On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 20:20 -0400, 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. Sound, video and subtitles are all muxed together on a DVD so if you have sound it is breaking the CSS Access Protection just fine. Looks like you have a problem with a missing mpeg2 video codec or something of that nature. Linux DVD playback software still isn't able to use the CSS stuff in the drive the right way, it ignores the region codes entirely and libdecss simply breaks the encryption thanks to DVD Jon's efforts in cracking the crypto and giving the break to the world. (Which is why Fedora will probably never ship that particular library.) Try mplayer from a command line and see what it has to say, verbose is of course best. IF it sees the video but can't find a codec or can't get the display drivers right it will point you to what needs troubleshooting.
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