Dear friends:

My apologies. I think I uploaded the wrong screenshot. Here is the decisive screenshot that tells all:

http://www.websher.net/temp/xmms3.png

Thank you.

Benjamin

Delphi, your screenshots are working now.

if you notice from your last shot, the category on the right hand side where you are seeing cdrom says "Files." that doesn't mean your cdrom is "mounted" there, but shows that linux even sees devices as "files." what you need to do is find out where cdrom is showing up on the left hand side, where it says "Directories," not the right hand side. that will be the virtual "mount" of the cdrom that you need to find.

as i told you, as a last resort you should open a terminal and type "locate cdrom" (or "locate cdrom |more). then sort through the results until you find what looks like your cdrom mount. it will most likely be a short entry, usually /mnt/cdrom, but since yours isn't there, it has to be somewhere else. then just point xmms there so cdrom is showing up on the left hand side, not the right.

gl

OK, try media/dvd or media/cdrom.....

you want to watch a DVD movie? Try Ogle or, I use VLC media player myself.....Google/linux for it. They have all you need there.

Thank you, friends. I think we are making real progress. Please see two more screenshots:

http://www.websher.net/temp/xmms4.png
http://www.websher.net/temp/xmms5.png

I have two drives: cdrom and cdrom1. cdrom is my regular cdrom drive (with cd writer). cdrom1 is my DVD player drive. Under media theree is only "cdrom", but this "cdrom" actually shows the contents of my DVD movie.

Would appreciate your help in understanding what's going on.

Thanks again.

Benjamin

Dear friends:

This final screenshot really explains what's going on: I have an I/O error
having to do with the cdrom/cdwriter that plays my CD's. The CD still plays
fine on KSCD but I can't open it in XMMS. Please see screenshot:

http://www.websher.net/temp/xmms6.png

"CD Recorder" refers to "cdrom", my first CD drive. "CDRom" refers to my second DVD/CD drive.

What do you suggest?

Thanks so much.

Benjamin

hmmmmm......
i have no abilty to try it cause i dont have any audio cds, but i dont think that opening the mount point of a such cd would be of any use.. an audio cd doesn't even have any files on it so i think it's not possible to mount it
i dont know whether xmms plays audio cds, but there's a plugin that does: xmms-cdread
anyway you should consider ripping the cd on your hard disk with cdparanoia or something like that........ that'll work in any case, and you dont have to put in your cd any more..

yes DeNayGo is right u do need a plugin for xmms to play cd (audio cds)media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio
http://www.xmms.org

hope that helps u dude

OK, my thanks to all of you. Hopefully I'll resolve the I/O issue later.

Thanks again.

Benjamin