OS won't recognize my DVD

slvrsplsh · 06-16-2010, 08:41 PM

I am running PCLinuxOS 2010(Gnome) on an Athlon 2200MHz with 1 Gig of memory with a Sony DVD R/W. Sorry, I don't know the model number.This drive ran fine on PCLinuxOS 2009 (KDE). When I try to burn a disk, it tells me there is no valid media. When I try to play a DVD in VLC, I get the following error message:

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/sr0".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.

Can anyone help me solve this?

frankbell · 06-16-2010, 09:29 PM

What is the output of dmesg? Is the system seeing the drive?

hilyard · 06-16-2010, 09:38 PM

Came back and there you were, frankbell. I defer to you . . .

but if after you follow his advice, slvrsplsh, you want an
alternative to the GUI apps for burning, please go to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning
and check out the sub-heading entitled "Burning a CD on the Command Line with wodim."

slvrsplsh · 06-21-2010, 01:54 PM

Thanks for the help, both of you. Somehow, the problem corrected itself.
It must be magic

frankbell · 06-21-2010, 09:03 PM

When I did tech support, the term we had for mysterious problems that correct themselves was "FM"--loosely translated "freaking magic."

Customer: What was the problem?

Tech: Oh, it was an FM problem . . . .

Glad it's working, slvrsplash.