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Author: Carl Parrish
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Subject: links to /dev
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Here is my error msg.

Playing dvd://1
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd


Exiting... (End of file)

/dev/dvd is NOT in fstab but I have *no* idea what to mount a DVD as is
it iso9660 ?


On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 17:56, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Hey all,
> I can't get a dvd player to work on a RH 9 box. I've installed Mplayer
> the same way as I always have and its working just no DVD support.
> (though it plays VCD fine). I'm thinking that /dev/dvd is pointing to
> the work place (or there isn't any link at all). /dev/cdrom seems to be
> pointing in the correct place. What command will tell me what /dev/cdrom
> is pointing to? and should I be able to just ln -s /dev/dvd to wherever
> /dev/cdrom is?
>
> Thanks.

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