Re: OT: Play regular MPEG on a DVD Player?

JosephKK wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:09:47 -0800, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Martin Brown wrote:
On Nov 21, 3:01 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Ok, maybe there is no such thing as an international MPEG standard. The
situation:

Whenever we try to play a DVD from Europe it does not work. Nothing
illegal here, just old movies that were never available here and never
will be because they are in foreign languages and, well, too "boring"
for youngsters. Then wedding recordings and such.

On the PC all this plays just fine. The DVD spits it back out either
with a wrong region message or it tries and tries (letting off some
weird chirping noises from the drive) and spits it out with some other
error message. Aren't those things to play regular MPEG just like PCs?
At least that's what it says in the manual. I've also tried PAL-NTSC
conversions and that didn't fly.

The setup here: Magnavox BDP170 upconverting player via HDMI cable into
the TV. So it should be able to play stuff that isn't NTSC. I've tried
lots of formats from VLC Player such as mp2v and whatnot (if someone
knows which one works let me know). Nothing worked here so far. Is the
only option really to convert to NTSC or to schlepp the PC into the
living room? Wasn't DVD supposed to do away with all this?
Yes, but region coding and copyright management stuff gets in the way.

Next time you are in the London elctronic district buy a chipped
version of DVD player and you can play just about anything. ...

But then it would output PAL standard and our TV won't take it. I guess. No idea how HDMI plays into that.

Actually HDMI is so different from either PAL NTSC or SECAM that those
differences disappear. It is damn near as different as SMPTE SD-SDI.


Hmm, so maybe I should write stuff in CD-RW (which the player supposedly takes for short video clips) and try until something sticks.



... They even
chipped the DVD player for the ISS (a criminal act in the USA of
course).

Whoops. But I assume that "lapse" will be papered over ...


You might be able to find how to make a given model of player region
free by poking around on the net. Quite a lot of players in the UK are
chipped or easily chippable since we don't like waiting ages for PAL
DVD releases (or being ripped off by the £1 = $1 exchange rate.

Well, I don't even want to do that. Other than some really old movies we don't watch much. Just want to be able to see stuff like a relative's birthday video, weddings and such.

If you are really interested i have a co-worker that does conversions
and DVD mastering on the side.

Thanks, Joseph, but I am actually thinking about just using a laptop. The TV has a VGA input. Of course, standard VGA has two no-connect pins instead of putting the audio on there <shaking head>.

So it'll be the usual cable mess. Oh well, done that before. Just curl it all up into a ball behind the TV when not in use.

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