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right ive got a bone to pick!
so my mac is all singing all danicng, so why the hell does it not play DVDs??
ive put 3 retail dvds in the player and not a single one has worked. apple dvd players disc not supported and VLC jsut quits?
they were all region free music dvds. but that shouldnt make any difference should it?
or am mac clever enough to lock the dvd drive to only read region 2? if so can i remove the the region coding? as i got a lot of music dvds from the US. and would like to view em on here!
help me please!!
fatreg
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Posted: 2006-04-16 13:37:04
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The drive isn't region locked to start with. The first time you put in a disk it will prompt you to set the region of the drive. You get 5 changes in total I think, then it is locked to the last region you set. But this shouldn't affect region-free disks.
These aren't the same DVDs you had problems with on your PC are they?
Try a region-locked DVD movie, and set the region of the drive to 2. Then try these region-free disks.
If you want a completely region-unlocked drive you'll have to flash the firmware with a hacked one. Have a look in Apple Menu > About this Mac > More Info > Hardware > ATA to see what your drive is.
Then have a look on
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php for a region free firmware. Note this will probably invalidate your warranty. Also, even with a region-free firmware, you'll still have to change the firmware, except that you'll be able to reset the 5-times only limit.
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Posted: 2006-04-17 15:18:25
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Hi Jools,
went there after posting the above message and it appears as though nothing can be done yet
as ive got a matsushita (panasonic) DVD RW Drive
no not the same dvds, these are new ones
also got me a small other problem now
ive downloaded a 700mb file that split across 45 rar files, but the only thing is, stuffit doesnt recognise that .r01 thru .r45 are all interlinked, ive been to rarlabs.com and they only do a command line version of winrar for macs!
is there any other archiving tool that a mac can use that will know that .r01 will link to .r02 and so on?
i sure hope so, or ive just wasted a good few hours!
cheers
fatreg
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Posted: 2006-04-17 19:01:40
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Erm, i use stuffit deluxe, maybe this will work, can send you it if you want pop on msn.
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Posted: 2006-04-17 19:10:55
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im there lau!
fatreg
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Posted: 2006-04-17 19:15:34
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Were? I cannot see you.
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Posted: 2006-04-17 19:35:35
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I think msn is playing up again, I can't sign in even.
on the subject of DVD's, good old winders does the same thing, if you use all of your changes up you have to reinstall
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Posted: 2006-04-17 19:38:55
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msn is being gay indeed!
im on ichat if ya wanna add me miss c, im sure you can work out my login!!
@ cyco, my pc dvd player isnt locked at all! windvd sorted me out
fatrge
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Posted: 2006-04-17 20:06:58
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Ahhhhh, but using windvd is cheating!
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Posted: 2006-04-17 20:40:27
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This is what I use for my rar downloads...
http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/
never had one it can't piece back together again.
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Posted: 2006-04-17 20:54:12
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