Re: Can't play DVD's

[william edward triest <wtriest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know you can tell mplayer do play from /dev/dvd OR from a mounted dvd, 
so a few more details like what program you are trying to run would be 
helpful.   When I get home after class and work tonight I'll tell you 
exactly how I do it on my gentoo box at home (currently none of the 
redhat or fedora boxes at work have dvd drives, but the next group to 
get assimulated will have dvd burners)

Thanks,
William
Student Worker - Linux
Chemistry Department
The Ohio State University

Adam Antoniak wrote:
> I encountered a strange problem. Didn't have any problems with dvd drive
> using fedora 1. If I recall correctly the only thing I had to do was
> running 'ln -s /dev/cdrom dev/dvd' as root. With fedora 2 I don't see
> /dev/dvd at all. At the same time hardware browser returns seems to be
> aware of the fact that one of my optical drives is a dvd. Whenever I
> insert dvd disk into drive it gets automatically mounted as a regular CD.
> I don't thing it used to work this way in FC1. Regular discs were mounted
> but dvd's were not.
> Could somebody give me some hints. Maybe it's a simple question as I'm a
> newbie, but I feel I got stucked.
>
> Adam