[Preston] dvd playing under linux

[Richard Wellstead]

On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 20:33, Jim Skelton wrote:
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 6:31 pm, you 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...
>
> 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).

Yup, they are both RPC2 firmware locked and still work 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 others?

Quiet as you like... LiteOn 16x DVD drive.. should be just under £30 at 
the computer fair... which incedently is on this Sunday at the 
College...

Richard