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#1 2009-03-26 18:21:40

beretta
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Registered: 2008-04-21
Posts: 133

DVD's not playing

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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#2 2009-03-26 20:54:53

byte
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From: Düsseldorf (DE)
Registered: 2006-05-01
Posts: 2,046

Re: DVD's not playing

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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#3 2009-03-26 21:25:50

brisbin33
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From: boston, ma
Registered: 2008-07-24
Posts: 1,796
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Re: DVD's not playing

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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