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DVD regions on imac DVD player

  • 23-09-2010 10:58pm
    #1
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭


    Region 2 is Europe so what we have here

    I order a lot of baseball or american football DVD's off Amazon and some are Region 1

    On the imac it gave 5 warnings to pick a region code and then it would lock to one.
    I kept using it for my region 1 DVDs, it used up my five chances and now I cannot use my Region 2 DVDs

    I've searched high and low for a solution, many forums

    These are all DVD's I bought, not illegal copies so I fail to see why my imac cannot be region free?

    Any solutions? :)


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Region 2 is Europe so what we have here

    I order a lot of baseball or american football DVD's off Amazon and some are Region 1

    On the imac it gave 5 warnings to pick a region code and then it would lock to one.
    I kept using it for my region 1 DVDs, it used up my five chances and now I cannot use my Region 2 DVDs

    I've searched high and low for a solution, many forums

    These are all DVD's I bought, not illegal copies so I fail to see why my imac cannot be region free?

    Any solutions? :)

    You need to find a dvd drive firmware "hack" to make it multi region, no idea what kind of dvd drives apple use so not sure where you'd start looking, but try the rpc1 portal firmware page

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  • #3
    muggyog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭muggyog


    VLC or read this (old article, Google newer stuff). BTW you should have made the DVD region free BEFORE using your 5 attempts, dont think you can do it now. You will find info on the drive under about this mac(click apple icon, top left), more info, under hardware.


  • #4
    barryj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭barryj


    How about picking up an external drive to use for the Region 2 discs?

    - barry


  • #5
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭Elessar


    No no, just use VLC as mentioned above. It's only the original DVD software affected by the region lock, if you use a good third party application you'll have no problems. VLC is great, it plays everything.


  • #6
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Elessar wrote: »
    No no, just use VLC as mentioned above. It's only the original DVD software affected by the region lock, if you use a good third party application you'll have no problems. VLC is great, it plays everything.
    If the DVD drive will not read the media, how will VLC help.

    VLC just plays multiple formats.

    rpc1.org is your best bet.


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  • #7
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    VLC can't bypass the region coding on some drives. It used to work with everything by reading the raw data off the disc. But the firmware on certain drives prevents this now, in which case flashing the drive is the only solution. I'm not sure what the story is now, but previously this only applied to MacBook drives. Give VLC a try and see if it works.


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