Problem with playing DVD on readhat 9
 

When I try to play DVD cd’s it gives and error that some /dev/dvd not exits but I try to link it with ln –s /dev/cdrom2 /dev/dvd but it’s not working as well gives the same error
I tried to play dvd on console mplayer –dvd 1 nothing works on even I have xine it gives the same problem but I have solve all the dependencies I don’t think no problem with that but

1. Do I need some other plugines or libraries to install
2. what can I do for this

Please reply the solutions

Thanks
lakshan

If it is saying that /dev/dvd doesn't exist then that is the problem. Post the output of "ls -l /dev/dvd", "ls -l /dev/cd*", "ls -l /dev/hd*" and "less /etc/fstab" and I'll try to help
Guy

yes this is what i get
 

[lakshan@L-NET lakshan]$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Oct 18 19:19 /dev/dvd -> cdrom
[lakshan@L-NET lakshan]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 18 15:39 /dev/cdrom2 -> /dev/hdb
[lakshan@L-NET lakshan]$ less /etc/fstab
[lakshan@L-NET lakshan]$ ls -l /dev/hd
[lakshan@L-NET lakshan]$ ls -l /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jan 30 2003 /dev/hda

in fstab it just added i eman mounted already

what i have to do next

thanks for reply
lakshan

rm /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/hdb

Then give it a go
Guy

ok i did as u said
 

but still it's the same and here i'll give u exacly what it says in those errors
for mplayer and xine

this is what when i try to play in xine it gives

the source can't be read
maybe u don't have enough rights for this or source doesn't contain data
(eg:-not disk in driver ) (/dev/dvd)
input plugin fail to open mrl 'dvd:/'

this is what when i try to play in mplayer it gives

couldn't open dvd device : d/ev/dvd

ogle player give this
 

this is what when i try to play in ogle it gives

[root@L-NET ogle-0.9.1]# ogle
libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
Too many levels of symbolic links
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD

I thought the symlink should be

ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

Well you didn't actually post your fstab. The device that's mounted at /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom is the one you want to link to (unless you have more than one CD/DVD drive.

You're going to have to clean up those symlinks though from the output of that last error... looks like you have too many links pointing to the physical dev... /dev/hdb?... post your fstab as adz suggested... it'll help, hopefully.

I have the same problem. The device is mounted as /dev/cdrom and can read cd perfectly, but when I enter a dvd it rejects it and cannot read the content as well as is unable to play it in mplayer.

I can only assume that it has something to do with the dvd's file system, but don't know what to do about it...

ok thanks u guys very much
 

yes the symlink is for my DVD player
ln -s /dev/cdrom2 /dev/dvd

hehe coz i have 3 roms

one for writer, cd playing , Dvd

that ws the problem
thanks for helping me to solve this problem

finaly it's done

waaaaaaaaa DVD quality in linux is exserlent

but one problem hehe i cant play VCD on same dvd drive

thanks guys
lakshan