Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:04:46 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DVD's and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20071208040446.GA68355@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4759D1B3.8020101@math.arizona.edu> References: <20071207213712.GA27586@thought.org> <4759D1B3.8020101@math.arizona.edu>
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:05:23PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Update: > > > > Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, > Totem is not good DVD player and that has to do nothing with the > FreeBSD, OpenBSD or whatever Linux you want to use. You may read > here why is so difficult to use DVDs > http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html I will see why totem just-works {TM} with Ubuntu. While here it is missing plugin, etc...... > > Ogle is by far the best DVD player but VLC and MPlayer are able to play > stunning number of different proprietary and non-proprietary video and > audio formats. I've never used vlc for DVD; nor ogle; am building. > > > but kmplayer works > > --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling > > in "device atapicam" into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes. > K3b works fine or I should say as good as on any of major Linux > distribution. Something is wrong with your configuration. > Read very carefully > > $ make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b > Well, y'gotta cd to the k3b directory, but no prob; that I remembered from before. I lpr'd it. It's clearly written by one of us ( a fellow geek). I may have some followups. I've been reading and re-reading and re-re-reading the info page. > > > >So. > > For "toys", Linux; for superior [unbeatable] stability, FreeBSD > > is still first rate. > > > > gary > > > Depends what you mean by playing. Some people use Flash or Java for work > and FreeBSD is definitely not for them. > For me personally works boot as a professional tool and as life-stile > OS. But then it doesn't work for my mother in law and probably > it doesn't work for 99% of other casual computer users. You're right; I shouldn't have been so dismissive about burning a CD or DVD. (i'Ve created some data CD's for friends.) vlc-devel is still building. Hopefully more will be working after my reboot. gary > > Cheers, > Predrag > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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