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Re: DVD region codes ?



Bob Proulx wrote:
> Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> > Am I doing something wrong, or have all linux systems recently
> > started requiring the region-code to be set on DVD-drives to be able
> > to play DVDs? I struggled for a while with a drive on a newish box
> > and could not get it to play an old DVD. Went so far as to run

To add some content to this...  I personally have never needed to set
the region on a DVD drive.  But I haven't bought any new DVD drives in
a while.  Certainly my old ones are still playing DVDs routinely.  If
this is true in your case I doubt it is the system but probably the
DVD drive itself that is enforcing a region code.

If you have two drives then you might consider booting a KNOPPIX live
boot disk on one of the drives and playing a DVD on the other.  That
would provde a hardware check with a different operating system.

Bob

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