Jarvik7 Wrote:aircawn Wrote:skylarth Wrote:i remember reading about it somewhere, but i have an intel mac, and something about the specific dvd player that is in the macbooks, i dont think it works yet with handbrake without changing the region code..
There appears to be a newer generation of DVD drives floating around called RPC2. They still read DVD's and all that, but instead of the Operating System / Media Player doing the region checking, the drive does it. Unless the DVD's region matches the drive's region (which can only be changed X times), the drive will not read the disc no matter what.
While it is true that it is the drive that does the checking, it is still in software - or rather, firmware. Most common drives have hacked firmwares you can flash to the drive to disable region checking. Still others have tricks whereby you can reset the region changing counter.
You can always rip the DVD to harddrive and then watch it from there as well...
im pretty sure that aircawn is right.. i think there is something in the macbook dvd drives that limits the region usage above and beyond any software limiting.. that said, if you have any advice on software to try, that would be great.. i think im down to like 2 switches left.
