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With a new, fresh install I've run into a problem trying to play dvd's in xine or any other program. I get this common error:
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
and a search of previous posts brings up similar problems, but none seem to be related to mine as far as I've been able to tell.
What's wierd is that /dev/dcd does exist; it's a symlink chain: /dev/dvd --> /dev/cd/dvd-0:0:0:0. The file /dev/dvd- --> /dev/sr0.
When I do mplayer /dev/dvd, I get
Playing /dev/dvd.
File not found: '/dev/dvd'
Failed to open /dev/dvd.
When I do mplayer /dev/sr0, I get the disk to play, albeit it's very choppy.
So, on a hunch, I tried changing the device in xine to /dev/sr0, and the disk plays normally and smoothly. /dev/cd/dvd- works as well. I can easily change the symlink /dev/dvd to point to /dev/cd/dvd- instead of /dev/cd/dvd-0:0:0:0, but why is it this way to begin with?
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You might want to follow the recent CD/DVD symlink bugs on the bugtracker, like this one: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13969
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i've been using /dev/sr0 for everything recently. my gui apps picked up the change w/o me noticing and my CLI apps work fine with /dev/sr0 as before. not sure when it happened or why. your mplayer choppiness may be unrelated b/c i think /dev/sr0 is standard now and should always work.
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