Re: DVD player refusing to play in 10.3.9

On Tue, 13 May 2008 23:53:15 +0100, hylton.boothroyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hylton Boothroyd) wrote:

>Can a drive with specs
>
>  Model:    MAT****A CD-RW CW-8123
>  Revision: CA0T
>  Drive Type:   CD-RW/DVD-ROM
>  Disc Burning: Apple Sup****ted/****pped
>
>be expected to play a French film on a commercial DVD?
>
>The specs are for the CD/DVD that came in a G4 PowerBook with 10.3, now
>at 10.3.9.
>
>When I insert the DVD I can see that there is an audio folder and a
>video folder on the disk (which means it's being looked at as data).
>
>But the DVD Player promptly terminates when I launch it.

Normal behaviour for a drive that is region locked to a different
region is a popup saying just that, so there's something wrong
happening here.

>I would be grateful for any pointers -- software, limits to region
>switching ... thanks

Try VLC. That won't get past a firmware locked to the wrong region,
but reads any DVD region and won't check in software.

Although
http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dvd_region_free_en_article30.html
implies that actually it will. Try and see!

	Cheers - Jaimie
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