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From: Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@free.fr>
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DVD Movies
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:09:24 -0500
John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:49, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > On 12/2/06, Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> wrote:
> > >  Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ?
> >
> > Apparently, yes
> >
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer
> 
> I think most of those framebuffer options are Linux-specific, but
> svgalib is certainly available on FreeBSD. The only trick is getting
> it configured properly..

It works with ncurses, too.
Perhaps this will be helpful:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/4441

Jona