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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org