DVD Region Free for Mac?

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Cybermoo

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Does anyone know an Application that can bypass the DVD Region check on Apple's Drives? I'm using a Macbook 13'' I get allot of Family DVD's from overseas family members which keeps wanting to change the region! :-(
 
I used an application called "mac the ripper" to rip DVD's to disc as region free, not sure what's available now.
 
There used to be a few firmware hacks available but havent seen anything recently.

Why not just rip and/or encode?
 
Bleh, it's so time consuming. It's just family members sending me their Home DVD's which I just wanna watch and store away :p I've tried getting them to encode to a different region but they can't get it right. :-)
 
Cybermoo said:
Bleh, it's so time consuming. It's just family members sending me their Home DVD's which I just wanna watch and store away :p I've tried getting them to encode to a different region but they can't get it right. :-)
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Why would a home DVD be region coded in the first place? :confused: NTSC/PAL I could understand but not that.
 
bwana said:
Why would a home DVD be region coded in the first place? :confused: NTSC/PAL I could understand but not that.
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Don't think he means "home movies".

One of the first things I looked for after getting a mac, but no luck yet.
Only mac the ripper, for ripping them.
 
LOL! Soz I don't mean home recorded movies :-p Sorry my english can get bad at times. I am originally from Brazil :p

I've also done some researching for some time now and there was a guy that did firmware "Hacks" he apparently has "retired" so no further progress has been made.

Next to replacing your optical drive every 5 times or getting an external optical drive I cant find another solution. :-p Mac the Ripper it is! Has anyone tried a lekker little program called Handbrake? It's free too! :-) Free is always good :p
 
Yes handbrake is good, I'm using it now(on my PC) but it does not decrypt unfortunately.
 
Cybermoo said:
LOL! Soz I don't mean home recorded movies :-p Sorry my english can get bad at times. I am originally from Brazil :p

I've also done some researching for some time now and there was a guy that did firmware "Hacks" he apparently has "retired" so no further progress has been made.

Next to replacing your optical drive every 5 times or getting an external optical drive I cant find another solution. :-p Mac the Ripper it is! Has anyone tried a lekker little program called Handbrake? It's free too! :-) Free is always good :p
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OK - makes more sense now. My Portuguese is non-existent so you're one up in me :D

I've heard good things about Fairmount in case you run into any troublesome dvds that Mactheripper balks at.

And yeah - we've heard about Handbrake :D
Dobee said:
Yes handbrake is good, I'm using it now(on my PC) but it does not decrypt unfortunately.
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It should - at least with the Mac version usually does.
 
bwana said:
OK - makes more sense now. My Portuguese is non-existent so you're one up in me :D

I've heard good things about Fairmount in case you run into any troublesome dvds that Mactheripper balks at.

And yeah - we've heard about Handbrake :DIt should - at least with the Mac version usually does.
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Fairmount FTW....
 
I was a proud user of Fairmount til I found out about Fast DVD Copy (http://www.fastdvdcopy.com/). It can copy and rip to the HD.

Cyber, your best option is to rip it (encode/decrypt/set as region free during this process) then just burn it again onto a DVD.
 
limnos said:
I was a proud user of Fairmount til I found out about Fast DVD Copy (http://www.fastdvdcopy.com/). It can copy and rip to the HD.

Cyber, your best option is to rip it (encode/decrypt/set as region free during this process) then just burn it again onto a DVD.
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R854.10 vs free? Its going to be a hard sell.
 
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