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[benn600]

Is there a way to disable region checking for DVDs played from a VIDEO_TS folder?  So playing a VIDEO_TS folder from the drive will not show an Invalid Region message.

[eddyshere]

anydvd or anydvd hd as one of the possibilities eventhough it will not disable the region checking per se.

[syndromeofadown]

playing a VIDEO_TS folder from the drive

Hard drive or disc drive?
Are you having problems playing dvd rips off the hard drive or actual dvd's in a disc drive?

[benn600]

Playing from hard drive, essentially playing back a disc ripped to hard drive.

[syndromeofadown]

I have never seen that problem.
I would guess its a ripping issue.

Anydvd has a check boxes to remove Software region code, hardware region code, and region code scripts.
All are checked by default.

The reason these are options are because some dvd players won't play region free disks (warning from DVDShrink).
Maybe you aren't removing it. Just an idea.

Good luck

[benn600]

Is there a tool that will remove region encoding from a VIDEO_TS folder on a hard drive?  Would it then have to write out all of the files again or is it just one of the smaller data files that contains this information?  Or is there a way to set the faux DVD player to region-free or, I would assume, US region?  Whatever is used when DVDs are played from the hard drive.  When I play the VIDEO_TS folders through VLC they play fine, through MC, they show the invalid region error screen.

[eddyshere]

Once ripped to video_ts it's a pain to do (with an iso it would be obviously simpler). I remember having found some tools on the net for that but it's not worth it. The best is just to re-rip in making sure anydvd or other dedicated software has the region removal checkbox activated.

[benn600]

Cool, thanks for the suggestion.