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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:28:05 -0800
From:      Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com>
To:        Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VideoCD (VCD) on freeBSD
Message-ID:  <34E7C055.490D92F6@mpegtv.com>
References:  <34E775F0.5EDB55FC@mpegtv.com> <34E7BF72.2C03758E@ms11.hinet.net>

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Doug Lo wrote:
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> > MpegTV Player (mtv/mtvp) can play VCDs directly (on Linux).
> >
> > The best solution would be to use it on FreeBSD with the Linux
> > emulation.
> >
> > The requirements are:
> >
> > 1) The clone system-call is needed (mtvp is now multithreaded).
> > I had reports that clone is not available (yet) on freeBSD.
> >
> > 2) the following ioctl should be implemented for reading mode2 form2
> > sectors of CDROM-XA:
> >
> > CDROMREADTOCHDR
> > CDROMREADTOCENTRY
> > CDROMREADRAW
> >
> > Note: Those ioctl are included in the latest Linux development
> > kernels.
> 
> Tristan,
> 
> So as you meant, FreeBSD can't play VCD yet, right?

I am not sure.  We don't have a FreeBSD system to test.  Can anyone tell
us
if FreeBSD can play VCD already ?  Can it do it with mtv ?
If not, will those ioctl be supported some day ? will clone be available
?

-t

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