Defeat the region code
23:10 Thursday 5 Jul 07
I have the Director’s Cut of Leon and it’s Region 1. Most of the other DVD’s are Region 2. I’ll admit I’ve not looked (it’s late, work to do etc) but if anyone does know of a tried and trusted way to make the DVD drive forget all about that region encoding nonsense then such knowledge would be most useful. If I do find later I’ll post back.
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So, I looked. As the macs I have are new, I have no chance it seems. Steve Jobs and Co. are eager to make sure that mac users get no leeway at all. Why do people believe this stops piracy? It doesn’t.
PC : 1
Mac : zero
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There was a firmware update you could apply to bypass the region coding, does this not work with the intel Macs?
10:06 Friday 6 Jul 07
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From reading last night, no. It’s deemed uncrackable in a couple of mac forums I visited. I’m going to hunt around more over the weekend.
10:34 Friday 6 Jul 07
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I *think* vlc doesn’t care about regions, and will play back everything…
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
11:35 Friday 6 Jul 07
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AJ as far as I know VLC doesn’t care but the drives in the new Intel machines (since mid 2006 I *think*) do so it is no longer a solution.
11:50 Friday 6 Jul 07
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Neasen has it – there are 2 checks apparently. The first check is okay when the disc is looked at, the second kills the process.
Looks like I’m buying Leon for the 3rd time.
11:52 Friday 6 Jul 07
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Rip it and re-encode it on your PC using DVDShrink, then burn it to DVD-R with Nero. DVDShrink will remove the region coding whilst re-encoding, making it completely region-free.
15:24 Friday 6 Jul 07