Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:18:18 +0100 From: "Cornelius, Peter" <peter.cornelius@comsoft.de> To: 'Jason Andresen' <jandrese@mitre.org>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RE: vlc dvd device Message-ID: <0179401DB2ACA249ADE27697A16F363609158C@cspop.comsoft.de>
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Hi, just for the record, did you have a look at http://www.de.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/video-playback. html ? Best regards, Peter. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Andresen [mailto:jandrese@mitre.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:28 PM > To: Randy Bush; freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: vlc dvd device > > > Randy Bush wrote: > > what device does one use for dvds with vlc? it seems to > want /dev/dvd, > > which i can not find in /dev/MAKEDEV. > > > > any config/prefs hints in general? > > In FreeBSD it shows up as the CD-ROM device. > > For ATAPI devices (what you probably have) this will be /dev/acdNc, > where N is the device number (usually 0). > > For SCSI devices it is /dev/cdNc (IIRC). > > I don't know if the DVD support in VLC works though. I never > managed to > get it working (although that was a few months ago). > > I usually use Ogle, Xine or Mplayer. Ogle is the easiest to > set up, but > doesn't offer any sort of inverse telecine. Mplayer has a baffling > interface (try mplayer -dvd or mplayer -dvd N, where N is a > number from > 0 to ~3, -dvdnav doesn't work because you can't actually > navigate from > what I can tell). Xine has always been crashy for me, but > works great > for some people. You have to click on the d4d or dvd button > in Xine's > interface. > > -- > \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org > |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer > _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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