Re: supported DVD readers
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On Monday 05 May 2003 12:52 am, Guldo K wrote:
> Hello :-)
>
> One simple question: is every DVD player in the world supported? :-P
> I have to buy a DVD player, and I'd get one that would certainly work.
> I looked for DVD howtos, and did not find any 'supported hardware' list, so
> I think there's no not-working DVD player; I'd just have debian
> compatibility checked.
>
I have an IDE device - so all access to it is through the IDE interface. This
basically means any device works as its the IDE driver rather than a special
driver for your dvd. I have a pioneer. It works great as a standard cd-rom
device.
In order to play dvd's I had to jump through a couple of hoops - basically
because xine needs the module ide-scsi loaded for the /dev/dvd device.
I have devfsd installed, and I had to dynamically create the /dev/dvd device
by editing /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf and adding these lines (one reason why I
may have to do this is that I also have a scsi cd-writer device - so as you
can see, I am linking /dev/dvd to the cdrom1 device rather than cdrom0
REGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom1$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname dvd
UNREGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom1$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink dvd
I also needed to cause the module ide-scsi to be loaded. The way I did that
is to create a file (any name will do) with the following in it in
/etc/modutils (and then run update-modules).
alias /dev/dvd ide-scsi
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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