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A Stranger Among Us (1992). I think I saw it myself back then, or maybe just remember the trailer for it! A pretty forgetful film judging by the reviews.

Ah yes, imgburn, I remember those days now, it's coming back to me. I will check out avstodvd, I can't remember the software I used to use to create the DVD files.

Thanks very much.

The other one was the wrong region too, and Magpie did not specify the region so I'm assuming my brother can send that one back at least.

I will now try to download a better copy of the YouTube one and burn it onto a DVD.

Thanks very much for your help.

As suggested I managed to download it, from YouTube @ 750MB.

I was about to look into burning it onto a DVD when my brother called and said he ordered another version from Magpie, so we now might have 2 redundant DVDs!

I'll wait and see if this one works before continuing.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if I do go to the trouble of burning it onto a DVD, and finally my Dad starts to watch it, he'll say "Oh, I've seen this already"!

Thanks for your advice.

That would be a good option, even use the USB port on his TV if he hasn't got one on his player.

Unfortunately (common with folks his age) he is absolutely stuck in his ways and will struggle or REFUSE to use ANY different technology.

It has been so frustrating but I have to accept it now. I can easily put the film onto my Plex library and he can stream it but no, a waste of time as he can't or won't use that either.

It's going to have to be a mirror burn or whatever it's called.

My 80 year old Dad bought a used DVD film from eBay not realising it was not for UK region.

It has been years since I delved into the world of using DVDs let alone copying them.

I searched to unlock his DVD player to be region-free (Sony DVP-SR600H) but to no avail.

So when I go to visit him in a few days, I'll take my laptop which has a DVD player/writer (hoping it's up to the task) and blow the cobwebs of some blank discs I have in the loft.

The question is, what is the best software (preferably free or very cheap) to simply burn (mirror) a DVD film but remove the region lock? I'm also hoping the GUI and options will be quick and simple.

I guess I am using the default settings through Nero express. I simply drag the files into the Nero box then click on to the next step until it starts burning. I never used to have this problem before using this method, in fact this method still works with my player.

Hi everyone,

First of all, apologies if this isn't the appropiate forum to post my problem. I did look carefully at them all especially under the hardware banner and this seemed to be the most appropiate.

As the subject line suggests, I sent an email to Joytech with my problem but no replies so far. Please could you have a look yourselves below and suggest anything I could do or should know. Lots of thanks.

Hi,
I hope I have reached the right support department (apologies if I haven't and please direct me to the correct one) but here goes:
I bought the Joytech HDMI Tri-Link Switcher (PS3) last year from Amazon to connect my laptop, DVD player and cable box (Virgin UK) to my TV. The cable box doesn't seem to suffer from any problems but the other two, especially the laptop has an audio problem. Every so often (minutes) the sound disappears. With the laptop, if I choose the mute option in Windows XP Home audio properties, wait a few seconds, then uncheck the mute box, the sound comes back but only for a short while. I also have to make sure the DVD player is on stanby otherwise it may not come on at all. When wanting to watch from the DVD player, I have to sometimes switch the unit off then on again to bring the sound back on. I have connected the laptop and DVD player diretly to the TV in turn and found they each work without any problems.
Can you tell me what could be happening here and if I can resolve it?

Thanks for your advice, I really appreciate it.

I've done some experimenting and to try and cut a long story short, I've found an avi movie on my hard drive that is also on a disc that the players can still read. Both files are identical so I burnt the one from my hard drive but the players still come up stating wrong disc. Therfore, I would have normally assumed the problem lies with the incompatibilty between the players and the discs, if it was not for the fact that the players are happy to read from these discs when they are in DVD format. The discs are made by Verbaitm (-R) and TDK (+R).

Bear in mind that the disc that the players can read with the avi movie (along with other movies on the disc that can also be read) is from the Verbatim pack. If it was one player that had this problem then I would have assumed the player was faulty but all three?!

This is starting to make my testicles twitch. What can I do now (apart from scratch them, the testicles that is)? Is there still any point trying the advice currently given? Thank you once again.

Here's a typical avi file that doesn't work on the Nikkai player but does work on my Tesco' Technika player:

Still looking into it by experimenting. In the meantime I found this post at avforum:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/dvd-players/867384-nikkai-a11hj-19-99-maplins.html

The post by Northernghirl, I believe, has the same problem as me. I wonder if she ever found out what the problem was?

Sorry, didn't think to mention that. Since the players won't play the discs with about four MPEG-4 movies on each disc, I'm currently converting each movie into the DVD format and of course burning each movie onto their own disc. The players recognise them without any problems at all so I'm assuming it's not the discs themselves but the format. Incidently, I get the same results whether I convert and/or burn using my PC or laptop!

Hi,

I have been burning MPEG-4 (DivX & XviD) movies for sometime now using Nero9 without any trouble. However, all of a sudden my friends' and brother's DVD/MPEG-4 players see the discs as unrecognised. I bought them cheap players as presents from Maplin's. This was sometime ago now. Recently though, I bought another cheap player from Tesco's this time for myself but that plays the discs without any problems. The discs that used to work on the older players still work, it's just the new ones that don't and I've tried different makes of discs.

Could it be that the avi movies that I download now are new types of MPEGs hence the reason why the Tesco player recognises them or am I mssing something? I've used the MediaInfo software to determine the compatibilty of the avi movies and all seems to be well.

Basically, what has changed for this to happen and what can I do to correct it?

Thank you for your attention and any advice you can give me.

Thanks very much for your advice, it's given me a good idea now of what I can and can't expect.

Actually I've just discovered that the card reader in the player can be used for divx files!

I haven't had the player long but I took it for granted that I could only use the reader to view still images because nearly every other player that I looked at specified it.

A true bonus!

Thanks again.

Hello

I'm not sure which forum this question goes in so I've put it in this one.

I want to keep adding Divx files to a DVD until it becomes full and during that time I want my DVD Divx player to be able to see and play all the files.

At the moment, it can only see the first session. I know this is normal but what I'd like to know is whether there is any way round this.

Are there any DVD Divx players available to buy that can read multisession?
Is there some software that can temporarily finalize a DVD so the player can read them all and then unfinalize(!) it when I want to add more files?