Page 1 of VideoLAN freeware makes ALL PCs multi-region!

Here`s a fantastic media player that allows you to watch incomplete AVI and MPEG downloads, listen to incomplete MP3s and WMAs, and watch DVDs from all regions, even on a region-locked PC. It`s lush!
http://www.videolan.org

There is no mention anywhere that it allows multiregion playback from a region locked DVD drive..

There are different forms of region lock on a PC. There is software lock and hardware lock. Most DVD drives need flashing to enable multiregion or the drive becomes locked after 5 changes of region (some flashes make the drive region free -others stop the counter counting down to lock the drive).

Then you usually have to use a program to unlock the software side (dvdgenie etc).
This videolan software may not have a region lock in it, but does it bypass the hardware lock ?

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This videolan software may not have a region lock in it, but does it bypass the hardware lock ?
It certainly seems to, and it doesn`t alter your DVD-ROM`s counter settings or firmware at all.

This item was edited on Sunday, 5th October 2003, 16:18