getting my dvd player to work on toshiba laptop

harrycrumb11 · 09-22-2003, 01:01 PM

(newbie)
I cannot get Mplayer to work for the life of me. I installed it using Synaptics and it just doesnt run. When I run it in the command line nothing happens, and I dont know if its supposed to show up in gnome or not but it doesnt. Any suggestions on what I should do or if there are any steps that I skippe. Thanks

pilotgi · 09-22-2003, 01:17 PM

Have you tried the gmplayer command?

harrycrumb11 · 09-22-2003, 01:34 PM

nope but I just did that and got the console to come up. Now it says that no media is opened. Do I have to mount the drive or something?

pilotgi · 09-22-2003, 04:15 PM

Do you have /dev/dvd? Was there a dvd in the drive when you got the "no media" message?

What distro uses Synaptic?

harrycrumb11 · 09-22-2003, 05:30 PM

there is no /dev/dvd and im using redhat9. I searched some threads and tried mounting it to /dev/dvd and it still doesnt get mounted.

pilotgi · 09-23-2003, 12:40 PM

You probably need a symlink from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd. Try this from the command line:

ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd or

ln -s /dev/cdrecorder /dev/dvd

sidey · 09-24-2003, 08:17 AM

install ogle
mount the dvd drive (try /dev/hdc etc) to say oh erm /mnt
then ogle /mnt

i say /dev/hdc because normally the cd is the primary master on the second ide bus and that what /dev/hdc looks at

and why bother symlinking /dev/cdrom(or whatever to) /dev/dvd it will not help any bit in the slightest,

though ogle is not needed for dvd playback but it does allow you to use menu's which mplayer doesnt

harrycrumb11 · 09-24-2003, 09:46 PM

[root@localhost rich]# ogle /mnt
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
ctrl: waitpid failed: No child processes

doesnt work. what is the exact command i need to do do get it mounted? nothing i try works.

megaspaz · 09-25-2003, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by harrycrumb11
[root@localhost rich]# ogle /mnt
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
ctrl: waitpid failed: No child processes

doesnt work. what is the exact command i need to do do get it mounted? nothing i try works.

go here and download libdvdc$$

http://shrike.freshrpms.net/

and make sure you make a link described above called /dev/dvd that points to the device label of your dvd drive (like /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdrom1).

also you don't need to mount your dvd drive when using mplayer or xine.

harrycrumb11 · 09-25-2003, 06:51 PM

ok i got libdvdc installed. I still get the message Couldn't find device name. What is the command to mount my dvd rom. im assuming thats what needs to be done. I dont understand how linux can have plug and play support for an integrated wireless card but not a simple cdrw/dvdrom ...

harrycrumb11 · 09-25-2003, 07:09 PM

ahh i figured it out. it had to be mounted as scd0. thanks

megaspaz · 09-26-2003, 01:36 AM

odd. i never have to mount my dvd drive. i just click the dvd button in xine or mplayer.