Developer's Description. Region X allows you to see and change the region defined for your region-free (RPC-1) drive. Standard DVD drives are region locked and won't benefit from Region X. The last Mac-based DVD converter in our review lists is from Leawo. A Mac DVD ripping software that can convert the DVD to various audio/video file formats like MP4, MKV, FLV, AVI, MP3, M4A, and many more (180+ formats). Besides, you can rip the DVD to various media players like iPhone, iPad, iTunes, iPod, and more. External Blu-ray Burner Region Free Portable DVD Player, for HP Dell Acer Asus Lenovo MSI Alienware Gaming Laptop and Desktop Computer with Windows 10 8, 6X 3D BD-RE DL DVD-RW Writer Optical Drive. 5.0 out of 5 stars. Get it Fri, Oct 1 - Wed, Oct 6. A DVD disc from region 1 would be encoded as region code 1 and is therefore only operable in a DVD player that originated from region 1. The same is true for region 2, region 3, and so on and so forth, all the way to region 6. The map below shows how DVD region codes are separated and administered by geographic location.
I think there are some bad assumptions here. '/dev/rdisk' needs to define the number for the physical drive starting with '0' (ie. /dev/rdisk0, /dev/rdisk1, etc). How To Make Mac Dvd Player Region Free
The 'list disks' command lists all of the volumes connected to the computer. I have 4 hard drives totalling 16 volumes (partitions). And I have a server connected. All 17 of those get counted individually by 'list disks' and the result is '/dev/rdisk16' which means the external DVD drive would be counted as '/dev/rdisk17' when it gets connected.
But, the 4 physical hard drives really occupy '/dev/rdisk0' thru '/dev/rdisk3' and the connected server does not use a '/dev/rdisk' mount point. So, in theory, when the external DVD drive get connected, it would occupy '/dev/rdisk4'.
But what if you put a DVD into the external drive but don't immediately play it? And then later you plug in another drive, say a thumb flash drive. The flash drive now becomes the last device after the external DVD drive. On my system, the DVD drive would be '/dev/rdisk4' and the flash drive would be '/dev/rdisk5'. So, you then run the script, and even if the 'list disks' command actually worked the way you were thinking it would, the script would then return '/dev/rdisk5' for the DVD drive even though it is really '/dev/rdisk4'. You cannot assume that the DVD drive is always the last device in the chain.
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You need to find a more clever way to detect the real virtual device number for the DVD drive.