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DVD Playback In FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the hi-jack dept.

LiquidPC writes "ONLamp.com has a new article on DVD playback in FreeBSD. It goes over setting up your system for optimal DVD playback, and describes how to install and use many of the DVD players that are in the FreeBSD ports collection."

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  1. Umm, this was pretty lame. by Vinum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All the guy did was build a few ports and report his experiences with them. He spoke about doing complex tweaking with mplayer but he couldn't figure out how to do it right so he didn't even post exactly what he did.

    He got lucky and found a program which worked without him having to tweak anything, he was happy, and then the end of the article.

  2. Newbies shouldn't write articles by airgee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, this article isn't very well written, all this guy done was installing a few ports and checking whithout reading anything about the particular port if he could play a DVD out of the box.
    I would says that this is someone with a Windows-user mentality (run & click everywhere, huh, it doesn't work, huh, to the waste-bin, or huh, where's the gui, huh, to the waste-bin).

    All in all, this isn't a really helpful article :-/