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' > > ------------------------------ > UNIX System Admin. > Distributed Computing Services > Lake Superior State University > 650 W. Easterday Ave. > Sault Ste. Marie. MI > 49783 USA. > ------------------------------ > http://student.lssu.edu/~pe/index.html > ------------------------------ > > 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 --- FreeBSD is crunchy, tasty, and doesn't wilt. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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