Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:20:49 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Joseph Gleason <clash@zogbe.tasam.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DVD's Message-ID: <20010905122049.A9710@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20010905144035.K88969-100000@zogbe.tasam.com>; from clash@zogbe.tasam.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:42:56PM -0400 References: <200109051826.f85IQDs09571@tao.thought.org> <20010905144035.K88969-100000@zogbe.tasam.com>
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:42:56PM -0400, Joseph Gleason wrote: > 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. > The ATAPI drive is what I'm wondering about. DVD movies or whatever non-hacking uses for DVD's is a `dontcare' right now. A year or 18 months back I know that SuSE supported DVD's... but then most Linux distros support stuff that FBSD doesn't. thanks muchly, gents.... gary > > 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 > > > -- 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
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