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From: "Cornelius, Peter" <peter.cornelius@comsoft.de>
To: 'Jason Andresen' <jandrese@mitre.org>,
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Subject: RE: vlc dvd device
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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.
> 
> -- 
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