Re: [SLUG] playing dvd's

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 10:05:42 EST


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 wasn't gonna say anything, but what the hell....

I just installed a machine which is actually capable of playing DVDs. So
  the other night, I popped in "Office Space" just to see what would
happen. I fired up Xine and told it to go look for the DVD. I hit play,
and it played the FBI warning, and then wouldn't play anything else. No
menu for what was on the DVD, no nothing. Nice FBI warning, though. ;-}
Any ideas?

-- 
Paul M. Foster
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