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I'm not familiar with parrot, but in my experience, one of two things usually can do that for you - your file manager or your desktop environment (sometimes called places). Check settings in either one to find how to set it to mount discs on insert.
Or let us know what desktop and/or file manager you're using.
I don't see an option to mount my cd/dvd, the cd/dvd lights up and is working
Data CD/DVD? An audio CD won't mount. Doesn't have a file system on it. Or a video DVD?
As far as data optical disks, with a file system, find out what device your optical drive is.
Here is an example:
Code:
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 500.1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
└─sda2 8:2 0 500.1G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
As you can see, the optical disk is /dev/sr0
Code:
eject -T
#Put disk into drive, close
mkdir ~/dvdburner
sudo mount /dev/sr0 ~/dvdburner
ls ~/dvdburner
TvShow3_1.mp4 TvShow3_3.mp4 TvShow3_5.mp4
TvShow3_2.mp4 TvShow3_4.mp4 TvShow3_6.mp4
Don't forget to unmount when you are done, before you remove the disk.
Code:
sudo umount ~/dvdburner
For a video DVD, you can mount them the same way. You'll have a VIDEO_TS directory on it. Open that and you have a bunch of files like:
Distribution: native install of Parrot Home Edition 5.0 Debian (no security tools) 64 bit, KDE, 5.14.0-9parrot1,
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Originally Posted by teckk
Data CD/DVD? An audio CD won't mount. Doesn't have a file system on it. Or a video DVD?
It's just got files on it and images, no audio
Quote:
Originally Posted by teckk
As far as data optical disks, with a file system, find out what device your optical drive is.
By device you mean? To me its just a CD DVD burner.Anything more I should find out other than that?
Quote:
Originally Posted by teckk
Here is an example:
Code:
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 500.1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
└─sda2 8:2 0 500.1G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
As you can see, the optical disk is /dev/sr0
Code:
eject -T
#Put disk into drive, close
mkdir ~/dvdburner
sudo mount /dev/sr0 ~/dvdburner
ls ~/dvdburner
TvShow3_1.mp4 TvShow3_3.mp4 TvShow3_5.mp4
TvShow3_2.mp4 TvShow3_4.mp4 TvShow3_6.mp4
Don't forget to unmount when you are done, before you remove the disk.
Code:
sudo umount ~/dvdburner
It worked thank you.
Is any of what you just described adding a user to the cdrom group?
Quote:
Originally Posted by teckk
The .vob files are the video, and they are css scrambled of course. You'll need libvdcss installed to view them.
Could I get get the terminal command to install libvdcss from repository?
That is how you mount an optical disk on any linux box. There are auto mounters on all distros. Look at your docs to see what is available for you, and how to configure it for Parrot. Always good to know/understand the basics though.
Quote:
Could I get get the terminal command to install libvdcss from repository?
What video player are you trying to play a video DVD with? There is a little utility called lsdvd that is light and excellent to show you what titles are on the DVD. You can play that title with a video player.
Example:
Code:
mplayer dvd://1
mpv dvd://1
Or use VLC, totem, whatever you wish. When you play the video is it all scrambled? If so then you need libdvdcss.
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