On 07/24/2017 08:20 AM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to change the
region
code on a DVD player?
I've never changed the region settings of any of my DVD players. (I've not used
one
in a long time and I think all of mine are broken)
I simply install libdvdcss and, if I recall correctly, things like dvdrip and vlc
used the library and ripped and played any DVD regardless of region.
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?
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