region encoding questions

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:16 am

jonnkakarotto wrote:Except that I'm using a laptop XD

Thanks for the info though, guys.

External drives are cheap too (~$66 for a DVD-/+RW). Or you could stick an internal DVD-ROM drive (~$17) into an external USB 2.0 drive enclosure (~$25).

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:46 am

Willen wrote:As long as you don't try to actually play the original DVD by switching the regions, the region code change limit will never come up. I've ripped enough R2 discs (and R3) on my DVD drive that I know it's not an issue.

So it depends much on the ripper. Because Smartripper (which I use) requires to "unlock" (means play) a DVD first before it can rip. Didn't know that other rippers (DVDDecrypter?) can do it with out. In that case the autoplay function must be disabled.