I would like to play a region 1 dvd on my region 2 dvd rewriter drive. My drive is a Lite-On DVDRW S0HW-012S rewriter. I have mounted the disk, but when I try to play the video files, I get errors as follows: mplayer *.vob Playing vts_01_0.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_01_1.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_01_2.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_01_3.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_01_4.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_02_0.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_02_1.vob. Seek failed Playing vts_03_1.vob. Seek failed Presumably this is due to the region code not matching the region of my drive (I am in the United Kingdom.) Is there a way to play this disk? Mark. -- Mark Hobley 393 Quinton Road West QUINTON Birmingham B32 1QE Email: markhobley at hotpop dot donottypethisbit com http://markhobley.yi.org/

Mark Hobley staggered into the Black Sun and said: > I would like to play a region 1 dvd on my region 2 dvd rewriter drive. > My drive is a Lite-On DVDRW S0HW-012S rewriter. > > I have mounted the disk, but when I try to play the video files, I get > Playing vts_01_0.vob. Seek failed [snip] > Presumably this is due to the region code not matching the region of > my drive (I am in the United Kingdom.) Is there a way to play this > disk? Region coding is implemented in the drive's firmware. I've heard that many DVD+-RWs have alternate firmware that totally ignores regions. Some DVD-ROM machines had special codes you could use to turn off region coding as well, like the old Apex players and the "you should not be here" menu. It might be useful to Google://"S0HW-012S firmware region" and see what you can find. -- Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA. Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see

Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de> wrote: > You don't mount a DVD to play it. You just tell the video player > which DVD device to use. Using the libdvdread library (which > will use the libdvdcss to decrypt the DVD) the DVD is read in > raw mode and the video stream then delivered to the video > player. Can I do this across a network? The computer with the DVD drive is remote, and has no graphical display. I currently mount the drive, and access the content via a network share. Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hobley 393 Quinton Road West QUINTON Birmingham B32 1QE Email: markhobley at hotpop dot donottypethisbit com http://markhobley.yi.org/