[MPlayer-users] how does mplayer circumvent region protected (RPC-2) DVD drives?

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:38:38 +0200
Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex at apartia.org> wrote:

> How does mplayer circumvent this restriction? Does it read the DVD files
> in DVD-Rom mode instead of DVD player mode?

This is done by libdvdread, i dont think the developers here know
that code to it's heart
 
> PS: any idea how to not increment the counter under Windows? Region-free
> firmware for this drive hasn't been released yet.

[X] You want to get regio free patch for your dvd firmware
Beware: this may be illegal in your country, but then,
watching dvd under linux is illegal anyways :-/

		Attila Kinali
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