You can try regionset. Web page:-http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Girish Kulkarni <gir...@hri.res.in> wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? > > I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc > AD-5540A DVD player. The player had its DVD region code set to 3 so I > couldn't play India-only DVDs (region code 5) on it. > > Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5. But I still > am unable to play encrypted DVDs on it. In fact, I can only play > unencrypted DVDs (marked with region code ALL). > > With a region code 5 DVD in the drive, "mplayer dvd://1" throws this > and hangs: > > MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team > CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, > Stepping: 8) > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection. > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote > control. > > Playing dvd://1. > libdvdread: Invalid IFO for VMGM (VIDEO_TS.IFO). > There are 2 titles on this DVD. > There are 46 chapters in this DVD title. > There are 1 angles in this DVD title. > audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128. > audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 129. > number of audio channels on disk: 2. > subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en > number of subtitles on disk: 1 > MPEG-PS file format detected. > > Totem and VLC fail too. The disk is probably okay because it played > on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can I trust > regionset? I checked debian-user archives and looked up on Google -- > regionset seems to have worked for most people. > > Any comments will help. > > Thanks, > Girish. > > -- > Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025
