Re: [tlug] DVD Region Issues

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Nicolas Limare  wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:38:04PM +0900, Darren Cook wrote:
>
> > The drive *firmware* prevents the *hardware* reading a disk that has a
> > region code that does not match what the drive has been set to
>
> Ubuntu doc about DVDs[1] says:
>
>     Most players (eg mplayer/vlc) with most DVD drives are able to
>     ignore the value of the region setting. 
>

This has certainly been my experience when playing or backing up DVDs in Linux. I've got a year-old ThinkPad, so the DVD drive must be region-"locked", and I've had no problems with Europe, US, or Asia discs.

--Josh

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Josh