Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:26:04 -0400 From: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org>, "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@zogbe.tasam.com>, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DVD's Message-ID: <00c501c1367b$48de4c90$095f5f0a@battleship> References: <20010905144035.K88969-100000@zogbe.tasam.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109051745030.19401-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> <20010905171727.B10411@tao.thought.org>
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> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:45:23PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > Basically, vlc will play DVD's with acceptable (but sometimes > > jumpy) quality and performance > > > > DVD and movies? For BSD?? You'll have to excuse me for being > such a nerd and late-adopter, but I thought that in order to > watch DVD movies on a computer you need special hardware to > handle the video. Not to mention a soundcard for the audio. > > The reason I'd like a DVD is to get the entire FBSD distribution > on *one* disc. :-) I agree the one disc thing would rock. You dont need special hardware for dvd decoding. You need either (PIII 300 or better) or a hardware decoder. Most current systems can handle the processing without hardware assistance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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