On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:12:28PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Brian> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:52:54PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> >> Has anyone looked at DVD ioctls on IDE? It took me some time to
> >> realize (even after reading the source a couple of times) that the
> >> current DVD ioctls only apply to SCSI.
>
> Brian> 'Looked at'? What do you mean? People have been making use of
> Brian> IDE DVD-ROM drives for quite a while now...
>
> >From the dvdio.h CVS comment:
>
> MFC, DVD ioctls.
>
> scsi_cd.c rev 1.36
> scsi_cd.h rev 1.4
> dvdio.h rev 1.3
>
> ... One issue is that dvdio.h seems to be missing structure items that
> are required by dvd software. I have attempted to compile livid (oms)
> and videolan ... both which at least talk about working on BSD. Livid
> refuses to compile because dvdio.h is missing certain structure
> members.
>
> videolan compiles and runs, but refuses to recognise a DVD in the
> player (I've tried several DVDs). My IDE DVD player probes as:
Try getting the latest videolan source from their CVS repository.
I have vlc working here quite nicely after sending the vlc guys
a patch for using only sector aligned reads on DVDs. Unfortunately
the patch didn't make it into the current release, but is in CVS now.
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