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> On Thursday 09 November 2006 22:23, Simon Roberts wrote:
> >  I thought libdvdcss was essentially "region free" and indeed it
> > reports some success with the key management, but also reports at
> > least one failure
>
> I was always under the impression the hardware itself held the region.
> You can buy drives with no region code set, but windows won't
> let you work that way, but Linux will.  (Well, at least SuSE 9.3 did).
>
> But if your drive has it s region set, your screwed.  Try
> swapping the drive from your old machine in - or is this a laptop?
>

My understanding (from research a few years ago) is that the drives with a
region set will (in firmware) check the region of dvds.  You can stop this
problem by flashing the drive updated firmware.

I got most of the info from this site:
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php

But I did the research when using Win/XP and haven't checked it under Linux.

David



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