nec DVD player
zar
I received from the US several DVDs single layer NTSC.
I am trying to make them play in my pc’s
NEC DVD_RW ND 6750A but no luck.
I changed the DVD player’s code from 2 (for Europe) to 1 (US)
Didn’t work either.
The D: drive shows as empty.
I was told by another ng that this site
http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/NEC-ND-6750A/
could be of help. I downloaded the .bin file but I am stuck
as what to do, since there are no instructions.
Can you suggest a solution ?
THNX
P.V.
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> I received from the US several DVDs single layer NTSC.
> I am trying to make them play in my pc’s
> NEC DVD_RW ND 6750A but no luck.
> I changed the DVD player’s code from 2 (for Europe) to 1 (US)
> Didn’t work either.
> The D: drive shows as empty.
If D: is your DVD drive then the problem isn't the region coding. Even with
wrong region, folders and files on the disc would appear; DVD player program
just couldn't play the movie.
Besides, the discs being specifically single-layer would imply they're
self-made (commercially sold movies usually come on dual-layer discs), and
self-made discs are usually made region-free.
What is the type of the discs: DVD-R / DVD+R / DVD-RW / DVD+RW? Have you
tested with some other discs of same type if your drive still can read them?
According to the specs on your link the drive should be able to read all
formats, but perhaps your drive has failed so that it doesn't anymore work
with some types of discs (like the ones you just got from US) but still
works with other types.
P.V.
zar
> "zar" <som...@somewhere.org> kirjoitti viestissΓ€
>> I received from the US several DVDs single layer NTSC.
>> NEC DVD_RW ND 6750A but no luck.
>> Didn�t work either.
>> The D: drive shows as empty.
>
> If D: is your DVD drive then the problem isn't the region coding. Even
> with wrong region, folders and files on the disc would appear; DVD
> player program just couldn't play the movie.
> Besides, the discs being specifically single-layer would imply they're
> self-made (commercially sold movies usually come on dual-layer discs),
> and self-made discs are usually made region-free.
> What is the type of the discs: DVD-R / DVD+R / DVD-RW / DVD+RW? Have you
> tested with some other discs of same type if your drive still can read
> them? According to the specs on your link the drive should be able to
> read all formats, but perhaps your drive has failed so that it doesn't
> anymore work with some types of discs (like the ones you just got from
> US) but still works with other types.
> P.V.
Yes D=DVD drive
By looking at the actual disks I cannot see if they are DVD-R DVD+R
etc....
I wonder of how to find out their type.
I see some very tiny numbers at the center of them and that's all
Now the case (DVD box) states DVD video, black and white, mono 2.0
pro-logic sound
aspect ratio 4:3 , single layer and NTSC
FYI this is THE HONEYMOONERS collector's edition
BW digitally re-mastered 10 dvds 39 episodes (approx half an hour each)
There is no company name on the box so it seems a bit.... homemade
Now, I can play all DVDs that I have bought here (in Europe) and I
recall last year
a friend gave me a dvd from the US which also played ok on my PC ( I
don't have the dvd
anymore to see what type it was.)
You gave me the idea to try playing one dvd on a dvd all zone player.
I will take one to the electronics store and try a few models to see
what happens.
THNX for yr reply and I will revert
P.V.
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> Yes D=DVD drive
>
> By looking at the actual disks I cannot see if they are DVD-R DVD+R
> etc....
> I wonder of how to find out their type.
> I see some very tiny numbers at the center of them and that's all
> Now the case (DVD box) states DVD video, black and white, mono 2.0
> pro-logic sound
> aspect ratio 4:3 , single layer and NTSC
> FYI this is THE HONEYMOONERS collector's edition
> BW digitally re-mastered 10 dvds 39 episodes (approx half an hour each)
> There is no company name on the box so it seems a bit.... homemade
What I meant by homemade was if they are self-burnt using an ordinary
DVD-writer on any of the disc types I listed, or if they are
factory-pressed. Self-burnt usually are colored (red, green, yellow or blue)
in their data side, while factory-pressed are usually silver grey (and their
type would be DVD-ROM).
