From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 17 17:57:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101C816A41A for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1ADC13C442 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so269621nzf for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:57:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FzMoUFyObVBZ4lMFoPw5U7e8vHmKohB/nKvT+gkull2OfQqN4ggBdCm4hSP9Ybzhu/p9xVf7ZkQzYSgO0j2ktS/rEtmocRZGi6YoBufmkAiWFC3fKSBdUzl0xZa1RYzze//DHyJ6hKVdHLFgaIiFHcnTa6R0Vv86JaYC6R8hkjM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aTIzbPGpYjdYuOcTJOddCkyPCMBTNkEFrM8DMdyyqfxXA+V85kkfrkUYw7QMyrMarbbMuuG2Fg1p+zp8HWHcdJyiDT1tveBQ7T2SremvC1DQkXZHskhsQ4jFMpK8VfAAyh0nrCSuDKGwlvQHNWigHGo/ogQcG/wupG/Freg4ggo= Received: by 10.143.165.13 with SMTP id s13mr199439wfo.1187373425108; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.80.8 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990708171057k481fbe0aycb1473293c744145@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:57:01 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: "Chandhee Thala" In-Reply-To: <77647f500708161933h4bac6ea1u29671ae701296cd7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <77647f500708161933h4bac6ea1u29671ae701296cd7@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:57:07 -0000 On 8/16/07, Chandhee Thala wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. In all but the oldest DVD drives, region encoding is supposed to be enforced by the drive itself, not by your software. You can change the region code setting on your drive a few times, but there is a limit (5 times, I think). Have you succeeded at playing the same DVDs with VLC on a different O/S? > Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error > and quits. I have no problems with foreign DVDs (from other > countries). Most American movies are marked with a specific region code. In some countries (China for example), it is common practice to publish movies marked to be playable in all regions. And of course, you may be playing movies from the region your drive is set to. > Is this standard behavior for VLC on BSD or am I doing something wrong? I haven't actually tried to play an out-of-region DVD, so I don't know from direct experience, but I wouldn't expect to succeed if I tried. As I said, the region protection is done by the drive itself. I hope I'm wrong, though. The sooner this idiot DRM stuff dies, the better. - Bob