Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-04-15 10:08, Per Jessen wrote:
stakanov wrote:
In data venerdì 14 aprile 2017 22:17:51, Paul Groves ha scritto:
So my question is, how can I set the drive to be region free so I can play my DVDs from region 1 and other regions?
The idea of the DVD region code is to make sure you cannot play the DVDs you legally did buy at foreign.
Isn't this really a dead duck? For one thing, any-region DVD players have been available for at least 16 years (based on my personal experience), for another, isn't the DVD market slowly dying or virtually dead already?
But I understood that DVD playing on a Linux computer was essentially regionless, as long as you used the libdvdcss2 library. I do not have samples from other regions to try, though.
I don't know, I haven't had the need to play DVDs on the computer for so long. I think I bought a DVD RW drive some years back, and it came with instructions for how to change the region, up to a maximum 3 times. I'm really not sure.
But my advice is always: if you really think you need to watch blueraydiscs on a PC buy a second player and set it to the second region. Buy a third one and set it to the third region.
Buy a Pioneer any-region player. We've had two so far, works very well. The current one is a DV-696-AV, I bought it 2nd hand for CHF15.
I bought the first such DVD player in Mediamarkt around 2002 - I asked the shop assistant about the multi-region feature, and she pulled out a sheet of A4 paper with the code and the instructions for how to disable to region-check. With the 2nd Pioneer player, it was disabled by default.
Are you talking of devices for computers, or standalone?
Standalone players. I did once want to use a DVD drive in the MythTV PC, but when I discovered it didn't have an SPDIF output, I decided to just get a standalone player instead. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.6°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org