[SC.LUG] DVD fun

[Simeon W Farrington]

Try again, with the correct address :)

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 23:56 +0000, Simeon W Farrington wrote:
> Hi Andrew
> 
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:19 +0000, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Probably completely unrelated but I have had similar problems when the region 
> > code is unset on a DVD drive (some drives are factory shipped like this).  If 
> > this is the case there is a util in Debain to set it easily.  Can't remember 
> > what it is called but it is quite logical and easy to find in APT.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Andrew
> > 
> Hmm, now that's interesting because the drive is region free (all a
> horrible accident where I downloaded the firmware and accidently applied
> it etc etc :p)
> 
> THe disc giving the errors is "universal" region and plays fine under
> windows, so if it is a scratch it's the linux software being much more
> picky about it.
> 
> MPlayer was fine in operation but it would have been nice to get to the
> other features on the disc :/
> 
> looking at google, the package appears to be "regionset" - so I concur
> with your description :)
> 
> Will have a play
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Simeon