Region B to Region A copying?

[Movies99]

I know that DVDFAB removes the region codes from DVDs making them Region 0, but does it also allow a Region B Blu Ray to be copied and played in an older Blu Ray machine in a Region A zone as an "all regions" disc? Has anyone tried it?

[Justin]

Yes it sure does removes all blu ray copy protection region codes etc.

[Movies99]

Ok, thanks for the info, good to know.

[MrVideo]

I know that DVDFAB removes the region codes from DVDs making them Region 0

Technically, if DVDFab did what you described, it wouldn't play anywhere. There is no such thing as region 0. The way that DVD region codes work is that a bit is set in the 8-bit register for which the DVD is supposed to play in. So, in order for a DVD to play in all 6 regions, all of those bits are set, i.e., region ALL.

[thetoad]

not quite.

The way it works is that region code for bluray's is stored in a register (PSR) specifically PSR20.

There are multiple ways for this PSR to be written, but in general its eithe via the HDMV interface or via java code.

What these programs do is replace all retrievals of PSR20 with the value that you specified when you told it what region it was.

So if you said region A, it would replace all calls to PSR20 with a 1, B, 2 or C 4.

Therefore when the internal region checking code goes to compare the value of PSR20 its already been replaced with the correct result.

For HDMV code this is easy (just change a retrieval of PSR20 with an immediate value corresponding to the above). For the java code its a bit harder, but same concept applies.

[cupton50]

Region codes for blu-ray

Now I'm confused. I have just ordered the X-Men - The Cerebro Collection [Blu-ray] [2014] from England, good price the pound is low. When I back them up will I be able to play them on my American Blu-ray player? Also will it remove the Cinavia protection, I'm just starting. Thanks

[cupton50]

Cinavia

Well I just got one of my answers. DVDFAB Blu-ray Copy trial did not remove Cinavia from my backup copy of Criminal. Does anyone know what I need to buy to remove this? Thanks.

[october262]

Well I just got one of my answers. DVDFAB Blu-ray Copy trial did not remove Cinavia from my backup copy of Criminal. Does anyone know what I need to buy to remove this? Thanks.

criminal is on the cinavia fix list but is not yet supported - http://forum.dvdfab.cn/showthread.php?t=28725

[JimR]

X-Men.Apocalypse

Just got a copy of X-Men.Apocalypse (it's region B). I have all the appropriate boxes check in Blu Ray protection checked (including Remove Region Code) and I am specifying that the original region is B.

When I run the copy process to an ISO I still get Region B showing up in my player.

Am I missing something? Please help.

[thetoad]

could be a bug, but easy enough to solve for this, just look into the folders under the JAR folder, region requirement is defined in one of the files, probably something that looks like

region=b

if you change it to

region=a,b,c

it will work for all regions

the exact details I dont know off the top of my head

[Panthera44Male]

i see a mess of jar files

can you be a little more info on what exactly we are looking for as far as checking the jar file

[thetoad]

i see a mess of jar files

can you be a little more info on what exactly we are looking for as far as checking the jar file

in the JAR/ directory you have numbered subdirectories.

in the numbered subdirectories they are different files (many text, some with extensions like .properties such as disc.properties)

in one of those text files you will see a line that defines what region it will allow to be played, you can edit it by hand (I'd reccomend making a backup of whatever files you modify).

the exact details I dont know off the top of my head, I did it a few weeks ago but dont have the copy handy to look at it.