From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 14:19:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58BE37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PIKES.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3BC43F85 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from waumbek.panasas.com ([172.17.2.36]) by PIKES.panasas.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 37G1Y7BA; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:19:47 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna Organization: Western Pennsylvania Pizza Disposal Unit To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:19:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200307082215.h68MFtmT016507@koa.aloha.com> <20030709.052128.39156672.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030709195701.B22558@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030709195701.B22558@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307151719.47084.behanna@zbzoom.net> Subject: Watching DVDs (Was: Re: Choosing a new laptop) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:19:51 -0000 On Wednesday 09 July 2003 12:01, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > : Is it possible to watch DVDs in FreeBSD, or is that another reason to > > : keep the Windows partition? > > > > I do this all the time with my Dell I8000, but it has the dvd drive > > built in. i have no experience with dvd via cardbus/pccard to speak > > of. > > What is the best program for it? Can you watch any DVD? I can watch some > with mplayer, and some kick the system off so the computer reboots. > However, my mplayer has not been updated for a while... Having tried to port the mess that is LiViD back in the day, and having tried xine and xmovie, I switched to mplayer for awhile and have now settled on ogle. Of all of them, ogle now has the smoothest playback and makes the best use of motion compensation (on the old 8MB ATI chip in my HP OmniBook 4150B, anyway), and ogle is the only player I know of with DVD menu support. The single biggest trick is to make sure that DMA is enabled on your DVD drive. Note: I have not tried this on -CURRENT; only on -STABLE (currently 4.8 as of 6/14/2003 02:00 EDT). -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net Turning coffee into software since 1990.