OK, this may be a stupid question but why won't a DVD movie disc be mounted? I have a slot loading DVD-ROM drive and everytime I put in a movie it ejects it. I try to use mplayer but with the command mplayer -dvd 1-dvd-device /mnt/dvd and nothings happens. Any help would be appreciated.

First, dvds can be mounted. Check your /etc/fstab.

Second mounting the dvd isn't necessary to view it with mplayer. If you can't watch your dvds check the permissions on your /dev/dvd. Mine are 2660 and the device belongs to the "dvd" group which my username is a member of. You might also check to make sure you have the latest libdvdcss library.

You can brute force it first by logging in as root and running
(from the mplayer manpage)

-dvd-device /mnt/dvd isn't the device
-dvd-device /dev/hdx is

/dev/hdx or /dev/scdx is a device, /mnt/whatever is a mount point.

SO to specify a device, you have to select from the /dev options

Cool

i have the newest version of MPlayer. I even put the DVD drive on supermount and still, it spits it back out after about 8 seconds.

open a xterm and type
then tell us what you see.

empt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=5, (=0x5), limit=4
bread in fat_access failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=5, (=0x5), limit=4
bread in fat_access failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=5, (=0x5), limit=4
bread in fat_access failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=5, (=0x5), limit=4
bread in fat_access failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=5, (=0x5), limit=4

Is this on mandrake 9.0?

What does:
ls -l /dev/dvd
show you (post it up)?

Cool

Actually, I just changed to MDK 9.1 I changed my permissions from 700 on /mnt/dvd to 755 just for fun to see what it would do, it did nothing. That was just FYI. Here is the post:

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Apr 5 19:01 /dev/dvd -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd

Another thing, why is the dvd automatically ejecting itself?

I guess it has something to do with MPlayer's error message: can't open device /dev/dvd for reading

So this is even as root then?

mplayer -vo xv -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd

And it gives you what? Post up the error message (or just the full output from mplayer).

Cool

The error message is below. The main thing is that as soon as I put the dvd movie in the drive it gets ejected by the drive.

MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No
such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing DVD title 1
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd

Even without running mplayer?

If so, disable "supermount" for this drive and try again. How? Simply by placing a # in front of the line referring to this drive in /etc/fstab and creating a new generic one:
/dev/hdx /mnt/dvd iso9660 users,auto,ro 0 0

Or something along those lines. Then, put the disc in and see what happens.

Cool

Here's my entry in fstab:

/dev/hda /mnt/dvd auto user,iocharset=iso9660,codepage=850,noauto,ro,umask=0 0 0

Hmmm...

It shouldn't spit out your disk unless you tell it to. Does it eject regardless of whether you run mplayer or not?