Re: [PLUG] Play Region 2 DVDs

["Rich Mingin \(PLUG\) via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Generally Linux DVD playback has defeated RPC-1 (software-based) region coding as a matter of routine. You simply fail to implement it, done.

RPC-2 also involved the DVD drive firmware, but was similarly trivial to bypass. Most RPC-2 drives could be put into an RPC-1 compliant mode by selecting a special region reserved for airline media systems and other multi/non-national areas.

Once you get RPC out of the way, it's all pretty straightforward. If you run into any headaches at all, I'd suggest grabbing makemkv. It can very easily place-shift your new media from the silver frisbees to nice standard Matroska files, with no loss of quality and little to no loss of functionality/content.

Give me a shout if you run into any snags.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:53 PM Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Has anyone had any experience playing DVDs on their computer that are
NOT region 1 (North America)?

I'm thinking of buying a DVD set of "Star Cops" the late 80's BBC SF
series.  It's not available in Region 1, but can be purchased from eBay
for Region 2 (Europe).

I think VLC on Linux will decode them just fine, but I thought I'd see
if anyone has actual experience doing so.

Any stores anyone wants to share?

TIA

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