Hello,
I have been looking through the forums for the past couple of hours and I still cannot figure out how to fix this problem. I have a DVD-RW drive that, at the moment, I just want to use as a normal DVD drive to play movies on. I have tried using both Xine and MPlayer to play movies, but I get the following errors with them:
Xine:
$ xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.2.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc7 from
http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc7 from
http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
MPlayer:
$ mplayer dvd://1
mplayer: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: no version information available (required by mplayer)
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino 1596 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/tathlyn/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/tathlyn/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/tathlyn/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/tathlyn/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/tathlyn/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
Exiting... (End of file)
My /dev/dvd link is a link from /dev/hdd, which is my DVD drive. I even did chmod 666 on /dev/dvd. My problem should not be permissions. I know the drive plays movies too, because I have played them in Windows XP.
Here is my /etc/fstab file if it may help:
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat auto,gid=100,umask=0 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd iso9660 udf,noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
I am completely stumped as to what the problem may be. I am willing to try anything to get this working, I will even try different players if that may make a difference, these two just seemed to be the most popular and I had them installed already. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris