DVD's and FreeBSD
Chuck Robey
chuckr at chuckr.org
Mon Dec 10 12:26:17 PST 2007
Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:05:23PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>> Gary Kline wrote:
>>> Update:
>>>
>>> Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD,
>> Totem is not good DVD player and that has to do nothing with the
>> FreeBSD, OpenBSD or whatever Linux you want to use. You may read
>> here why is so difficult to use DVDs
>> http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
>
> I will see why totem just-works {TM} with Ubuntu. While here it
> is missing plugin, etc......
>> Ogle is by far the best DVD player but VLC and MPlayer are able to play
>> stunning number of different proprietary and non-proprietary video and
>> audio formats.
I know that comment about ogle certainly used to be correct. but I think
that may possibly be dated information. My FreeBSD machine is pretty
new, squeaky-clean, and all of the following dvd players (ones which I
have tried so far, doesn't mean they're the only ones either) work just
great: vlc, xine, ogle. Even though kmplayer works, I found it's
interface (which uses mplayer and xine as backends) ssmed a little clunky.
Anyhow, it might be time for taking another looksee. All 3 of those
)vlc, ogle, xine) were really sharp and easy to use, good 5.1 audio
using my optically connected sound system.
>
>
> I've never used vlc for DVD; nor ogle; am building.
>>> but kmplayer works
>>> --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling
>>> in "device atapicam" into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes.
>> K3b works fine or I should say as good as on any of major Linux
>> distribution. Something is wrong with your configuration.
>> Read very carefully
>>
>> $ make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b
>>
>
> Well, y'gotta cd to the k3b directory, but no prob; that I
> remembered from before. I lpr'd it. It's clearly written
> by one of us ( a fellow geek).
>
> I may have some followups. I've been reading and re-reading
> and re-re-reading the info page.
>
>>
>>> So.
>>> For "toys", Linux; for superior [unbeatable] stability, FreeBSD
>>> is still first rate.
>>>
>>> gary
>>>
>> Depends what you mean by playing. Some people use Flash or Java for work
>> and FreeBSD is definitely not for them.
>> For me personally works boot as a professional tool and as life-stile
>> OS. But then it doesn't work for my mother in law and probably
>> it doesn't work for 99% of other casual computer users.
>
>
> You're right; I shouldn't have been so dismissive about burning
> a CD or DVD. (i'Ve created some data CD's for friends.)
>
> vlc-devel is still building. Hopefully more will be working
> after my reboot.
>
> gary
>
>> Cheers,
>> Predrag
>>
>>
>
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