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do you have a symlink from the actual ide device entry (e.g /dev/hdc) to /dev/dvd. without having an obvious place to look for a dvd drive programs aren't going to start guessing, so if there's no /dev/dvd then try "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd" IF your drive IS on hdc (secondary master)
if that doesn't solve it then provide the full output from mplayer as you have provided no real useful information
Originally posted by acid_kewpie well it looks ok really, but you've not said how you are running mplayer
From KDE as su, right click DVD ROM icon select play(reports as above), or launch mplayer, right click main window "MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: open_stream" then "fatal error....or a bug in mplayer or in your drivers or in your gcc version.etc", or open mplayer and use play button on the deck, nothing happens just title scroll "no media opened".
Replaced mplayer and still the same symptoms.
Can't play Div-x or VCD either. Works fine as cd-rom and cd-audio.
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