<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Summary: your problem is not software, it is hardware. </div><div><br></div><div>The solution is to either flash your drive's firmware (if possible), possibly voiding the warranty on it, or buy an external DVD drive that you can move between computers and use VLC to play DVDs</div><div><br></div><div>We opted to buy a number of Firewire/USB2 5.25 cases and put Pioneer DVR-111BK drives in them. It has worked well for us.</div><br><div><html>On 21/05/2008, at 7:30 AM, David Hamono wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Enjoy the read:<br><a href="http://forum.rpc1.org/viewforum.php?f=30">http://forum.rpc1.org/viewforum.php?f=30</a><br><br>--<br>On 21/05/2008, at 9:16 AM, James Mugg wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi there gurus,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Our standard users need a "open region" DVD player than can launch/play when inserting a DVD. I've tried VLC without success, (tested all season three Sopranos) seems to be a few free downloads but just wondering if anyone out there has been down this road...<br></blockquote><br>--<br><br>Regards,<br><br>David Hamono<br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br>Assistant Manager - Production<br>Design & Publishing<br>M O N A S H U N I V E R S I T Y<br><br></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Alex Dawson<br>FAHSS Faculty Computing, University of Western Australia (CRICOS 00126G)<br>08 6488 7093 - <a href="mailto:alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au">alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au</a> - <a href="http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson">http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson</a></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>