Good news is : Snowylady got assigned a Toshiba Portege laptop with DVD driver - which is great because the DVD player in my desktop at home is bust.
Bad news is the RPC utility I used in the desktop is unable to reset the change counter in the Toshiba, which means I am unable to reset DVD region code once I changed it 4 times.
I don't buy DVDs, but I take quite a few on loan from National Library, which offered DVDs from regions 1, 3 and 4.
Right now, I got Murder, She Wrote Season 1, but I dared not view it until I can get hold of a RPC utility to enable me to reset the DVD regions in the Toshiba Portege at will.
Can anyone help?
DVD region codes are a pain for computers, and their legal status is actually challenged Downunder.
Thanks.
Download VLC media player. It's opensource and free. Plays any known format under the sun. I use it to play my Law & Order DVDs which plays the US region code.
ReplyDeleteHi Snowy, I don't know of any particular RPC that will work. I am probably asking the obvious but have you tried doing a search online with the specific model and some keywords?
ReplyDeleteGoogled for Toshiba, RPC, Portege, and read what I could.
ReplyDeleteThere's a couple of trialwares but not freewares - there's a freewares which was last updated back in 2002 or so.
thanks. will try.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, sorry Mok, any advice how to use it properly?
ReplyDeleteI downloaded that software and tried - it couldn't play the disc automatically, and when I tried to specify track and chapter, nothing happened either.
I use VLC too and have installed it by default. It works well. Open your tracks by chosing this program (right click) and check it as your default player. It should work.
ReplyDeleteHi Snowy,
ReplyDeletecan't be sure without looking at the model of your DVD player but it might be one of the newer drives that locks the region code at a deeper level. VLC wouldn't cut it in this case.
Thanks Ur and Liu.
ReplyDeleteI hate RPC ...