playing DVD with combo drive
Wolfgang Gill
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Mon Nov 1 02:37:58 UTC 2004
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 01:00:04 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote
> ashwin kesavan iyengar kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika
> sunnuntai, 31. lokakuuta 2004 21:06):
> > I downloaded xine player. It works fine with VCD but says
> > error when DVD is played(something like drive not found). My
> > DVD drive is actually a combo drive(CD-R,RW,ROM,DVD-ROM). My
> > combo drive is LG-GCC-4521B. It is able to show the contents
> > of the dvd. There was no /dev/dvd file in the /dev. The combo
> > drive is indicated by cd-rom1. I hav another cd-rom drive
> > which is shown as cd-rom. The combo drive is shown as
> > /dev/hdc. how to play dvd with xine.
>
> Create the /dev/dvd symlink:
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
>
> I have a LG-4120B combo drive and it works fine with Xine.
>
> --
> Markku Kolkka
> markku.kolkka at iki.fi
Also, when you run Xine, go into setup, then into the INPUT tab, and change
all references of /dev/cdrom,/dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom1. That way Xine will only
allow DVD 's from that drive. That also worked for me.
Wolf
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