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vincej wrote on 10/24/2007, 7:49 PM
I'm not super qualified on this topic - but I think you have the wrong end of the stick here. It is not DVDA which decides the region but rather your burner. Which if you are in Europe is likely to be set to region 2 and hence will only generate those type of discs. all burners allow you to make a number of region changes until it gives up and you are stuck with one region or other. It is technically possible to create region 0 - anywhere - but I do not know how to get your burner to do this.

Try searching on the web on the topic of "burners and regions"

ScottW wrote on 10/24/2007, 8:42 PM
You cannot set the region code on burned media, only on commercially stamped media.

Therefore, by default, your burned disk will play anywhere.
bStro wrote on 10/24/2007, 8:49 PM
You don't have to do anything to "persuade" it. All DVD Achitect discs are region free by default. You would have to specifically set the project to a region under project properties if you wanted to restrict the disc to a particular region.

That said, I'll mention three things:

1. Regions are most certainly mentioned in the online help. I just did a search, and there are several related topics -- the first two being "Setting Project Properties" and "Writing a Master for Replication."

2. Burned DVDs are always region free. Region settings don't come into play unless the disc is professionally replicated (meaning, pressed rather than burned).

3. Even if you wanted to set a region, you can't do so in DVD Architect Studio. You'd need use DVD Architect Pro.

Rob
Martin C wrote on 10/25/2007, 8:02 AM
Thanks to all who replied - but maybe I should apologise for the lack of information I gave (it was three in the morning and I was very tired)

The problem I encountered was that, after many hours trying to get my film to fit into less than 4.7Gb and then setting it off to prepare the export files ready for a burn...

I decided to test the files before wasting a DVD and so ran the movie from the prepared VIDEO_TS.IFO in Media Player.

I got the message saying I was "trying to view a disc from an incorrect Region - Please load a correct Region disc" or something like that. And there wasn't even a disc in sight, just the basic video files created by DVDAS.

(I'm running Vista Home Premium on a dual-core Intel 1.6 with more than a terabyte of available online storage)

I've had no other (hardware/burner related) problems when burning DVDs out of other packages. Imagine my surprise when the above happened.

Late Note: I took a chance on burning the files to DVD anyway and headed for the office. I've just heard from home, that the DVD burned properly and plays adequately well in our TV system... Yet the source files are still giving the 'Region' problem.

How weird!!!

Cheers

Martin C
MPM wrote on 10/26/2007, 7:28 PM
FWIW Windows Media Player is not a DVD player by any means... It might play VOBs &/or mpg2, but you'd be much better off testing in something like Power DVD 7.

As to why it happened? WMPlayer will use whatever codecs and support files are available in your Windows install. Some versions of Vista ship with a mpg2 decoder, or other software might provide what it needs. This other software might have restrictions hard-coded in, such as not playing DVD content except from DVDs. I'd suspect that sort of thing was/is behind the region business. "bout all I can say other than that is Power DVD 7 on Vista Home Prem. plays DVD on hdd all day long without complaints, least in the US.
Martin C wrote on 10/31/2007, 3:24 PM
Hi MPM,

Thanks for your response. I think you might be about right on the codecs issue. This is a brand new machine and I haven't yet got around to installing all of the components I'll probably need.

Cheers

Martin C