Hi all, I recall some time back on the list talk of tools to report and strip the DVD region encoding on a DVD.
One user came up with one to report the region encoding being used by a particular DVD, located at http://busy-bee.net/files/show_region.txt Last night I had the need to strip a DVD's region encoding and after scouring the mail archives and Google, came up with none. So this morning I wrote a very simple one (my first C++ program): /* File: dvd_region_free.cpp A tool to force a DVD to be region code free Author: Rick Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installation: Run `g++ dvd_region_free.cpp -o dvd_region_free` to compile, then `cp dvd_region_free /usr/bin/dvd_region_free` Usage: /usr/bin/dvd_region_free /path/to/VIDEO_TS.IFO */ #include <iostream> using namespace std; #include <fstream> int main(int argc, char** argv) { if( argc != 2 ) { fprintf( stderr, "Usage: %s VIDEO_TS.IFO\n", argv[0] ); return -1; } fstream File (argv[1], ios::in | ios::out | ios::binary); if(! File) { cerr << "File does not exist!\n"; exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } File.seekp (35); // Seek to region code byte ready to write char buffer[1] = ""; File.write (buffer, 1); // Zero the byte File.close(); } Or if your mail client wraps weirdly, can be downloaded here http://mightylegends.org/dvd/dvd_region_free.cpp Simply seeks to the 35th byte in VIDEO_TS.IFO and over-writes it with a zero byte. Each of the 8-bits of the 35th byte represent one region, so if the user really wants to modify this they could also use it to create their own region encoded discs by flipping the relevant bits. Hope someone finds it useful. Cheers, Rick
