From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jan 25 13:38:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15306 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:38:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from top.worldcontrol.com (snblitz.sc.scruznet.com [165.227.132.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA15298 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@worldcontrol.com) From: brian@worldcontrol.com Received: (qmail 1330 invoked by uid 100); 25 Jan 1999 21:39:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:39:01 -0800 To: Jakob Alvermark Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVDs [and MPEG decoder hardware] Message-ID: <19990125133901.A1276@top.worldcontrol.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Alvermark , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jakob Alvermark on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:00:00PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > Hello. > > What about support for DVDs? I recently got myself a DVD-player. I noticed > that it is detected under FreeBSD(3.0) as a CDROM. It works well as a > CDROM, and I even mounted av DVD movie and was able to read the files off > it. So that part seems well supported, but what about playing the movies? > > I also have this REALMagic Hollywood plus mpeg card. Works fine under > windows, but can it be supported under FreeBSD? I don't know much about > developing drivers for FreeBSD, but if anybody is working on a driver, I > would help as much as I can. I wrote an MPEG driver for the OmniMedia P1S MPEG hardware decoder card. (The card is no longer made, also only supports MPEG 1) I'd be happy to port/write one for the REALMagic Hollyword Plus MPEG card. Can you get docs on how it works out of the manufacturer? -- Brian Litzinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message