[NTLUG:Discuss] Fluendo has legal DVD player for sale, DVD units may have the flu though

[Daniel Hauck]

Region coding is set in the hardware of the DVD drive.  I have run into
problems with clearing or setting to region 0 to make a drive region
free where some playback software or even recording software did not
want to make use of a drive set this way.

Another approach is to set the RPC drive type to RPC-1.  Somehow that
has the same effect as switching to region 0.

I personally require region free drive access since I regularly use
region 1 and region 2 DVDs.  (My wife is Japanese and we're trying to
teach our son both Japanese and English)  Besides that, I hate region
coding.  Some people think it's a form of censorship but that's not
true.  It is a price control device enabling the same movie to be sold
at different prices in different markets.  Some nations have legislated
that region codes are illegal and do not allow region coded players to
be sold in their borders.  (So buying a DVD player or other such thing
from one of those nations would give you a region free player legally)


(2009年07月04日 07:17), Chris Cox さんは書きました:
> Just an fyi.  Fluendo, the folks that are bringing you weird stuff like
> mp3 support and the ability to watch DVDs have released their own DVD
> player, fluendo-dvd.  It's a non-free player for Linux.
> 
> However, it plays by the rules.
> 
> What this means is that, if you have NOT installed Windows on your
> platform, you might have a non-region encoded DVD unit.  And the fluendo
> player will NOT work until the region code is somehow set.  Just fyi.
> 
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