Does VLC play multi region dvd's?
My dvd player is currently on the fritz, and today an Amazon box has arrived with a few US dvd's, now I want to get to watching them, but they won't play in my Mac dvd player as I haveit set to Region 4. Will VLC play them?
(thought I would ask before I get home and test it out anyway).
(thought I would ask before I get home and test it out anyway).
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Anyone know of getting around this as I don't want to change the region setting on my dvd player. Are there any third party dvd player apps out there that will help me out?
Originally posted by Ebby
*cough* MacTheRipper *cough*
Yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah... thats a bit of a hass. I have a stack of US dvd's, and I don't want to have to rip them all to watch them on my Mac... oh well, guess I'll put a challenge out to some developer, tell them this is what I want and the first one to make a region free dvd player for Mac can name it after themselves.
Am really cracking it, I just want to watch my deev's!
I just think its a shame that someone who is legally obtaining content has to pay the price to "protect content against piracy". Why should the paying customer suffer? Surely they could have come up with a better solution, though I fear the next gen HDDVDs and Blu-Ray Discs are going to be far worse
Boycott in progress.
Originally posted by Ebby
Well the high-def players don't have region coding, but a big yes on other nasty technology. From down-resing non preferred outputs, to self-destructing software updates.
Boycott in progress.
I thought that while the tech was there to downsample on non-HDMI outputs, the movie studios had decided not to do that, at least for the moment.
Originally posted by Ebby
Yea, but that can change whenever they want. The only reason it is not in use today is because they want to get you hooked first. How thoughtful of them.
But the way I understand it, that's enabled on-disc. So if you buy the movies today, they will never have that option enabled. It's just the movies that are released and/or manufacturer in the future that will have the restriction. Not that I'm rushing out to buy the players either, though.