ln -s problems

terfy · 01-29-2005, 05:12 AM

I was linking my dvd-device so that I can see DVD-movies in Xine ex.

I usually type "ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd", but this time I typed "ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd" and now I can't change it..

how do I change it ?? plz help.-.

slakmagik · 01-29-2005, 05:43 AM

ln -sf /dev/hdb /dev/dvd

terfy · 01-29-2005, 05:45 AM

it still doesn't work..

xine still says dvd source doesn't exist. do I have to install a DVDplugin too ?

slakmagik · 01-29-2005, 05:50 AM

The link doesn't work or xine doesn't? I dunno anything about xine, really, sorry. Use mplayer!

terfy · 01-29-2005, 05:50 AM

it only says that dvd:/ doesn't exist..

how do I get this exist ?

slakmagik · 01-29-2005, 06:11 AM

Hm - when I play a DVD with mplayer, I do
mplayer dvd://
or variations on that. dvd://2 or whatever.

You do have a DVD in, right? Maybe xine is confused by an extra or missing /. Do 'ls -l /dev/dvd' and see what shows up and doublecheck to make sure xine's pointed at that. Other than that and that xine probably wants libdvdcss to do anything useful, like I say, I don't know much about it.

terfy · 01-29-2005, 07:37 AM

it works now.

It seams that after I install some dvd-plugins from mplayer (probably some DeCSS codecs) it works fine now..

I just tried mplayer, but think it's difficult to use rather than Xine.

so I holds to Xine