MPlayer Won't Play DVDs

AFI_Flame · 10-04-2004, 09:46 PM

It says

"Could Not Open Device /dev/dvd"

I mounted it to /mnt/cdrom and I can read the files in there but it won't play with MPlayer.

SciYro · 10-04-2004, 10:46 PM

you don't need to mount dvds for mplayer to play them

mplayer by default trys to open /dev/dvd as the dvd device to read (of course this device is non existent)

theres 2 solutions, create a sym link from /dev/dvd to your dvd drive, or go

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc

assuming /dev/hdc is your dvd device

AFI_Flame · 10-05-2004, 04:42 PM

Alright I got it working

. I just looked in my prefrances and changed it from /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom