how to change dvd player region code more than five times

jakeboy kindly explained his solution to me. He found a simple and reversible way to uninstall "DVD Player". So his solution relies on shifting to VLC player (or another non-Apple player).

VLC is a good versatile player. It plays very many formats. For example, it plays my self-made blu-rays. But kurt188, posting in February 2012, made the point that Apple's "DVD Player" might be a superior DVD player. I've found "DVD Player" to have unusual playback qualities, and posted about this in a video editing forum: http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,277198,279613#msg-279613. "DVD Player" can deinterlace with high accuracy: 50i can look like 50p. It would be a pity to dump "DVD Player" because of the DVD region code problem.

Jakeboy - can pm me with the solution for this.

You are a legend!

hi! Jakeboy - can you tell me your solution through pm? thanks!!!

Yes but where do i write a pm ?

oh 🙂 i thought you could see my e-mailadress?

i can't post it here i think...

Hi jakeboy, could you email me you solution as well? This solution means I could literally get work or not.

Thanks a lot

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My e-mailadress is ********

seems like it's difficult to post an e-mailadress here :-s

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Use VLC to open your DVD. I am not AT ALL particularly tech savvy! I'm intelligent just not tech savvy. This was sooo easy to do. Just downloaded VLC (Well I already had it on my docking station, as I use to slow down the speed when I'm listening to something in French - makes it easier for a not-yet-brilliantly-fluent French speaker to understand.) So I just opened VLC and then clicked on Open Media, inserted my DVD that previously wouldn't play on my Mac because of the region, and Voila! French movie is now playing fine on my MacBook Air. Hoorah for VLC! 🙂

You offered help for those having problems with region drive difficulties. That certainly describes me. I have DVDs from 3 regions and it is incredibly frustrating not to be able to play all of them. I would very must like to try your solution.

Monica

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For the latest version of OS X (as of my post date), this worked though with a few moments of jumpy or lagged video. So, you have to bear with the Superdrive (if that's what you use) not apparently liking VLC much, but still worth if for those os us international travel types that have different DVD region movies to play. Thanks!

Has anyone tried putting in a region zero (Region free) dvd on their 5th change? Would it then lock to allow all regions or would it not even cause a change in the settings since it's w/o a

region?

It will lock it to last region you chose.

However see this also:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201705

Instead, use VLC to view videos from different regions:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

Thanks for this tip! It worked wonderfully!!

I set DVD player to Ignore, Downloaded the latest version of VLC and tried to play region 1 DVD with no luck. Region on Mac DVD player is locked on a different region. Low tech solution?

Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.9.5