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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Joseph Gleason <clash@zogbe.tasam.com>
Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>,
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Subject: Re: DVD's
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Basically, vlc will play DVD's with acceptable (but sometimes
jumpy) quality and performance

Ken

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, 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.
> 
> 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
> >
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