On 13. april 2012 03:17, Bob Proulx wrote:
Given that setting the region on the hardware makes it able to play protected DVDs, I consider the hardware OK.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 runTo 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.