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Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2000 19:24:01 -0500
From:      Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net>
To:        "System Admin." <pe@student.lssu.edu>
Cc:        nathan <beemern@ksu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DVD Drive support on FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <38977921.D2D51B56@charm.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.10002011852070.8942-100000@student.lssu.edu>

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"System Admin." wrote:
> 
> So, which means we can't watch DVD movie on FreeBSD system?. Is it going
> to have software for watch DVD on FreeBSD in the near future? Just curious
> because I'm using FreeBSD for a while and I would like to be able to watch
> moive on it so I can throw away my sucky Microsoft =)
> 
> TIA
> 
> pe'
> 
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> 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, nathan wrote:
> 
> > Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote:
> >
> > > As far as I know ... most DVD drives are ATAPI standard .. so
> > > anyone should work ... although I think only -current has the
> > > DVD-ioctls implemented. I'm not sure if it is in -stable.
> > >
> > > I have a DVS 600 (6x DVD, 40X CD) DVD-ROM and it work perfectly
> > > under 4.0-current (Jan 10)
> >
> > surely you can't watch DVD movies tho right??
> >
> > i thought because of the use of CSS (encryption), DVD's couldn't be
> > viewed/copied without a "decoder"??
> >
> > enter DeCSS -->  http://www.2600.com/news/2000/0125.html
> >
> > just curious as to what all you CAN do with the DVD drive you're using :)
> >
> > Thanks for any info!!
> >

I said this before but I may have trimmed the reply list, so.

for the real DVD news goto: http://www.opendvd.org/fbsddvd.html

-d
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