Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs (fixed)

2007-09-02 Thread C Thala
On 8/16/07, Chandhee Thala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error > and quits. I have no problems with foreign DVDs (from other > countries). Well, it turned out that this region encoding error was a huge red herring. I was about to flash

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs (still doesn't work) II part

2007-08-19 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:56:50AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Predrag Punosevac wrote: >> C Thala wrote: > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) > since I can play US DVDs with VLC . > That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgrading

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs (still doesn't work) II part

2007-08-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Predrag Punosevac wrote: C Thala wrote: Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) since I can play US DVDs with VLC . That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgrading VLC now on the machine. Well, that didn't work. I have the latest VLC in ports, and

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs (still doesn't work)

2007-08-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
C Thala wrote: Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) since I can play US DVDs with VLC . That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgrading VLC now on the machine. Well, that didn't work. I have the latest VLC in ports, and here is the error I get:

OT: good vs evil (Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs)

2007-08-19 Thread perryh
> ... another story in the neverending > race between good and evil. ;-) For some reason, that reminded me of a John Byrom quote (which is likely better known than its author): http://www.born-today.com/Today/d09-23.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs (still doesn't work)

2007-08-18 Thread C Thala
> > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) > > since I can play US DVDs with VLC . > > That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgrading VLC now on the machine. Well, that didn't work. I have the latest VLC in ports, and here is the error I get: libdvdnav: Using dv

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-18 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:25:17PM +0200, I wrote: > I've been able to view out-of-region region-encoded DVDs both > on RPC-2 and RPC-1 drives (both old and recent) with mplayer > without any problems; and, yes, I've switched regions much more > often that just 5 times per RPC-2 drive: no problems

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-18 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:57:01PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. > > In all but the oldest DVD drives, region encoding is supposed to be > enforced by the drive its

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/16/07, Chandhee Thala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. In all but the oldest DVD drives, region encoding is supp

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-17 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 17 August 2007, Chandhee Thala wrote: > > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > > > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. > > > > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) > > since I can play US DVDs

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-17 Thread Chandhee Thala
> > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. > > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) > since I can play US DVDs with VLC . That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgradi

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-17 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Chandhee Thala wrote: Hello, I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error and quits. I have no problem

vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-16 Thread Chandhee Thala
Hello, I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error and quits. I have no problems with foreign DVDs (fro