Trying to play DVD with xine in RH9 and "no MRL error" msg

lgermani · 02-21-2006, 07:37 PM

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to play a video dvd with xine v0.99.2 and when a hit dvd in the control menu the message "there's no input plugin to handle 'dvd:/' maybe MRL file syntax is wrong or file stream source does't exist."
another msg is "maybe you don't have enough rights for this..."

In the terminal the output is
libdvdread: using libdvdcss 1.2.9 for dvd access
libdvdread: can't stat /dev/dvd

All I can say about the media is that it's surely encrypted.

macemoneta · 02-21-2006, 09:02 PM

You need to create a symbolic link to the dvd drive. Something like:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

Alternatively, start xine pointing to the correct drive:

xine dvd:/dev/hdc

lgermani · 02-23-2006, 05:47 PM

Something did moved. Now i've got this output:

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdnav

VDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav

VDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.

What to do next?

macemoneta · 02-23-2006, 05:59 PM

Well, if the disk is dirty, wash it. Also, is the disk region encoded? If so, is your drive region free, or set to the same region?

lgermani · 02-25-2006, 06:14 PM

Thanks a lot!

I did: ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
and it is playing everything now!

JockVSJock · 02-25-2006, 07:17 PM

You may or may not know this, but RH 9 is no longer supported...just an FYI.