From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 09:34:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AA837B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.praemunio.com (mail.praemunio.com [66.179.47.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C1C643F75 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:34:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@knobbe.us) Received: from localhost (HELO mail.knobbe.us) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 11:34:52 -0500 Received: from server1.home.knobbe.us by firewall1.home.knobbe.us with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 11:35:05 -0500 Received: from localhost (HELO ??) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 11:34:49 -0500 From: Frank Knobbe To: ydg@cox.net In-Reply-To: <20030716082813.YXKO12263.fed1mtao07.cox.net@marathon.claygirl.org> References: <000201c34b45$a5826a40$010b0a0a@windstorm> <200307152158.34789.racerx@makeworld.com> <20030716082813.YXKO12263.fed1mtao07.cox.net@marathon.claygirl.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pLydwbKb9B1f2fxigjaZ" Message-Id: <1058373286.510.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 16 Jul 2003 11:34:46 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:34:54 -0000 --=-pLydwbKb9B1f2fxigjaZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:28, ydg@cox.net wrote: > However, what ive heard is there's some kind of tweaked emulation > under windows, which tricks the system into thinking the cdrom drive > is a dvd drive, and the system compensates for the work the drive cant > actually do [perhaps some kind of 'on the fly decode/read']. no idea > if such a beast exists. and with today's prices, its probably easier > to simply buy a dvd drive. :) Sounds to me like you are confusing this software with a software DVD player/decoder. Most systems should play DVD's through a built-in hardware decoder and display it on the screen in overlay mode. If you don't have built-in decoder, you can use software like WinDVD to read the DVD (still from a DVD drive) and the software does the decoding and displaying on the screen (which will usually slow the system down bad, potentially resulting in frame loss). You still need a DVD drive to read DVD's though.=20 Regards, Frank --=-pLydwbKb9B1f2fxigjaZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/FX6lpo+MRgtrF98RAnqbAJ9bQpCMGE9NCzeAs88EFuwb/3iJZgCglQiW QBcUWVMIGIsa0E/sxhd909g= =AQ74 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pLydwbKb9B1f2fxigjaZ--