I'm running suse 10.0 on my i8600 it has the Philips 2Xdvd rw drive in the media bay, I'm curoius as to what the /etc/fstab entry should look like as I'm now having problems with playing dvd's that was never there before. I had it working fine but now I get errors about not enough permissions can't find plugin for MRL which is the one that I think is stopping playback. I was wondering if any replies could include the line in your fstab for your rom drive ...

Thanks

Erick

For DVD playback the disk does not need to be mounted - so fstab is not really relevant here.
But you could post it for others to look at.
It could be a permission-problem which prevents you from even reading the device
Try
ls -al /dev/cdrom
ls -al /dev/dvd
ls -al /dev/hdc

It could also be that in order to have access to the drive you need to be in a certain group - like cdrom or media group - I dont know how this is supposed to be in suse.
And of course the error you get when doing ...what? - best when starting the application from a terminal - would help to identify the problem.

Thanks Jomen,

I added the sym links ...

I get multiple errors when I put in a dvd and kaffeine auto plays one of the errors is "you might not have permission" the other errors are that there is no plugin fould to handle MRL[dvd:/] but if I close/quit kaffeine then re-open it and click open dvd it works.... my line for my rom in my fstab is:

/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

all on one line ...

I have to say: I have to this day not heard of subfs - which suse obviously uses.
Just some idea how it works after googling a bit for it. But as I said - mounting is not the issue to play a DVD.
You could however try to put "user" or "users" into the list of options for your cdrecorder device - maybe that will change the behaviour - but I doubt it.

The examples like:
ls -al /dev/cdrom ...
where to look at the permissions for the device - not for creating symlinks - maybe I didn't understand you correctly. You said: If you use mplayer from the command-line you will see better what is going on.
You could also start kaffeine from a terminal - maybe then you see more of why it sometimes fails?
I'm afraid that this is too suse-specific for me to make any suggestions, since I don't know it (last time I tried must have been suse 7 or so...)