two dvd drives, two different region codes

[untmdsprt]

I hope I can make this as clear as possible because it has caused a complete stop and veered off from my original post on another forum.

Here's what I want to do:

I have a Macbook 2,1 that was bought in the states, DVD player set to region 1 - factory setting
I'm now living in Japan and want to buy an external DVD drive - factory setting is region 2

I had my mom ship my American DVDs to me here in Japan and are happily playing in the computer's drive. Alright now the problem, if I bought an external drive (factory setting is region 2), will I be able to put a Japanese disc in the external one and have it play? Yes I can read Japanese.

Is VLC or any other DVD app smart enough to realize there are TWO drives with TWO different regions codes? NO hacking will be done to either drive, and both will keep their factory settings. All I want is to pop the correct disc into the correct drive and view my movie.

I personally assume that yes it can be done because I'll be putting region 1 discs into a region 1 drive, and region 2 discs into a region 2 drive on the same computer. I will be posting this link to the other forum so that my original question can be answered as well.

Thank you for your time.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, VLC doesn't do anything checking on the region. The issues are hardware-locked drives.

Don't forget to clean your dvdcss cache folder, though.