On Nov 10, 06 15:11:43 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:23 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > > Well, the new machine seems to be largely running with minimal issues. > > What did you get? > > > I have several DVDs that are region 1, and they work fine. However, I > > also have some that are region 2, and those don't want to play. > > When I got my HP (Canadian model, so I suppose the drive is set to > region 1 by default), I had the same problem. My (one) Region 1 DVD > played fine, but my other DVDs (all Region 2) wouldn't. I had to boot > into Windows, pop in a Region 2 disc, let WinDVD set the region to 2, > and after that everything worked OK.
This shouldn't be necessary with libdvdcss. If standard authorization doesn't work, it does a brute-force attack on the keys. Does the disk play in a stand-alone player? Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
