playing a dvd movie

[paulfrottawa]

Hello
I'm hoping to play a DVD movie on FreeBSD. I have one computer with an internal DVD drive. Second computer with a external DVD player connected by USB. The internal did play a disclaimer but wouldn't go further and now it won't do that anymore.
Please if you can watch DVD movies can you post your success?

 

[bsduck]

To decrypt most commercial DVDs you need multimedia/libdvdcss (not available as a package, for licensing reasons).

 

[diizzy]

If you want to avoid having the optical drive spinning all the time during playback you can use something like multimedia/dvdread in ports tree to rip the disc without converting it.