From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 23:06:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C8916A41A for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp102.math.arizona.edu (smtp102.math.arizona.edu [128.196.102.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96FD13C459 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0mGu-000357-Id for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:06:22 -0700 Received: from 71-220-152-133.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.152.133] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1J0mG7-00034F-DM; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:05:27 -0700 Message-ID: <4759D1B3.8020101@math.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:05:23 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20071207213712.GA27586@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071207213712.GA27586@thought.org> 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: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: DVD's and FreeBSD 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, 07 Dec 2007 23:06:22 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > Update: > > Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, Totem is not good DVD player and that has to do nothing with the FreeBSD, OpenBSD or whatever Linux you want to use. You may read here why is so difficult to use DVDs http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html Ogle is by far the best DVD player but VLC and MPlayer are able to play stunning number of different proprietary and non-proprietary video and audio formats. > but kmplayer works > --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling > in "device atapicam" into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes. K3b works fine or I should say as good as on any of major Linux distribution. Something is wrong with your configuration. Read very carefully $ make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b > So. > For "toys", Linux; for superior [unbeatable] stability, FreeBSD > is still first rate. > > gary > Depends what you mean by playing. Some people use Flash or Java for work and FreeBSD is definitely not for them. For me personally works boot as a professional tool and as life-stile OS. But then it doesn't work for my mother in law and probably it doesn't work for 99% of other casual computer users. Cheers, Predrag