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How can I find the region code of a DVD on PC?

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I have a client who is an immigrant from the lands that is right on the border between region 2 and 5. They have some home DVDs that don't work (region locked) and want some copies made. Problem being the borders have changed over time and we don't know which, if any, discs will be region 2 vs 5.

I can use software tools to rip/copy DVDs and remove the region lock so they could use them in the player they have here, but I have to set my DVD player to the correct region to read the DVDs. Problem being... I don't know what region to set, and I have a limited amount of times I can change the region. I would like to avoid having to charge the client for a new drive if I get locked out from changing too many times.

Apple has a convenient way to see both the DVD region and Player region (see here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/835...), but I can only find my player region even with disc in the drive. All my googling is turning up results on how to find/change player region, not specifically the region of the discs I am trying to inspect.

Is there a program or method for determining a specific DVD's region on PC beyond "change the region of your player and hope for the best"?

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@erelectronics if we are talking about reading the disk and identifying the region code it came from, then for a PC I'd use DVD Identifier or DVDinfopro. There was also DVD Decoder but not sure if that is still available.

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I just looked. All my disks have the Region Code printed on it. Some it is just a number inside a circle and others it is just in fine print circling around the outside or inside perimeter of the disk. Take a look with a magnifying glass (probably one on your phone).

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These are old family movies. As you can understand, this is more a sentimental job that can't be solved by just buying a Region 1 version of their favorite film.

Writable discs don't have inherent region codes, it is encoded by the recording object. So if they had a camera that recorded region 5 encoding, and then a few years later they got a new camera that recorded region 2 encoding, etc. And that would not be present on the disc at all.

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Hi @erelectronics

Not sure if it will work but try using VLC Player and see if you can use it to play them. Worth a try anyway ;-)

In the program's FAQs under Does VLC support DVDs from all regions? it states:

"This mostly depends on your DVD drive. Testing it is usually the quickest way to find out. The problem is that a lot of newer drives are RPC2 drives these days. Some of these drives don't allow raw access to the drive until the drive firmware has done a region check.

VLC uses libdvdcss and it needs raw access to the DVD drive to crack the encryption key. So with those drives it is impossible to circumvent the region protection. (This goes for all software. You will need to flash your drives firmware, but sometimes there is no alternate firmware available for your drive). On other RPC2 drives that do allow raw access, it might take VLC a long time to crack the key. So just pop the disc in your drive and try it out, while you get a coffee. RPC1 drives should 'always' work regardless of the region code."

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