[vlc] Re: Playing DVD on Mac OS X

[Andrea Cogliati]

> From: "Zorik Shamish" <zoriksh at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: vlc at videolan.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:26:57 +0300
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Re: Playing DVD on Mac OS X
> 
> Hi,

Zorik,

Thank you for your answer.

> Did you have any success playing the Region 2 discs with other software?
> I'm not very familiar with Macs, but I did some research on PC DVD-ROM
> drives, and there are other issues you must take into considearion, like
> RPC-2 drives (e.g. locked zone).

Both my drives are RPC2, indeed. That's the main reason I'm trying to play
DVDs with vlc.

> I don't know whether VLC can play DVD's from one region on a drive that is
> set to another region - this might be indeed a hardware failure, and not
> software failure...

As far as I understand, libdvdcss should be able to decrypt a DVD regardless
of the region setting of the drive. Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't
work with certain drives.

> Zorik

THX,

Andrea

> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Andrea Cogliati" <AndreaC at gotech.it>
> Reply-To: vlc at videolan.org
> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
> Subject: [vlc] Playing DVD on Mac OS X
> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:02:09 +0200
> 
> Guys,
> 
> I'm trying to use vlc 0.6.1 to play DVDs from different regions (mainly
> region 1 and 2) on my Macs but I didn't have any success. My DVD players
> are set to region 1. When I try to play a region 2 DVD, I always get
> this error message:
> 
> main: failed allocating a new buffer (decoder stuck)?
> 
> I tried on a PowerBook G4 with UJ-815 player and on a iMac with
> GCA-4020B player.
> 
> I've read somewhere that this could be caused by the drive faling to
> provide access to DVD RAW data. Can someone confirm this? Is there any
> workaround?
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Andrea
> 
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