hi i cant seem to play a dvd (in xine) when in logged in as my normal user.
When i run it as root is plays perfect....wats up???

btw i have installed the libdvdcss i

thanks

Have you set permissions for your other users to use the application? To find out how to do this refer to the documentation of chmod by typing "man chmod" at a shell.

yeh...i'd already done that....well i think what i tried was right.

I made the xine binary accessable for all users (chmod 777 xine)

here is the error message I get from xine :

-xine engine error-
input plugin failed to open mrl 'dvd:/'

and also:

The source can't be read.
Maybe you don't have enough rights for this

yeh...i'd already done that....well i think what i tried was right.

I made the xine binary accessable for all users (chmod 777 xine)

here is the error message I get from xine :

-xine engine error-
input plugin failed to open mrl 'dvd:/'

and also:

The source can't be read.
Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g. no disc in drive). (/dev/cdrom)

any further ideas?

Indeed, the users will need read/write
permissions to the raw device... the
proper way to set that up is to create
a group dvd, add your user to that group,
and
chgrp dvd /dev/<rawdevice>
chmod ug=rwx,o=r /dev/<rawdevice>


Cheers,
Tink

xine tends to make my machine reboot when it's playing video of any sort, but not audio only... anyone else having this weird occurance?

G'day.

I'm having the same problem - can watch DVDs only as root user.

Tinkster,

I have followed your advice and set up a group called 'dvd'. Then I added the user in question to this group. Next I did the

thingo, whereby I was not sure what the 'raw device' was. So I did it twice, once with /dev/cdrom (dvd combo drive) and once with /dev/dvd. Was this the right thing to do? How do I find out what my 'rawdevice' is, or do I actually type in <rawdevice>?

The problem remained unchanged. Still getting error messages as user (the same ones as mentioned in previous posts in this topic).

Please help. Thanks !

I believe the raw device is called /dev/rdvd by default, but it's shown on one of the tabs in xine's setup dialog (video tab I think). Might have to change to "expert" view on first tab though.

Thanks for your reply.

The options in the Xine setup tabs (expert level) are:

Video tab - dev/syncfb......doesn't work with above chmod commands either (doesn't exist)
dxr3 tab -/dev/em8300-0.........haven't tried it yet
input tab - /dev/cdrom............tried and makes no diff.

there are other file paths to other files, but none in the /dev directory.

I've tried rebooting etc. I've checked that the user is part of the dvd group.

Any other ideas ....please

Do this in a console:
ls -l /dev/dvd
You should find out what device it points to. It should be owned by root and the group dvd. If not:
It'll be something like /dev/hdd or /dev/scd0 (if you have SCSI drives, or SCSI emulation)
Then do something like:
chown root:dvd /dev/hdd

If you don't HAVE /dev/dvd then type "dmesg" and look for a line similar to this:
hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
This would imply that the DVD is /dev/hdc
Then do the above
Hope this helps
Guy

Thanks Guygriffiths,

I did as you said and the following resulted:

I then typed "chown root:dvd /dev/hdc"

I went through a file explorer (Konqueror) and checked out the permissions on the file /dev/hdc and found that under the 'Ownership' section of the properties window to this file :

User: root
Group: dvd

Everyone has read write and execute permissions except 'others'.

But still, can only use Xine as root user and still getting error messeages as mentioned my others above when trying as another user.

Is my prob maybe at a more fundamental level - perhaps I haven't set the group 'dvd' up correctly?

Going through KDE System Settings / Users and Groups, then choosing the Groups tab I can clearly see that there are two groups. one is called 'oliver' (the one and only user on the system other than the root user) and the other is called 'dvd'. Now behind that (in 'Group Members') I can clearly see that 'oliver' is part of both those groups.

I just don't know where the problem may be.

Thanks for your patience folks. Please help me solve this problem.

SOLVED THE PROBLEM !!!!!

It was fundamental indeed. I assumed that Xine would set itself up in the user account, the same as it does in the root account. For some reason this was not so and therefore in the user account , in the 'Input' tab in the settings, the 'device used for dvd' was not pointing to my cdrom drive. I changed these settings in the user account (so that they are the same as in the root account) and ...elpresto, DVD fully working.

Hope you're not all as confused as I am now

Thanks for your patience and help everybody. It did enable me to find a solution in the end ....eve if it was the long way around.

but by posting your solution, maybe it will be a shorter way around in the future for someone else with the same problem. thanks.

I get the exact same error as you were getting as a user, however I get this error as root also.

I read your resolution and don't really follow. What do you mean you thought XINE would set itself up in the user account. Is there a group or something that XINE creates that users need to be a part of?

He means (I think) that you have to set up Xine with it's setup menu for every user you run it with, because it creates ~/.xine config files.
You will need to setup the dvd device in the setup (go to top level "master of the known universe" or something first)