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2 dvd drives, different regions?
I know with laptops I've had apparently I could change the region it
plays up to 4 times if I've understood that right. With a pc, running Windows 7 or XP or in one case Ubuntu Linux 10.04, would it be possible to add a second DVD drive and set it to region 1 where my current one is region 2 (I'm in the UK)? In Device Manager I imagine? Or will the operating system only allow one region or something like that? This would be great for some things I and my friend can't track down in region 2. |
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2 dvd drives, different regions?
On 2/17/2011 5:57 PM, poachedeggs wrote:
I know with laptops I've had apparently I could change the region it plays up to 4 times if I've understood that right. With a pc, running Windows 7 or XP or in one case Ubuntu Linux 10.04, would it be possible to add a second DVD drive and set it to region 1 where my current one is region 2 (I'm in the UK)? In Device Manager I imagine? Or will the operating system only allow one region or something like that? This would be great for some things I and my friend can't track down in region 2. There is a lovely little free program floating about the net which will decrypt virtually any DVD and in the process it happens to de-region it. The program looks a bit clunky and hasn't been updated in a few years but I know it is still out there and can recommend it for making "backups" of DVDs. |
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2 dvd drives, different regions?
You can set 2 DVD to different regions in one system..
and you can look for DVDshrink which can be used for backing up those large movie DVD to a size that fits on a regular DVD and it takes the region code out as well as the decription method. its a free program thats a little old but it still works. peter If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "poachedeggs" wrote in message ... I know with laptops I've had apparently I could change the region it plays up to 4 times if I've understood that right. With a pc, running Windows 7 or XP or in one case Ubuntu Linux 10.04, would it be possible to add a second DVD drive and set it to region 1 where my current one is region 2 (I'm in the UK)? In Device Manager I imagine? Or will the operating system only allow one region or something like that? This would be great for some things I and my friend can't track down in region 2. |
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2 dvd drives, different regions?
poachedeggs wrote:
I know with laptops I've had apparently I could change the region it plays up to 4 times if I've understood that right. With a pc, running Windows 7 or XP or in one case Ubuntu Linux 10.04, would it be possible to add a second DVD drive and set it to region 1 where my current one is region 2 (I'm in the UK)? In Device Manager I imagine? Or will the operating system only allow one region or something like that? This would be great for some things I and my friend can't track down in region 2. Apparently, you can get versions of firmware which are region free. The region free one probably wasn't released by the manufacturer, but is carefully hacked by dedicated hackers. There are people who work on such things full time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPC1 http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/rpc1.htm There is also mention here, that Windows keeps some info about the drive too. http://www.pcreview.co.uk/articles/h...e_region_free/ So it can be defeated in hardware. Then you can stuff any ole media in there you want. The worst that could happen is, well, you could brick your drive. So if it is worth being region free to you, on one of your drives, then give it a bash. I've flashed firmware on my drives, but never to do a region free hack (I don't have a movie collection). On newer drives the flashing tools are pretty good. On older drive, it was picky, you had to make a boot disk, or actually plug the drive into a different port, etc, etc. One of the forums dealing with optical drives, may have more info on the details of the various flashing tools. Paul |
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2 dvd drives, different regions?
John McGaw wrote:
On 2/17/2011 5:57 PM, poachedeggs wrote: I know with laptops I've had apparently I could change the region it plays up to 4 times if I've understood that right. With a pc, running Windows 7 or XP or in one case Ubuntu Linux 10.04, would it be possible to add a second DVD drive and set it to region 1 where my current one is region 2 (I'm in the UK)? In Device Manager I imagine? Or will the operating system only allow one region or something like that? This would be great for some things I and my friend can't track down in region 2. There is a lovely little free program floating about the net which will decrypt virtually any DVD and in the process it happens to de-region it. The program looks a bit clunky and hasn't been updated in a few years but I know it is still out there and can recommend it for making "backups" of DVDs. In linux you can play any region on one dvd drive from my understanding you need libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm. another way around the problem is to get your self a video capture card and hook up a multiregion dvd player to it. this is a better solution as this is the solution i use. but my linux os can play dvds as well. |
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