PAL DVD's playable on US computers?
January 12, 2009 2:20 PM Subscribe
I'm accustomed to watching DVDs produced for the United States market on my laptop using the VLC software player. Using this set up, will I be able to watch PAL DVDs made for the UK or European markets without any difficulties? I don't want deal with any ripping, conversions, flashing DVD drive memories to change regions etc.
I've had no problems watching PAL discs using VLC, even though other programs will complain my dvd drive is set to region 1 (Windows XP user).
posted by Gary at 2:54 PM on January 12, 2009
posted by Gary at 2:54 PM on January 12, 2009
Response by poster: Yes, I should have mentioned I'm on a PC with Windows XP.
posted by paphun123 at 3:13 PM on January 12, 2009
posted by paphun123 at 3:13 PM on January 12, 2009
Confirmed as yes on a Dell Latitude D630.
posted by clarkie666 at 5:28 PM on January 12, 2009
posted by clarkie666 at 5:28 PM on January 12, 2009
Yes on an XP Sony VAIO laptop. I had previously flashed the DVD-drive in previous attempt to achieve region-freeness.
posted by K.P. at 6:05 PM on January 12, 2009
posted by K.P. at 6:05 PM on January 12, 2009
It shouldn't be a problem, as VLC does not respect regioning, and implements its own region-decoding, rather than relying on the hardware's (as I understand it). Other players may complain at the drive region, but nothing should have an issue with it being PAL rather than NTSC.
posted by Dysk at 7:02 PM on January 12, 2009
posted by Dysk at 7:02 PM on January 12, 2009
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posted by fearthehat at 2:43 PM on January 12, 2009