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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:37:55 +0200
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive
Message-ID:  <20051017073755.GA21059@epia2.farid-hajji.net>
In-Reply-To: <200510171728.37642.agh@tpg.com.au>
References:  <1129454915.5695.6.camel@lrl> <73E44C2A-4236-422D-885A-2D6B843A4D21@u.washington.edu> <200510171728.37642.agh@tpg.com.au>

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:28:37PM +1000, 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.
> > -Garrett
> Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restricted thou? Does mplayer get 
> around that?

FWIW, I'm playing here region 1 and region 2 (and of course regionless)
DVDs with mplayer on a Plextor PX-708A without any problems at all.
No need to switch region codes or anything like that at all. This is
a non-issue AFAICS.

Regards,
-cpghost.

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