From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 12:04:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DA316A4CE; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:04:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0942243D48; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:04:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms063.mailsrvcs.net ([192.168.1.4]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IFI00MU746VIALD@vms044.mailsrvcs.net>; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:04:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:04:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Sergey Babkin To: Chuck Robey , Tim Kientzle Message-id: <15314518.1114430647592.JavaMail.root@vms063.mailsrvcs.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:57:02 +0000 cc: =?ISO646-US?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=3Frgrav?= cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: region code in cdrecord X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:04:08 -0000 >(like I said, but in roundabout fashion I admit) region 2, so suggesting >that I ignore the region is silly, it's there already. My dvd (and that >of my friend's, I tested) both immediately choke on trying to play this Sorry, can't help with your original question, but I can help with the choice of DVD players. Phillips makes a good reprogrammable one. I think the model is called 642 in US and 630 in Europe, I can look at mine (US) at home. Walmart and Target sell them for shomething like $70. Changing the region code is a breese - you get the tray open, press the "secret" button sequence and can enter the new code. Setting the code to 0 would make it region-free and would play any disks except the very paranoid ones. For those you can change it back to 1 or 2. >disk, they don't even open a menu. I need to change that encoded region >value from 2 to 1. Having software here that coded, say, a null value AFAIK it's done in a more interesting way: the region code on CD is actually a small interpreted bytecode program that reads the player's configuration data with the region code in it and decides if it wants to play on this player or not. That's why some disks won't work with the players having region 0. I'd guess that this program can be happily amputated altogether. -SB