From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 17 07:36:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8180A16A420 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6935E13C4CA for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILwNV-0005QD-Ko for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:36:18 -0700 Received: from 71-220-138-238.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.138.238] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1ILwNS-0005Pn-DA; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:36:14 -0700 Message-ID: <46C54FD7.5090900@math.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:35:51 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070713) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chandhee Thala , questions@freebsd.org References: <77647f500708161933h4bac6ea1u29671ae701296cd7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <77647f500708161933h4bac6ea1u29671ae701296cd7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: Subject: Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:36:01 -0000 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