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The Monday 2007-05-21 at 12:29 +0100, David SMITH wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:08:15PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > However, region enconding is ignored by linux players; the reason is that
> > they have to break the encryption anyway using the "libdvdcss" library.
> > Once broken, why should they care about one more impediment?
>
> I assumed that Linux DVD players were still bound by the region encoding
> on the drive, but ICBW; I don't bother playing DVDs on my PC as I've got a
> "proper" DVD player downstairs.
My case is the reverse, but the number of DVDs I own is less than my
fingers (in one hand), so I have little justification to buy a unit, even
if they are cheap. There is almost no room near the TV set...
I have heard of region issues, but I'm not clear on it. The dvd readers
are installed without region code selected. If used on windows, the
software will activate one region, but not in Linux. If you only use it in
Linux no region is selected at all and it works. However, it has been said
that once a region is selected, it will refuse to play dvds from other
regions, in linux - this I can not verify nor certify. It's just a
posibility, but I don't think it is true.
> Of course, the next question for the OP is - Can you play PAL (region 2)
> DVDs on your PC? Is it just the "NTSC" ones that you can't play, or is
> it all commercial DVDs?
That's a good question. :-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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