[sharonmarnell@email.com]

Hi there, :-)

I bought my iMac in the States and was living there for a year, consequently I bought DVD zoned for the US. Now I am home in the UK and am playing UK zoned DVD's. However I have to changed the zone preferences and it states that this can only be done 5 times in total! Is there anyway of avoiding this? They will not play at all if I just ignore the message.

Please help.

Thanks Sharon

[longwood]

if you just play the dvds in VLC then you won't have a problem. another option that you have is to rip the dvd with MacTheRipper onto your hard drive and then you can watch it in any video player that you want.

[sharonmarnell@email.com]

Thanks for the advice. Could you tell me what VLC is? I do not have aDVD burner on my iMac so sadly the other solution is not possible.

Thanks

Sharon

[rjenkinson]

VLC 0.8.2

-r.

[longwood]

Originally Posted by sharonmarnell@email.com

Thanks for the advice. Could you tell me what VLC is? I do not have aDVD burner on my iMac so sadly the other solution is not possible.

Thanks

Sharon

you do not need a dvd burner for the later solution. you just need a dvd drive, which you have or else you wouldn't be able to watch dvd's on your computer.

[sharonmarnell@email.com]

Thanks, I got the VLC program but whenever I put in a DVD it automatically opens iDVD and wants me to change the region. These are my computers details
Machine Model: iBook G4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.7f1
Can I 'flash' the drive? If so how do I do that?

I really appreciate your help :-)

Sharon

[rjenkinson]

open system preferences and select CDs & DVDs. make sure "when you insert a video DVD" and "when you insert a blank DVD" are set to ignore.

-r.

[CIA]

After you have done what is listed above, put the VLC icon in your dock. Then open up the dvd you want to play and drag the video_ts folder onto the VLC icon, it will launch and you can watch the dvd. Or if it still gives you a problem about setting the drive region you can rip the disc using mac the ripper and then play back from the hard drive using the same process I listed above, just without the disc.

[sharonmarnell@email.com]

Dear friends,

Thank you for all your advice. I am now happily playing my North American DVD's alongside my British ones. As an inexperienced user I appreciate your time and effort in trying to help others.

I can't wait for the world to adopt a 'universal' system for technology.

Sharon

"The world is one country and mankind it's citizens." Baha'u'llah