Hi,
@jon jones,
The region removal built-in to AnyDVD can be difficult to set up for anyone new to AnyDVD. Most of us who've been using AnyDVD for years, and who purchase discs from all over the world, set AnyDVD up this way:
in the Settings window, choose Video Blu-ray and look down at the Blu-ray Disc Region settings. Check the "Remove Blu-ray Region Code" box, and select the "Always ask for region code of inserted disc",click OK.
After that, when you insert a Blu-ray disc, and before it scans the disc, AnyDVD will prompt you to tell it what region THE DISC is from. Note that the region it wants you to choose is NOT the region of your player, and it is NOT the region you live in. Most of the time (unless the disc is truly region free) you should choose the region that it shows on the packaging. After you click on OK, AnyDVD will then scan the disc and decrypt it. AnyDVD will remember the region you've selected so that the next time you insert the same physical disc, it will pre-select the same region code.
If the disc is truly region-free, AnyDVD will show that it is region free in the AnyDVD Settings/status window after decryption is complete. You could pop it out and push it back in again and select "region free" in the prompt, if you really want to. I do that myself just because I'm picky that way.
There's much more detail about how the region code removal works, but those details are only if you want to know exactly how region limiting is implemented and how AnyDVD fixes it.
The above notes should be enough to get it correct for everything unless there's some flawed java region coding on the disc. There's always the possibility that your particular disc, that sparked this thread, has broken region coding or a slightly new one. That's for
@James and crew to determine and I would think that would already be obvious from the log file.
I apologize in advance if you already knew all that; perhaps it will help someone else who comes across this thread.
Cheers,
--michael