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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:55:35 -0400
From:      Funn Dipp <isetr0@sevicron.com>
To:        Rory Savage <rsavage@crosswinds.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD Support
Message-ID:  <20001010115535.C11283@sevicron.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091803500.24803-100000@rdu162-238-023.nc.rr.com>; from rsavage@crosswinds.net on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:06:16PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091803500.24803-100000@rdu162-238-023.nc.rr.com>

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If you are just talking about mounting a regular CD-ROM that you have
put into a dvd drive, you can just do `mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom`
substituting your proper device name and mount point.  If you are
talking about /playing/ DVD's on FreeBSD - well...that is a different
matter.  I know people have been able to do it using 4.1, in fact I
kind of was sorta ( <grin> ) able to play a dvd using 4.1-STABLE,
however it wasn't perfect.  FreeBSD can mount DVD's perfectly fine -
it's just playing them which is the problem.  There are howto's
(albeit, very outdated) on www.opendvd.org, but the FreeBSD one is
rather...sparse - as in it just has a couple things to download.

I hope that someday I can watch DVD's with ease on my FreeBSD box.
...It's nice to have a dream I guess :)

isetr0

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:06:16PM -0400, Rory Savage wrote:
> 
> 
>     To whom it concerns,
> 
> 
>     I am running a 4.1-RELEASE version of FreeBSD.  I have just downloaded
> the 4.1.1-RELEASE, does this new version (4.1.1) have what it takes to
> mount dvd drive?  Or what do I need to do to be able to mount a dvd rom
> drive?  Somebody mentioned going to the -CURRENT version of FreeBSD, how
> could I do that (ie. upgrade) my system?
>   
>     Thanks
> 
> 
>     -Rory Savage


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