DVD playback and regional code

English Multimedia
#1

Hi,

I have problems with playing DVDs under Opensuse 11.1 (KDE4.2.2, 32 bit).

I installed all codecs (including libdvdcss), followed all guides and I’am also member of the groups “audio”, “disk” and “cdrom”

I think I have a problem with the regional code:

Fight Club (Regional code 2): Kaffeine shows something like “Ihre Eingabe konnte nicht geöffnet werden:
VLC kann die MRL ‘dvd:///dev/sr0’ nicht öffnen.”

LOST (season 3) (Regional code 2): Here, K9copy and kaffeine have the problem that they do not react (cpu usage up to 50%). No error message.

LOST (season 3, bonus disc) (Regional code 2): same as for the other LOST disc

Die Tiefseetaucher (The life aquatic) (regional code 2): The menu, to choose the language appears, afterwards the german notes, that you should not copy the movies appears and then it stops.

Rene Marik “Autschn” (didn’t find a regional code): Works!

Solaris from TV magazine (didn’t find a regional code): Works!

Now I tried the not working DVDs again with an external DVD drive:

Fight Club: Works with external drive!

LOST (season 3): not working. error messing the DVD is scrambled and I should install libdvdcss. Strange!

LOST (season 3, bonus disc): Works with external drive!

Die Tiefseetaucher (The life aquatic): Works with external drive!

Has my notebook (DELL precision M4400) problems with the regional code?
How can I see which regional code is adjusted? In case that it is not regional code 2, how can I change it?
Does somebody know something about regional code problems?

Greetings

Michael

#2

Seem to have 2 ways either do the dvd PackMan :: Package details for regionpatcher
Or the player if player can’t find an rpm… Also read this page and note 5 times.
LinVDR

#3

Thanks for your answer FeatherMonkey :)!

But I think, I’am to stupid for it :(.

I installed regionpatcher, but when I try to start it in the console, I’am getting following answer: “Unable to fetch info from the VIDEO_TS dir, aborting…”
I have been also in the root folder and tried “regionpatcher -f media/LO30EUT4/” But I had no success.

I have the same problem with regionset:
“regionset /media/LO30EUT4” ends up with "regionset version 0.2-de – liest/setzt den Region Code von DVD-Laufwerken
FEHLER: Konnte nicht auf Laufwerk “/media/LO30EUT4” zugreifen!
Beachten Sie, es muss eine lesbare CD oder DVD im Laufwerk liegen.

I also tried out a second DVD (Solaris).
Where is my mistake regarding the path?

Greetings

Michael

#4

Solved!

When using only “regionset” and not entering a path, I was able to see my regionalcode: there was non regionalcode installed. I set the regionalcode to “2”.
Now, I’am able to watch the above mentioned DVDs :slight_smile:

Thanks and Greetings

Michael

P.S.: Only one DVD is still refusing collaboration: the one LOST DVD, but here, I have no the same result as for the external DVD drive.

#5

Glad you solved it never had to deal with it but had come across regionset along my travels. Strange there wasn’t a rpm or did you find one?

#6

I used the rpm from “http://linvdr.org/download/regionset/”
It worked.
In the bash (console) you have to be root before you can enter “regionset”

Greetings

Michael

#7

Sorry didn’t look there, just did a webpin search. Guess that’ll help someone else in the future.

#8

you brought me on the right way ;). Thanks

Michael