Hi all!
So I made a copy of my copy of a DVD set. After doing so, I opened up one of the backed-up discs (saved as a folder) with VLC, and noticed it played some background music, but didn't show any video (though it did after I forced it to go to the main menu).
Then I played the same folder using PowerDVD, and it played the files correctly (showed all the opening screens/menus/etc). I also noticed that with PowerDVD, it showed the warning notices at the start, but with VLC, it did not.
I tried both on the original disc itself, and got the exact same result as with the backed-up folder.
I tried the same thing on another computer I have AnyDVD HD installed on, and VLC played the files correctly there (with the DVD drive).
I also played the disc on my hardware player, and it played correctly.
So I looked at my AnyDVD settings on both machines, and noticed that on the machine it worked correctly on, it had "Region: 0 (not set!)" but on the one it didn't work correctly on had "Region: free".
AnyDVD is installed with the same settings on both machines.
Could this different in the region settings have an effect on VLC's interpretation of what to play back?
Not sure if this rightly falls under an AnyDVD problem or a player (VLC vs PowerDVD) and drive region problem, but since AnyDVD is running on both machines, I thought I'd post here first. I disabled AnyDVD on both machines and got the same result, tho' I don't know if AnyDVD is still active in any way when disabled.
- Tim
So I made a copy of my copy of a DVD set. After doing so, I opened up one of the backed-up discs (saved as a folder) with VLC, and noticed it played some background music, but didn't show any video (though it did after I forced it to go to the main menu).
Then I played the same folder using PowerDVD, and it played the files correctly (showed all the opening screens/menus/etc). I also noticed that with PowerDVD, it showed the warning notices at the start, but with VLC, it did not.
I tried both on the original disc itself, and got the exact same result as with the backed-up folder.
I tried the same thing on another computer I have AnyDVD HD installed on, and VLC played the files correctly there (with the DVD drive).
I also played the disc on my hardware player, and it played correctly.
So I looked at my AnyDVD settings on both machines, and noticed that on the machine it worked correctly on, it had "Region: 0 (not set!)" but on the one it didn't work correctly on had "Region: free".
AnyDVD is installed with the same settings on both machines.
Could this different in the region settings have an effect on VLC's interpretation of what to play back?
Not sure if this rightly falls under an AnyDVD problem or a player (VLC vs PowerDVD) and drive region problem, but since AnyDVD is running on both machines, I thought I'd post here first. I disabled AnyDVD on both machines and got the same result, tho' I don't know if AnyDVD is still active in any way when disabled.
- Tim