Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Norbert Zeh [2009 Mar 27 12:53 -0500]: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. > > Thierry > > And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? Is it possible to determine i

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 00:45 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > > Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > only from amazon, USA or UK. > > For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code >

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other Region > Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I cannot use. There are several ways to do that: 1 - use `regionset'. But this can only be used 5 times. 2 - change your DVD's firmware (there's a web site

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 01:19:35AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >> >> On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. >>> me to [snip] > > So, it appears that this proprietary and restric

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > So, it appears that this proprietary and restrictive Regions Code thing is > absolute, and cannot be got around, and I apparently just have to accept > that the video companies don't want us to watch their DVD's here in > Australia. If you have

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:34:50 +0100 Thierry Chatelet wrote: [105 lines trimmed] > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. You have added exactly one line; please trim messages when replying. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) e

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 18:50:28 Norbert Zeh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. > > Thierry > > And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? > > - Norbert Not yet! Thie

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Ashley
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:15 -0400, Frank wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Bret Busby: > > > > > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > > > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > > > > > Are these movie players able

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. > Thierry And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 17:19:35 Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > >> > >> Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > >> on

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Frank
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Bret Busby: > > > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > > > Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > > Region Codes, or

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bret Busby: > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes? The region code is not

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have th

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
> @ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region > p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD > dri This may not help much if he also wants to play Australian DVD's, as they would then have the wrong region code, and I am not sure whether you can switch region codes at will.

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > > Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > only from amazon, USA or UK. > > For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code > thing, appare

DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code thing, apparently designed to stop Australian audiovisual DVD playe