From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 10:42:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E6616A4E0 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from cydem.org (S0106000103ce4c9c.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.27.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B98043D97 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:42:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from soralx.cydem.org (unknown [192.168.0.249]) by cydem.org (Postfix/FreeBSD) with ESMTP id 0D0F690A14 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 03:42:04 -0700 (PDT) From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 03:42:05 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <200609040127.49629.soralx@cydem.org> <86k64kt2cd.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86k64kt2cd.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609040342.05659.soralx@cydem.org> Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:42:12 -0000 > soralx@cydem.org writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > > You're tilting at windmills. I don't know of any OS that > > > automatically starts playing a movie when you insert the DVD. What > > > usually happens is simply that the movie player application pops up; > > > you still have to press play to start the movie. > > Now you really confused me %) Is there a possible benefit of doing that? > > Anyone can type, say, `mplayer dvd://` + any needed options, faster than > > the media is even recognized by a DVD-ROM. > > I'll bet you a dime to a dollar your grandma can't. No, thanks, I'll pass on your bet. But... Grandma? Interfacing to a COMPUTER?? Through a keyboard??? (e.g., without a remote-control) Come on, what's the probability of this happening? Of course, it is _possible_. However, for such rare occasions it's easier just to install something not unlike KDE, and create a link ('shortcut' it is termed, I believe) named 'Wath_a_movie' which executes the above mentioned command. Then no-one will need to mess around with finding where 'Play' is :p Wouldn't this be simpler too, compared to making the OS to detect when a DVD was swallowed, etc (although, if I'm not mistaken, it's easy, now that we have GEOM). Simple and reliable. > DES [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2