How come my DVD will not work with an English DVD film in it?
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No.  DVDs come with "regional encoding" to prevent piracy.  A European DVD will not play in an American DVD player.
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Download an excellent program called Super C from erightsoft.com and install to your PC.  (it's clean and free)\n\nFind out what formats your downloaded movies are (avi, mov, mp4, wmv, etc).\n\nUse the program to transcode (select file and drag to the program, then choose DVD as output).\n\nIt might take a while, but that's the case with most transcoders (free or otherwise).\n\nGood luck!
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Nowaday DVD drives can only play one region code because big business want people to pay to get the right version.  Movie companies also want to control the release date of the movies in different part of the world to maximize their profit.  One way to get around it is to rip the dvd with a decrypter.  It will remove all region code or makes it ALL-Code.  Then you can play it in any DVD players.
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Check for DVD Burner or if it is a Codec go to microsoft, do searches and try installing ones that you may need.
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Hi, \n   You might removed the codecs that need to run dvd files. Either download indeo codec or try reinstall windvd again. Dvd codecs are available try searching the web and download it.
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GO TO THE LANGUAGE OPTIONS ON THE DVD MENU
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That is a DRM limitation. Apparently Hollywood does not want a "high quality" video to come out of a computer so it is disabled when playing a DVD. Sucks Huh?\n\nTry another player like VLC (Video Lan Client). Use the link below.
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Most likely that you have an old laptop that might not support the DVD proper, perhaps a slow CPU.  We bought some NECs a few years ago that had this problem.  They came with a PCMCIA Margi card that had been since been discountinued, but I did find some that are still being sold via a Google search for $100.  Seems like a lot of money to play DVDs on your laptop, so you might consider a portable DVD player?
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You must be trying DVDs in your CD Rom or VCDs in your DVD player. Your information is not complete.\n\nIt only happens when your computer cannot read the format.
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http://www.windowsxpmagazine.co.uk/tutorials/windows/dvd_formats is a nice article all about DVD FORMATS covers lots of things, you should head to read it.\n\naccording to the article + - shows some compatibility issues.
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There are various types of DVD formats like NTSC, PAL, NTSC-U and so on. You have to modify the lens for that. That will do just fine.
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check in your dvd player manual \nmake sure it's compatible with .mpg - .avi - and any other video format that you can burn to dvd\nalso check to see which region it's compatible with (PAL or NTSC region - one is for European countries and the other is for North America and a few other countries - check this website for more information on PAL / NTSC regions - http://www.scotdisc.co.uk/how%20to_video.htm - it has a good description of each) \n\nnext - when you open the program you burn dvd's with (example - Sonic [which is also Roxio]) go into Tools - Options \na window should pop up - check in each tab section for something along the line of - television standard or dvd player
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avi and dvd do not get along . you need to converet the files to mpeg
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just make sure it is a "multi region dvd" . many companies make them but seem to be hard to find.or you can just buy a "multi region dvd player" that will play any dvd
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This is Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo sermons, thanks. It's more likely you have the region settings for your dvd player wrong than that god has smote your laptop. A lot more likely... It's also possible that the DVD has copy protections and wont allow itself to play on a dvd rom, only a dvd player. You'd need some program to bypass the protections in that case.
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Look into the configuration of your DVD player software. You may have to change it.
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Using a multi-region DVD player is the only real way to do this.\n\nGenerally with a DVD you can reprogram the region a certain number of times (Years ago I was aware this was 5 times but this may have changed), before it gets locked into the system.\n\nMulti-region players seem to be fairly wide spread in europe so we can view US DVD's.