[Thestev]

Unfortunately other DVDs, such as commercial DVDs, autoplay fine on these systems. I’m currently trying to find out what each of these systems have in common to try and establish what’s causing this. My only lead at the moment is that our DVD is burned as region 0, where (I’m assuming) the DVDs that autoplay on these systems are region 4 – like the majority of commercial Australian DVDs. It’s not much and I can’t exactly see how the region could cause a system not to autoplay, but it’s all I have to go on at the moment.

[Thestev]

It seems as though it’s the Encore copy-protection that causes problems. We tried a burn with that switched off and it seems to run fine on Macs. I’m not quite sure why the copy protection would cause such problems for Mac, but hey – as long as it works…

Although we have discovered another problem, for some reason the DVD doesn’t seem to autoplay on some of the PCs we have tested it on. It runs fine on the majority of PCs and set top units read the disc fine, but occasionally it won’t autoplay. Any idea what files trigger the autoplay for a DVD on a PC and why it might not autoplay?

Thanks,

Steve

[Thestev]

We have tried our DVD on both a Powerbook and a G5 with the same results. When loading the DVD player, we simply see a black screen instead of the menu. If we hit enter to trigger the first menu option, the audio plays – although it is distorted and stuttering – but the screen remains black.