From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 03:11:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDED16A41B for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:11:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leegold@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCBD13C465 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:11:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leegold@fastmail.fm) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A28483E3; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:11:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from web5.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.214]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:11:40 -0500 Received: by web5.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 7746060F3C; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:11:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1195441900.7942.1222044999@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: o9i5Hx/OroLZcisTZ1qq0yvTqd+Qv1JoKmLaU4S7FdLh 1195441900 From: "leegold" To: "Chris Hill" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface References: <1195399743.23278.1221974591@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20071118105506.B91015@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20071118105506.B91015@tripel.monochrome.org> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:11:40 -0500 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD set-up help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:11:49 -0000 On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:35:31 -0500 (EST), "Chris Hill" said: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, leegold wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out DVD playback. I have 6.2 w/KDE-lite. I can play > > audio CD's on the DVD. I have installed and want to use VLC. > > [snip] > > > Thanks, The end result I want is to be able to play movies. > > I can't answer all your specific questions, but all I had to do to play > movies was this: > > 1. Install vlc, which you've done; > 2. As root, mount the dvd; > 3. As ordinary user, run vlc like > vlc dvd:///dev/acd1 Many thanks, I just had to mount the DVD device as root - like you said. I have DVD movie/video playback now. Thanks. > > My ordinary user has write access and group ownership on the DVD drive > device file, but I don't know if that is necessary. Also I have those > sysctls set like so: > kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432 > kern.ipc.shmall: 8192 > > ...again, I'm not sure how necessary that is. > > HTH. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]