Unable to play DVD's

Slinger · 02-07-2003, 03:38 PM

Now I know it may not be an Ogle thing. I can mount my cd drive wihtout issue at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and read data cd's. However, when I try to mount it with a DVD it says "no media found". Using Ogle - it closes out everytime I choos FILE\OPEN CD - this may be because it is not mounted (pretty sure). But is there a reason I cannot mount a DVD that anyone may know of? New w/ playing dvd's on linux.

Also - can mplayer play dvd's?

Thanks

acid_kewpie · 02-07-2003, 03:42 PM

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Also - can mplayer play dvd's?

hehe, mplayer can play anything (for given values of "anything").

Slinger · 02-07-2003, 04:00 PM

ty - was pretty sure it could.

However, anyone have any ideas on the dvd mounting?

nxny · 02-07-2003, 06:09 PM

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Originally posted by Slinger
Now I know it may not be an Ogle thing. I can mount my cd drive wihtout issue at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and read data cd's. However, when I try to mount it with a DVD it says "no media found". Using Ogle - it closes out everytime I choos FILE\OPEN CD - this may be because it is not mounted (pretty sure). But is there a reason I cannot mount a DVD that anyone may know of? New w/ playing dvd's on linux.

Also - can mplayer play dvd's?

Thanks

Ogle does not require the device to be mounted. If you have read permissions on the block/character special file that points to the device, that should be good enough. From the name of your cdrom device file, I guess you're using devfs that I'm not too familiar with. Try mounting the dvd from the command line and see if you can access the data files before we can blame it on ogle.

Mplayer is a very versatile media player. Can pretty much play anything you can think of.