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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:18:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        320048919767-0001@t-online.de (Heiko Schaefer)
Cc:        uwe@ptc.spbu.ru (Valeriy E. Ushakov), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vcd
Message-ID:  <200009180918.LAA67104@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181101370.11707-100000@daneel.foundation.hs> from Heiko Schaefer at "Sep 18, 2000 11:10:17 am"

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It seems Heiko Schaefer wrote:
> Hi Valeriy,
> 
> i see on the freebsd-multimedia list that you are interested in playing
> vcds on freebsd. thats great, i am vaguely involved in a project that
> develops a mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video player for unix-like systems that also
> works on freebsd (although you have to tweak freebsd 4.1-RELEASE's shared
> memory for it to be able to allocate enough shared video memory... i
> wonder why this is configured in that way by default...) if you're
> interested you can look at http://xine.sourceforge.net. xine can play
> mpeg-1 better than mtv by now (or so i'd say at least :-)) xine
> synchronizes video and audio playback for example. currently only the cvs
> version of it is worth looking at, we are not very far from making the
> next release snapshot.
> 
> of course we are also interested in making vcd playback possible (i also
> have some here :)) ! so .. where can i find this vcd-patch that you were
> talking about on the list ? i am looking for a system-independant way to
> make xine play vcds... is this "luoqi's CDIOCREADCD" something
> freebsd-specific ?

On FreeBSD you should just open the device, set the blocksize via
the right ioctl, and the read normally from the device. There is
no longer a need for the ioctl hacks....

-Søren


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