Allegedly, on or about 23 July 2017, Temlakos sent: > Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to > change the region code on a DVD player? I don't recall ever setting a DVD region on my Linux computer equipment. Not that I can recall trying to play a non-region-4 disc, either. So I don't know whether my system doesn't care about disc regions, or the players are doing some software permission control rather than checking settings in the drive, itself. Reading a locale or timezone setting, perhaps? I've no idea about ripping discs on Linux, but old Windows software seemed to be able to pick the region for the disc to be ripped at will, and set a region for your newly copied disc. I suspect that ability to play certain region discs would depend on decryption software, rather than the disc drive, itself. After all, all the ripping programs are doing a hack/encryption-crack on the disc (and why sometimes they can't do anything with some discs). From what I understand, consumer DVD players decode all discs by comparing something on the disc with their own settings, along with some decoding key that got cracked many years ago. Software players wouldn't have a *fixed* region setting. > Specifically, has anyone tried to make a drive region-free (region > code 0)? And if so, with what result? There's still a risk that a region 0 player mayn't play some discs, some are engineered so they can't be played in region free machines, as a final screw-you from Hollywood to people trying to sidestep this malarkey. > I fully expect optical media to become obsolete in another ten years. It's already happening. Video rental stores have disappeared. DVD sales in shops have dwindled, so the shops only have a limited selection, and poorly stocked shelves. Streaming services to ordinary television sets are taking over, even taking over from free-to-air broadcasting. And I went into a Sony dealer with an example DVD, wanting to show them something that we needed to be able to do if we bought some new video production equipment, only to find out that they didn't have anything in the shop that could play a DVD. It's the same for computer software, everything's a download, now. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 (always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on) Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Linux servers are always being dæmonised... _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
