--- Warning!

The DVD Region Selector was NOT designed to work with ANY
hardware decoding cards.
Trying to use it with such a card may cause irreversible damage.

The CineMaster tab in DVD Region Selector is to be used with
"Software CineMaster" and NOT the "CineMaster decoding card".

DVD Region Selector was NOT designed to work with DVD Drives
that contain firmware lockable region code.
Trying to use it on such drives is not recommended.
To date this includes the Creative 5x Encore drives and
the Compaq GD-2500 drives
(Not the OEM Hitachi GD-2500 drives, they work fine).

You can find out if your drive's firmware is region locked
by visiting the DVD Infomatrix home page (see home page above)
and downloading a small (5k) program that will test that
for you.


--- WinDVD Player notes:

The WinDVD region code will not be automatically detected,
if you have WinDVD installed, just select the appropriate
region and press "apply".

You may of course change the regions as many times as needed.


--- ATI DVD Player v3.00 notes:

When installing the ATI DVD Player, it is highly advised
that you get a CineMaster control panel file that is
actually visible in the control panel.

The control panel file the ATI DVD Player installs is
invisible and will not be accessable!

Also, the ATI Installation program does not seem to
set ANY of the CineMaster decoding engine registry
information including the region, decoding mode, sound
quality, etc...

You will need to use either a working CineMaster control
panel or DVD Region Selector in order to first
initialize these settings for the ATI Player to even
work!


--- PowerDVD v1.30+ notes:

PowerDVD v1.30 uses three different region code protections,
one of which is contained in the WIN.INI file.

When DVD Region Selector changes the WIN.INI file, it uses
the Windows API routines to do so in order to be fully
compatible with windows and to minimize chances of
errors.

However, when the API calls are called, there is about
5 seconds delay between the call for a change, and
the actual change.

So, after changing the PowerDVD v1.30 region setting,
wait for about 5-10 seconds before running PowerDVD
for the changes to take effect.

As a safety precaution, you may wish to backup the
WIN.INI file before.


--- Xing v2.03 and Windows 98 player notes:

When the Xing Player is used under Windows 98 it uses
both it's internal region counter AND the Windows 98
region information.

The Windows 98 region information is created the first
time you try to play a DVD Title using either the Xing
or Windows 98 DVD Players.

To reset the Windows 98 region counter you must manually
erase the region key from the system registry.

DVD Region Selector will try to make your life easier by
automatically locating the region key within the registry
and displaying it within the "Win98" tab.

If no key was found under the "Possible Region Keys"
panel, it may mean that either a key was not created
(no DVD Title ever played on your machine) or that
DVD Region Selector was unable to locate the key.

If the latter is the case, you may try to manually locate
the Windows 98 region key using regedit (regedit.exe
can be found in the Windows 98 directory).

Try locating it under:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft"

If a key was located using the DVD Region Selector,
make sure you export it using the export button.

Then use the erase button to clear the key and
thus resetting the Windows 98 region setting/counter.

The next Title played will set the Windows 98
region code to the Title region code.

And remember, under Windows 98 both the Xing
region code and the Windows 98 region code
are checked when the Xing Player is used, so
remember to set the Xing Region code under
the "Xing" tab.