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Hi all, Just found out, that Matshita DVD Playsers with RPC II firmware do not allow access to DVDs with another Region Code that set firmware wise. Once set the DVD drive plays matching Region Code DVDs only. At the RPC1 forum a matching RPC1 firmware may or may not be found. Other DVD devices may ...

Update: Latest updated (just received) would NOT have any impact on the issue: :~$ vlc VLC media player 2.2.0-rc2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.0-rc1-118-g22fda39) [0000000000849118] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. /usr/share/themes/MBuntu-Y/g...

Dear Administrators, I am under the impression the the information given at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html is obsolete as Jessie is stable since 25.04.2015 Please find an updated version table below: - Debian OldStable is Wheezy - Debian Stable and LTS is Jessie - current version a...

Good morning everyone, Maybe someone got an idea concerning the playback of NCIS Season 11 Region 1 DVDs: Inserting the DVD and starting VLC is not an issue. DVD is recognized. but would not play. Not on Windows7 and not on Debian8 Linux. Please find the dump below (I am using a patched MBuntu Skin ...

Hi Jean-Baptiste, I do apologize for my late reply. Fist thing to mention may be that the DVD is listed as "cdrom0" and not with the DVD title as one would expect. This is the only DVD (UK Version of HAWAII FIVE-0 The First Season EAN: 5014437147332) with this problem. The very same DVD pl...

VLC on Debian 8 Jessie - first installed from media repository -> DVD playback not possible, region setting required [not an option], Windows 7 VLC on same machine plays flawless. - steps as described above done: - vlc removed - libdvdcss2 removed - libavutil downgraded to version 6:11.4-1~deb8u1, t...

see new thread - this is no longer a libdvdcss issue Turns out those http://www.deb-multimedia.org packages are compiled with region code request to the DVD device. This might be essential to some countries where this might be needed? To solve this issue one need to remove those files obtained from ...

Hi there, I do have the very same Problem as listed above on my Laptop (ThinkPad T520), Debian 8 Jessie. This is an interesting issue as there is a "Windows 7 Professional" Partition on that very same unit I rarely use. Turns out VLC for Windows Plays all DVDs without any issue on the VERY...