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8. Platform Specific Notes and Requirements

8.1 FreeBSD

xine fails when allocating images

Make sure you have enough shared memory enabled. This is very limited by default.

Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file: 

  kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
  kern.ipc.shmall=32768

Playing Video CDs

Currently (because of issues with the FreeBSD kernel) xine can only play VCDs from ATAPI cdrom drives. not from SCSI drives.

Currently (Jan 2001), FreeBSD-stable (and thus the current releases also) needs a patch to the kernel sources to make VCDs work (please check the FreeBSD documentation if you are unsure on how to build a custom kernel with this patch included).

The file you have to patch is /sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c and the patch is included in the README.freebsd file included with the xine source distribution.

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