Make your DVD Drive play all DVDs
Today I had a problem playing a Region 2 DVD on my Region 1 DVD drive connected to a PC running Windows. I was asked to change the Region of my DVD drive to play the DVD movie and that I would only have 3 changes left before the change would become permanent so that I could not make a switch afterwards anymore. This was a relative new DVD drive that I had connected to my computer and the message was highly irritating as I did not want to risk that I could not play DVDs from other regions on it. I mean, I bought those DVDs and there is no real reason why I should not be able to play them on my PC or any other device with a DVD Player.
I know however what I had to do to make the DVD drive play DVDs from all regions without the irritating message. The method makes the DVD drive region free, basically.
I had to update the firmware of the DVD drive with a modified firmware that makes the DVD drive region free. Here is how I did it. First thing I had to do was to write down the exact model of the drive as it is important to find the correct firmware for it. You can find that information by pressing Windows Pause, clicking on Hardware and there on Device Manager.
Locate the DVD / CD-Rom drives entry and expand it. If you look at the picture below mine is called GSA-H10N and was manufactured by LG. (You find the company logo on the drive itself normally).
Now that I had the drive name and model I went to the firmware page where modified versions of firmwares are published on. I had to search for the drive using the information that I retrieved and found the drive on the page. I downloaded the latest firmware to my PC. All I had to do afterwards was to run the file on my system which only took the click of a button (the only one available) and the new region free drive was available on the PC.
I did check the region of my dvd drive with Drive Region afterwards and it turned out that it was indeed region free afterwards.
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VSDC v Camstudio what is your call Martin?
I really like VSDC right now, it works just fine. Camstudio is excellent too, but my vote goes to the newcomer for now.
I’ve been pleased with the Firefox add-on, Video DownloadHelper. I haven’t had it not record anything, but then I haven’t used it for anything but FLV files. Records as mpeg4, which can be burned to DVD and played in a standard DVD player.
@interestedBystander: use it too but it’s useless for the mp2t format used by pbs frontline. GOM player does play the first few seconds captured by download helper but nothing else after that. download helper probably stops after the first packet and the stream starts to buffer as rickxs mentioned. have notified download helper peeps. still looking for a way to do this. haven’t found anything yet in the forums i’ve visited.
cheers!
just 1 problem with this method Martin ,its when the stream buffers -you capture it !
Example: Try to get ch4OD [uk] who use RTMPE — I don’t think there is a solution for this to download to the PC , I live outside the UK & use Mediahint & watch it though another stream other than CH4 , they don’t even let you buffer ahead ,you click pause & it stops any data build up,so buffering is prevalent enough to be unwatchable
Been using camtasia for awhile now and works just good for me but it is always good to have options though.. nice find.
Nhick
Nice software !! But I will prefer camstudio!!
You might try acethinker screen grabber, free as camstudio. I always use it to capture stream video. It worked pretty well all the time.
How about recording a live streaming video when viewed in full screen mode? This article has no mention for that mode.
It supports full screen as well, but I have not tested it in games or apps that do not display window borders.
How about recording a stream from say, Hulu, or Netflix, or a studio such as ABC, or Fox? Can these be recorded as well?
I’m not aware of any limits.
”How about recording a stream from say, Hulu, or Netflix, or a studio such as ABC, or Fox? Can these be recorded as well?” Karl
if you can play it — it will record it ,your problem will be your IP address
ie.what they allow to view from other countries
Looks nice. But I find their website a little, well, suspicious. I have no strong basis for that. But there are no names of the people involved. Not even where they are located. No userforum. They have what looks to be pretty advanced products for free. How is that possible economically?
Be wary. Your instinct is correct. The file I tried to download for camstuido was actually a disguised artemis trojan virus. I have flagged this site as unsafe and urge you to do the same.
For me everytime I try it gives a “statsfile not found” error
Is there a way to record live streaming video and have it start and stop (on a timer) during a certain time of day when I am not at my computer?
I went to the link you have here for camstudio and attempted to download the free version 2.7 and it was actually a disguised trojan virus that I downloaded, it was labelled as camstudio.exe however McAfee identified it as Artemis trojan malware/spyware. Therefore I assume the site is bunk and I will block it and identify your site as unsafe
Hi Erin, McAfee is wrong. CamStudio is not a trojan but ships with something that is called Install Core which integrates third-party offers into installers.
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/adware-and-puas/Install%20Core/detailed-analysis.aspx
Do you also identify Google, or whichever service you are using to search, as unsafe if they link to the site?
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=iw4wV7bWMuba8Afo4rzIBA&gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=camstudio
Audio does not record – only option is microphone – really dumb!
If i download and use Camtudio: My ehm… laptop crashes…. :(
thats good service i’ish all of you to join it
I’ve just install the software and no problem recording but the audio does not record any solution to get round this issue.
no, all of these screen recorders have the same problem, they don’t record audio. they just don’t tell you that beforehand.
This program does not work at all. No matter what I do, it tells me it can’t record because the settings are wrong. I’ve tried with the default, I’ve tried adjusting settings, nothing works. It simply will not record. On top of that, the audio is set by default to “do not record audio” and there is NO alternative. Piece of junk program.
That is strange. I just checked again and the program works fine on my system. Have you tried updating video card drivers?
Thanks, VSDC Free Screen Recorder works well for me. BTW, I find the video downloader AnyVid video downloader is capable of downloading streaming videos from websites. It saves time but it could not record video chat.
I have tried several solutions to record streaming videos but there are three solutions which worked for me every time. Applications like camstudio and ScreenRec are the right option to go with when it comes to recording streaming videos. In order to record streaming videos ScreenRec also provides cloud storage to access recorded videos anytime you want.