[ltp] DVD movie playing issues

fire-eyes linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:58:10 -0500


Richard Neill wrote:
> I'm going to take a flying guess here: the DVD drive hasn't had its
> region defined. Use "regionset" to do this.
> Most DVD drives work fine out of the box under Linux, but one which I
> recently purchased would not play DVDs until I set the region.
> 
> As far as I know, the region setting is then ignored (I don't have any
> non region 2 discs to test with) - but it must be initialised to something.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard

Good catch, Richard, that was it. Thanks a lot :) I am still having
problems but they are exclusively in software, not hardware ;)