Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:02:29PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: An alternative would be to get hold of a regionless firmware somewhere on the internet and flash the drive with that, but this is most likely illegal in your country under the DMCA. rpc1.org would be a good bet for the firmware route, which I'd recommend (AFAIK breaking css is illegal under the dmca anyway, so I can't see this as being a much bigger legal issue than playing any encrypted DVD under Linux). IANAL, of course. If in doubt, move to Finland. -Nick Can't find rpcl.org The last character is a one, not a l. -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F pgpkrSNG0Yhe7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita: Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? An alternative would be to get hold of a regionless firmware somewhere on the internet and flash the drive with that, but this is most likely illegal in your country under the DMCA. rpc1.org would be a good bet for the firmware route, which I'd recommend (AFAIK breaking css is illegal under the dmca anyway, so I can't see this as being a much bigger legal issue than playing any encrypted DVD under Linux). IANAL, of course. If in doubt, move to Finland. -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F pgps8bAqs5GMe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
Nick wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita: Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? An alternative would be to get hold of a regionless firmware somewhere on the internet and flash the drive with that, but this is most likely illegal in your country under the DMCA. rpc1.org would be a good bet for the firmware route, which I'd recommend (AFAIK breaking css is illegal under the dmca anyway, so I can't see this as being a much bigger legal issue than playing any encrypted DVD under Linux). IANAL, of course. If in doubt, move to Finland. -Nick Can't find rpcl.org -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:14:58 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? Tony try emerging media-libs/libdvdcss if it doesn't. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
On Thursday 27 September 2007, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? It's really got nothing to do with mplayer, the zoning has everything to do with the drive itself. If it's multi-zone, the dvd will play. If not, well then most drives let you change the zone 5 times or some such thing. PAL vs NTSC vs SECAM et al is purely a tv broadcast thing and video software is utterly unaffected by these standards (we don't use tvs as display devices). None of the things that limit what a TV can do are applicable to software driving a monitor. I have played PAL and NeverTheSameColour video seamlessly on mplayer. subtly dig at stupid US standards What may well happen is that by viewing PAL in it's native resolution you might be surprised by the increased quality and this might adversely affect your viewing pleasure of future US tv broadcasts /subtle dig at stupid US standards alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita: Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? It not so much mplayers problem as it is wether your DVD drive can be set to region 2 or 0 (regionfree). There is a tool called regionset which will let you reprogram the drive, but most drives only let you do that a limited number or times (ususally 3-5). An alternative would be to get hold of a regionless firmware somewhere on the internet and flash the drive with that, but this is most likely illegal in your country under the DMCA. HTH, Peter -- Gentoo is like IKEA -- only stable. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
