Switching Region Codes

[jkramb]

I'm currently living in Austria and my region code is set at 2. If i put a region 1 movie in my dvd player can i rip it with handbrake without having to switch my drive back to 1?

 

[GreatDrok]

I'm currently living in Austria and my region code is set at 2. If i put a region 1 movie in my dvd player can i rip it with handbrake without having to switch my drive back to 1?

If it is a superdrive then not unless you switch the drive region to 1 unfortunately. None of my superdrives will rip anything other than their own region discs. However, switching to an external USB DVD drive often gets around this. I have an HD DVD drive from my Xbox 360 which I regularly use to rip out of region discs on my Mac. Something about full-size drives makes them easy for VLC (which does the decryption) to circumvent region coding whereas the superdrive laptop drives don't.

 

[realityking]

Size isn't the matter, it largely depends on the manufacturer of the drive and how he treats region codes.