> Now, I can play all DVDs that I have bought here (in Europe) and I recall
> last year
> a friend gave me a dvd from the US which also played ok on my PC ( I don't
> have the dvd
> anymore to see what type it was.)
>
> You gave me the idea to try playing one dvd on a dvd all zone player.
> I will take one to the electronics store and try a few models to see what
> happens.
While trying that, you could also try to play it on a standard region 2
player to see if disc is actually region-free. If that would be the case
then you wouldn't have to change the region in your DVD drive back and forth
when watching US and Euro discs (limited number of changes, unless you have
a reset tool for the drive).
But if the region coding is in use, you might want to get a cheap external
DVD drive that you would set and leave to region 1. Then you would have a
drive for region 2 DVD's and another drive for region 1 DVD's. That's what
I've done, since some region 1 discs are nasty in the sense that they don't
work on all-region players; if they detect the player to support any other
region, the movie won't play.
P.V.
zar
> What I meant by homemade was if they are self-burnt using an ordinary
> DVD-writer on any of the disc types I listed, or if they are
> factory-pressed. Self-burnt usually are colored (red, green, yellow or
> blue) in their data side, while factory-pressed are usually silver grey
> (and their type would be DVD-ROM).
They are actually red/purple color
P.V.
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In that case they're self-burnt, not DVD-ROM, but impossible to tell the
type more precisely.
...But I guess there's no reason for them to be rewritable, so only DVD-R
and DVD+R would remain in question. And as the plus (+) types seem to be
more common nowadays, my guess would be they are DVD+R. I would test the
drive with a DVD+R disc some files on it, and see if the drive can read it.
If not, the drive is at least slightly broken.
However, I'd be also a little sceptical about the source of the discs; they
kinda sound like they could be pirated. If you got them from any shady
source, in worst case they could be just empty discs or coasters caused by
failed burning processes.
But go ahead and test the discs on another player / other players before
accusing the sender; especially if the discs were sent by your friends. Even
if the second player couldn't play the discs because of wrong region or TV
standard, at least the player should tell shortly after inserting the disc
what's the problem (wrong region or incompatible video standard). But if the
player just keeps trying and trying to read the disc without success then
there's something wrong with the discs.
P.V.
zar
> But go ahead and test the discs on another player / other players before
> accusing the sender; especially if the discs were sent by your friends.
> Even if the second player couldn't play the discs because of wrong
> region or TV standard, at least the player should tell shortly after
> inserting the disc what's the problem (wrong region or incompatible
> video standard). But if the player just keeps trying and trying to read
> the disc without success then there's something wrong with the discs.
I took the discs last night to a friend that has a HP notebook bought in
the
US. They played fine. No problem.
This morning I downloaded a program called anydvd
http://www.freshwap.net/forums/applications/184907-anydvd-anydvd-hd-6-5-7-1-a.html
I installed it, placed the dvd in the drive, and I got the following:
summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.5.7.1)
_NEC DVD_RW ND-6750A 2.41 05111700
Drive (Hardware) Region: 1
Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-r (version 5), Layers: 1
Total size: 4718592 sectors (9216 MBytes)
Video DVD (or CD) label: ROXIODISC
Media is not CSS protected.
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is region free.
RCE protection not found.
Structural copy protection not found.
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 2!
=============================
Tried to played it with MPlayer but the message was
"program not responding"
Tried to open it win InterVideo WinDvd program not responding
The player is trying to read the DVD for over 20 minutes
and then I stopped it.
Closed everything restarted the pc, opened ANYDVD program
and it shows:
AnyDVD is scanning the disc!
The disc you have inserted will be available shortly.
Please wait!
_NEC DVD_RW ND-6750A 2.41 05111700
The DVD player is turning and turning for half an hour
No response
P.V.
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> P.V. wrote:
>> But go ahead and test the discs on another player / other players before
>> accusing the sender; especially if the discs were sent by your friends.
>> Even if the second player couldn't play the discs because of wrong region
>> or TV standard, at least the player should tell shortly after inserting
>> the disc what's the problem (wrong region or incompatible video
>> standard). But if the player just keeps trying and trying to read the
>> disc without success then there's something wrong with the discs.
>
> I took the discs last night to a friend that has a HP notebook bought in
> the
> US. They played fine. No problem.
