[ltp] AP21 with a Hitachi GD-S200

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> Is it a new drive? If so, you probably need to run regionset once. 
> (You get 5 times when you can change the region; many DVD drives are 
> shipped with the region not set, so nothing will play).
> http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/
>
> Once you have set the region restriction, most free players (VLC, mplayer 
> etc) will happily ignore it.
Unfortunately, this does not seem to be true. On my T43, I cannot play 
DVDs from the other regions. For an region code locked DVD from 
China(they do appear to have some copyright protection there!) my 
mplayer(1.0-rc2, the latest) complains Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO), 
which is the typical symptom for not region set code. For other 
non-region code locked DVD from China it plays just fine. Of course, I 
set my region code to be the US ones in order to play the majority of 
DVD I got here.

For older dvd rom you might be able to get region free firmware from
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php
But the newer DVD drive like mine doesn't have such luxury.
Jiang
>
> Yes, this is daft.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
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