Playing Foreign DVD Movies on Your Mac

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Even though we live in a world where you can purchase movies on DVD from other countries, you canit play them on your Mac without changing your optical driveis region encoding. Since you can change the region only five times, you better make sure that imported movie is really worth watching. Unless, that is, you use VLC media player.


Break free from the boundaries of DVD region codes.

VLC media player is an amazing jack-of-all-trades multimedia player that handles a stunning array of media formats without the need for additional codecs. More importantly for todayis tip, however, is the fact that it can play DVDs from every encoding region. As an added bonus, it also plays video CDs.

VLC media player is free, and you can download it at the VideoLAN Web site.

Trivia: The movie in the VLC media player screen shot is Tradje vågen, Den (The Third Wave). Itis a Swedish blockbuster action-thriller staring Jacob Eklund, Irena Björklund and Richard Froelich.


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Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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