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

[Kenneth Loafman]

Some, like the Apex drives, are settable in the firmware, and sometimes
can be region free, however, some DVD's will not play in region-free drives.

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> 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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