Hi Jeffrey,
When a media source is plugged into ubuntu linux, the drive is
auto-mounted to /media. This might not be a good place for your
external drive to end up. See if remounting the drive somewhere else
allows you to access your external drive.
1) Close VLC and open a terminal window.
2) type 'lsblk'. (I don't think you will need sudo, but throw a sudo
in there if needed.) This will give you a tree diagram of your mounted
drives, drive data capacities, and /dev assignments. This should help
you track down where your external drive is in the /dev hierarchy.
3) find and write down the /dev assignment for your external drive.
4) Y'know what, leave /media as it is. The external drive can be
mounted at two places at once.
5) Create some directory for the /dev to point to. You will need to use
'sudo mkdir' off the root, should you wish to create a directory one
layer off root (your call).
6) mount the external drive like this:
------> (6a) 'sudo mount /dev/[/dev drive assignment] /[name of target
directory], where [/dev drive assignment] is a code such as sda1, sdb2
etc. [name of target directory] refers to the directory you have just
created as a destination for the external drive
Now try accessing your media files off the external drive with VLC,
drawing data from the target directory.
Good luck and Happy Motoring,
Jordan
On 06/16/2016 02:34 AM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
Hi. Just installed Xubuntu, 64-bit. Fully updated.
I prefer VLC for playing media. For some reason, VLC isn't reading my
external drive where I have the videos I want to watch. Parole Media
Player finds it just fine.
Anyone have any idea how I can fix this? I've tried navigating to the
drive, but I can't find it anywhere in VLC's program.
Many thanks.
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