Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Bret Busby:
> >
> > 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?
>
> The region code is not tied to software, but to your hardware. DVD
> players (either stand-alone or for computers) have one code set when
> leaving the factory and change it when you insert a DVD with another
> region code. The stupidity is that they (generally) only allow a few of
> these changes (say, five). After that, they refuse to play anything else
> than the region code they switched to the last time.
>
> J.
Googling shows there are firmware hacks available to allow unlimited
changes on **certain** DVD players....but I doubt he wants to get into
this :)
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