Problem Mounting a DVD
 

I have Red Hat 9 running on a Compaq Pressario 7000. I have a DVD drive in it, no cdrom.

When I first installed Red Hat, I was able to mount a DVD(Video)and look at the files on it. After I installed XINE everytime i went to mount the dvd i got the error message No Medium. Xine wasnt working to watch a DVD even with out mounting, like everyone says it should.

So I deleted everything, reloaded Red Hat and was able to mount again. Still had no way of playing a DVD. So I loaded MPlayer. and guess what, now I can't mount again.

Any Ideas?

how are you trying to mount the DVD? i have MPlayer installed and i can mount DVD's with "mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom" although i can't play DVD's with MPlayer or xmmplayer as of yet

why are you trying to mount the dvd to play it? you never need to mount a video dvd... what are the actual errors mplayer is giving you?

Ok when I used to mount a DVD video disc, It used to let me. Then when I installed mplayer it wouldn't let me mount anymore, I would get a "no medium found" error. DVDs display each chapter as a pair of files, one that is the video, the other is information for it. When I try and play using mplayer
it says the following in the terminal

Playing /dev/hdc
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hdc for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/hdc

ok so IS /dev/hdc your dvd drive?

have you installed mplayer correctly?
you will get
Playing /dev/hdc
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hdc for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/hdc
if you do not have a config file
My advice to you is to RTFM, or if you RTFM you can ignore me.

acid: yes /dev/hdc is my dvd.

randomblast: What is RTFM ? I have gone into the settings in Mplayer and changed it to /dev/hdc, /dev/cdrom, neither work.

The problem still remains that I can't mount a DVD. Lets not forget just cause it is a movie dvd, doenst mean that it doesn't have any DVD-ROM capabilites, most do.

RTFM is Read The F*cking Manual, which you can ignore if you have done.
what i meant is did you do what it says in the manual and copy the mplayer-1.opre1/etc/example.conf and codecs .conf to ~/.mplayer/config and ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf respectively, and then edited your config file to what you need for your system.

Ok I'm still new to linux, where exactly do programs get installed to? where would i find the mplayer directory

I copied thoose files, still getting erros

have you edited your ~/.mplayer/config file?

how about you *PROVE* that your drive is hdc.

here is dmesg output
idel: BM-DMA at 0x1488-0x148f, BIOS setings: hdc: DMA, hdd:pio
hdc: Compaq DVD-Rom DVD-114 0112, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver
hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)

So yes HDC is my DVD

Save yourself some headaches and try Ogle. You won't look back. I've had a really tough time getting mplayer to work, but thats likely due to my noob background.

ogle wasnt working either