Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

[Scarletdown <scarletdown@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> handful of uses!  And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies 
> while travelling internationally that will play when I get home!

If you're talking about region codes, that's a trivial matter to bypass.

1: Use something like vobcopy to mirror the DVD to your hard drive.
2: Fire up a hex editor.
3: Open up VIDEO_TS.VOB
4: Change the contents of memory location 0023 to 00
5: Save the edited VIDEO_TS.VOB file back to the hard drive
6: Burn ripped and edited DVD to a fresh disk
7: Play your newly copied, now Region Free DVD in the player of your
choice.

Now, if only it was just as easy converting from PAL to NTSC...