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'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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