Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:37:55 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive Message-ID: <20051017073755.GA21059@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <200510171728.37642.agh@tpg.com.au> References: <1129454915.5695.6.camel@lrl> <73E44C2A-4236-422D-885A-2D6B843A4D21@u.washington.edu> <200510171728.37642.agh@tpg.com.au>
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:28:37PM +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, > > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region > > coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. > > -Garrett > Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restricted thou? Does mplayer get > around that? FWIW, I'm playing here region 1 and region 2 (and of course regionless) DVDs with mplayer on a Plextor PX-708A without any problems at all. No need to switch region codes or anything like that at all. This is a non-issue AFAICS. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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