CD/DVD Cann't use

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 31 18:41:41 UTC 2009


On 07/31/2009 11:23 AM, MirJafar Ali wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Try the following command. I tested it and it works here.
>>
>> mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0
>>
>> If that works, you may not have a link called /dev/dvd and you would be
>> using the drive's real device name. This isn't a problem, other than the
>> fact that every time you play a DVD using mplayer, you will need to
>> specify this -dvd-device option.
>>
>> Kyle
>>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Well, things didn't work this time also. Please see the output: Is it that I
> need to buy new
> DVD now because device has gone bad ?
> 
> But anyhow, please accept my sincere thanks for helping out.
> 
> 
> 
> @blackhole:~/ITAPS/CSV$ mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4600  @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15,
> Stepping: 13)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> 
> Playing dvd://1.
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/scd0
> No stream found to handle url dvd://1

logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0

Open mplayer, right click on the mplayer screen and select Preferences.
Click on 'Misc' and for DVD device ensure that it is: /dev/dvd.

Please provide the output of:

$ cat /etc/fstab
$ ls -l /media






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