As long as you use a distro like Mint that comes with libdvdcss2 included, all you have to do is use vlc, & you can play PAL DVDs of any region with subtitles. No special setup needed, & no loss in quality. Or run Mint live for each movie night, if you prefer. I have added libdvdcss2 to many distros, & it rarely works, if added. It always works with a distro like Mint where it is built into the distro. This is much easier than trying to make your stand-alone DVD player region free. Mint 13 KDE LTS is the version I recommend, but any version of mint should work.
Cheers, Elcaset On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:59 PM, King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness http://kde.org/ Free Lossless Audio Codec https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
