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Old 02-19-2008, 12:05 PM
james
 
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Default Re: DVDRW-IDE1008

PianoMan wrote:
>
> Hi, all!
>
> Running Slack-current on a 1Ghz P4. I have a BTC DVDRW-IDE1008 drive.
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Is it worth cracking my firmware to make the drive region free, or
> should I not worry, since my CPU is fast and libdvdcss can play DVDs
> whose region is different from the player's anyway?
>
> 2) If the answer to the above is that it is still worth cracking the
> firmware, how do I go about doing that?
>

If tour drive works with out cracking the firmware why bother? There is
a program called region set or something like that; I don't remember
where I got it. Google or Yahoo will give you alot of resources if you
type "dvd linux" into the search text box.

jamess
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