To answer your ultimate question, if you have multiple DVD drives then you should be able to assign a separate region to each and pick the right drive for the DVD you want to watch (but personally I would try to get around the region restrictions myself first). This is the easiest step to try and is risk free you simply force Windows to reinstall the drive from scratch: Go to Control Panel, System and then Device Manager (or type ‘Device Manager’ in to the search box of the start menu) Locate your CD/DVD drive in Device Manager and note the name (in case you.
Some of them claim that VLC will ignore the region, but I'm not sure as I've never tested it.
#Mac dvd drive region set driver
There are also number of other questions related to removing the region from a DVD drive, most of which are reachable from Disabling the Driver Region on a Mac. The message says that the drive is currently set for region 1, which is North America.
Change your DVD drive region in DVD Player on Mac - Apple Support. I've never had to flash the firmware to remove the region coding, but this blog article gives a nice overview from a Mac perspective. The message box doesnt allow me to set the region to 0, which is a setting that allows the drive to work with all regions, according to the chart in the documentation. It is possible to get around the region restriction, either using appropriate software (on Windows, AnyDVD can do it) or by flashing the firmware of the drive to remove it.
#Mac dvd drive region set how to
I don't know how to change the region with a Mac as I don't have one handy to test with (sorry!) but to change the region in Windows 7 (for people who look at this answer later), follow these instructions: go to the properties of the DVD drive, click the Hardware tab, select your DVD drive there, click Properties button, go to DVD region tab, pick your region & click OK a couple of times. You can usually change it a set number of times (4 or 5, I forget which) before you get stuck with the last region you picked (though apparently you can get the manufacturer to unlock it for you). The DVD drives on different computers (including various Macs) come from diverse manufacturers.
It is a property of the DVD drive, saved in the firmware of the drive. I recommend downloading VLC, an open-source media player that sometimes circumvents region encoding.
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