Pleasantly surprised

[pphaneuf]

There was a few times where I wanted to lend DVDs to co-workers, but since all those I have are region 1, I couldn't really do that. I figured I could rip them and lend those instead, but didn't really spend the time, expecting this to be a arduous process of figuring out DeCSS junk and what-not.

But no, I was quite pleasantly surprised by HandBrake, a GPL program that has everything worked out for you, end-to-end, with just enough control without flooding the user with countless knobs with which to screw up everything. Two thumbs up, highly recommended.

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[(Anonymous)]

Bouh du difficile de commenter avec mes 200 mots d'anglais prononcés à la toulousaine tu pourrais pas nous faire un billet en" françois" ou en occitan parfois ;moi qui croyait que les Québecois abhoraient l'anglais!!!

Alain

[lautreamax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a recent discovery of mine as well. Before I switched to Mac, I used DVDDecrypter, which was awesome as well. I was really happy to find something that seems to work as well if not better for the Mac.

[(Anonymous)]

So far, I haven't had any problem with Zone 1 DVDs. My DVD player seems to accepts any zone, just as many other DVD player I have seen. have your colleagues checked their DVD player didn't recognize the DVDs ?

Spica

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

If I recall, in France, there used to be more multi-region players available, but that it's now illegal to sell them? Interestingly, it's not illegal to make it multi-region, like many players can, so once you have bought it, a store could then offer to unlock it?

In any case, one of my interested co-worker tried it, and burnt through two region changes (out of five, I think?), so yes, we're sure about it. :-)