Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:21:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing DVD works Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203281417420.92867-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20020327141240.C45756@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Mathew Kanner wrote: :On Mar 26, Michael Nottebrock wrote: :> Mathew Kanner wrote: :> > Just a note to the list to say that playing DVDs does indeed :> > work. I borrowed my friends Austin Powers DVD and tried to play it. :> > I installed the CVS version of mplayer (from last night) :> > :> > mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/acd1c -cache 20960 With the current port, -dvd-device appears to have been removed. :> I never knew that the "cache" parameter existed. :) I already get smooth :> playback with -cache 512, but I really wonder why the software needs to :> precache in order to achieve full framerate. : Hm, I just noticed that a small buffer (like 512) works ok for :me aswell, maybe the 20mb buffer was overkill :) I'm currently running 'mplayer -dvd 1 -cache 1024 -rootwin' on a Dell Latitude C810 with a 1600x1200x32bpp display. It's nice to have your desktop be a running movie. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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