I am having trouble getting mplayer and xine to work on my RH9 installation. I would prefer to use mplayer 0.90 and I seem to have everything set up correctly. The problem is that I cannot get my DVD drive to work. I know it is not the drive, it works fine with XP. What am i missing to get mplayer to see my dvd correctly. RH9 only sees it as a cdrom.

Open to suggestions.

Thanks
Prodigycm

Check to see that you have a "dvd" link in /dev. If not, create a symbolic link from your dvd roms /dev path to /dev/dvd. For example, on my system, I have two CD-ROM drives, one is a burner, and the other is a DVD.

If you have one drive, it should be by default:
/dev/cdrom

If you have two drives, the devices will most likely be:
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1

For me I simply used the following command to make the link.

# ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/dvd

Then depending upon your methods of using mplayer or xine...
comman line:
$ mplayer /dev/dvd

If you have subtitles, I would suggest using xine, as it seems to have better mouse pointer support(for me at least) for navigating menus. Just open xine, right-click in the picture, select "GUI visibility" and when the gui opens, click the dvd button and it will open the DVD.

In fact, xine seems to work better all around for DVD's on my system, but I use MPlayer for any other type of video.

Let me know how things go.