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From: Tony Houghton on 22 Sep 2006 10:42
I've got a DVD-R that's giving me a region error in my DVD/VHS combi;
presumably it's region 1, but I thought all DVD-Rs were region 0. There
seem to be no known hacks for the player (Technika DVR100). If I simply
copy the disc with dvdbackup and growisofs -dvd-video will that make the
copy region 0 or do I need to change something else? And is there a tool
I can use to check a disc's region?

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From: Paul F. Johnson on 22 Sep 2006 17:15
Tony Houghton wrote:

> Technika DVR100

Have a look for hacks for the broksonic dvcr-810 -it's what lies underneath
the Technika (apparently)

Hopefully, this thread will be of some help...

http://forums.dvd-swaps.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3530

Good luck mate :-)
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From: Tony Houghton on 22 Sep 2006 18:32
In <OnYQg.23253$r61.10291(a)text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
Paul F. Johnson <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Tony Houghton wrote:
>
>> Technika DVR100
>
> Have a look for hacks for the broksonic dvcr-810 -it's what lies underneath
> the Technika (apparently)
>
> Hopefully, this thread will be of some help...
>
> http://forums.dvd-swaps.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3530

That thread is for an Orion DVC5000 and clones, but apparently mine is a
clone of an Orion VRD28. The code didn't work.

Anyway, the Technika plays other DVD-Rs, including NTSC, OK, and the DVD
I'm having problems with plays OK in my old Toshiba player which I never
hacked. According to the dvddemystified FAQ
<http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.10> some DVDs contain
program code to check the player's region:- RCE or REA. So that's
probably what's wrong with it. I'll just rip the MPEG, ditch the menus,
and use dvdauthor to create a new DVD without menus.

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From: Tony Houghton on 23 Sep 2006 08:25
In <slrneh9t88.87v.pm(a)thinkpad.nowster.org.uk>,
Paul Martin <pm(a)zetnet.net> wrote:

> <cough>pgcedit</cough>

That does look useful. Another tool that would be handy is something
that can (re)generate a dvdauthor XML file from a DVD.

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From: Jim Howes on 23 Sep 2006 19:00
Tony Houghton wrote:
> I've got a DVD-R that's giving me a region error in my DVD/VHS combi;
> presumably it's region 1, but I thought all DVD-Rs were region 0.

They are, until you write something non-zero to the 36th byte of the
/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO file that isn't zero, each bit set bit
corresponding to a prohibited region.

Copy the files off, blank the byte at offset 0x23, with something like

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
FILE *f = fopen("VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO","rb+");
fseek(f,0x23,SEEK_SET);
fwrite("",1,1,f);
fclose(f);
}

(run from the directory into which you copy the DVD files, then mkisofs
and burn back to disc)
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