13.04.2012 01:29, Håkon Alstadheim kirjoitti: > Am I doing something wrong, or have all linux systems recently started > requiring the region-code to be set on DVD-drives to be able to play > DVDs? I struggled for a while with a drive on a newish box and could not > get it to play an old DVD. Went so far as to run DISCInfo.exe which > confirmed I had not set a region on the drive, but it was NOT region > free (says "lock detected"). So did an older machine that I am CERTAIN > has been able to play that disc before. I ran "regionset(8)" , and the > disc is now playable. I did not need this in the past. Now I guess I > will not be able to play DVDs from other regions. What gives? > > For the record, this is probably upstream problem(s), since both my main > boxes, with debian and ubuntu, are affected. I should test this on my > gentoo box as well, but if anybody has any info I'm all for a shortcut. > My alternative right now is to try flashing my DVD-drive to get a > region-free drive. This involves getting the drive into a Windows-box to > get the flash utility to run. Already tried Wine and Freedos. > > Disgusted greetings, Håkon. > > >
Do you have libdvdcss2 installed? I think that it should hep with region locks. You can get it from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ . -- Mika Suomalainen gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 4DB53CFE82A46728 Key fingerprint = 24BC 1573 B8EE D666 D10A AA65 4DB5 3CFE 82A4 6728
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