[vdr] Re: Some DVD plugin questions...

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Friday 09 August 2002 14:37, Luca Merega wrote:
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> From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] On Behalf
> Of Andreas Schultz
> Sent: venerd́ 9 agosto 2002 15.01
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> Subject: [vdr] Re: Some DVD plugin questions...
>
> >Most region code problems are related to RPC-2 drives. But could please
>
> be a
>
> >bit more specific about what problems you have with region codes?
>
> Sure :)
> My drive is RPC1 (I'm sure about it, I used it with my Win-machine and I
> never had to change the region code to play DVDs). It's an Hitachi
> GD2500BX.
> Each time I play a region x DVD, I obtain a screen saying I am not
> allowed to watch it.
> Only region-free DVDs play correctly.
> I tried to change the region in the DVD menu of VDR with no result :(
>
> Ideas?

It's most probably the control code on your dvd that tries to detect wether 
your player is region code free or not.
I'll need a bit more information to come up with a solution. Please activate 
the "#define VMDEBUG" in ogle-dvd.h, make clean, make, run vdr with stderr 
and stdout redirected to a file "./vdr > logfile 2>&1" and send me the 
result.

Andreas

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