----- Original Message ---- From: Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 6:11:43 AM Subject: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] xine/region issue?
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:23 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > Well, the new machine seems to be largely running with minimal issues. What did you get? > I have several DVDs that are region 1, and they work fine. However, I > also have some that are region 2, and those don't want to play. When I got my HP (Canadian model, so I suppose the drive is set to region 1 by default), I had the same problem. My (one) Region 1 DVD played fine, but my other DVDs (all Region 2) wouldn't. I had to boot into Windows, pop in a Region 2 disc, let WinDVD set the region to 2, and after that everything worked OK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I got a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4324. It has a Core 2 Duo, which is running SuSE 10.1 64 bit happily (though I've had a couple of mysterious crashes--particularly when changing video modes) Sound didn't start up directly, but worked after a simple kick--I had to tell Yast to use the soundcard it found and turn the master volume up but that was all. Video is running 1280x800 after some peculiarities--changing mode in Yast and running the "test server" option crashed it dead. But changing the configured mode and _not_ testing but then rebooting, and it was fine. Wireless worked right out of the box which was a pleasant suprise I've never had before. Curiously, perhaps, on my old Tosh (32 bit) Xine worked just fine with either region 1 or 2, I didn't have to change anything. That's quite important to me as I have several region 2 disks (great British movies and TV). The problem with changing the region code of the drive is that most of the drives only allow you to change it a limited number of times (about 5 usually) and after that they lock the region permanently. So, still hoping someone can tell me what I didn't do, or what version of libdvdcss I need perhaps... "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