So the discs are OK.
> This morning I downloaded a program called anydvd
> http://www.freshwap.net/forums/applications/184907-anydvd-anydvd-hd-6-5-7-1-a.html
> I installed it, placed the dvd in the drive, and I got the following:
>
> summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.5.7.1)
> _NEC DVD_RW ND-6750A 2.41 05111700
> Drive (Hardware) Region: 1
>
> Media is a DVD.
> Booktype: dvd-r (version 5), Layers: 1
OK, DVD-R instead of my presumption DVD+R
> Total size: 4718592 sectors (9216 MBytes)
Looks strange. How can a single-layer disc be 9 GB?
> Video DVD (or CD) label: ROXIODISC
> Media is not CSS protected.
> Video Standard: NTSC
> Media is region free.
So with these disces it won't matter what region your DVD drive has been set
to.
> RCE protection not found.
> Structural copy protection not found.
> Autorun not found on Video DVD.
> Bad sector protection not found.
> Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 2!
> =============================
> Tried to played it with MPlayer but the message was
> "program not responding"
>
> Tried to open it win InterVideo WinDvd program not responding
> The player is trying to read the DVD for over 20 minutes
> and then I stopped it.
> Closed everything restarted the pc, opened ANYDVD program
> and it shows:
>
> AnyDVD is scanning the disc!
> The disc you have inserted will be available shortly.
> Please wait!
>
> _NEC DVD_RW ND-6750A 2.41 05111700
>
> The DVD player is turning and turning for half an hour
> No response
I'd suggest failed DVD drive, but it is a little strange how Anydvd was
still able to read something out the disc (media type, region, video
standard and stuff) even though Windows Explorer wasn't showing files,
meaning Windows couldn't read the disc.
Sorry, but I don't think I'm able to help you with this case. You could
still try to temporarily swap the drive to another PC to see if the problem
would follow with the drive.
P.V.
zar
> So with these disces it won't matter what region your DVD drive has been
> still able to read something out the disc (media type, region, video
> standard and stuff) even though Windows Explorer wasn't showing files,
> meaning Windows couldn't read the disc.
It seems that the disc has the ability to lock the drive in Windows
Does that makes any sense????
> Sorry, but I don't think I'm able to help you with this case. You could
> still try to temporarily swap the drive to another PC to see if the
> problem would follow with the drive.
>
> P.V.
>
Using AnyDvd I did
RIP VIDEO IMAGE TO HARD DISC
and selecting from the folder ROXIODISC
the video_ts.ifo file I managed to watch the episodes
Go figure......
Anyway thank you for your help
Best Regards
P.V.
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> P.V. wrote:
>> I'd suggest failed DVD drive, but it is a little strange how Anydvd was
>> still able to read something out the disc (media type, region, video
>> standard and stuff) even though Windows Explorer wasn't showing files,
>> meaning Windows couldn't read the disc.
>
> It seems that the disc has the ability to lock the drive in Windows
> Does that makes any sense????
Not sure, that _might_ be technically possible, and if it really is, then
I'm sure it would make perfectly sense to copyright holders to use it. Just
like with audio CDs': techniques have been used to make them unplayable on
any computer-related devices (=potential copying tools). The result was, on
some computers the discs played fine, and on some they didn't at all, so the
method worked halfway. But as a side effect, the discs didn't play on newer
standalone players either when they started to be more sophisticated (=more
computer-like).
> Using AnyDvd I did
> RIP VIDEO IMAGE TO HARD DISC
> and selecting from the folder ROXIODISC
> the video_ts.ifo file I managed to watch the episodes
> Go figure......
Hmm, I remember once having rented a DVD that didn't play on my computer
because of some stupid copy-prevention measures. A moment before giving up
trying I found a software tool that couldn't directly play the disc, but
could make an unprotected copy of it. So when copyright holder had wanted to
prevent copying the disc, in my case they only prevented me from
legitimately viewing it, and practically _made_ me to make a copy I wouldn't
have made otherwise...
So it seems the failure wasn't after all in your DVD drive but in minds of
the people who made the discs. :)
> Anyway thank you for your help
You're welcome.
P.V.