Region codes and playback failure

[condor]

I am in Region 1 (US-Canada) and have purchased a Region 2/4 DVD from Australia. I have decrypted and ripped the dvd using DVD Decrypter making sure that "removing RC and RCE protection" had been checked. DVD Decrypter ripped what I thought was a clean file with no errors, encoding or problems. I proceeded to use DVD Shrink to create the ISO, and ImgBurn to burn. All goes fine with no errors, but the resulting DVD cannot be read by my DVD player (which had successfully read every other of the 100+ DVDs previously burned), but CAN be read by my computer DVD drive. The DVD player gives a message that reads "Disc Error". I use Taiyo Yuden DVD blanks and have a Sony DVD DL/RW Model DW-Q58-A drive.

 

Here is the ImgBurn Log:

 

I 21:43:59 ImgBurn Version 2.2.0.0 started!

I 21:43:59 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 21:43:59 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,496 KB - Available: 1,479,252 KB

I 21:43:59 Initialising SPTI...

I 21:43:59 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 21:43:59 Found 1 DVD?RW!

I 21:45:10 Operation Started!

I 21:45:10 Source File: C:\THREADS.ISO

I 21:45:10 Source File Sectors: 2,197,888 (MODE1/2048)

I 21:45:10 Source File Size: 4,501,274,624 bytes

I 21:45:10 Source File Volume Identifier: THREADS

I 21:45:10 Source File Application Identifier: SONIC SOLUTIONS IMAGESCRIPT (52239)

I 21:45:10 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Producer 1.0

I 21:45:10 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 21:45:10 Destination Device: [1:0:0] SONY DVD RW DW-Q58A UYS3 (D:) (ATA)

I 21:45:10 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-003-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x)

I 21:45:10 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104

I 21:45:10 Write Mode: DVD

I 21:45:10 Write Type: DAO

I 21:45:10 Write Speed: 2x

I 21:45:10 Link Size: Auto

I 21:45:10 Test Mode: No

I 21:45:10 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 21:45:11 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)

I 21:45:19 Writing LeadIn...

I 21:45:53 Writing Image...

I 22:08:07 Synchronising Cache...

I 22:08:08 Closing Track...

I 22:08:12 Finalising Disc...

I 22:08:43 Image MD5: 3f614beda77af99050b24f5cf25d4ad4

I 22:08:43 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:23:33

 

I re-ripped the DVD using DVD Fab Decrypter, making sure that I've checked the box to remove Region 4 encoding and repeated the above process with the same failed result.

 

I believe the problem lies with the Region Code rather than either my software or hardware (given the successful rips, shrinks and burns that I've done so far).

 

Any ideas?

Edited February 18, 2007 by condor

[kevdriver]

condor, Is your standalone able to play PAL formatted discs. Standard region 1 is NTSC format standard. Unless you change the format your standalone may not recognize the disc being in PAL format standard.

[blutach]

EDIT - kev's right.

 

Regards