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A recent Blu-Ray rip seems to have run into some kind of region-blocking, as all I get is a very small rip that, when converted or played, gives me a screen from the menu system that says the disc can only be played on a Region A player. (The same region-warning menu screen is displayed if I use VLC to open the disc on my computer; VLC's own menu system can see there is other content on the disc, but it won't let me play anything but the region-warning menu screen.)

Most of the Blu-Rays I have are Region A, and I haven't run into this issue before. The same Blu-ray plays normally on the multi-region player attached to my actual TV.

I understand that Blu-ray region coding is enforced at the software level in the menu system, so I assume that when I use MakeMKV to rip the disc (or VLC to open it), it must be triggering something that sends it to the region-coding in the menu system with the assumption that I don't have a player for Region A. Any thoughts on how this might be worked around?

For what it's worth, here is the information from MakeMKV or the LG drive I use with my computer:

A recent Blu-Ray rip seems to have run into some kind of region-blocking, as all I get is a very small rip that, when converted or played, gives me a screen from the menu system that says the disc can only be played on a Region A player.

The "very small rip" part would *almost* make me think that for whatever reason MakeMKV ripped the region warning video instead of the actual movie.

If I am mistaken and you are using a full folder/ISO rip, what happens when you use Kodi and try every possible region setting ?

Could you please tell me which Blu-ray disc it is, if you don't mind disclosing that information ?

(The same region-warning menu screen is displayed if I use VLC to open the disc on my computer; VLC's own menu system can see there is other content on the disc, but it won't let me play anything but the region-warning menu screen.)

Now that is mighty odd, which is I would like you to please try "the Kodi way" on both the actual disc and the rip (if it's indeed a full folder/ISO rip).

EDIT : I assume you have Java and can play Blu-ray menus, yes ? What happens if you use VLC and disable the menus ?