[linux-audio-user] region coding sucks, but Linux rocks !

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

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 at bright.net> 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.
> 
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