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Hello ,

i have received Bluray UHD drive, and it functions well,
very happy with it;


now however would like to play DVD, and it seems it is from another "region".

The program alerts me
You can only change the drive region code 5 more times

Is there a way to make this drive a bit more "universal"?
A bit like with the Standalone-DVD-Bluray drives (requiring possibly "hack")?

Thank you very much.


https://ibb.co/j9qWP9g2

kapqa wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 04, 2025 8:24 pm

Hello ,

i have received Bluray UHD drive, and it functions well,
very happy with it;


now however would like to play DVD, and it seems it is from another "region".

The program alerts me
You can only change the drive region code 5 more times

Is there a way to make this drive a bit more "universal"?
A bit like with the Standalone-DVD-Bluray drives (requiring possibly "hack")?

Thank you very much.


https://ibb.co/j9qWP9g2

No there is not. MakeMKV doesn't care about region coding anyway. You didn't say what player you are using so I assume you are using VLC. Just associate VLC with MakeMKV and ensure it is running when you go to play the disc.

Although, direct disc playback isn't recommended. It will wear out the drive and possibly the disc quite a bit faster. Much better to rip the disc once (saving the drive and disc) and play the resulting mkv file as many times as you want.

In the old days there were RPC1 firmwares for DVD drives, which made the drive region free. But ever since the BluRay/DVD combos, I never heard of any current firmware doing so.