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Re: DVD region codes ?



13.04.2012 01:29, Håkon Alstadheim kirjoitti:
> 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 DISCInfo.exe which
> confirmed I had not set a region on the drive, but it was NOT region
> free (says "lock detected"). So did an older machine that I am CERTAIN
> has been able to play that disc before. I ran "regionset(8)" , and the
> disc is now playable. I did not need this in the past. Now I guess I
> will not be able to play DVDs from other regions. What gives?
> 
> For the record, this is probably upstream problem(s), since both my main
> boxes, with debian and ubuntu, are affected. I should test this on my
> gentoo box as well, but if anybody has any info I'm all for a shortcut.
> My alternative right now is to try flashing my DVD-drive to get a
> region-free drive. This involves getting the drive into a Windows-box to
> get the flash utility to run. Already tried Wine and Freedos.
> 
> Disgusted greetings, Håkon.
> 
> 
> 

Do you have libdvdcss2 installed? I think that it should hep with region
locks.
You can get it from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ .

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