Hi,

"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Monday 16 June 2003 11:00 pm, Pradeep Sethi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am still not able to play DVDs. I can play audio CDs / VCDs in that
>> drive, work fine. but get error, while playing DVD.
>>
>> when I try to play DVD through mplayer GUI, click on open Disc, it shows
>> reading the DVD for 5-6 seconds (light blinking), then gives error
>> 'Can't play /dev/dvd'.
>
>Pradep, I've not been following this thread so if I repeat something already 
>asked I apologize.
>
>Did you do (as root) a "ln -s /dev/<devicename> /dev/dvd"? In my case, since I 
>use SCSI it would be:
>
>ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd
>
>on an IDE system, it would look something like:
>
>ln -s /dev/hdb (or hdc or hdd) /dev/dvd
>
>Also, did you add your user to the cdrom or cdwriter group(s)?
>
>One more thing, what about permissions? Here I had to do a:
>
>chmod a+r /mnt/cdrom
>chmod a+rx /dev/scd0 (that would be hdb, hdc, or hdd on IDE).
>

when I do ln -l /dev/dvd

[EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# ls -l /dev/dvd
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           30 Jun 17 07:36 /dev/dvd -> 
ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd

I would guess, this config is correct, as I can play audio CDs and VCDs in this drive, 
works fine.

Done :

[EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# chmod a+r /mnt/cdrom

[EMAIL PROTECTED] psethi]# chmod a+rx /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd

Then I try gmplayer, still getting the same error :(

Output :
---------------------
Playing /dev/dvd
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
---------------------

pls help.

Thanks in Advance

Pradeep





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