Will I have trouble ripping DVD's with various region codes?

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  1. Lokenoch

    Lokenoch Member

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    Greetings from Australia. I am ready to purchase my first DVD writer and have just learned that the DVD writer (Sony DRU510AK) 'supports DVD region coding on playback'. Australia is 'Region 4' but I have quite a few 'Region 2' and 'Region 1' DVD's that I would like to backup as well. I have DVD X Copy Platinum software(v3.2.1). I don't really mind if I can't play these DVD's in the DVD writer, but will I be able to rip them into useable files that can then be written to
    DVD-R. I guess what I am asking is, can you rip a 'Region 2' DVD if the DVD Rom/writer is set to 'Region 4'?
    Sorry for asking what is probably a dumb question first up.
    Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
    Ben
     
    Lokenoch, Mar 18, 2004
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    Ketale Regular member

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    Hi Ben,

    All you have to make sure is that the drive you read with is able to read the disc. Thus you need a region free batch for that drive. You can use DVD Region Free or an appropriate firmware for that. See this list if you find the DVD-ROM drive you have

    http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

    Then when you do the backups, you can use DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter and simply select region free. Your backups will then be region free.

    Hope this helps.
     
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    Lokenoch

    I think Ketale is right.

    I am also from OZ and i dont have trouble with other region DVD's.

    this site is great
     
    gibbo123, Mar 19, 2004
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    Thanks Ketale and gibbo123, you have helped enormously.
    I will now proceed with confidence!
    Ben
     
    Lokenoch, Mar 20, 2004
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    Hey, mate. I'm from OZ as well and I have a Sony 510a too.

    Just wanted to tell you the 510a is a great drive, but DON'T patch (upgrade) the firmware, there's a few probs with some of the unoffical flashes. And if your drive has 1.0c firmware on it, don't upgrade it untill you have a probelm with it, as some of the offical sony firmware updates are problematic too.

    dvd region free is a great way to region free you're drive without patching the firmware, but it's not free. So you could try DVD43 which does pretty much the same thing and is freeware. I personally use AnyDVD which works great with the 510a.

    If you want to patch your firmware, I'm currently working on a safe region free firmware flash myself, so I can pm you when I'm finshed it (although it'll be a while) so you can get a copy.

    Cheers
     
    Damon1, Mar 20, 2004
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    Thank you, Damon1.
    I appreciate the advice. Please let me know when your firmware flash is available.
    Regards
    Ben
     
    Lokenoch, Mar 21, 2004
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