DVD set-up help
I'm trying to figure out DVD playback. I have 6.2 w/KDE-lite. I can play audio CD's on the DVD. I have installed and want to use VLC. I'm trying to figure out/distill exactly what the Handbook wants me to do in the first paragraph: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/video-playback.html I can do this: add the following lines to /etc/devfs.conf: link acd0 dvd link acd0 rdvd How to do this? Yes, I can chmod...but exactly what do I do here? Additionally, DVD decryption, which requires invoking special DVD-ROM functions, requires write permission on the DVD devices. --- What is the exact command? To enhance the shared memory X11 interface, it is recommended that the values of some sysctl(8) variables should be increased: kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 kern.ipc.shmall=32768 -- Thanks, The end result I want is to be able to play movies. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD set-up help
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, leegold wrote: I'm trying to figure out DVD playback. I have 6.2 w/KDE-lite. I can play audio CD's on the DVD. I have installed and want to use VLC. [snip] Thanks, The end result I want is to be able to play movies. I can't answer all your specific questions, but all I had to do to play movies was this: 1. Install vlc, which you've done; 2. As root, mount the dvd; 3. As ordinary user, run vlc like vlc dvd:///dev/acd1 My ordinary user has write access and group ownership on the DVD drive device file, but I don't know if that is necessary. Also I have those sysctls set like so: kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432 kern.ipc.shmall: 8192 ...again, I'm not sure how necessary that is. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD set-up help
leegold schrieb: I'm trying to figure out DVD playback. I have 6.2 w/KDE-lite. I can play audio CD's on the DVD. I have installed and want to use VLC. I'm trying to figure out/distill exactly what the Handbook wants me to do in the first paragraph: Also one thing to check. Per default, in vlc the wrong device is entered. You have to reenter (probably /dev/acd0) every time you start a movie from disk or at least after restart of vlc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD set-up help
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:35:31 -0500 (EST), Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, leegold wrote: I'm trying to figure out DVD playback. I have 6.2 w/KDE-lite. I can play audio CD's on the DVD. I have installed and want to use VLC. [snip] Thanks, The end result I want is to be able to play movies. I can't answer all your specific questions, but all I had to do to play movies was this: 1. Install vlc, which you've done; 2. As root, mount the dvd; 3. As ordinary user, run vlc like vlc dvd:///dev/acd1 Many thanks, I just had to mount the DVD device as root - like you said. I have DVD movie/video playback now. Thanks. My ordinary user has write access and group ownership on the DVD drive device file, but I don't know if that is necessary. Also I have those sysctls set like so: kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432 kern.ipc.shmall: 8192 ...again, I'm not sure how necessary that is. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
