PRC on DVD’s

An important thing to know before you make a DVD is to know the PRC of the released DVD. It can have values from 1-8 and refer to geographical regions where current DVD can be restricted to run. For example, DVD players are restricted to operate on a certain region (usually 1 to 2 for America and Japan and Europe). Unlike DVD-ROM zone change allowing a certain number of times, DVD players are locked on one region. If you make a DVD using vhs to dvd you have nothing to worry about. This does not apply here. To get rid of this inconvenience, or modify the movie (DVD) and make it run in all regions FLASH-PROM or reprogram the unit with a DVD-ROM RPC-1 version.

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Subtitles on DVD’s

Subtitles present in the structure of a DVD movie format are SUP and are represented in the bitmap is not used in the subtitle text as a DivX movie. These subtitles are inserted inside the VOB files from certain addresses (represented in hexadecimal) addresses to be read by the DVD player to display subtitle. The maximum number of subtitles from a DVD is 32.
It is Important, before multiplexing a movie with a new subtitle is to know the new image format (NTSC or PAL) and / or number of frames per second (FPS) used to play the movie. This case also applies to vhs to dvd.
This information get in PowerDVD while viewing a movie. (right click, choose “Configuration” tab and click on “Information”)

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