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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:33:08 +0200
From:      Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Playing DVD
Message-ID:  <20011018173022.VLVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>

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Now that there's 3 dvd-players in ports things is starting to get 
interessting.

But there are still some issues. Every player have some flaws and does things 
better than the other. I'm still looking for *the* player. Perhaps some of 
you have a solution?

*Xine*

Isn't it possible to compile it with decss-support (libdvdread?)? 

Got poor audio-output. I get this scratchy metallic sound.

Due to css I've not tested xine very much.

*Videolan*

Nice one with decss. Sound, as poor as Xine though.

I can only get "widescreen" display (eg. 2.35:1/16:9/1.78:1/whatever ratio) 
when running in xvideo-mode in window. Do I choose another video-output or go 
fullscreen I loose the widescreen. Would be nice to keep the widescreen 
aspect i fullscreen as well.

*mplayer*

This is the latest I've tried. Nice mpeg2-decoding, very few framedrops 
(compared to the other two). 

I was about to buy myself a new soundboard due to Xine and Videolan, until I 
tried mplayer. *NO* artifacts, so my board isn't faulty! wee ;)

mplayer have *almost* become my prefered dvd-player if it wasn't for one big 
showstopper: I can't select another audio-stream, I'm stuck with whatever 
default mplayer finds (directors comment, swedish dubbing whatever). No 
matter what stream I try to set with -aid I get no sound.

And then there is the same widescreen issues as with vlc with a twist. If I 
run mplayer with -gui I loose widescreen, but it still decodes for 
widescreen, so I'm getting long faces.

Anyone got solutions to some of my problems?

Bjarne

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