Reset CyberLink PowerDVD Blu-Ray Region Code to Free Locking
Blu-Ray Disc (BD) or BD-ROM AV video discs also feature Regional Playback Control (RPC) which more commonly known as region code first introduced in DVD video discs. However, the region codes for Blu-ray discs are different from DVD’s, where BD region code groups countries into three geographic areas only. BD-ROM AV (HDMV/BD-J) discs can be authored to play in one, multiple or all regions (region-free), but Consumer electronics (CE) players players are region-specific. When a BD disc is inserted into Blu-ray player, a checking program on disc will compare its own RPC details to those encoded in the player and stops operation if both do not match.
However, on computers, these region locking mechanism works differently. The Blu-ray supported playback software manages that region code in computer instead of the BD drive. In CyberLink PowerDVD program, users can set or change the region code up to 5 times after initial configuration, and then the application will be locked on the region you have listed on your fifth and last change.
Blu-ray Region Codes
Region A/1 - North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia
Region B/2 - Europe (EU), Africa, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia
Region C/3 - China, India, Russia, Rest of the world
So to continue playing and watching your favorite movies in CyberLink PowerDVD regardless of what region code the BD discs have, there is a hack that can reset and crack the Blu-ray region information in PowerDVD.
Trick to hack BD region code in Windows XP
After installing PowerDVD, the program will initiate the default value of Region A and 5 remaining changes, and there is not settings in the registry. When region code changed, PowerDVD stores rgion information at this registry key in Windows XP:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{631400EE-60DF-4014-8A01-67106E57BDA8}]
@=dword:00000002
The value can be 1 for Region A, 2 for Region B, 4 for Region C.
There is another registry key that stores the number of remaining changes to region code allowed:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9CB23675-4229-4630-AFF6-3668BA6AF33E}]
@=dword:00000004
Every time you change region in PowerDVD, this number is decremented by 1.
Thus, to hack PowerDVD region code control in Windows Vista, you can either change the region code directly from the registry, or the value of remaining times left allowed to change region code can be set sky high (such as 65,536 times) so that you can change the region code without limitation.
You can use a registry export file to automate the process. Download the BDregion.zip archive file with BDregionA.reg (to set to region A), BDregionB.reg (to set to region B), BDregionC.reg (to set to Region C) and BDregionNoLimit.reg (to set number of times left for region change to FFFF or 64k times).
Hack to crack PowerDVD Blu-ray region code in Windows Vista
Region code information for PowerDVD is stored as Alternate Data Stream (ADS) hidden metadata attached to the file “CLDShowX.ini” located in “C:\ProgramData\CyberLink\PowerDVD\” folder. To reset the region code change remaining, simply delete the “CLDShowX.ini” file. When the PowerDVD runs again after the deletion, the default settings will be used.
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May 9th, 2007 22:53
ow
idont use PowerDVD i use WinDVD
thats just too bad
anyways, can u post somting to teach us how u can remove the region from the disk so that it no longer is limited
thanks
we just want to learn thats all, not for breaching copyright (honest)!
June 2nd, 2007 21:17
Hello,
It seems that WinDVD stores its Blu-Region information in a file, as PowerDVD does in Vista.
Here is what I found on SlySoft Forum about WinDVD Blu-Ray-Region storage:
“If you could provide me/us with a hint or two as to where to look (or where to start looking) for the WinDVD BD Blu-ray region ’storage location’, I’ll start the hunt as soon as possible”.
To begin, you can download a program called “Process Monitor” from http://www.sysinternals.com (the link will actually lead you to Microsoft’s web site as Microsoft bought Sysinternals recently), then run the program and monitor what the process “WinDVD.exe” does when you change Blu-ray region setting. It took me about half an hour to figure out what PowerDVD does. Some time ago I started looking at WinDVD too (the VAIO version you provided), and even found what file it accesses, but that file (some small file in system32 folder, do not remember its exact name now) turned out to be locked by System process, so I could not see what is inside, could not copy it, delete etc. I could only see its content when I logged in to another OS (Vista), but I did not continue experiments partly because I did not have time and partly because I do not really see much sense in using WinDVD due to its restrictions.
If you manage to crack WinDVD’s counter, you could write a tool that resets Blu-Regions BOTH for PowerDVD AND WinDVD–a Blu-Ray equivalent of “DVDGenie” or “DVD Region Killer.”
Many greetings,
A Friend
June 4th, 2007 21:58
Hi,
On an Internet page I found this:
Guide: How to reset Blu-ray region counter in InterVideo WinDVD BD for VAIO
Ver.8.0.08.100
1) Download a program called “Autoruns” from http://www.sysinternals.com .
2) Run autoruns.exe, go to “Drivers” tab and disable driver called “regi” (regi.sys). Just untick the checkbox next to it. Note: Do not delete it.
3) Restart Windows.
4) Delete file “ivireg.ivr” in “C:\Windows\System32\” folder.
5) Re-enable “regi” driver using Autoruns (tick the checkbox).
6) Restart Windows.File “ivireg.ivr” will be recreated with default settings and you can change BD region from WinDVD interface 5 more times before you have to repeat this procedure.
Enjoy!
P.S.: If you have a dual boot system (say,
XP and Vista), you can just boot to another OS and delete “ivireg.ivr” from there.
Perhaps someone could write a tool that can do this process, which seems a bit complex. It could also reset PowerDVD’s Region counter.
Many greetings,
A Friend
March 1st, 2008 17:21
wht bd/rom should i buy .. or it works will all of them ?
March 17th, 2008 21:37
You can use any bd rom as the region code is stored on the computer not in the hardware.
BUT the new update of PowerDVD 7.3 doesn’t work with the above hack. I have tried changing the registry keys as described and it doesn’t work after I have updated to the latest version. (Worked fine before) They must have moved it to somewhere else. I couldn’t find it by using Microsofts RegMon utility. Has anyone encountered the same problem? And maybe fixed it?
Best regards,
broch
April 25th, 2008 17:13
[...] to A Friend, here’s how to reset the counter of allowed number of times to reset region code on Blu Ray [...]
June 1st, 2008 21:09
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew a similar way to reset the Blu-ray region coding in Acer Arcade’s PlayMovie program?
I tried the CLDshowX trick, but apparently PlayMovie doesn’t keep it’s BD region info there.
Thanks.