Small but nagging problem

[Kevin Brown]

Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> Within the last couple of months I changed from Mandrake 8.1 to RedHat 8.0.
> Of the reasons for doing so, paramount was the fact that RH uses Sane and
> Mandrake uses Kooka(sp?) as an interface for the scanner. In this area 
> RH wins.
> 
> I also have two cd devices: CD-ROM BDV316C, and Yamaha CRW2200E.
> 
> hdc:DVD-ROM BDV316C, ATAPI CD/DVD ROM drive
> hdd:YAMAHA CRW2200E,ATAPI CD/DVD ROM drive
> 
> is how they appear in dmesg.
> 
> (hdc is a DVD device and hdd is a CD/RW device.)
> 
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> 
> is how they appear in fstab.
> 
> The small problem is that neither one will play audio CD's.
> 
> KsCD says "Yes, yes, I'm working.  See the CD title? See the track number?
> See the seconds ticking by?"
> 
> But no audio. Sound Server works. System Sounds drove me crazy before I
> disabled most of it.

Check the mixer settings and see if the audio is muted.

> I know I'm missing something, but have no clue.  I've looked in the manual
> that came with RH 8.0. It is to laugh. I've gone into the documentation 
> CD and found no joy. 
> Where should I look next?
> 
> A larger problem would be to set up the two devices to do their respective
> things: i.e., reading DVD's and writing CD/R's if possible. I seem to have
> found some evidence that DVD's are not entirely forbidden to Linux any
> more.

I think a few programs utilize libdvdcss (based off decss?) to decode DVDs or 
encrypted .vob files.