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hihat9 - Jul 20, 2005 - 2:55 pm
I there, I have question concerning DVD Region Codes on my Mac. Where I live DVDs are Region 4, but I went abroad and bought some Region 1 DVDs and the apple DVD player let me play them but there was a warning telling me that I now have 5 DVD region changes left. Is there something I can do to avoid a DVD region block on my mac?
Because of my work I travel a lot abroad and I want keep on buying DVDs anywhere in the world, and of course I want to be able to play them on my mac
Thanks
Because of my work I travel a lot abroad and I want keep on buying DVDs anywhere in the world, and of course I want to be able to play them on my mac
Thanks
philippe99 - Jul 20, 2005 - 3:32 pm
Paulo
Welcome on Macosx.com
(1) you can flash the firmware of you DVD drive to allow all regions to be played indefinitively.
But many of the Apple DVDs cannot. And it is a risky operation: if this failed, the drive is definitively out of use.
(2) You can use a ripper (for instance mac the ripper) to copy the DVD on your hard drive - and by the way freeing all the regions, removing encryptions, ...
The ripping process create a so-called VIDEO_TS folder containing the tracks of the DVD. You open this folder within Apple DVD Player or other soft like VLC to view it
(3) Moreover this video_ts folder can be put back on a DVD-R to be played in the drive or in a home dvd player
How ?
(3.1) One of the free solution.
a. Mac The Ripper will allow you to rip parts (or the enire) of DVD Movie onto your hard disk. It also help you to get rid of some protection.
b. DVDImager will create a burnable image of what macTheRipper had extracted
c. The Apple's DiskUtility (or Finder) burn utility will physically burn the DVD
However, if the rip DVDs is greater than 4.3GB, you'll be not be able to burnt it.
Note that MacTheRipper seems to fail -in certain circumstances- to get rid of of the so-called Sony ARCos protection
(3.2) the commecial solution:
PopCorn from Roxio (the creator of Toast) will extract some parts of the DVD and burn it.
If the rip parts size is gretaer than 4.3GB, Popcorn will compress the video (with a small quality downgrade) to fit the 4.3G limit size
Popcorn does not work on encrypted DVDS so that MacTheRipper will usefull too in this solution
Popcorn is around 80 $
You can see for instance www.ripdifferent.com for more details on ripping DVD
Hopes this help
Regards
Philippe
Welcome on Macosx.com
(1) you can flash the firmware of you DVD drive to allow all regions to be played indefinitively.
But many of the Apple DVDs cannot. And it is a risky operation: if this failed, the drive is definitively out of use.
(2) You can use a ripper (for instance mac the ripper) to copy the DVD on your hard drive - and by the way freeing all the regions, removing encryptions, ...
The ripping process create a so-called VIDEO_TS folder containing the tracks of the DVD. You open this folder within Apple DVD Player or other soft like VLC to view it
(3) Moreover this video_ts folder can be put back on a DVD-R to be played in the drive or in a home dvd player
How ?
(3.1) One of the free solution.
a. Mac The Ripper will allow you to rip parts (or the enire) of DVD Movie onto your hard disk. It also help you to get rid of some protection.
b. DVDImager will create a burnable image of what macTheRipper had extracted
c. The Apple's DiskUtility (or Finder) burn utility will physically burn the DVD
However, if the rip DVDs is greater than 4.3GB, you'll be not be able to burnt it.
Note that MacTheRipper seems to fail -in certain circumstances- to get rid of of the so-called Sony ARCos protection
(3.2) the commecial solution:
PopCorn from Roxio (the creator of Toast) will extract some parts of the DVD and burn it.
If the rip parts size is gretaer than 4.3GB, Popcorn will compress the video (with a small quality downgrade) to fit the 4.3G limit size
Popcorn does not work on encrypted DVDS so that MacTheRipper will usefull too in this solution
Popcorn is around 80 $
You can see for instance www.ripdifferent.com for more details on ripping DVD
Hopes this help
Regards
Philippe
hihat9 - Jul 20, 2005 - 4:44 pm
Isn't there a way to use another dvd player, like VLC? or is it just the same?
If it isn't way just to play as many DVDs from different region codes other than burn them I think is pretty stupid just to buy the legal ones.
I mean if I buy a burned DVD I won't have any problems playing it on my mac, and it's going to be much cheaper too (although I know I'm mot going to have the same image quality). What I'm trying to say is that DVDs manufacturers are making it hard for consumers to avoid violating copyright with these kind restrictions
If it isn't way just to play as many DVDs from different region codes other than burn them I think is pretty stupid just to buy the legal ones.
I mean if I buy a burned DVD I won't have any problems playing it on my mac, and it's going to be much cheaper too (although I know I'm mot going to have the same image quality). What I'm trying to say is that DVDs manufacturers are making it hard for consumers to avoid violating copyright with these kind restrictions
philippe99 - Jul 21, 2005 - 2:23 am
Yes, Paulo, I totally agree with you
VLC reads DVDs from other regions but I must admit I never use it in this way: the -other than Europe- region DVD I watch was rent DVDs; I prefer to rip them on my disc, watch them without any hurry for getting it back to the video store... that's how I start ripping DVDs.
Moreover, my previous external FW DVD burner on my G3 is slow, so to speed up the reading I ripp them to the disk
>DVDs manufacturers are making it hard for consumers to avoid
>violating copyright with these kind restrictions
(1) In Belgium, we have a tax on blank DVD-R/CD-R.. We have a tax on hard disk.
So I cannot freely backup my data of my drive to a DVD-R without giving money to major which have forced governements to create the tax on copyrights.
(2) In last January, my daugther buy a music CD she cannot play on its G3.
Writing to Sony, they claimed that such protectd Cds can only be played on home CD player or PC player: "Not on Mac sorry". Arguing the mac restriction was not explictly written on the cd's cover and sking them for a refund, they accept to give my daughter a 20 % voucher for her next purchase.
So, I launch Limewire....
So, I do not have any minded problem to rip DVD/CD to my disk.
Majors have not see the arrival of music/dvd store on the Web; they try to extract some money from this idea without being able to modify their distribution/renting/pricing way of working.
I cannot accept to pay all the time because their boards failed to anticipate the future !
Philippe
VLC reads DVDs from other regions but I must admit I never use it in this way: the -other than Europe- region DVD I watch was rent DVDs; I prefer to rip them on my disc, watch them without any hurry for getting it back to the video store... that's how I start ripping DVDs.
Moreover, my previous external FW DVD burner on my G3 is slow, so to speed up the reading I ripp them to the disk
>DVDs manufacturers are making it hard for consumers to avoid
>violating copyright with these kind restrictions
(1) In Belgium, we have a tax on blank DVD-R/CD-R.. We have a tax on hard disk.
So I cannot freely backup my data of my drive to a DVD-R without giving money to major which have forced governements to create the tax on copyrights.
(2) In last January, my daugther buy a music CD she cannot play on its G3.
Writing to Sony, they claimed that such protectd Cds can only be played on home CD player or PC player: "Not on Mac sorry". Arguing the mac restriction was not explictly written on the cd's cover and sking them for a refund, they accept to give my daughter a 20 % voucher for her next purchase.
So, I launch Limewire....
So, I do not have any minded problem to rip DVD/CD to my disk.
Majors have not see the arrival of music/dvd store on the Web; they try to extract some money from this idea without being able to modify their distribution/renting/pricing way of working.
I cannot accept to pay all the time because their boards failed to anticipate the future !
Philippe
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