Korea, Europe).

I can explain what this region selector is about:

If a DVD is region coded, the selector will not be used. Why? Because AnyDVD knows the region anyway! (See AnyDVD information window). The region on a disc always overrides the manual setting.
If, and only if the disc has NO region marking, the default region selector will be used to eliminate an RCE protection, if present.
As RCE is only popular in Region 1, it is safe to say that leaving the setting to Region 1 all the times should work everywhere in the world. (Clicking "Default" will set the selector back to region 1, because we think it is safe).

To be 100% safe the user should always set the selector to the region of the disc he is trying to copy, but this is only a precaution. I have yet to see a region 2 disc which requires AnyDVD to be set to region 2. Care must be taken if you make a copy of a copy which was made without AnyDVD running. AnyDVD cannot see the region on a copy. If RCE was not properly removed and is still present on the copy, setting the wrong region in AnyDVD will have fatal effects. In this case it is imperative to set the correct default region in AnyDVD (the region the original had when the first copy was made).

In case of Madagascar R4 it should not make any difference which Region is set in AnyDVD. The manual setting will be ignored anyway (see my last post).

As do I. I have a lot Region 1 & 2 DVDs, I always leave AnyDVD at Region 1. It always works fine. If I set it always to Region 2, it doesn't work with all Region 1 titles (Tears of the Sun R1, just one example).
My conclusion from experience: Always leave it set to Region 1 and it will always work. Thank you for explaining why.

I believe you forgot to mention the hardware region code (RPC2 emulation). It will be set to the default region as well, "if, and only if" no region code is present on the disc.
Source: Right mouse button click on "Hardware Region Code ..." checkbox.

Correct, I forgot to mention it. Thank you for pointing it out.

This is why the "Default" button will always set the default Region to 1 (and not check the locality of the windows installation, for example).
If you only copy original discs, it should be 99.9% safe to always leave AnyDVD at the default setting and you should be fine.
In case of RCE protection, you could always try to check if the original plays in your PC drive with AnyDVD enabled. If it does, your copy will play, too. If you see a message like "this DVD is not authored to play in this region" you should check the default region setting.

I am now trying to copy a different dvd with anydvd set to region 1, it is working now , Tru had said this to me about 6 weeks ago of further back about leaving the setting to R1 so i tried to copy a movie and it didn't work, this is how i posted this earlier on.

Good thread, very informative. I live in the U.S. and several movies that I want and are only available on VHS in Region1 ARE available on DVD in region2. White Buffalo (Charles Bronson western), and King Kong (1933) until just 3 weeks ago when it was released in R1, for instance. I wish to order such movies through Amazon but am not sure if they can legally sell R2 movies and ship them to me in the USA. Anyone know?

Anyway, real informative info from the "brass" here, I'll save this thread to "Favorites" as a reference... thanks.

What do the letters "RCE" (protection) stand for?)

Thanks and best regards,
Whisperer

Region Coding Enhancement

RCE (Regional Coding Enhancement) is a type of protection which some studios have placed on some R1 DVDs to prevent them from playing on region-free or multi-region players. In general, DVDs released in each region will play in that region only, thus the need for removal of RCE protection, if present, if you want to play any region DVDs.

Thanks for the ... "enhancement" And thanks also to the wonderful people who brought us region coding in the first place! I could buy alot more of my remembered old favorites if there were no region coding. But that's naive of me, to be sure. I love alot of those old pre & post war British movies that are only available on DVD R2!

Anyone got an answer to the Amazon question? Don't want them to call the authorities on me if I try to order.

Thanks,
Whisperer

Thank You Tru and James,
I now understand what I was previously confused about, I'm sure this thread will be referred to in the future.

I've purchased several region2 TV series from Amazon.uk. Others on eBay. Never occurred to me there might be a problem, and there wasn't. To play on a home unit you'll need a DVD player that can handle PAL (some do, some don't) and either is region free or make a region free backup to watch. Otherwise I haven't had problems.

Is there a program that converts from PAL to NTSC?