Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software
On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia.
>
> Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available
> only from amazon, USA or UK.
>
> For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code
> thing, apparently designed to stop Australian audiovisual DVD players
> from playing DVD's that are vavailable only from countries such as the
> USA or UK, that have Region Codes that are incompatible with DVD players
> for television sets.
>
> >From
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=502554
> ,
> Region 1 - USA and Canada
> Region 2 - UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East
> Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America
>
> Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian
> can play movies that are recorded on DVD's.
>
> Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all
> Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes?
>
> I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other
> Region Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I
> cannot use.
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
@ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region
p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD
dri
Thierry
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