It appears I am the only one who is posting here recently. Well, at least I'm keeping this place from getting too quiet.
Anyway, I just had an interesting experience with PowerDVD 10. I put in an Angelina Ballerina disc (I bought a good load of them about two weeks ago), and it was region 1, the first R1 disc I had Greta play. I thought the drive was already set to region 1 at the factory, so when PowerDVD attempted to play it, it gave me the window where you can set the region, and it said I had five region code changes left. Confused, I hit cancel, and the disc didn't play. But when I went into the settings for the DVD-RW drive region code, it says I had four. That means Windows automatically set the region code of the disc even though I told PowerDVD not to. Thus, when I played the Angelina disc back again, it played like normal.
I didn't know that Windows would automatically set the region code by itself if an R1 DVD was accessed.

I searched on Google about this, and it's apparently been this way since Windows 2000.
When I first played a region-coded DVD with Lilly's external DVD-RW drive, Mac OS X actually asked up front to set the initial region.
Other things...I also tested PowerDVD's screencap capability. While PowerDVD is great at DVD playback, not so great when it comes to screencaps. In fact, sometimes trying to capture a frame will freeze PowerDVD for no reason, leaving a frozen window on the desktop and you can't terminate PowerDVD with the task manager! A reboot is necessary when that happens.
VLC shall still be used for screencaps then. I may use Wendell for that purpose.
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