[vlc] Re: VLC - Mac OS X

[Ian Robert Douglas]

David,

Can you provide a product name and number for the drive in the iBook?  
(Open Apple System Profiler and under "Devices and Volumes" you should 
be able to find a Product Identification number and Vendor 
Indentification).

This would help us know if the iBook is RCP-1 or RCP-2.  TiBook Combo 
Drives—Matshita CW-8121 combo drives—are RCP-2, which means that 
they're firmware locked.  RCP-1 can be gotten around with software 
hacks, or clients that reset the region counter, or circumvent it.

I was lead to believe that vlc allows people with locked RCP-2 drives 
to play DVDs from different regions without changing the region setting 
of the drive.  I'll let the list know when I come across a DVD from a 
different region, if indeed vlc lives up to that.

IRD


On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:22  AM, 
david.anderson at laposte.net wrote:

> On my daughter's iBook (10.2.1, combo) she can play DVDs from 
> different regions without having to change the region coding of the 
> drive -- but this doesn't work on my tiBook (10.2.1, different combo 
> drive). I've tried each of the key/title/disk methods, but no luck.
>
> --david

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