VLC, Xineplayer, mplayer for Region 2 DVDs on ibook G4

Anyone else having difficulties with these media players on the new ibook G4 (10.4.2 OS X Tiger)? My 14" has a Matsushida DVD-R UJ 845-E.
I am trying to watch Region 2 DVDs from Italy and cannot get any of these players to work. At the time, the computer's DVD player was set on Region 1. I heard somewhere that if it's set to Region 2, then maybe the players would work. I've tried this with Xineplayer (which I'd prefer if it would actually work!), but no luck. Then I even tried playing a Region 1 DVD through Xineplayer and it had the same error message! (I'm assuming a Region 1 DVD wouldn't even work through the player if the computer's DVD Region code was set to 1.)
The peculiar thing is that each of the three media players mentioned above reacted the same to each of the Region 2 DVDs I attempted to play. I'd get to the FBI warning, Dolby sound trailer (if it had one), then to the Main Menu. But once I clicked on either Start Movie or Scene Selection, the screen would disappear and/or I'd receive an error message even if the program would stay running. Also, didn't matter HOW I opened it (open, play dvd, open video_ts--which seems to clog everything, etc.), the results were pretty much the same.
Is this a problem with the new version of Tiger? It seems plenty of people out there have no issues whatsoever with these programs on Mac OS X. Or, could something be wrong in the configuration of my computer since each of these applications behaved similarly? I've already set iDVD to ignore any DVDs when inserted...
Does anyone have similar experiences trying to play DVDs through one of these media players, using the same version OS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Apparently, it was suppose to work that way. <try reading discussions from xlr8yourmac.com and askdavetaylor.com>
...but as I tried it on my iBook, I was quite surprised that it was still region conscious. So oftentimes, i rip the DVD <set on other region> so VLC could read the video_ts folder.
I bet there are other ways to play videos aside from what I do but so far, that works for me. Ill let you know if I get some answers and I hope youll let me know if you get something too.
Thanks very much.Cheer!!=D

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