[P1] OT - iBook DVD localizations

[Angus Wallace]

My understanding is that open-source DVD software, because it was
written by reverse-engineering the DVD standard, ignores DVD regions.
Therefore, you could try using one of them. (I don't know what the legal
status is - it probably varies from country to country).

One I recommend is ogle. It runs on Linux, but I don't know if it runs
on mac osx. Another popular one is xine.

If you want to try these, you should use 'fink', which is a project to
port open source software to mac osx. 

Good luck,
-Angus

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:09, B G wrote:
> This is built into the drive firmware, I have a
> Toshiba in my ibook, it will auto reset to whatever
> region your DVD is. after 3 reset the fourth one is
> permanent. I don't know if there is a work-around,
> legal or otherwise.
> 
> 
> --- Alexandre Leroux <alexandre at leroux.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > My brother works in Korea while I live in Canada. He
> > sent me DVDs. My 
> > new iBook G4 told me I could change the "region"
> > setting only a very 
> > limited number of times. Euh... is there a legal
> > workaround to do a 
> > "reset" ?
> > 
> > Sometimes, intellectual property owners make ackward
> > things.
> > 
> > Thanks for any clue :-)
> > 
> > A|ex
> > 
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