I have read through other similar problems and have tried advice given to them but I still can't get DVDs to play in gmplayer. I can get DVDs to play in k9copy so I know it can read the DVD in some manner. I have 2 devices,one is a CDROM/RW and the other is a DVD/RW. I can mount the DVD drive and look at files and such so I know the drive is ok.

Here are some results that may help.

grep UDF /boot/config-generic-2.6.13
CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y


I think this is where my problem is but Ive tried to change the link to /dev/hdd but it wont change.

ls -l /dev/hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-05-22 19:57 /dev/hdd -> /dev/hdc


fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd auto auto 0 0

This is what shows when I load gmplayer from a command prompt and load the DVD

gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!


The Memorex is the DVD/RW, the Samsung is the CD/RW

dmesg | grep hdd
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hdd: Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWlD2, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: ATAPI 63X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)


dmesg | grep hdc
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-248F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)



If I try to run gmplayer as root I get this:

gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.

vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
MPlayer GUI requires X11.

if i run slapt-get as root looking for libdvdread I get this

slapt-get -search libdvdread
vobcopy-0.5.14-i486-1asz [inst=no]: vobcopy (a tool for quickly copying DVD's to harddisk)
libdvdread-0.9.6-i686-1jto [inst=no]: libdvdread 0.9.6 (DVD reading library)
lsdvd-0.16-i486-1kjz [inst=no]: lsdvd - list contents of DVD
libdvdread-0.9.5-i486-1kjz [inst=yes]: libdvdread - Library for accessing DVDs
kdvdbackup-0.6-i486-1AS [inst=yes]: kdvdbackup is a utility for backing up DVD movies to hard disk.
k9copy-1.0.3b-i486-1as [inst=yes]: k9copy is DVD backup utility.



Any help would be appreciated!

j

Ok now I've really screwed up and I can't mount my CD or DVD drive....

hmmm... you don't need to mount dvd's, but you need to specefy dvd device for your mplayer. in command line this looks like 'mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://', where dvd is symlink to dvd device (you can replace it with real device name). if this doesn't work, the problem can be in libraries.

yeah.. I tried loads of different commands and couldnt get it to work. I'll try that. But what I mean is.. I can't mount a DVD or CD if I WANTED to now.. I screwed something up. The CD and DVD drives are unmountable....