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From: HK on 23 Apr 2008 09:44
This is strange.

If I burn a DVD on my Macbook Pro using Roxio Toast, when I pop the
finished product in my DVD player, I get an error message telling me I
cannot play the disc because it was not coded for the correct region.

Yet, if I take the same video files and burn them on my PC using the
Roxio PC product, the discs play fine.

I have no idea where to begin to resolve this one...

Anyone?

Thanks.
From: Jolly Roger on 23 Apr 2008 09:47
In article <UeqdnTLwB5LfoJLVnZ2dnUVZ_ofinZ2d(a)comcast.com>,
HK <payer33859(a)mypacks.net> wrote:

> This is strange.
>
> If I burn a DVD on my Macbook Pro using Roxio Toast, when I pop the
> finished product in my DVD player, I get an error message telling me I
> cannot play the disc because it was not coded for the correct region.
>
> Yet, if I take the same video files and burn them on my PC using the
> Roxio PC product, the discs play fine.
>
> I have no idea where to begin to resolve this one...

Call Roxio and let them tell you how to fix it?

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From: Gerry on 23 Apr 2008 09:53
In article <UeqdnTLwB5LfoJLVnZ2dnUVZ_ofinZ2d(a)comcast.com>,
HK <payer33859(a)mypacks.net> wrote:

> This is strange.
>
> If I burn a DVD on my Macbook Pro using Roxio Toast, when I pop the
> finished product in my DVD player, I get an error message telling me I
> cannot play the disc because it was not coded for the correct region.
>
> Yet, if I take the same video files and burn them on my PC using the
> Roxio PC product, the discs play fine.
>
> I have no idea where to begin to resolve this one...
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thanks.

Have you checked Toasts preferences on the Mac, especially the setting
under Audio & Video / Video Settings / TV Standard

Options: NTSC or PAL, make sure you have NTSC selected if in the US or
Japan, if elsewhere select PAL.
From: David Empson on 23 Apr 2008 10:14
HK <payer33859(a)mypacks.net> wrote:

> This is strange.
>
> If I burn a DVD on my Macbook Pro using Roxio Toast, when I pop the
> finished product in my DVD player, I get an error message telling me I
> cannot play the disc because it was not coded for the correct region.
>
> Yet, if I take the same video files and burn them on my PC using the
> Roxio PC product, the discs play fine.
>
> I have no idea where to begin to resolve this one...

In case anyone else can repeat it, which version of Toast are you using?

Does the Toast-burned DVD play OK in your Mac?

What source material are you using for the DVD? Is it plain video files
of some kind, with Toast doing the DVD authoring and creating the menus,
or are you burning a copy of an existing DVD or VIDEO_TS folder?

If you are burning an existing DVD or VIDEO_TS, its script might be
doing an additional region check, which is failing (though this seems
less likely if you burned the same files on your PC). It wouldn't make
sense for Toast to include code like this in a script it generates.

The problem might be how Toast encoded the region information: if the
disc is marked as having been authored for no region, your DVD player
might be overly fussy and refuse to play it, whereas a disc marked for
all regions would be OK. If so, this is probably a bug in the version of
Toast you are using, and Roxio should be informed so they can fix it.

The error message from the DVD player might be wrong: it could really be
complaining about the video format (PAL vs NTSC) but using a misleading
error message.

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: HK on 23 Apr 2008 11:27
Gerry wrote:
> In article <UeqdnTLwB5LfoJLVnZ2dnUVZ_ofinZ2d(a)comcast.com>,
> HK <payer33859(a)mypacks.net> wrote:
>
>> This is strange.
>>
>> If I burn a DVD on my Macbook Pro using Roxio Toast, when I pop the
>> finished product in my DVD player, I get an error message telling me I
>> cannot play the disc because it was not coded for the correct region.
>>
>> Yet, if I take the same video files and burn them on my PC using the
>> Roxio PC product, the discs play fine.
>>
>> I have no idea where to begin to resolve this one...
>>
>> Anyone?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Have you checked Toasts preferences on the Mac, especially the setting
> under Audio & Video / Video Settings / TV Standard
>
> Options: NTSC or PAL, make sure you have NTSC selected if in the US or
> Japan, if elsewhere select PAL.


Aha! I had PAL selected!

Thanks!
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