[PLUG] playing PAL region 2 DVDs with subtitles on Linux

[Jim Karlock]

FWIW, my 5(+/-) year old COBY stand alone player has a PAL/NTSC 
switch that controls the OUTPUT independently of the DVD format! 
Don't know about the region BS.

Thanks
JK


At 10:15 PM 12/7/2012, you wrote:
>For bimonthly movie night, my wife and I watched "Absurdistan".
>The title is apt.  Director Veit Helmer recently made "Baikonur",
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iK464i6tzw
>a drama filmed at the active Kazakh/Russian launch center, which
>I would like to see.  Amazon sells the DVD for PAL region 2,
>which is incompatable with my Hollywood-infested DVD player.
>
>Will a PAL region 2 disk play using Linux DVD player software?
>Will the English subtitles display?  I'm guessing this can be
>set up with a lot of effort,  but many tweaks may be needed,
>and frame-rate incompatabilities leading to ugly video.
>
>Keith
>
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