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Re: DVD playback problems



Seeker,

Thank you very much for your reply.

From: Seeker5528 <seeker5528@comcast.net>

Piers Kittel <debian@biased.org> wrote:

piers@hinata:/dev$ ls -l hdb
brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb
piers@hinata:/dev$

I assume this should be cdrom not disk correct?

That is what the Audio CD, DVD, VCD players want, the location of the
drive, not the location where the disk gets mounted.

If I try this, this is what I get:

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piers@hinata:~$ mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /dev/hdb
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx


Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)
Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hdb for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/hdb


Exiting... (End of file)
piers@hinata:~$
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Thanks very much for your help again!

Regards - Piers



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