From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 17:02:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B0A16A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:02:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E347343D75 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:02:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 18572 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2005 17:02:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.187.172.172]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Oct 2005 17:02:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:02:50 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Message-ID: <20051017190250.33ead763@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20051017102039.133e528b@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc X-Face: `PhZA=Lxak@TtN(1g, #<&MCpy@&]f<.#LD|V?.7uN7(:.RP/8s&S, oWJtD[Xd4(_YsBm?fGC OLJGk9OysbMQE%?&$, M[odvx9[[`'F\@JjAC@w4X6/-Gr^apr)f''exvwLOUalUW?~>frSC-Y]0v9, U4"Hz]~H&ZP%S1YJV@MfDIDu2>cw~wMiCW#9PY: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Mon__17_Oct_2005_19_02_50_+0200_Koa3pTKRu25iyxJ.; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:02:17 -0000 --Signature_Mon__17_Oct_2005_19_02_50_+0200_Koa3pTKRu25iyxJ. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote: > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fabian Keil > >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive > > > > > >"Alastair G. Hogge" wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. > >> > But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't > >> > require region coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. > > > >> Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restricted thou? Does > >> mplayer get around that? > > > >The firmware restriction only works in combination with the software. > > > >If you are making a DVD player and want a license to descramble CSS, > >you have to sign that you also implement the user restrictions. > > > >If you descramble CSS without license (like mplayer does), > >you don't have to. > > >=20 > However, most DVD rom manufacturers that I have seen go ahead and > implement the user restrictions that the MPAA wants (ie: region codes) > anyway, even on bare drives sold primariarly for data useage. AFAIK all manufactures signed the agreement to get the CSS license. I don't know one modern DVD drive, which doesn't support CSS. But if the software doesn't play along, the user restrictions don't work.=20 If you watch DVDs with mplayer and transcode with mencoder you don't have to care which restrictions your drive supports in theory. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Signature_Mon__17_Oct_2005_19_02_50_+0200_Koa3pTKRu25iyxJ. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDU9lNjV8GA4rMKUQRAvYiAJ0T/WvPH6ftEC9yv+ZWA7XM1/vOiACeLRx5 nspzqVWjZhRs1rJofUnpF+o= =AEhn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__17_Oct_2005_19_02_50_+0200_Koa3pTKRu25iyxJ.--