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lemon

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From: Norway

Registered: 2006-11-11

Posts: 50

mounting/playing DVDs

I'm having problems mounting/playing dvd's.
I have tried:

mount -t udf /dev/cd/dvd-sr0 /mnt/dvd

also tried with -t auto and -t iso9660, I get the same error:

mount: block device /dev/cd/dvd-sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cd/dvd-sr0,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Tried playing with vlc, mplayer, totem.. no luck. I remeber some time ago I managed to at least mount the dvd, but now nothing works except data-dvds.

I have a "all-in-one" type of cd-rom (dvd/cd/rw)

fstab:

/dev/cd/cdrom-sr0               /mnt/cd   auto   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cd/dvd-sr0                 /mnt/dvd  auto       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

(also tried adding udf here)

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

i also have been having issues with dvd reading (noticed today)
i burned the disks using k3b a few months back now nothing in arch will read some of them
while other OS's read them fine
so i wouldnt be in an all fire hurry to blame hardware
sorry i cant give any insight to your problem just thought id mention this here

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

humm yes i notice that too but it seems that ogle can play the dvd correctly...just open the folder that contains all the data and ogle will read it....ive tried to play it with xine but didnt work..i

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lemon

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2006-11-11

Posts: 50

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

ogle didnt work for me either, I hear my dvd-reader is working hard trying to mount the dvd but it always ends up with an error.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

If you're trying to watch a movie on a DVD, you don't have to (and shouldn't) mount it. It's the same with AudioCDs. Run "gmplayer dvd://1" and it should work.

lemon

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2006-11-11

Posts: 50

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

nope using gmplayer dvd://1 just hangs, I guess I just have to play DVDs some other place..

matsche

Member

From: .at

Registered: 2004-04-27

Posts: 120

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

same errors here!

While booting i get this:

ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x25)
ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 254 in
         res 51/51:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation)
ata2: soft resetting port
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2: soft resetting port
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2: soft resetting port
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata2.00: disabled
ata2: EH complete
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 524224

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alleyoopster

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From: Cape Town

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 95

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

I am having the same errors as matsche when booting and have no cd/dvd access. Having a look I cannot find a /dev for the cd/dvd. I am guessing this is a new kernel problem. Has anyone found a solution or any more info?

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

try totem-xine

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alleyoopster

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From: Cape Town

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 95

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

try totem-xine

This won't help I cannot see the cd's. or dvd's.

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

i do look better

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Crazypu

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-02-06

Posts: 70

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

I play my dvds with vlc, and it works fine

junglepeanut

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From: California

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 145

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Re: mounting/playing DVDs

Is yours supposed to be /dev/cd/cdrom-sr0 etc. Mine are just /dev/cdrom & /dev/dvd. I use iso9660 for cds and auto for dvd.

Good luck.

rayjgu3

Member

From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

change lines in /etc/fstab
from

/dev/cd/cdrom-sr0               /mnt/cd   auto   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cd/dvd-sr0                 /mnt/dvd  auto       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

to

/dev/cd/cdrom-sr0               /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cd/dvd-sr0                 /mnt/dvd  udf,iso9660        ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

this fixed my issues of reading some discs
something in the auto process has gone awry
the discs i burned with the same drive could not be read in the drive till i changed my /etc/fstab

matsche

Member

From: .at

Registered: 2004-04-27

Posts: 120

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

hi,
my problem is fixed in the new kernel 2.6.21

http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/2.6.21

i took the changes for fstab from rayjgu3

I can mount a cd and dvd but copying a file to hdd stops my system!

Last edited by matsche (2007-04-11 17:46:02)

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cu matsche

diogenes

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Registered: 2007-04-11

Posts: 17

Re: mounting/playing DVDs

I had the same problem, though it was just a matter of user privileges...if lemon is still having problems, maybe try running under root...