DVD playback working only after commercial Software installation?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:35:00PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> 
> In order to check whether the drive had some defect, I then booted into
> Windows, installed the "PowerDVD5" software bundled with the laptop, and
> found everything worked.
> The really strange thing was that when I retried libdvdcss2 afterwards
> the read errors were gone. It appears that the installation of the
> Windows software changed something in the player's firmware.

This is a common problem.  You have to set the region once before you
can use your DVD drive.  You can achieve this under Linux with the
regionset tool.

Diego

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