Cant play DVD's
 

Ok, I Just got a dvd-r/cdrw drive today, to replace my nonworking cdrw drive.

I cant play DVDs, I know the drive works, I tested it on windows xp.

On linux, I can read cd's and dvds.

the problem I have is that when-ever I try to play a dvd in VLC or MPlayer it doesn't work.

both players try opening /dev/dvd

when I installed the new drive and started linux, Kudzu didnt run.

I think the system doesnt know its a dvd drive, and still using the previous cdrw drivers.

What brand DVD-RW? What distro are you using? What does it say in your fstab? What error message does mplayer give? What options are on your kernel boot command line?

you get the libdvdcss? YOu need that to decode DVD movies

ok, I got it workin, when i checked the hardware browser, and looked at the device part it said, "/dev/hdb"

so I entered that into vlc the dvd started playing.

and the error message from before was, "couldnt open device: /dev/dvd"

I'm using FC2, just like it says under my name on the side of this message.

As root make a symbolic link to the drive "ln -s hdb /dev/cdrom" & then everything should be able to find the drive.