[Preston] dvd playing under linux

[Richard Wellstead]

On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 19:08, Richard Revis wrote:
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> On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 6:31 pm, Richard Wellstead wrote:
> > Just out of interest... do you need the region hack? I have a
> > LiteOn DVD drive and although there is a hack available and I
> > couldn't play anything but R2 DVDs in Windows, I can play any under
> > linux...! I was very pleased when I discovered that...
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> The pioneer drivers are locked in hardware. However, I am about to
> try flashing them so wish me luck!
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Mine are locked in hardware too... Maybe its the player I'm using 
(MPlayer), but i thought it was the libdvdread and libdvdcss libraries 
that allow you to use any region DVD... I have set up a friends pc with 
Linux a few weeks back and he can also play any region DVD under linux. 
He has an obscure make and model of DVD drive and we couldn't find a 
patch for his drive... he'd used up the five or so firmware region 
changes that the drive would do as well...

Oh well, maybe we're lucky...

Regards,

 Richard