kaffeine won't play DVDs (8.04)

[Billie Walsh]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Valter Mura wrote:
>   
>> Il sabato 20 settembre 2008 15:52:22 Billie Walsh ha scritto:
>>     
>>> In Kaffeine go to Settings>Xine Engine Performance>Media. Down where
>>> it says "dvd device" change that to reflect your DVD drive. Mine
>>> reads "/dev/scd0".
>>>       
>> In my case, which number of region should I put? I live in Italy,
>> Europe.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure why you want to change the region. Anyway, you can read about 
> it here:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code>
>
> And please note: On most DVD players you can change the region code only a 
> very few times.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   

One DVD player we have/had in the manual it said it would play any 
region but once three or four of a region was played it "locked" it into 
only that region DVD's. That just really sucks big time. In todays world 
economy most movies are available everywhere regardless of region, but 
sometimes if you want a low volume DVD you might have to get it from a 
region outside your own. I spent some time looking for a certain movie 
special edition. I finally found one available in Australia. That's not 
my "region".

I also see where Australia has determined that regionalized DVD players 
are against free trade and require them to be region free. New Zealand 
was also considering the same ruling.I guess the best bet would be to 
buy DVD players from Australia.

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