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The Monday 2007-05-21 at 11:34 +0100, David SMITH wrote:
> AFAIK, there should be no reason why a PC shouldn't be able to play NTSC
> DVDs. PC DVD drives are, however, region locked. You can usually change
> the region a fixed number of times (e.g. 8), before you then can't change
> them at all. It is possible to download replacement firmware for some PC
> DVD drives which overrides this. However, if anything goes wrong, you
> may make your DVD drive completely unusable. i.e. do it at your own
> risk!
However, region enconding is ignored by linux players; the reason is that
they have to break the encryption anyway using the "libdvdcss" library.
Once broken, why should they care about one more impediment?
Now, Primm, have you installed "libdvdcss"? Without it, any linux player
will fail. Plus, you can not use the players that come with the distro:
either compile them yourself, or use those repackaged by some one like
packman (try xine or mplayer).
Also, don't try to play the vob files directly, that doesn't work.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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