Re: [SLUG] playing dvd's

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 23:54:30 EST


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Joe Brandt wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 11:14 pm, michael hast wrote:
> > Hey, all.
> >
> > I'm running Debian 3.1 on kernel 2.6, and apparently, I don't know
> > how to configure a media player to play a dvd from my dvd rom. I just
> > installed mplayer, and it will not play video dvd's in it's current
> > configuration. I told it to look in /media/cdrom1, as per my file
> > manager, and it doesn't seem to see anything there. Out of sheer morbid
> > curiosity, I tried a couple of different dvd's and a couple of different
> > players--eg. XMMS, Kaffeine, Noatun, etc.--still to no avail. I'm
> > tapped out here. Do any of you have any clue what I might not be doing
> > right here? Thanks.
>
> I am assuming you have a laptop with a combo drive. That would explain
> looking for a dvd in cdrom1
>
> as root create a link
>
> ln -s /dev/dvd /media/cdrom1
>
> That fixed it for me, hope it helps you.

Wait, is /media/cdrom1 a directory or a device? "ls -ld /media/cdrom1" and
see what the first character is.

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