There's not a whole lot to say about DVDs, as I see it.  One can
stretch it out by looking at several aspects:

1) DVD drives can read CDs and if you put a CD in them they act just
like CD drives.

2) If you put a DVD in them, they should act like a *big* CD.

3) I believe that even movie DVDs just use an ISO 9660-like filesystem,
though to do much of anything with the movie data, you'd not only
need a movie player---none ships with the base system---but would
also normally need to unencrypt it.  The decryption software gets
into some murky legal waters as I understand it, so I wouldn't look
for the decryption software to ever ship with the base system.

4) DVD burners...  Dunno.  I don't have any.  But even CD burners
have no supporting tools for burning that ship WITH the system.  However,
check pkgsrc for "cdrecord", "dvdrecord", and "dvd+rw-tools" as some
reasonable starting point.


IMHO, since 3 & 4 have nothing to do with the base system, mentioning
them in the install documentation would be like mentioning image processing,
PostScript-to-printer translations, etc.

Maybe items 1 & 2 could be rolled into a paragraph, with 3 & 4 given a
further (single) sentence: For more DVD drive support, consult the
package system that NetBSD uses (pkgsrc).

I think that a whole section on DVD drives would make them appear to
be more complicated and special than they seem to be.



Just my 2.718281828459045... cents' worth, adjusted for inflation.

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