Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-17 Thread Chandhee Thala
> > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. > > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) > since I can play US DVDs with VLC . That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgradi

vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-16 Thread Chandhee Thala
Hello, I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error and quits. I have no problems with foreign DVDs (fro

finding nat'd IP address?

2007-04-09 Thread Chandhee Thala
if i connect to the net with a cable modem or some other device that uses NAT and gives me a private IP addresses, what is the most "Elegant" way to get my real IP? (assume that the device itself will not let me have it). I can go to some site that gives the visitor their ip address and screen sc