From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Sep 18 2:15:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9A737B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 02:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA67104; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:18:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200009180918.LAA67104@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: vcd In-Reply-To: from Heiko Schaefer at "Sep 18, 2000 11:10:17 am" To: 320048919767-0001@t-online.de (Heiko Schaefer) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:18:56 +0200 (CEST) Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru (Valeriy E. Ushakov), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Heiko Schaefer wrote: > Hi Valeriy, > > i see on the freebsd-multimedia list that you are interested in playing > vcds on freebsd. thats great, i am vaguely involved in a project that > develops a mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video player for unix-like systems that also > works on freebsd (although you have to tweak freebsd 4.1-RELEASE's shared > memory for it to be able to allocate enough shared video memory... i > wonder why this is configured in that way by default...) if you're > interested you can look at http://xine.sourceforge.net. xine can play > mpeg-1 better than mtv by now (or so i'd say at least :-)) xine > synchronizes video and audio playback for example. currently only the cvs > version of it is worth looking at, we are not very far from making the > next release snapshot. > > of course we are also interested in making vcd playback possible (i also > have some here :)) ! so .. where can i find this vcd-patch that you were > talking about on the list ? i am looking for a system-independant way to > make xine play vcds... is this "luoqi's CDIOCREADCD" something > freebsd-specific ? On FreeBSD you should just open the device, set the blocksize via the right ioctl, and the read normally from the device. There is no longer a need for the ioctl hacks.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message