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happybunny
06-30-2006, 12:18 PM
HI...

just got suse 10 installed, and libdvdcss, and mplayer.

When i mplayer /dev/dvd, the video flashes for 1 frame and says "this player is incompatible with the region code of this disk".

from what i could tell, mplayer had no configure options that indicated which region i was in, however, during the compile, it says something about "defaulting to UK"....i and my dvd are in the US.

is there a compile time option to indicate with region I am in? I"ve never had to do this before.

The movie is Airplane and plays in my other players OK, so i'm not sure its really a region code problem. But if it was an encryption issue, I would guess that mplayer would say that instead of the region code error.

dkeav
06-30-2006, 01:52 PM
you probably need to set the region code of your dvdrom to region 1, be warned that if you play a lot of overseas movies you can only change your region code 5 times in most firmware

http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2545246

leonpmu
07-02-2006, 07:03 AM
If you use XINE, you can manually force your DVD region....