DVD Area Codes
sam tygier
samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 8 14:28:50 UTC 2011
On 08/09/11 11:26, Graham Todd wrote:
> Is there a way to (for instance) rip a DVD for Rgion 1 and encode it
> to play it for Region 2 countries?
>
> I've recently been given a selection of DVDs by a friend whose DVD
> player no longer works, and who has moved house and anyway it's (the
> player) been left at the local neighbourhood rubbish dump.
>
> However all the DVDs are encoded to Region 1 (USA) whereas I need them
> to be playable on a Regional 2 DVD player (UK), although Region 0 (All
> Regions) would do just as well. I am not seeking to break UK law,
> which if I understand correctly, allows somebody to copy their own DVDs
> (and not one he/she has borrowed, and which might be for a different
> Region) and play them in the UK.
>
> I know I can change the Region (if I can find the right codes for it),
> but I wondered if its possible to convert the Region when ripping the
> DVD, which gets round the step of changing the Region coded into the
> DVD player. Or is there some other easy way to accomplish this?
>
> All assistance through this list would be gratefully received, as
> would all assistance sent to my personal e-mail address.
>
> -- Graham Todd
>
Some computer DVD drives will refuse to read a DVD from other regions. you can use regionset to change the region of the drive, but usually only a small (~5) number of times. so you could change it to 1, rip the disks, write them as region 0 (no benefit in re-encrypting them), then set the drive back to 2. but you will not be able to repeat that more than a couple of times.
my solution is to have to DVD drives in my desktop, one always set to region 2, and the other to region 1.
sam
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list