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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: Joseph Gleason <clash@zogbe.tasam.com>
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Subject: Re: DVD's
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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
> >
> >
> >
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