Posted by littlejoeflub on 10/31/51 11:37

Hi,

I have a couple R2 dvds: Sopranos Season 2, and Robotix: The Movie that
I used to play on a legacy Apex 600A. Anyways I mostly watch dvds
either on my Xbox or an HP zt1130 notebook pc I bought about 4 or 5
years ago. I never bothered changing the Region Code on the laptop as
I have the Apex to watch R2, etc dvds on. It's still set for 4 Region
changes left.

Awhile ago I put dvd shrink 3.2, Media Player Classic, VLC Media
Player, and a bunch of other freeware video editing programs I found
through videohelp.com on my computer. I was suprised when I was able
to rip the R2 Robotix dvd using dvdshrink and figured that was my way
around changing the region coding on the laptop if I wanted to watch an
R2 dvd in either WinDVD 4 or RealPlayer instead of on my Apex 600A.

After using MPC for awhile I became fond of using it over RealPlayer as
my default media player and WinDVD for dvd playback. I don't even use
WMP 10 anymore and have Kerio set to block it from making any
outgoing/incoming connections.

Anyways, tonight I got the idea that if Media Player Classic was GNU
authored then maybe it didn't contain the coding software like WinDVD
or RealPlayer would have to prevent R2 dvds from playing on a pc
dvd-rom drive set for Region 1. I was happy to find it worked but I
was still skeptical so I also tried VLC Media Player, RealPlayer and
WinDVD 4 and they also played it without changing the region code from
R1 to R2. Now I'm stumped as to how a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2102 drive
would play an R2 dvd without changing the rregion code to match the
dvd. It's highly possible I might have installed one of those
software-based Region Coding fixes that were popular a few years ago
but I just can't remember. Is there any way to check and see if that
is in fact what I did?

Thanks,
Joe

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