[vdr] Re: ??? DVD Player in AIO patch isn\'t region fre

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:36, Malcolm Caldwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 16:55, Steffen Koch wrote:
> > peter.dittmann@freenet.de schrieb:
> > > Unfortunely there are discs out that compare the player region code to
> > > its own parameter and jump to a region code violation screen if it
> > > fails.
> >
> > A disc is a disc is a disc.. It can't compare anything. The player
> > software does.
>
> The disc can contain programs. (as in instructions for a computer, not
> just media content).  The player runs this program.  Some of those
> instructions will fetch and compare regions etc.
>   Something like:
>     if (region!=2) GOTO still frame complaining of pirates

Exactly, this is what happens. Analysing those instruction during playback is 
not easy. However, there appears to be different method to detect the discs 
region code and the just report that as player region.
A'll try that in one the next plugin versions.

> This is different to the original method of region coding which was
> implemented by the drives (and the disks).

Andreas
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