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jondkent

Member

From: London

Registered: 2005-09-13

Posts: 123

mplayer and DVD device

Hi,

seem to have hit a strange problem with mplayer and DVD playback.  When I run mplayer with

mplayer /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 dvd://

everything start fine, and then is quits saying, basically, it cannot open the drive.

After much mucking about it seems that the problem was that there was no /dev/dvd and when I added the link all was fine.

I also found the same problem in gmplayer even after changing the settings to point to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0.

I must have missed something here, so if anyone has any ideas that would be great.

Thanks

Jon

paranoos

Member

From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: mplayer and DVD device

you should have run

mplayer -dvd-device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 dvd://