On 27/04/14 12:39, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:44:59 [email protected] wrote: >>> region free firmware is the main stumbling block for me. I lived >>> overseas for quite a while, so I need to play region 1 as well >>> as region 4 discs. some uk discs too. >> >> errrrrrrrrr, lets put it this way......... libdvdcss allows one to >> watch DVD's from different regions, its a cryptographic cracking >> system so some distro's (Debian any way) do not package it. For a >> long time I have sucessfully viewed zone 1, 3 and 4 DVD's using >> this library. The library is transparent in use if its present a >> player (eg xine) will use it, if its not present it will of course >> not use it. > > I believe that doing so requires that the drive itself be > region-free. Some drives will just refuse to return the data. > > Some years ago I had to re-flash a Pioneer drive to make it > region-free. I still own that drive even though I've sent many newer > drives to e-waste because I want to have a drive that I know can be > used to read disks from multiple regions. > > Does anyone know what portion of modern drives are region free? > Would it be worth my effort in testing all the DVD drives from my > spare parts shelf to find some that are region free? >
Well I tried region 1 & 2 in my Pioneer DVR-216 using VLC and deCSS. Works fine. I think that all drives sold here are region independant after the case a few years ago that found region coding was an unwarranted restraint. Region coding is handled in the drive firmware, deCSS just deals with anti-copy encryption. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
