As I can't be bothered with finding hacked firmware and my new Samsung M40plus notebook - it has Teac d/l multi DVD burner - I'd like to know whether there's any good free DVD region fooling application/driver. I know there are sharewares like AnyDVD and etc. but I'd rather try the free stuff before I make the decision. I need something that can intercept the call on-the-fly and fool the DVD drive that its region setting has been changed to play - I have extensive collection of RC1,2,4 DVD collections... TIA
is it driver? I need something that works behind so when I fire up PowerDVD and what not for DVD playback don't asked to change the region of DVD drive...
I can change regions in the properties of the DVD drive whenever I need to. Plus Ihave hardware DVD player, not powerdvd, so that might also let me play dvds from other regions.
You sure about that? You can change the region on most computer DVD players something like five or six times, but after that it gets locked to whatever you last changed it to. Yours may be different, but you should check into it to make sure, so that you don't use up all your region changes and get stuck. dj898, as far as I know there are no freeware region defeaters, which is sort of odd since there's freeware versions of just about everything else in the world. Your only options are try out the shareware ones and then buy them or go with outright warez as Evangelion-01 suggested. ...word is bondage...
Anydvd is a great program, any region, stips out the css keys, lets you foward through the dvd intro screens and copy warnings. It's now illegal for them to sell, so it's unsellable and no longer sold (in usa) http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html send me a im if interested.
Even better, if you don't mind switching programs, videolan is free and plays any region disc WITHOUT changing your firmwares region, using a behind driver, or remastering the disc. Plus it also does an AMAZING job of deinterlacing. Just set it to blend and it looks VERY nice. Give it a shot @ videolan.org ^^; Its free and open source AND multi platform, what have you got to loose ^^;.
Hmmm. I didn't know that. I know that DVD rom drives made before August 1999 have the ability to continously have the region changed as many times as possible and some don't even have a region lockout until the DVD committee started to enforce region lock outs. I have a 4x Pioneer DVDRom drive made back july 1999 but I don't use that, I have a NEC DVDRW drive and have only changed the settings a few times.
Heheheh, my standalone DVD player lets me do that, and it's also set on "Region 9" :-D Plus it does DivX/XviD and most MPEG1/2 just stuck on a disc (i.e. not put into VCD/DVD format) Best 65 quid I ever spent!
Unfortunately it doesn't appear that this program allows region-free DVD playback. It has a link to a suggested program, though.
It's a Yamada DVD-6500X - I don't know if it's sold in the US, but there are identical models under different brands, and any other DVD player using the Zoran Vaddis 776 chipset (see here for a list) should have similar capabilities (though different manufacturers can enable/disable things like the ability to change the region and turn off macrovision).
Maybe its a cheapo chinese one like mine. Best £30 ive spent does everything apart from subtitles on dvix files :-( Cheapo skyworth player.
So, as long as it has that chipset it can play mpgs without having it to be VCD or SVCD format? I found one that has the chipset you mentioned. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1504265&Sku=A130-1004&SRCCODE=GOOPROD&CMP=OTC-FROOGLE
Well the chipset is definately capable of doing this - but for whatever reason it's possible it could be disabled on that player (but it wouldn't make sense why they would). I haven't tried that much MPEG1/2 stuff but I've used a lot of XviD/DivX that works fine on it, and subtitles too!
btw , even if your dvd is region free, it wont play because software has protection too. just download what i told you, it works with every single player and it "auto" changes region, or it tells the player it did , is kinda like dvd genie, but better.
