From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 03:48:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC73C1065676 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:48:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80AC48FC19 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:48:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m9T3muVO033442; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "matt donovan" , "Joachim Rosenfeld" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:50:14 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <28283d910810281339i76a48c23r81498dc8529848c1@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1933 Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: vlc not decoding certain DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:48:58 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of matt donovan > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:39 PM > To: Joachim Rosenfeld > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: vlc not decoding certain DVDs > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld > wrote: > > > Why is vlc (the CSS library specifically) unable to decode certain > > CDs? Certain foreign film CDs work fine, but others, mostly US-based > > Hollywood films don't. I was under the impression that vlc was able to > > decode everything? I can hear audio on these DVDs, but the video is > > weird blocks of color. > > > > The weird thing is that if I run vlc under WINE, everything works > > fine. The movie plays, but fullscreen doesn't work and the interface > > is really horrible on vlc/wine. > > > > Any solutions on how to fix this? > > > > I am running 7.0-RELEASE on an x86 box. > > > > All ports are up to date as of 3 days ago. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > umm VLC hasn't been able to decode everything for quite a long > time install > libdvdcss I have found personally that the movie studios have been going all out recently in various copy protection standards that break the DVD standard but are still playable on most of the hardware DVD players out there. As a result I've had to resort in some cases to running varous Windows versions of DVD rippers to get the movies into video files and off the DVD. Your going to have to experiment since this is also dependent on the DVD drive itself. Once you get the DVD ripped to a video file it's generally no problem to play it. Ted