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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Looking for a Region Free USB DVD Player for preserving Blurays/DVDs (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm on a kick of trying to preserve almost lost media. I need a player that can rip disks so I can keep them alive online. I'm really struggling to find a region free USB player.
If I have to get a player designed with only HDMI out that would suck because then copying would be in real time which takes forever. If it's region locked I can't do obscure international stuff.

If you have experience with this I could use some help.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Disc drives are software region locked. Not hardware.

You can use any drive to read any disc so long as you use the right software.

MakeMKV and others bypass all restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

By 'DVD Player' I'm gonna assume you mean 'DVD DRive' on a computer, and not a box you plug into your TV.

The drive region only matters for legit playback on licensed DVD playback software. For ripping software, they're effectively agnostic, they'll rip any disc no matter the region code of the drive or disc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Blurays are only region-locked in software. Ripping software isn't going to even check the region code.

Even in VLC, the region code is just a setting option.