DVD region 1

superscaper

John_Gray wrote: »

I was told that the free VideoLAN could play DVDs of any region on a PC, but I haven't verified this... (No doubt someone will say if they have!)

Heard the same thing. Not sure if it overrides the region changes in most DVD drives (which lock to one region after 5 or 6 changes).

bat999

John_Gray wrote: »

I was told that the free VideoLAN could play DVDs of any region on a PC,

It is true - to a certain extent.

My drive is still 'unset' so in theory it can play DVDs from no regions.
But I use VLC (and some other Linux players) and DVDs play OK.

It works something like this:-

When a drive tries to read encrypted DVDs it performs a 'handshake' to check the regions of the disc and drive.
If they don't conflict, then the drive releases a key so that it can read the DVD.

But with VLC (and others) they can use 'libdvdcss2'. With this it 'cracks' the DVD and generates its own key instead of doing a handshake.

This is true with Linux systems and (so I'm told) macs.
But I don't know whether it works for Windows. Maybe a Windows user here will test it.

I'm not sure whether this all works with the latest 'Region Code Enhanced' discs either.

This shows that my drive is 'unset':-

ron@ron-desktop:~$ regionset
regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets region code on DVD drives
Current Region Code settings:
RPC Phase: II
type: NONE
vendor resets available: 4
user controlled changes resets available: 5
drive plays discs from region(s):, mask=0xFF

Would you like to change the region setting of your drive? [y/n]:
ron@ron-desktop:

:cool::cool:

Edit. The OP's question was about a DVD player, not a PC. So maybe we've gone off-topic somewhere.

QT2006

Hey thanks everyone for the response!! Somewhere down the line it did go a little off track :rolleyes:. Anywhoo...I did a search on google for my DVD model and multi region and bob's your uncle a code came up that I could put it and now I can play ALL different regions under region 0.

Thanks guys :T