Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 16, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require regio

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region > coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. > -Garrett Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restr

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair G. >Hogge >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:29 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: Garrett Cooper >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive > > >On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Co

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:28:37PM +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, > > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region > > coding at all in order to play D

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:32:07AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Yes, most are. Search the Internet with google, there's many websites > that have patched firmware that locks out the region coding. One of the > first things I do when buying a new DVD is to flash it with patched > firmware > th

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
"Alastair G. Hogge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, > > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region > > coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD.

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of cpghost >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:06 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Garrett Cooper; Alastair G. Hogge; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive > > >"Alastair G. Hogge" <[

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Linton
01:29 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil > >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: Changing the reg

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Many thanks in advance, Thomas. On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 01:29 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil > >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DV

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: > > > mplayer works (beside the sound, but this is a different problem). > > xine, > > ogle and totem are not working on my box. If I boot winXP and look > > at the properties of the DVD Drive it says

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-18 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:25:53AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >Ah, good to know! So does this mean that if I already switched between > >region 1 and region 2 DVDs 100+ times, that the drive has already been > >flashed to RPC1 by the vendor? > > > > The drives I've dealt with seem to have a

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Linton
I could not compile regionset out of the box. I had to change line 37 in dvd_udf.c to FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD. zap... #if defined(__FreeBSD__) zap... The bad thing: regionset is not working; I get following output: kingkong# ./regionset ERROR: Could not open disc "(null)"! Please plac