On 07/23/2017 06:20 PM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to
change the region code on a DVD player?
Specifically, has anyone tried to make a drive region-free (region
code 0)? And if so, with what result?
The problem: I have a boxed set of DVD's, 12 in all, from Region 2. I
live in Region 1. A few versions of Fedora back (probably F21 or F22),
I found I could play back those Region 2 disks without a problem. But
now with F26, playback even on the "vlc" program gives me sound, but
no picture--a black screen. Dragon refuses to play them at all. The
makemkv program takes about ten minutes trying to do a workaround with
the region codes not matching. Then it seems to work, but the output
files all have sound (including all sound tracks if it has more than
one), but no picture.
The way I see it, I can do one of two things, if I want to rip those
disks:
1. Use regionset to change my DVD and BD drive temporarily to Region
2, rip the disks, then go back to Region 1.
2. Purchase and install a second optical-disk drive and use regionset
to set /that/ to Region 2 and /leave it there/. The second option
would cost me about $50 US.
The larger problem is this: I don't necessarily want to limit myself
to any one region. If I had to pick one "secondary region," it would
be 2 because that includes Europe, the Middle East (including Israel),
South Africa, and Japan. But if I want to play or rip a DVD from
Australia, then I'm out of luck.
The /really/ big hack would be to set my present optical drive to
Region 0, and hope that would play any disk, from any region. But
before I do something that could fry the drive forever, I would like
someone to tell me whether he's ever done that before.
The only alternative is to shell out $600 US for a multi-region
Blu-ray and DVD player. I would like to avoid that--mainly because I
would like to avoid shelling out a lot of payola for a device having
an esoteric feature I might use only once in a blue moon! Especially
since I fully expect optical media to become obsolete in another ten
years.
Any suggestions? Anecdotes? Horror stories?
Temlakos
How to Unlock DVD Regions on Your Mac and PC: Tech Clinic:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/how-to/a3480/4274927/
Making a DVD player regionless:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiT1uzT3KDVAhUH7IMKHUUtCo0QFgg8MAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ftechsupport%2Fcomments%2F1owkv1%2Fmaking_the_dvd_player_on_my_laptop_regionless%2F&usg=AFQjCNHtEBkxieEHMExZyh1CGL_FLZe8RA
Old versions of VLC somehow got around region codes.
Go to https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
and download some older versions and build them and see if that will help.
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