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<blockquote data-quote="Kokopelli" data-source="post: 90275"><p>If it is required now that all DVD drives be able to be region locked it was not always the case, there is a page that lists known region free drives. </p><p></p><p>There are two restrictions you would need to bypass if you wanted to play DVDs from any region on OS X using the default player. First you need to flash your drive to make it region free, this bypasses the hardware restriction. Next you need to be able to change the region in the software. <a href="http://xvi.rpc1.org/region.html" target="_blank">That is what Region X is for.</a> </p><p></p><p>Once these two steps are accomplished you can play DVDs from any region with impunity. For me VLC works with the internal drive and any region disk. So I did not flash my drive, I just use VLC for my region 2 disks. There are reports that others are not so lucky though with recent PBs. The advantage of flashing the drive and using Region X is that playback can use hardware acceleration (or at least the low level hooks Apple's player uses) whereas VLC does everything using the CPU.</p><p></p><p>NOTE: The above is not based on experience. VLC was one of the first apps I downladed for my PB because I am used to using it on Windows and Slack. I did not give DVD regions any thought even though I do have Region 1 and 2 disks. I did research on unlocking the Mac drives and Region X basically due to this and an earlier thread. Therefore the information above is exactly as accurate as the resources I found.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kokopelli, post: 90275"] If it is required now that all DVD drives be able to be region locked it was not always the case, there is a page that lists known region free drives. There are two restrictions you would need to bypass if you wanted to play DVDs from any region on OS X using the default player. First you need to flash your drive to make it region free, this bypasses the hardware restriction. Next you need to be able to change the region in the software. [URL=http://xvi.rpc1.org/region.html]That is what Region X is for.[/URL] Once these two steps are accomplished you can play DVDs from any region with impunity. For me VLC works with the internal drive and any region disk. So I did not flash my drive, I just use VLC for my region 2 disks. There are reports that others are not so lucky though with recent PBs. The advantage of flashing the drive and using Region X is that playback can use hardware acceleration (or at least the low level hooks Apple's player uses) whereas VLC does everything using the CPU. NOTE: The above is not based on experience. VLC was one of the first apps I downladed for my PB because I am used to using it on Windows and Slack. I did not give DVD regions any thought even though I do have Region 1 and 2 disks. I did research on unlocking the Mac drives and Region X basically due to this and an earlier thread. Therefore the information above is exactly as accurate as the resources I found. [/QUOTE]
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