Re: [xine-user] recommend a dvd-drive

[James <ja...@pi...>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:33:42AM +0200, Siggi Langauf wrote:
| On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
| 
| > No it cannot. If it could, we would have done that already.
| > I have not checked into how the DVD-ROM hardware detects which region
| > the disk is from, but currently, the region needs setting manually for
| > RCE( Region Check Enharnacement) DVDs.
| 
| Hummm, that's right, but aren't RCE DVDs always Region 0?
| So it should be possible to auto-set xine's region for any DVDs that are
| not region 0 (and therefore can't be RCE)...

I have an early Creative DVD 6x drive which is Region 0. When I used
windows I had to run a special program before playing my region 1
DVDs, the drive itself didn't care.

I assume Xine does some magic to fool the DVDs* since I can play Region
1 and 2 DVDs without doing anything special.

* Not that the DVDs themselves contain any intelligence (they're just
containers for information), it's the player (and the drive) that
decides whether to play a DVD or not, isn't it?

| But Maybe I got it wrong, I don't really know much about DVDs ;-)

You just help write a media player that's mostly used for watching DVDs
:-)

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