Can't find directory for DVD player.

allyanncah · 10-11-2008, 05:45 PM

Hi,

I can't find the directory for my CD/DVD player. I'm running SLED 10.1 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61. I've installed MPlayer with all of the proper codecs and a GUI, but I can't get it to play anything because I have no idea where to tell it to look for the DVD. /dev/dvd doesn't exist, it won't work with /dev/hda or /dev/sda, and there's nothing in /mnt. The DVD icon is on the desktop, named; the box knows it's there but won't play it. I've been trying to find it for days; just trying to watch a movie.

I've already tried to get Totem to play DVDs and gave up because I've installed all of the plugins and Totem can't find them.

Thoughts? Advice?

pilotgi · 10-11-2008, 06:13 PM

Try this. Start MPlayer. Right click on the MPlayer window.

Choose the dvd option.

Have you installed libdvdcss?

allyanncah · 10-12-2008, 09:54 AM

No dice there, it gives me an error message saying "No stream found to handle url dvd://1"

libdvdcss is installed, it's in /usr/local/lib. Could that location be causing a problem?

pilotgi · 10-12-2008, 08:20 PM

Mine is in /usr/lib. Maybe you need to use the rpm from videolan.org.

http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...uSE/11.0/i686/

The version I have installed is 1.2.10-3.1.

Edit: Just noticed that your using SLED 10.1. Maybe you ought to look for the version of libdvdcss for that distro. The link I provided was for openSUSE 11.0. Might work, might not.