On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 04:59, Jason Straight wrote: > Ogle doesn't seem to care about the regioning - I'm using the redhat rpms from > ogle's site. No regioning BS required, works great. Although I still see > little use in playing DVD on computer (just not smooth enough) except for the > ability of snapshots for Bruce Lee movies ;)
There's two types of DVD regioning. Your drive can be hardware regioned. The OS does nothing about this; most drives have a hardware region set and won't read discs from a different region. This is done at a lower level than the OS. To fix this you need some kind of firmware hack, or an unregioned drive. Then there's software regioning. Many software players are also regioned - PowerDVD is, for instance. There are software hacks for this. Linux software players aren't regioned (at least, I know Xine and Ogle aren't). So if you've hacked your drive firmware, you're OK. What do you mean about non-smooth playback? I watch all my DVDs on my Duron 1.1ghz through Linux and they're just fine, smooth as glass. Maybe you don't have DMA enabled on your DVD drive? I've had that problem before... -- adamw
