Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:04:39 +1100 From: "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au> To: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a DVD-ROM Message-ID: <20000201190438.E3994@vet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200002010737.JAA14091@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za>; from rbezuide@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:37:11AM %2B0200 References: <200002010737.JAA14091@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za>
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:37:11AM +0200, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Hi ... > > I have a DVS DVD-ROM drive and it is detected under ATAPI > (I'm running 4.0-current of 10 Jan) > > I am able to mount a normal data cd in the drive but it fails > when I try to mount a DVD movie. > > I'm using mount_cd9660 ... is this correct ? > > It returns with invalid argument. If I remember correctly, most movie DVDs don't have any filesystems. You'll only be able mount movie DVDs that have "extras" for use on a PC. However, even that isn't very useful, since you still can't view the movie and the extras usually only work under Windows. If you want to actually play a DVD movie under FreeBSD, I don't know of any way to do that right now. There is a project called Livid[1] which is working on this stuff for Linux, perhaps one day their work might be ported to FreeBSD. Of course, the whole DVD decoding issue is very controversial right now, with at least two court actions in progress over it. [1] http://linuxvideo.org/ -- Lachlan O'Dea <mailto:lodea@vet.com.au> Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ "With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy." - Darth Vader To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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