Win DVD region lock

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Win DVD region lock

Postby shinto » Sat Nov 16, 2002 4:39 pm

hi,

I use windvd to watch dvds on my pc. Most of my dvds are region 2 (as i am in england) but ive started getting region 1 dvds imported because we dont exactly have much anime available here. The problem is you can only change the region on windvd 5 times before it locks and you cant change it. Is there any way i can solve this problem or is there any dvd viewing software that allows you to view all regions forever?
thanx a lot for reading and please help me if you can
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Postby Zarxrax » Sat Nov 16, 2002 6:52 pm

If you rip the disc to your hard disk with SmartRipper, it will disable the region code. There's probably a better way to do it (so that you can actually watch from the disc) but I'm not sure.
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Postby klinky » Sat Nov 16, 2002 8:50 pm

Oh yeah, w000t you like gotta be l33t.

Find out what model of DVD-drive you have, then goto like google or yahoo and type in "cracked firmware" then the drive model. Chances are there is a firmware or software solution to your problem.

I've got a cracked firmware in my DVD drive. Though my DVD drive sucks still ;p


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Postby shinto » Sun Nov 17, 2002 11:17 am

what is a cracked firmware? and shouldn't i be typing in the software not the dvd drive?
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Postby shinto » Sun Nov 17, 2002 11:30 am

it says cracked firmware could trash your dvd drive! is there some other way?
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Postby 31Flavas » Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:47 pm

Even with cracked firmware, WinDVD is still going to set regions. DVDRegion killer does not fool WinDVD either.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:24 pm

No, it won't. WinDVD relys on what the firmware in the drive's BIOS tells it. With a cracked firmware, WinDVD will let you change the region code as many times as you want.
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Postby shinto » Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:58 pm

but i couldn't find cracked firmware for my drive and it could ruin my drive too!
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Postby klinky » Sun Nov 17, 2002 3:25 pm

shinto wrote:but i couldn't find cracked firmware for my drive and it could ruin my drive too!



Something that doesn't exist could ruin your drive o_O?

Nah Nah, yeah. Well firmware is the stuff that tells the little computer on the DVD-drive how to operate and send data out to your "big computer". So if this gets fucked, then your DVD-Drive is toast.

I believe that you have to tell the DVD-Drive "I want to update your firmware", by sending a certain set of commands. That means you can only flash already good DVD-drives, if it fails, then the software will not get a OK response from the DVD-drive and will have no way to write a working firmware. Thus your DVD-drive would be toast.

You can screw up your DVD-Drive, updating with good WORKING firmware provided by the manufactuer, or cracked. Both have a slight chance of screwing up your DVD drive. If someone botched the job on the cracked firmware, then you'd be screwed, usually they're tested tho. You also can't really trust those taiwaneese to always be on top of their game when writing new firmware either.

Okay, well there are software solutions out there. I just didn't investigate them since I like to take care of them at the hardware level.

You'll probably have to search for them or something :twisted:

What model is your drive and what verison of windows are you using ?


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Postby Aetherfukz » Sun Nov 17, 2002 4:04 pm

Hmm... firmware updates, right? Well, AFAIK you only have to do this with old DVD drives, which are set to their region via hardware. But you should try DVD Genie, it unlocks every DVD Software player out there, and it worked fine for me, and everyone else I know who had these problems.

Get it here: http://www.inmatrix.com/files/dvdgenie_download.html
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Postby 31Flavas » Mon Nov 18, 2002 7:09 pm

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:No, it won't.

My dvd drive IS unlocked and WinDVD still sets a 5 change limit. If you have something that can reset that counter, spill the beans. Otherwise, put that crack pipe down ;)
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Postby Dugan » Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:34 pm

Step 1: Use Drive Info to determine which DVD-Rom drive you have.
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/drvinf_download.shtml

Step 2. Get the appropriate region code-disabling firmware from http://www.firmware.fr.st/

Step 3: Use DVD Genie to set the appropriate region
http://www.inmatrix.com/genie/

Step 4: Play the DVD.
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Postby projecto2501 » Mon Nov 18, 2002 11:01 pm

Dugan is right. This is the way to do it. I just recently had to flash my firmware to get Region 2 disks to play. It required a little monkeying around with a DOS boot disk but the operation went OK. Unfortunately, ruining your drive is a risk you have to take.

The firmware is only part of the problem to to fix the software problem you can follow Dugan's advice and use DVD Genie, or I've have good results with Remote Selector (shareware, not freeware).

Hope that helps. Cheers.
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Postby 31Flavas » Tue Nov 19, 2002 3:32 pm

Well, I know that DVDGenie or DVDRegionKiller have to be used after words.

I was taking exception to Wolfwood saying that WinDVD doesn't set a region (or allows you to switch) if you don't have a hardware set region.

You still need one of the above ;)
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Postby shinto » Tue Nov 19, 2002 3:39 pm

thanx every one!
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