Is Front Row multi Region?

I have just got Front Row for my PowerBook and put one of my movie DVD's in and front row played it without asking me what region I would like to choose, As I have lived in the US, the UK and Australia I have DVD's from 3 different regions which is why in the past I have not used iDVD.
Can I start using front row for all my DVD's?
For a heads up I usually watch DVD's through my computer using VLC
Any info would be great.

eurocrazy wrote:
I have just got Front Row for my PowerBook and put one of my movie DVD's in and front row played it without asking me what region I would like to choose, As I have lived in the US, the UK and Australia I have DVD's from 3 different regions which is why in the past I have not used iDVD.
I ripped my relatively few USA and UK out of region DVDs to my hard drive using Mac the Ripper, which removes the region coding. There isn't any point in copying a commercial DVD via a DVD burner, since almost every cheap stand alone DVD Player will play any region without protest. So you only need a ripped region free copy on hard drive to play on the Mac.
Looks like Front Row on Leopard is happy enough playing an in region DVD from the actual DVD. For the ripped Video_TS files of a DVD, I found you had to put the folders into your ~/Movies folder (or make an alias to the (shared) folder they are really in). I believe you can also put the ripped DVD version on an external drive, and again use the alias trick, but haven't tried that as yet.
Still not sure how you persuade Front Row to use AirTunes to send the audio to an external sound system. But VLC doesn't do that either.

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