From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 23:57:25 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 752421065675 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Received: from anthesphoria.net (anthesphoria.net [200.46.204.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251F28FC12 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:57:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.4.1 anthesphoria.net mAFNvCPq071125 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=anthesphoria.net; s=phero; t=1226793436; bh=yVP95UYVSsK8tprDYMeGkjXAyPnmbJUA4LtgkRzjF Ys=; l=2805; h=X-Bogosity:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:X-Face:X-Operating-System: X-OpenPGP-Fingerprint:X-OpenPGP-Preferred-Keyserver:Mime-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uzZesyfMI2tBO4RprH2QfOKb lSS5O2WgEgiVh5Hf5FQhXDMq7bIe3yer2omDswuAgxnu4oEQ5Kwmd2tsAEnrC0XGJQW MVL4hTt0dorL50AlbGT3whoq5e8Frr2RTNlGpT3/hq9VJeo6giSfTTqabM1aAvGNjTn uIxbDN+B8Lwys= Received: from anthesphoria.net (adsl-200-199.eunet.yu [213.198.200.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by anthesphoria.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mAFNvCPq071125 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:57:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:53:43 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= To: cpghost Message-ID: <20081116005343.1e980c96@anthesphoria.net> In-Reply-To: <20081115172305.GA1269@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <20081115084600.GA4998@thought.org> <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081115134714.1537e2bc@fabiankeil.de> <20081115134600.GA38127@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081115172323.23093dd2@anthesphoria.net> <20081115164121.GA78325@icarus.home.lan> <20081115172305.GA1269@phenom.cordula.ws> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/i386 X-OpenPGP-Fingerprint: FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B X-OpenPGP-Preferred-Keyserver: x-hkp://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: 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 23:57:25 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:23:05 +0100 cpghost wrote: =20 > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:41:21AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > 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: > > >=20 > > > > 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? > > >=20 > > > 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? > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Check out for RPC1 modded firmwares. >=20 > http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php Thanks! The DVD drive is cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device and it seems to be there: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?f=3D26&t=3D42777&p=3D205896&hilit=3DL= H+20A1S#p205896 ... so it means I can do something, I think. Btw, what, in the light of all this, means the following statement from libdvdcss/pkg-descr? """ - Just better. Unlike most similar projects, libdvdcss doesn't require the region of your drive to be set. """ - --=20 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 =3D =D0=9D=D0=B8=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=9B=D0= =B5=D1=87=D0=B8=D1=9B fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkfYQ0ACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhWRwP/dn8a7Kt2EyM9+D28+DWV+pHa amPqGkzh17f2WRzgugiGI/KF+8gDmOUfGYl6LABqYjHk6341BvvQ5pYLw5RVa7ZV 9eDjO+P8vMyCn9AcYwiagNF8kuCBut73F5E2YZjt4wEwKciqe24YTpqiAGXy+e5A C58UVE97XgQcZUm/N9Y=3D =3DQsfQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----