Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 08:37:30 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@feniz.gank.org> To: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs Message-ID: <20070504133730.GA24271@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <7ad7ddd90705040203n40620advb8292c1afea7646b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070503181646.GA1527@roadrunner.q.local> <20070503150931.G35420@thor.farley.org> <20070503220704.GA1483@roadrunner.q.local> <463A62C9.2010707@samsco.org> <7ad7ddd90705040203n40620advb8292c1afea7646b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:03:12AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > I don't know the code, but it looks like this Plextor and cd(4) don't > get along when DVD copy protection is involved. I also read in the > OpenBSD 4.1 release notes, that they made changes to their cd(4) to > work better with region protected DVDs. I didn't know that the OS was > involved in this, I thought this was a thing left to the drive > firmware or the DVD player software. This is a new drive, correct? It's possible that the firmware has never been told what region it's in, and is refusing to read any protected discs from outside its region (which would be all of them). Unfortunately I don't know a way other than booting proprietary operating systems to see what region a drive is set to and/or change it. Not to say there isn't one, just that I don't know what it is. Note that most drives these days have a limited number of times they will set the region before the firmware refuses to change it anymore. HTH, Craig
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