I am having trouble getting a DVD to play in RH9. I have tried Ogle and MPlayer, and get the same response:

Playing /dev/dvd
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.7 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd

I found this error message all over the 'net, but the solutions listed aren't working for me. /dev/dvd is linked to /dev/hdc, same as /dev/cdrom. It is a DVD+CDRW combo drive. A dmesg dump shows the following:

hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

Then later:

hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: open failed.

I have seen one article on the net that describes this drive as working in Linux. I have the newest mplayer, ogle, libdvdcss (1.2.7) and libdvdread (0.9.4) that I could find.

Thanks for reading, and for helping.

- cycletronic

are you trying to play a burnt dvd? that was burned with windows software? such as roxio........

if so make sure you left the dvd in aformat that can be read by other computers.

Nope, not a burned DVD. Well, not home-burned, that is. It's a licensed, legal disc of Monsters, Inc. I have tried other commercial DVDs as well. All of them have worked with PowerDVD in windows, so they're not faulty DVDs. Thanks for helping, though.

i have this problem too.