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Cc: Chandhee Thala <cthala@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs
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On Friday 17 August 2007, Chandhee Thala wrote:
> > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when
> > > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box.
> >
> > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version)
> > since I can play US DVDs with VLC .
>
> That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgrading VLC now on the machine.
If that doesn't work you can also try multimedia/ogle, a dedicated dvd player. 
It also has superior dvd menu support.

Cheers,
Pieter de Goeje