Playing DVDs correctly

[@jens]

Hello, I'm trying out PCBSD 7.1 for 3 hours...

1. As you might know you need libdvdcss to enjoy encrypted DVDs.
# pkg_add -r libdvdcss

2. The multimedia players "look" for that in /usr/lib, but in fact it's installed to /usr/local/lib, so I did:

# cp /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss* /usr/lib

3. I found that atapi dma was ticked in system settings -> kernel but obviously it's *not* enabled because dvd movies are not running properly. What I did:

a. unticked the atapi dma -> okay
b. rebooted the system
c. re-ticked the atapi dma again, rebooted the system again.
The system didn't reboot properly at the first time but rebooted again. However, after being back to kde I could watch DVDs. And there is a nice side effect: the rather jerky mouse (ps/2) is running much better now.

hth
@jens

[haddenharley]

Hello Friends.
I read your tricks it is really nice I'm finding the such type thanks for providing a good
tricks if you have any other then post it here as soon as possible.

[Thulemanden]

root@pcbsd-5718# pkg_add -r libdvdcss
Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports ... dvdcss.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/Latest/libdvdcss.tbz' by URL
root@pcbsd-5718# cp /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss* /usr/lib
cp: No match.
root@pcbsd-5718#

[joe75]

Instead using the package which seems to be unavailable right now, you can install libdvdcss via ports:

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/libdvdcss/ && make install clean

In 8.0 using the portjail would be the best approach, I think.