On 27 March 2009 17:19:35 Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > >> > >> Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > >> only from amazon, USA or UK. > >> > >> For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code > >> thing, apparently designed to stop Australian audiovisual DVD players > >> from playing DVD's that are vavailable only from countries such as the > >> USA or UK, that have Region Codes that are incompatible with DVD players > >> for television sets. > >> > >>> From > >> > >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=502 > >>554 , > >> Region 1 - USA and Canada > >> Region 2 - UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East > >> Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America > >> > >> Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > >> can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > >> > >> Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > >> Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes? > >> > >> I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other > >> Region Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I > >> cannot use. > >> > >> Thank you in anticipation. > >> > >> -- > >> Bret Busby > > > > @ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region > > p regionset - view and modify the region code of > > DVD dri > > > > Thierry > > > > > > > >From Synaptic, for regionset; > > "view and modify the region code of DVD drives > Regionset is a small utility which displays and sets > the region/zone setting of a DVD drive, allowing it to decrypt > the DVD's sold in this geographical zone. Hardware vendors > often limit the number of such modifications, but it is > necessary to set it at least once with a brand new drive. > > URL: http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/"; > > >From http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/ ; > > "On delivery, most DVD drives have no region code set. The drive > firmware allows you to change the region code, but on nearly all drives > you are limited to five (5) changes. After the fifth change, the DVD > drive will stay fixed on that code -- on some drives you can upgrade > the drive firmware and have then additional five changes, on other > drives you won't be able to change the region code any more." > > and > > "If you set a DVD drive to region code 2 (RC2), you'll only be able to > play region-code-2-DVDs from Europe, Middle East, South Africa and > Japan -- the drive will definitively not play any US or Canadian DVD, > nor Austrailian or Chinese. So if you cannot play a DVD because of the > wrong region code, there is nothing the DVD player software can do > about but changing the region code of the drive if you have any changes > left. > > So always be very very careful changing the region code, it could be > your last try before you're forced to buy a new drive (or play foreign > DVDs forever)." > > So, it appears that this proprietary and restrictive Regions Code thing > is absolute, and cannot be got around, and I apparently just have to > accept that the video companies don't want us to watch their DVD's here > in Australia. > > Thank you, anyway. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > ....................................................
Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
