Re: List of required packages.
On Tue, September 11, 2012 1:19 am, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Weaver,
>> "Playback failure:
>> DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
>
> Check that the symlink /dev/dvd points to your DVD drive like this:
>
> ls -l /dev/dvd
>
> If you get:
>
> ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory
>
> then you either need to create the symlink, or specify the correct drive
> in Xine preferences. You can find the drive like this:
>
> dmesg | grep CD-ROM
>
> which should output lines such as:
>
> [ 3.251679] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A 1.06 PQ: 0 ANSI:
> 5
> [ 3.254391] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> [ 3.254576] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
>
> indicating that the DVD device is at /dev/sr0 in this case.
Thank-you, Daniel!
That's exactly what it was.
Very much appreciated.
I've been blindly specifying /dev/dvd before this.
Regards,
Weaver
--
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
-- Thomas Paine
Reply to: