Next, I opened the DVD in VLC Player and tried using AirPlay again. Interestingly, that changed the display resolution, but the movie did appear on both the internal and external screens. To sort out the problem, I connected the Mac directly to the TV via an HDMI cable. Things looked promising - until I activated AirPlay on the Mac: While the computer’s desktop was mirrored on the TV, and the movie’s audio played through the TVs speakers, a gray rectangle had replaced the video viewport in DVD Player. (Here’s an older blog post, dating back almost ten years, on how simple it usually is to change a DVD player’s region code.)įor reading legacy CD-ROMs, we use an external USB optical drive with our Macs, so I decided to try the following route: set the external drive’s region code to 2, play movies with the DVD Player application on the Mac, and stream audio and video to our TV via an AppleTV using AirPlay. The region code of our DVD player is 1, though, and unfortunately, it is one of the few models for which you can’t find an unlock code online.

Our media collection contains a number of DVDs whose region code is 2, because I had bought them when I was still living in Germany.

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