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I have a problem with my dvd player.Mandrake
recognizes it as a cdrom(/dev/hdd),but when i
run xine i get this error
input_dvd:unable to open dvd drive(/dev/dvd):
no such file or directory.
How do i tell the system that this is a dvd drive?
which version of xine are you using? for some reason, the more recent versions don't work on dvd unless the drive is specified as /dev/dvd. the 0.43 version worked on different drives, but i haven't been able to get the 0.5 version to work, even if i change the directory specified in the source. i think they just released a 0.9, but i haven't tried it yet.
Originally posted by dorward Becuase Xine has the location of the DVD drive hard coded in to it the developers could not know which IDE device the DVD actually is.
As a result you need to create a symbolic link:
As root:
Code:
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd
- already tried that. what hit me as strange is that i went into the code and changed the /dev/dvd to where it is on my box - it's specified as a second cdrom drive. /cdrom2. that didn't help.
- already tried that. what hit me as strange is that i went into the code and changed the /dev/dvd to where it is on my box - it's specified as a second cdrom drive. /cdrom2. that didn't help.
DVDs are accessed directly, not over a file system. Access /dev/hdd and don't mount it first.
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- already tried that. what hit me as strange is that i went into the code and changed the /dev/dvd to where it is on my box - it's specified as a second cdrom drive. /cdrom2. that didn't help.
