Re: Using DVD

[Alejandro Matos <amatos@gmail.com>]

Hi there, I'm still trying to get dvd's to play in Debian. Has anyone
of you experience in that area? The think is I've managed to use
everything i need in Debian, and I don't want to install Windows in
the other partition just to see DVD's

Hope you can help

Alejandro


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:51:05 +0300, Alejandro Matos <amatos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, let's see:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/hdd
> brw-rw----  1 root cdrom 22, 64 2004-07-22 22:54 /dev/hdd
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/dvd
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 2004-09-07 14:22 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd
> 
> $ groups
> alejandro dialout cdrom floppy audio video
> 
> Well, i could see a dvd for only 24 secs and nothing more, no audio.
> Then i changed the dvd and i can't see it anymore, the message is
> this:
> 
> "couldn't open /dev/dvd"
> 
> Hope that someone can help :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:51:18 +0100, Steven Satelle <ssatelle@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:32:28 +0200, Philippe Marzouk
> > <phil-antispam@ozigo.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:12PM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote:
> > > > I tried with xine but it says something about "dvd:/" don't understand
> > > > that :-\
> > > >
> > >
> > > Do you have a /dev/dvd link to the device of your dvd drive ?
> > >
> > > You can verify with
> > > ls -l /dev/dvd
> > >
> > > If it does not exist you can create it (as root)
> > > cd /dev
> > > ln -s hdc dvd
> > > (replace hdc with the actual device of your dvd drive, hdc is for
> > > secondary master).
> > >
> > > Philippe
> > >
> > >
> > dont forget to change the group of the link. by default it will be
> > root change it to cdrom or video, and make sure you are a member of
> > the needed group. If it still wont work change the group on the device
> > - /dev/hdc or whatever it is to video (or cdrom)
>