Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:44:05 -0500 From: "Neu, Benjamin S." <bneu@charter.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: CDRom able to play DVD movies Message-ID: <000501c34bb9$7889de00$010b0a0a@windstorm> In-Reply-To: <1058373286.510.22.camel@localhost>
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Is there an echo in this mailing list?! :) -B -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Frank Knobbe Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:35 AM To: ydg@cox.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:28, ydg@cox.net wrote: > However, what ive heard is there's some kind of tweaked emulation > under windows, which tricks the system into thinking the cdrom drive > is a dvd drive, and the system compensates for the work the drive cant > actually do [perhaps some kind of 'on the fly decode/read']. no idea > if such a beast exists. and with today's prices, its probably easier > to simply buy a dvd drive. :) Sounds to me like you are confusing this software with a software DVD player/decoder. Most systems should play DVD's through a built-in hardware decoder and display it on the screen in overlay mode. If you don't have built-in decoder, you can use software like WinDVD to read the DVD (still from a DVD drive) and the software does the decoding and displaying on the screen (which will usually slow the system down bad, potentially resulting in frame loss). You still need a DVD drive to read DVD's though. Regards, Frank
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