On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:10:14 -0800, you wrote:
On Friday 17 March 2006 08:55 am, Sunny wrote:
On 3/17/06, kai
wrote: I was just about to purchase a DVD from Germany when it occurred to me that they don't use region one.
I was wondering if I could play this on my system using Kaffeine or MPlayer. I have Kaffeine already setup to play region one DVDs, but I wasn't sure about the others.
Oh, in fact, also aren't European DVD's encoded with PAL? I wonder if the laptop is PAL or NTSC or if it matters.
It will not be a problem. I can play whatever I throw in the drive. PAL and NTSC does matters only for the TV. And even then, you can set your TV-out for the right format.
Hey, thanks for the information. A buddy of mine in Germany is sending me a home-brew DVD transfer from some videos we shot back in college. (Not not THOSE kind of videos...)
I'll let y'all know how they play. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community
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I read (and I don't recall the details, you might google) that one of the bigger dvd drive manufacturers just got sued by the RIAA for making drives that ignore the country encoding. If you want one of those drives you should probably hurry... Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,