Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?
Just out of curiousity, is this still the case if one uses one of the
open source players (such as vlc or mplayer) on Mac OS X ?
Thanks
vinai
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, christophe barbe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > Linux players do not ask for the key (they are not licensed and then
> > do not have the keys to speak to the drive about this), they crack it
> > every time you want to read your DVD. That is the whole point of
> > DeCSS.
> >
> > So, do not bother to flash your DVD drive if you are just using
> > Linux.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> So no reason to flash the drive, we have a lot of very good Free DVD
> players.
>
> Christophe
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