At 11:30 PM 5/27/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Trevin Beattie wrote:
>
>> Does the current release of NetBSD support DVD, DVD-R, and/or
>> DVD-video?  If so, what software is required to run them?  If not,
>
>  DVD works "out of the box" (SCSI and ATAPI), just like any plain old
>CD-ROM (with just a bit more capacity, though).  DVD-R should work if
>supported by a CD writer software (you might want to take a look at
>cdrecord from the packages system:
>"ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrecord/README.h
tml"). 
>DVD video is tricky, as it not only requires the proper player software,
>but for most DVD's some software is required that decrypts/unlocks the
>video data ...

I checked out the *BSD notes on the cdrecord home page, and it mentioned
compiling a "worm" driver into the kernel?  I haven't seen anything like
this in the NetBSD GENERIC configuration.  I also looked at the list of
supported drives, and didn't see any mention of DVD.

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