Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:24:23 +0200 From: "Michael Nottebrock" <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: "Jason Andresen" <jandrese@mitre.org>, "Gabriel Rocha" <grocha@geeksimplex.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Watching DVD's in -stable Message-ID: <007d01c10f0f$3c4a1a60$0408a8c0@kiste> References: <20010717152917.A5466@geeksimplex.org> <3B54B17B.30E8D456@mitre.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Andresen" <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "Gabriel Rocha" <grocha@geeksimplex.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:43 PM Subject: Re: Watching DVD's in -stable > Gabriel Rocha wrote: > > > > Hey, > > I am just curious if I missed something totally obvious, if I > > have, please hit me over the head with a clue-by-four and I will > > go away quickly. But is there anything akin to oms and the > > video4linux project for freebsd? I want to ditch my windows > > partition on my laptop, but it would be such a waste of a > > perfectly nice dvd drive...Thanks in advance. --gabe > > xine can view unencrypted DVDs (unfortunatly most DVDs are encrypted, > from > what I've heard, only some porn DVDs are unencrypted). > > There is a plugin that supposedly integrated DVD decryption in xine, > but I don't think it works (especially with the new, unstable version > of xine in the ports). Can't tell about FreeBSD, but I watch css-ed DVDs with xine 0.4.3 on a Linux machine all the time, using the libdecss-plugin from linuxvideo. Xine performs amazingly well even on slower machines (that particular Linux box is a Celeron 500) and not only plays DVDs, but also VCDs, mpegs and AVIs, including DivX (I believe it uses avifile-code to achieve this, since it also needs the windows codec binaries in order to play AVI.). Give xine a try, and read the HOWTO at http://xine.sourceforge.net especially Sections 4 & 5. Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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