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

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