[Preston] dvd playing under linux

[Richard Revis]

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On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:33 pm, Jim Skelton wrote:

> I think the way it worked was that the early DVD drives relyed on the
> software to do the region locking (I think this is known as the rpc1
> standard) as this was easy to work around later drives have the region
> locking in the firmware (RPC2).

Yes. FWIW I just flashed my pioneer drives (105s and 106s) sucessfully to b=
e=20
region free.

> How much noise do dvd drives make? I have a cheap 52x speed cddrive that
> sounds like a spindryer when it is running at full pelt. Do All DVD drives
> sound like this while playing movies or are some makes quieter than other=
s?

They are pretty quiet, even when being thrashed.

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