Toshiba DVD Player vs. VLC

To Whom It May Concern:

I did download http://www.videolan.org/vlc in order to play PAL formats,
which works fine - well almost. It does play the Regional Codes that my
Toshiba DVD Player will not. Likewise, I am indeed limited to only 5
Regional changes with my Toshiba Player.

Now I can play the PAL format, at least on my PC - with one exception.

And that exception is, I think is really the fault of two bad discs. I think
I might have mentioned that the PAL format in question is really a 3-set DVD
of John Silver's Return to Treasure Island. Through the VLC Player, disc one
works fine. However, discs two and three not so. It tries to play the
picture, but I get garbled sound and a picture seemingly trying to build
itself as a mixture of regular video and large squares of unrelated computer
blocks moving all around the screen. I figured this is caused by faulty
discs, for disc one (and others) work just fine.

Needless to say, I don't want to try to adjust anything, for fear of messing
up ever disc one. Based on this information, do you also think the problem
is with the discs themselves?

John Sisker
jsisker@sprynet.com
(714) 536-385-

"John Sisker" <jsisker@sprynet.com> wrote in message
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> To Whom It May Concern:
>
> I did download http://www.videolan.org/vlc in order to play PAL formats,
> which works fine - well almost. It does play the Regional Codes that my
> Toshiba DVD Player will not. Likewise, I am indeed limited to only 5
> Regional changes with my Toshiba Player.
>
> Now I can play the PAL format, at least on my PC - with one exception.
>
> And that exception is, I think is really the fault of two bad discs. I
> think
> I might have mentioned that the PAL format in question is really a 3-set
> DVD
> of John Silver's Return to Treasure Island. Through the VLC Player, disc
> one
> works fine. However, discs two and three not so. It tries to play the
> picture, but I get garbled sound and a picture seemingly trying to build
> itself as a mixture of regular video and large squares of unrelated
> computer
> blocks moving all around the screen. I figured this is caused by faulty
> discs, for disc one (and others) work just fine.
>
> Needless to say, I don't want to try to adjust anything, for fear of
> messing
> up ever disc one. Based on this information, do you also think the problem
> is with the discs themselves?
>
> John Sisker
> jsisker@sprynet.com
> (714) 536-385-
>
I am not aware of the software player you are using.

If you get DVD Idle which has a region free function you can play disks
from all around the world. no limits

If your other disks are playing OK then it is most likely the disk that is
at fault.

Power DVD or similar will play PAL disks and as a user of region free
software you would not even be aware of it being PAL . It would just work

Gary