DVD Info X 3

Good news for you. Don't forget you will the need Region X for switching the (now OS enforced) region settings of Apple DVD Player.

And there's the rub. DVD Info X reports my two Sony DVD drives as RPC 1, region free. But Region X says I have no region free drives and warns me against tampering with them. I found out, after doing some experimenting, that though DVD Info X has been updated to work with no disc in the drives, Region X has not. Once I put a disc in one of my drives, Info X shows all 8 regions checked, which is consistent with the drive being region free, but this report is different from what it shows with no disc in the drive - only region 1 checked. This can be confusing until you realize they are substantively the same. One other difference is that Info X accurately reports the number of available changes when the drive is empty, but says NA with a disc in it. And, with a disc in the drive, Region X will show the drive with all options available, including available changes. For some reason my drives are set to only 4 changes, even though I've never changed the region on either of them. Why this is so I can only speculate, but it doesn't matter at the moment because I have no reason to change the region on the drives; and, with region free drives apparently I never will. How all this relates to DVD player, though, I don't know. I don't mean to criticize the developer - after all he provides these apps for free. But I do recommend using them carefully.

You're right, there is some issue. I am working on a correction on both DVD Info X and Region X. Thank you for reporting and for your help.

@Xvi : it looks like "Region Display" from your page is having the same sort of problem with 10.6.6 - I burned to a CD, as instructed, but DVD Player only plays a 10-second loop consisting of the opening scene and the "... if this gets stuck ..." screen, over and over, with no Good/Bad region screens. Yes, I am using what DVD Info X 3 claims is an RPC-1 drive.