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...went and bought some DVD+R discs last night and guess what - can't play it in either my laptop or the standard DVD player Has anyone A N Y O N E managed to do this or are you all playing your copied DVDs on your computers only? For reference I imported a decrypted UK dvd, stored as unencrypted files on my hard disk, into nero recode and did the burn. There appear to be no options like "finalize disc" or "close disc" or anything like that - in fact there appear to be no options at all when it comes to writing DVDs - am I missing something? I can change between 4x write and 2.4x write and that appears to be the extent of my control over the process. This sux I've nothing left to try - any and all suggestions welcome....

This might be way off but are you using an american region dvd recorder and constantly changing the settings to the euro region to watch UK films because this fucked a friends player when he kept changing his to watch US dvds Sorry cannot make 3rd4th Barcelona becons.

Are they just unreadable? (if it is the wrong region it will tell you) As I said before I just use DVD shrink - it decrypts to my hard drive, allows me to select what I want to burn, shrinks as necessary and then writes the DVD. To be honest its a no-brainer with DVD-Shrink. maybe your DVD writer is fucked? have you tried writing audio and/or data cds to check that it works good? maybe try writing a VCD and see if your dvd players can read that?

ok, one more time in bullet points I can read the DVD-R copies that I make of black books on my laptop set to UK region - ergo dvd writer works. I can read the DVD-R copies that I make of black books on my north american DVD writer - ergo decrypt works. grix: DVD Shrink tells me it cannot decrypt a DVD unless my DVD burner is set to that region (you're very lucky grix - you appear to have a regionless dvd writer - I intend to pick one of your ones up when I'm over). This is why I use DVD Decrypt I've tried burning the decrypted files from dvd shrink and nero recode both with the same result: I can play them on my laptop but not an the NA home player. dex: I have not and will never change the region of my North American DVD writer because that would be incredibly dumb of me - it is an unsustainable strategy as I want to be able to continue copying DVDs of all regions. This is ok though because I have DVD Decrypt (see above) Ok so now my 1st and most important question: have any of you made copies of commercial DVDs which can be successfully read by home hi-fi style DVD players and NOT computer players? and the 2nd: are there any settings I can change which might help? and where are they? is there a peice of software which gives me more control over my writer? I know what happens when I get the region wrong and that is not my problem although now that its come up I am gonna go and copy a north american dvd on a north american dvd writer using dvd shrink and then try to play it on a north american home hifi style player - should have done this before rather than trying to do everything in one go what this space last question - am I missing something? I think I've already ruled out your ideas but if not, if I've misunderstood, please please please be patient and explain it one more time for me

just tried copying a Canadian copy of Babylon 5 using DVD Shrink and it works on my UK laptop and my NA hifi style player so DVD Shrink can remove the protection and my writer does work and i can backup my B5 complete series - woohoo!!! I guess this means that DVD Decryptor doesn't do exactly what it says on the tin then eh? Will investigate further. I love to backup

DVD Region Info will tell you whether it is or not get it here so your only problem is that dvd shrink will not read dvds apart from NA region - try DVD Region Free costs dollars but there is free limited somehow version and I am sure cracks abound... you may be able to get a firmware fix for the dvd burner to turn it into a RPC1 DVD (region free) model - firmware flash fun have fun googling

firmware here and google 'flashing dvd firmware region free'

I have watched my "backups" of copywrite protected commercial dvds bought from shops in sealed wrappers on my computer (or rather did when my dvd rom existed).They also work fine on a German DVD player, and on three differant UK DVD players, that is, not computer dvd roms but actual dvd players, without any problems. Maybe you need to buy a multi region dvd player be compatible with your multiregion dvd burner!