From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 02:50:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7DE16A419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kneel.pardoe@virgin.net) Received: from n068.sc1.he.tucows.com (smtpout0183.sc1.he.tucows.com [64.97.136.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB0913C447 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:50:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kneel.pardoe@virgin.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (82.20.27.99) by n068.sc1.he.tucows.com (7.2.069.1) (authenticated as kneel.pardoe@virgin.net) id 47586AEC0009AAF4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:50:41 +0000 From: neal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:50:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <20071208210331.GA1241@thought.org> <200712091445.23000.kneel.pardoe@virgin.net> <20071210010441.337e2990@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20071210010441.337e2990@gumby.homeunix.com.> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712100250.22418.kneel.pardoe@virgin.net> Subject: Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:50:43 -0000 On Monday 10 December 2007, RW wrote: > Probably Kubuntu was using Kmplayer with the Xine > backend. Xine has DVD menu support and AFAIK MPlayer > doesn't on any platform. I would normally use Xine for > DVDs and most video files as its picture quality is > better. That said, if you want to play DVDs through > mplayer you can navigate via the gmplayer context menu - > you don't need to play the vob files directly. No, I was using Kaffeine which also uses the xine backend (and its better picture quality). I see my original post ended up looking like just a moan when that wasn't my intention. (best laid plans...) I chose Kubuntu because it has an easy set up for VMware and a couple of similar products which I hope to get installed and set up to run BSD. Like I said I really like many things about FreeBSD, like it is just so much better organised than the Linux I've previously used. I just wanted to get 'my' basic requirements established first which has usually been trivial to achieve, but unfortunately got no further. neal.