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Re: Using DVD



Alejandro Matos wrote:

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)


Do you mount the dvd like:
#mount /dev/hdd /cdrom1
Or are you using automount?




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