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#1 2010-02-07 01:04:20

Redostrike
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[SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

Hi,

I'm new to linux. I've installed vlc (xfce4) and vids are working great in vlc. I cant seem to get a dvd to work though. The dvd has been mounted under /mnt/cdrom. When i load in the disk (Ctrl+D) in vlc and choose the /mnt/cdrom vlc try's to play it but stops right after it try's to load (vlc status bar says dvd:///mnt/cdrom/VIDEO_TS). No error comes on the screen. Cdrom is also in fstab as follow:

/dev/dvd mnt/cdrom auto ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0

Any thoughts.

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#2 2010-02-07 01:08:34

milomouse
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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

I don't use vlc but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't mount it. Just put the dvd in and use /dev/dvd instead of /mnt/cdrom  Mounting a dvd is only good if you want to remove stuff from it, not to play it. smile

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#3 2010-02-07 01:10:38

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

See: Here and  here.
HTH.

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#4 2010-02-07 01:22:06

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

loading the /dev/dvd gets me error:

DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".

Vlc is unable to open MRL "dvd:///dev/dvd".

Already installed all those packages that where in the multimedia part of the tutorial.

Still the same on the /mnt/cdrom.

Edit: Xine plays dvd's as normal.

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#5 2010-02-07 01:24:13

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

Are you in the optical group?

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#6 2010-02-07 01:37:31

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

gpasswd -a redostrike optical

Still no dvd playback in vlc.

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#7 2010-02-07 01:41:52

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

Did you log out and in?
Edit: I see you can play DVD's in Xine, so this is not a group permission issue. Have you tried pointing VLC to /dev/sr0 ? That worked for me when I used VLC.

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#8 2010-02-07 01:49:02

Redostrike
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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

I rebooted.

Tryed sr0 and it works.

I feel stupid. Thanks for the help.

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#9 2010-02-07 02:22:23

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

milomouse wrote:

I don't use vlc but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't mount it. Just put the dvd in and use /dev/dvd instead of /mnt/cdrom  Mounting a dvd is only good if you want to remove stuff from it, not to play it. smile

For future reference, audio CDs and video DVDs are not mounted because they do not contain a filesystem.
Obviously, this does not prevent them from being played, though. wink

Redostrike wrote:

I rebooted.

Tryed sr0 and it works.

I feel stupid. Thanks for the help.

Glad you got it working. Please prepend [SOLVED] to your thread title for the benefit of others who may search this issue in the future.
Thanks.

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#10 2010-02-07 20:15:52

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

Misfit138 wrote:

For future reference, audio CDs and video DVDs are not mounted because they do not contain a filesystem.
Obviously, this does not prevent them from being played, though. wink

Just a quick note: Video DVDs can be mounted, I do it all the time. Simply uncomment the fstab entry and mount it. You can view the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders and remove .vob's, .bup's, subtitles, etc to your harddisk. This is only useful in certain cases like extracting information for the vob's or converting them at higher rates than most software allows, but not for playing. tongue Also, I don't know much about audio cds but there's "cdfs" in Community if you really need to "mount" it, although I never tried this as it seems pretty pointless since there's nothing on an audio cd that can't be extracted with cdrdao, etc.

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#11 2010-02-08 00:16:22

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc does not play DVD's

milomouse wrote:

Just a quick note: Video DVDs can be mounted, I do it all the time. Simply uncomment the fstab entry and mount it. You can view the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders and remove .vob's, .bup's, subtitles, etc to your harddisk. This is only useful in certain cases like extracting information for the vob's or converting them at higher rates than most software allows, but not for playing. tongue Also, I don't know much about audio cds but there's "cdfs" in Community if you really need to "mount" it, although I never tried this as it seems pretty pointless since there's nothing on an audio cd that can't be extracted with cdrdao, etc.

Thanks for the tip, and you are correct; I was mistaken. Now that you said it, I do recall seeing all those VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. Duh.
It must be audio CDs that I was thinking of.

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