[MPlayer-users] how does mplayer circumvent region protected (RPC-2) DVD drives?

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

Hi,

On my new laptop the DVD drive is RPC-2 (region protected). However it
after swapping region 1 and 2 disks way beyond the 5-change limit, DVDs
still work fine under Linux and mplayer. Under WinXP the drive's
internal region change counter is still the same.

How does mplayer circumvent this restriction? Does it read the DVD files
in DVD-Rom mode instead of DVD player mode?

Just curious,

PS: any idea how to not increment the counter under Windows? Region-free
firmware for this drive hasn't been released yet.

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