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[jiunsiew]

Hi there,

What region code does Toast 7 use for burning DVDs?  I couldn't find this setting anywhere when trying to burn a DVD and thought that it would be burnt with a region 0 setting.  The burning went without any problems but when I played the disc with the Apple DVD player, it said that the disc was a region 1 disc and had to change the region setting accordingly.  I'm in a 'region 4' zone so this isn't very good news for me if I want to use the computer to play locally bought/rented dvds.  

This was the first DVD that I've tried playing on this computer and I burnt the DVD from a VIDEO_TS file.  I'm pretty sure the encoding was PAL as the program was recorded in that format from EyeTV and I specified to keep that format when creating the disk image.

I also tried playing the disk image using Apple's DVD player and didn't get this problem.  It only appeared when I tried playing the burnt DVD.  

Is this normal?  Is this a problem with Apple's DVD player or Toast, and is there a workaround/solution?

Thanks.

[tsantee]

jiunsiew, on Jun 17 2006, 08:29 PM, said:

Hi there,

What region code does Toast 7 use for burning DVDs?  I couldn't find this setting anywhere when trying to burn a DVD and thought that it would be burnt with a region 0 setting.  The burning went without any problems but when I played the disc with the Apple DVD player, it said that the disc was a region 1 disc and had to change the region setting accordingly.  I'm in a 'region 4' zone so this isn't very good news for me if I want to use the computer to play locally bought/rented dvds.  

This was the first DVD that I've tried playing on this computer and I burnt the DVD from a VIDEO_TS file.  I'm pretty sure the encoding was PAL as the program was recorded in that format from EyeTV and I specified to keep that format when creating the disk image.

I also tried playing the disk image using Apple's DVD player and didn't get this problem.  It only appeared when I tried playing the burnt DVD.  

Is this normal?  Is this a problem with Apple's DVD player or Toast, and is there a workaround/solution?

Thanks.

Toast-burned DVDs are all region. However, your Apple DVD drive must set a region the first time it plays a DVD. I suggest playing a Region 4 commercial DVD to set the drive's region. Then try the Toast-burned DVD.