MTR: Any way for automatic detection of RCE?

[badtz]

Greetings,

Instead of having to pick which RCE region AFTER MTR (MacTheRipper) has detected RCE on your disc ... is there anyway that MTR can just automatically change the RCE Region to the region from the disc instead of the end-user having to know to choose it?


or is this not technically possible? [explanation? I'm curious ]

thanks so much! :P

[geezerbuttz]

Yes , it poss , BUT as MTR is free and gets very little support I have realy no interest in adding extra features at this time.

[destreaga]

Yes , it poss , BUT as MTR is free and gets very little support I have realy no interest in adding extra features at this time.

If you didn't include it as a feature then why does my copy of MTR detect and set it for me? I've only had to physically push the button once every time MTR was updated and then after that it does it by its self.

[WiseWeasel]

It will remember the last setting you chose whenever RCE is detected (and be off when it's not). Having MTR automatically choose the right region for you can be tricky, as the disc's RPC code doesn't necessarily correspond to the proper RCE code. Often, RCE-protected discs will be RPC region 0 (all regions), in order to fool region-free players into not switching to the proper region to pass the RCE check. Therefore, we leave it to the user to decide which region they purchased their DVD in, so that RCE gets properly removed. You might need to change the RCE region when it gets detected if you rip a disc from a different region than you normally do (or did previously).

[a_10]

I wanted to know about this as well, so I've bought a DVD player in the UK (PS2) which is R2 so should i allways set the code if asked for one to 2?

[WiseWeasel]

No, the player should have no effect, just set the "New Region" to "ALL", and only set "RCE Region" to "RCE 2" if it's "DETECTED" on a DVD purchased in region 2 (otherwise, it should be "OFF"). If you find that your player doesn't like region-free DVDs, you can try setting the "New Region" to 2 only, but this probably won't be necessary, it would more likely be a case of incompatible DVD-R media.

[schmeg]

I'm having no success getting Region 2 PAL discs ripped and playable on my Sony NS315 player.

Using a NEC 2510 drive, I've tried MTR with region code set to 0, and also to explicitly 1 (I'm in the States). I don't have region-free hacks in, so Apple's DVD player of course warns me about the region switch. I've left it unchanged at 1.

Ripping discs using MTR and then running through DVD2OneX gives me a VIDEO_TS folder that's perfectly playable through Apple's DVD player. Looks great.

I've also tried DVDBackup and setting the region to 1.

But no luck playing a burned disc on the Sony: "cannot play due to area restrictions" or something.

1) Is it because they are PAL? They do play well on the Mac, just not on the set-top.

2) Is there something I'm missing about setting to region-free or region 1? On any native region 1 disc I've ripped using MTR, I set region 0 as the default, so I think that my Sony set-top might be okay with region-free discs in general.

I'd welcome any suggestions. I have a huge stack of import DVDs that are destined for a film studies course this semester, and I was so sure it'd be a piece of cake to back them up for a standard DVD player. Yikes.

:)

[WiseWeasel]

This is because of PAL. You'll need to either get a setup capable of playing PAL, or try converting to NTSC format using something like Echelon and DVDSP or Sizzle. Keep in mind that Echelon requires the mpeg2 stream to be <4GB at this time with the QuickTime decoder (not including audio streams). This limitation might get resolved in future versions, if that application survives (which is very much up in the air at this point, since $upport has been so low).

[schmeg]

I hadn't realized that Sizzle and DVDSP have standards conversion capabilities. I'll explore that just for curiosity's sake, but I think we'll pick up a PAL-capable DVD player asap.

Thanks, WW.

[WiseWeasel]

No, they don't have color standards conversion functions. You need to FIRST convert the standard using something like Echelon, and THEN you can import the converted DVD files into Sizzle or DVDSP.