Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:18:51 -0500 From: Mathew KANNER <mat@cs.mcgill.ca> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: DVD playback Message-ID: <20010117131850.A3402@cs.mcgill.ca>
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Hello, My friends at work got me DVD drive as a departing gift (thanks guys). Naturally, I don't want to install Windows so I searched for a way to play DVDs from FBSD. I didn't have any luck with the standard tool that people talk about -- a small user-land utility and some FBSD patches that does a IOCTL dance with the DVD drive. Both this utility and the FBSD patches are available on the Internet with a small number of searches. However, with a third tool, a small userland utility that blasts a mounted file looking for the right bits, you can spool or pipe the movies to a player. This tool is also readily found on the Internet, often close to the other files mentioned above. I've used players such as xmovie or xine, both of which are in the ports. So, to summarize, it is possible to view block-buster, Hollywood DVD movies in FBSD. Thanks to all who participated on the lists so that I could search the archive and arrive at this conclusion. --Mat -- Mathew Kanner <mat@CS.McGill.CA> SOCS McGill University Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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