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