From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 11:43: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zogbe.tasam.com (uta-ip196.ntc.off-campus.vt.edu [63.165.178.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CC437B40B for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (clash@localhost) by zogbe.tasam.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f85IguP89876; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:42:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:42:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Gleason To: Gary Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: DVD's In-Reply-To: <200109051826.f85IQDs09571@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: <20010905144035.K88969-100000@zogbe.tasam.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my experience, using DVD drives to read CD's and do other standard CD-ROM drive stuff is a good idea. DVD drives seem to be better built and fail less. That is just my experience. Any ATAPI DVD drive should work fine in FreeBSD. Playing DVD movies is a diffrent story. Check on the -multimedia mailing list for latest info. Joseph Gleason On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm finally getting ready to have a custom PC built by a local > store. Am thinking of going with a DVD rather than yet another > CDROM drive. Does FreeBSD support all (or virtually all) > DVD's? > > thanks much, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message