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Old 09-18-2003, 02:08 PM   #1
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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?
 
Old 09-18-2003, 05:00 PM   #2
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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
 
Old 09-18-2003, 05:09 PM   #3
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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?
 
Old 09-24-2003, 12:46 PM   #4
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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
 
Old 09-24-2003, 06:01 PM   #5
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ok so IS /dev/hdc your dvd drive?

Code:
dmesg | grep hdc
 
Old 09-25-2003, 02:43 PM   #6
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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.
 
Old 09-26-2003, 01:23 PM   #7
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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.
 
Old 09-27-2003, 12:01 PM   #8
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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.
 
Old 09-27-2003, 09:03 PM   #9
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Ok I'm still new to linux, where exactly do programs get installed to? where would i find the mplayer directory
 
Old 09-27-2003, 09:14 PM   #10
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I copied thoose files, still getting erros
 
Old 09-29-2003, 10:26 AM   #11
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have you edited your ~/.mplayer/config file?
 
Old 09-29-2003, 11:18 AM   #12
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how about you *PROVE* that your drive is hdc.
Code:
dmesg | grep hdc
 
Old 10-17-2003, 12:23 PM   #13
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here is dmesg output
idel: BM-DMA at 0x1488-0x148f, BIOS setings: hdc: DMA, hddio
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
 
Old 10-17-2003, 01:09 PM   #14
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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.
 
Old 11-24-2003, 02:09 PM   #15
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ogle wasnt working either
 
  


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