From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 09:44:07 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 2D47C37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt19.cluster1.charter.net (remt19.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592EC43FAF for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bneu@charter.net) Received: from [68.117.21.132] (HELO windstorm) by remt19.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 94353144 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:44:02 -0400 From: "Neu, Benjamin S." To: Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:44:05 -0500 Message-ID: <000501c34bb9$7889de00$010b0a0a@windstorm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <1058373286.510.22.camel@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal 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 16:44:07 -0000 Is there an echo in this mailing list?! :) -B -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Frank Knobbe Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:35 AM To: ydg@cox.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies 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. Regards, Frank