Trouble playing dvd on computer

Rorie · Post by **Rorie** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 21:49

ok so i ended up purchasing the running man once i saw it at a friend's place & liked it. only problem is that it is region 2 & windows media player says that it cannot play it because of something about copy protection. i have bypassed it b4 but i cannot remember how. any help will be appreciated

thanx

Post by **tulip** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 22:29

I got my drive region free and I needed 2 things:

1. a program that disables the region protection in your drive. You have to search the internet for something specifical for your drive. Try searching for your drive and the letters RPC (in my case i had a LiteOn drive and it worked with LtnRPC.)
2. a device called DVD Region Killer (freeware) that fools mediaplayer that the regional protection is activated.

Good luck with it. By the way it Is actually legal to do that!

grafix · Post by **grafix** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 18:23

Or you could play it with VLC, which ignores region protection, instead.

Rorie · Post by **Rorie** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 22:13

grafix wrote:Or you could play it with VLC, which ignores region protection, instead.

thanx that avoids a whole heap of confusion & it is free too thanx for telling me about that grafix

Rorie · Post by **Rorie** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 22:22

Rorie wrote:
grafix wrote:Or you could play it with VLC, which ignores region protection, instead.
thanx that avoids a whole heap of confusion & it is free too thanx for telling me about that grafix

just tested the dvd with videolan it works thank you once again

ckguy · Post by **ckguy** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 23:35

Huh, I didn't know VLC could play DVDs of incompatible region. Another reason for me to like it, I guess!

Post by **KeenRush** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:34

I've only had bad experience with VLC and dvds. When I've used it it has been first garging slow to get them started/loaded, and then often stopping somewhere and I had to load the disc again. However, that was with my old dvd drive, haven't tried VLC with the newer one.

Post by **tulip** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 13:52

Also VLC can only ignore the Region Code if your drive is region free (RTP-0), if the drive is protected (RTP-1) it can't bypass this. Well lucky for you Rorie that it worked so easy.