[ubuntu-nz] ubuntu-nz Digest, Vol 32, Issue 6

[Jason Taylor]

> best not to make use of regioning at all, and/or use player that ignores it (like VLC), since regions on drives can only be set a certain number of times (usually around 5).
> After that, you may have to start messing with the drive's firmware

Most drives can only be set a couple of times... however decss
requires that a region be set (4 for nz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code) else it can fail to
decrypt some dvds.

Its my understanding that *some* dvd drives (RPC2) require a region to
be set even if the player (vlc etc) ignores the setting

If you had windows on the machine the windows software would have
insured a region had been set

Jason Taylor
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