Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:05:03 -0500 From: "Charles Anderson" <caa@columbus.rr.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD driver Message-ID: <19991228110503.A10365@midgard.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912272353150.19681-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 11:55:19PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912272353150.19681-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>
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On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 11:55:19PM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > I noticed recently (10 minutes ago) that FreeBSD will mount a DVD and I > can even look around on it as if it were a regular CD (on -CURRENT). I was > wondering if there was any mpeg2 decoder that would play DVD movies. I > don't have a hardware decoder the software one looks fine but I'd like to > know if anyone has tried to make a software decoder for FreeBSD. Thanks.. That opens up a huge can of worms, go see http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/ (hmm, that seems to have just gone down......) try http://www.humpin.org/decss but do it fast the DVD CCA is filing restraining orders against every web site out there that has info on playing dvd's on unix operating systems. Also take a look at http://livid.on.openprojects.net to see what the linux dvd player people have done. Right now playing dvd's on *BSD & Linux has more to do with legal problems of decrypting a dvd than technical problems of playing an mpeg2 stream. The people that make dvd's don't want to see an opensource dvd player, because they used a lousy proprietary encryption scheme, that has been reversed engineered, and now they're trying to get all of the worms back into the can. -Charlie -- Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com No quote, no nothin' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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