I just bought ANY DVD 6.1.3.6 so I could read a region 1 DVD I bought on Amazon (I am in Region 2). I'm using WINDOWS 98SE and Power DVD.

Here is the data about the DVD.

Summary for drive E: (AnyDVD 6.1.3.6)
SONY DVD-ROM DDU1211 IYH1
Drive (Hardware) Region: 2

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (parallel)

Total size: 3918071 sectors (7652 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: THE_BEST_OF_MR_ED_DISK_1A
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1!

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!

When I play the DVD it starts in the middle of one of the episodes and there is no menu to select episodes.

Can anyone help me? Thanks...

ljms

Help! is not a very good title description. Please be a little more descriptive in the future.

Try changing AnyDVD to emulate a region 2 disc.

"Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!"

Thanks for the reply, sorry about the Help title, I see what you mean.
The DVD now plays from the start, but when I click on the Episode Selection icon, nothing happens. At the end of the intro, it skips onto Episode 1, past the episode selection page. If I open the Power DVD menu and click on Menu Selection, it comes up in grey. Is there any way I can select episodes? There are 12 per disc.

Thanks again for your help.

ljms

Instead of playing the Video this way why don't make region free copy of it and then try to play the copy version.

I'll get a region-free copy made and try that. Thanks to everybody for your help.

I've seen something close with my Star Trek Voyager discs. They will auto load and play an episode. If I hit the "menu" key, they just stop playing. I have to hit "play" and then the "menu" key again to get to that episode's menu. Then I have to select the "main menu" button and go to the main menu and select episodes. Everyone of them does this. I am able to select different episodes but I have to jump thru those hoops eveytime I put a new disc in. Strange.