Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Linton
I could not compile regionset out of the box. I had to change line 37 in dvd_udf.c to FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD. zap... #if defined(__FreeBSD__) zap... The bad thing: regionset is not working; I get following output: kingkong# ./regionset ERROR: Could not open disc (null)! Please place

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-18 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:25:53AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ah, good to know! So does this mean that if I already switched between region 1 and region 2 DVDs 100+ times, that the drive has already been flashed to RPC1 by the vendor? The drives I've dealt with seem to have a bit of

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. -Garrett Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair G. Hogge Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:29 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: I don't think that region coding

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:28:37PM +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region coding at all in order to play DVDs in

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:32:07AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yes, most are. Search the Internet with google, there's many websites that have patched firmware that locks out the region coding. One of the first things I do when buying a new DVD is to flash it with patched firmware that

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. Aren't

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of cpghost Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:06 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Garrett Cooper; Alastair G. Hogge; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive On Mon, Oct 17

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33

RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Linton
-0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
thanks in advance, Thomas. On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 01:29 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: mplayer works (beside the sound, but this is a different problem). xine, ogle and totem are not working on my box. If I boot winXP and look at the properties of the DVD Drive it says region code

Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-16 Thread Thomas Linton
Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 16, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require