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DVD drives limited re foreign encodings?
Authored by: sam on Jul 04, '02 04:28:04AM

To read and decrypt DVDs, VLC uses the libdvdcss library which does not care about the region code (unlike most commercial players). It should play all DVDs, whatever you drive's region is.



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foreign encodings dont work
Authored by: jsil on Jul 04, '02 01:53:42PM

That should be the case, but it isn't.
I tried to play a Japanese encoded dvd (region 2), and the menu nav didn't work, and the audio was just static.

the video did work, but you had to navigate to the different sections using the load disk function and then select the sections using the "title" selector.

Just as an aside, the dvd played fine using apple's dvd player.



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