On 12/07/2012 10:15 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > For bimonthly movie night, my wife and I watched "Absurdistan". > The title is apt. Director Veit Helmer recently made "Baikonur", > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iK464i6tzw > a drama filmed at the active Kazakh/Russian launch center, which > I would like to see. Amazon sells the DVD for PAL region 2, > which is incompatable with my Hollywood-infested DVD player. > > Will a PAL region 2 disk play using Linux DVD player software? > Will the English subtitles display? I'm guessing this can be > set up with a lot of effort, but many tweaks may be needed, > and frame-rate incompatabilities leading to ugly video. > > Keith > Just another ideato add to all the others:
I use dvd::rip (and previously k9copy but development has stopped), to ripDVDs I purchase to be region,macrovisionand css free. Either of these programs allows a straight copy to DVD iso. I then use K3B to burn a dvd. This new DVD will play on anything! I put the iso on a network drive to then streamit to the TV via a linux box (NTSC vs PAL not relavent using vlc or mplayer with the proper libraries installed). All thison Slackware with a region 1 dvd9 DVDRW-DL playerinstalled in to the computer. Usually only takes 1-2 hrs to rip and burn, depending on the size of the movie. Interestingly enough, most DVD players in the last 5 yrs will play both PAL and NTSC content once you strip the region code from the DVD. Both my JVC and Phillips DVD players dont' seem to have a problem. Note re: changing region code on computer DVDRW or standalone DVDplayers. IIRC, you get only 5 changes. So if you can't sent the player to "region free" you should leave itat region 1 and change the region of the DVD. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
