From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 16:41:24 2008 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 48B5E1065678 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FA98FC13 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:41:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fPsm1a0020mv7h052Uh3zM; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:41:03 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fUhM1a00X2P6wsM3XUhNW0; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:41:23 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=SBcG1q43rHN0gDoiYr0A:9 a=vq2wFLll8UDMDX-rVIEA:7 a=Uu_7L1ccc8MRlSJ_zjsSkLKC8lAA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9AE7733C36; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:41:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:41:21 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Nikola Le??i?? Message-ID: <20081115164121.GA78325@icarus.home.lan> References: <20081115084600.GA4998@thought.org> <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081115134714.1537e2bc@fabiankeil.de> <20081115134600.GA38127@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081115172323.23093dd2@anthesphoria.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081115172323.23093dd2@anthesphoria.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Fabian Keil , Roland Smith , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "High Noonn" DVD?? 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: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:41:24 -0000 On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Nikola Le??i?? wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 > Roland Smith wrote: > > > OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have play fine with > > mplayer, but they're probably all region 2 disks. So I should be able > > to play region 1 disks with mplayer? > > That's exactly what I am trying to do at this moment, with no success. > I'm in the region 2 and I set my DVD drive accordingly (with a small C > programme). Now I got some region 1 DVDs and libdvdcss is not sufficient > as such. Of course, I can change DVD drive region setting temporarily, > but the drive allows just 4 or 5 such changes. Does anyone know how to > avoid this counting? Changing the region encoding setting on your DVD drive involves setting a bit or code somewhere in the flash/EEPROM inside of the DVD drive. The limit of 4-5 changes is purely a DVD drive firmware thing; there's no technical limit, instead it's a limit imposed by the firmware. There are websites nowadays which offer "hacked" firmwares which remove region encoding altogether (or remove the 4-5 set limit). However, they're only available for very specific models of DVD drives. If this is important to you, you should considering purchasing a drive that can be flashed with a "hacked" firmware. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |