[PC-BSD Support] 1.4.1. and still can't play dvd movies.

[Kris Moore]

I was able to get DVD's playing properly in Kaffeine here just fine. 
You'll probably only need to tweak one or two things:

First, you need to install libdvdcss, which we do not ship by default, 
due to copyright issues in the USA, but it may differ depending on where 
you are living:

http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/libdvdcss/

Try Kaffeine again, does it work?

If not, you may need to update the DVD / CD device in Kaffeine. Open 
Kaffeine and go to settings -> Xine Engine Parameters -> Media

Change the dvd.device option from /dev/dvd to /dev/acd0 or acd1 or 
whatever your real DVD device is :)

-- 

Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
http://www.pcbsd.com


the kneeling fool wrote:
> On Thursday 22 November 2007, Terry Poulin wrote:
>> My system is set up to play most every thing I've tried
>> to play short of flash. Still Kaffeine failed to read one
>> of my DVD's yesterday (Spaceballs) siting a problem
>> reading the source off the DVD-ROM. Try playing it with
>> kmplayer, worked for me ;-)
>>
>> However YMMV
>>
>>
>> TerryP.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. I have already tried mplayer and 
> its variant GUIs and still have problems and mplayer will 
> not play dvd menus so I have no navigation either. I've 
> always preferred Xine or Kaffeine for multimedia.
> 
> I have failed to get any BSD system I've installed to try 
> out to actually play a movie or play a music cd. I'm now at 
> a point that I'm thinking I'll have to go back to Linux 
> which I didn't really want to do. I'm still willing to try, 
> but don't expect to resolve this any longer.
> 
> I've asked here, on the DesktopBSD list and the FreeBSD list 
> and sadly gotten no help in addressing this. It does seem 
> most likely from what happens in trying to play multimedia 
> that it is a problem of location, but what I do not know 
> and don't know how to find out.
>