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wormholes101
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 Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
My mac does not do this. If the disc is of a different region, it simply does not allow a foreign disc to sit in the drive. It is AUTOMATICALLY booted out. Nothing I can do to stop it unless I change the firmware to be region-free to allow the disc to stay in the drive. |
You sure you've set your drive to "Do nothing" when a disc is inserted? i.e. not automatically try to play DVDs with the default player. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| munji wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| ...my DVD is region 3... I've just placed my Region 1 (bought in Canada) ... |
| HaterDepot wrote: |
| ...I have never changed the drive's region. I've used VLC to play Region 1 and Region 3 DVDs, no sweat. |
Ok, correction! vlcplayer will play DVD's as region-free only in some drives. Most new RPC2 drives might not let you play any DVD (different region) with vlcplayer. I knew I had read it somewhere when my new drive didnt do a budge with vlcplayer...
from http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id239618
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1.2. Does VLC support DVDs from all regions?
Well this mostly depends on your DVD drive. Testing it is usually the quickest way to find out. The problem is that a lot of newer drives are RPC2 drives these days. Some of these drives don't allow raw access to the drive untill the drive firmware has done a regioncheck. VLC uses libdvdcss and it needs raw access to the DVD drive to crack the encryption key. So with these drives it is impossible to circumvent the region protection. (This goes for all software. You will need to flash your drives firmware, but sometimes there is no alternate firmware available for your drive). On other RPC2 drives that DO allow raw access, it might take VLC a long time to crack the key. So just pop the disc in your drive and try it out, while you get a coffee. RPC1 drives should 'always' work regardless of the regioncode.
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Ah. Okay that makes sense. I can see new drives addressing this crack. Tip: Hang on to your old DVD drive  Or someone else pointed out, DVDs are not super pricey these days. If you acquire a lot of region 3 DVDs, just buy an external DVD player and set it for the appropriate region. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| wormholes101 wrote: |
| You sure you've set your drive to "Do nothing" when a disc is inserted? i.e. not automatically try to play DVDs with the default player. |
I've never fiddled with the prefs... no need to since I have 2 region-free palyers and a chipped PS2. I don't use my mac for playing DVDs. If that's what the default setting is, then that's probably why they get booted. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Changing DVD regions on a laptop |
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| xtchr wrote: |
Please excuse my ignorance, but I really have no clue about this.
I have a laptop (Lenovo something - not on it at the moment). I have watched a few DVDs on it, a couple were region 3, and some were region 1, and I'd just switch regions accordingly.
But my friend tells me that I can only change the region settings about 5 times, and then it must be set permanently to either region 1, or region 3, never to be changed again.
Does anyone know anything about this? Or where I'd look to find out?
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For my Toshiba, this is true. |
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