I decided to try watching a DVD on my Cloudbook running Ubuntu (external DVD drive connected by USB, as the unit has no internal optical reader). Totem had a lot of trouble playing it (the disc plays fine under Puppy and Knoppix). A quick search says that Gstreamer isn't set up to handle DVD video, and I need to install something like Gxine. So I do so. I start it up and tell it to play the DVD.
It says it can't find it, I might need to make a symbolic link. W-huh? The way Linux was explained to me, EVERYTHING is a file. So, in theory, I should be able to simply follow the instructions for making a symbolic link and that will be fine, right? But do I do it for the drive itself or the volume label of the DVD itself? Also, do I have to create the symbolic link every time, or will it automatically save the link? And lastly, what do I link to? When I plug in the external drive, it shows up under CDROM0. Neither "media" or "mnt" have anything mentioning a DVD drive. Will I confuse the system? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
