About 5 years ago we (me and _my_ better half) bought a video tape in China ... It played similarly to Dave's ... no picture and screwed up audio. Does anyone know if PAL is the standard in China as well? -Eric Rz. On Tue 15/07/2003 14:29:55, Joe Hartley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:55:10 -0400 > Dave Phillips <dlphilp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there some way to change a hardware DVD player to accept another > > region coding... > > Completely depends on the player - some allow you to change the region a > fixed number of times. > > > How does it happen that my Linux players recognize these discs with > > no trouble ? > > Magic :) (Translation - I have no idea!) But it's heartening to know > it worked. My guess is that Windows machines would be careful to honor > the region encoding because MS is so closely aligned with the MPAA with > regards to digital rights management. Dunno about Macs, but my guess is > that they'd honor the region encoding as well. > > > The VHS tape is still a problem. Our player doesn't seem to like it, > > no picture appears but we can hear the audio moving along at something > > like twice normal speed. Can anyone tell me what's up with that and if > > there's some way to fix it ? > > Your tape is likely in the PAL format, the European standard for TV > broadcasting. It has a different number of lines scanned per second > than the NTSC format used in the US. I think your only option here > is to find someone with a PAL VCR and get them to dub a copy onto an > NTSC VCR. > > -- > ====================================================================== > Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
