# How many DVD regions is VL able to support?

Support for multiple regions

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- Posted at: almost 12 years ago
- Net upvotes: 2


## Comments
### Comment 1

Testing it is usually the quickest way to find out... 

The problem is that a lot of newer drives are RPC2 drives these days. Some of these drives don't allow raw access to the drive untill the drive firmware has done a regioncheck. VLC uses libdvdcss and it needs raw access to the DVD drive to crack the encryption key. So with those drives it is impossible to circumvent the region protection.

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: Director de Operaciones de Proyectos Medinet
- Net upvotes: 1


### Comment 2

So far I have not found a region or format that does not reproduce VLC.

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: Ingeniero de software en Universidad de Carabobo



### Comment 3

This mostly depends on your DVD drive. Testing it is usually the quickest way to find out. My experinece - I haven't found any type of video that wont play :)

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: creative director at comma | communications design



### Comment 4

I use VLC player as my primary media player. So far I have not found any type of video it wont play. 
Its a good program that works really well.

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: IT Support Technician at Kansas Law Enforcement Trnng




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