Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:35:51 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Chandhee Thala <cthala@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs Message-ID: <46C54FD7.5090900@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <77647f500708161933h4bac6ea1u29671ae701296cd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <77647f500708161933h4bac6ea1u29671ae701296cd7@mail.gmail.com>
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Chandhee Thala wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. > > Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error > and quits. I have no problems with foreign DVDs (from other > countries). > > Is this standard behavior for VLC on BSD or am I doing something wrong? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) since I can play US DVDs with VLC . In my understanding DVD standards in US a lose because of proprietary **** so you might have been just unlucky to pick the one with really strange coding. I would strongly suggest you try MPlayer (if everything fails to play some format usually MPlayer works). I am also able to play DVDs with gxine. I was able to play DVDs in the past with Kaffeine when I run PC-BSD for a short period of time. Since, I run Gnome I didn't bother to install Kaffeine. I am NOT able to play DVDs with Movie Player from Gnome and I have not really tried XMPS although I have the application on my computer. I hope this helps
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