DVD Playback under Fedora Core 4

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 00:36:40 +0200,
>   Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> 
>>It can never even start playing a DVD movie because there is
>>no URI or URL or something like that to handle "dvd://" well
>>actually it is /dev/hdc but anyway
> 
> 
> The device specification is different than the device type. You shouldn't
> have to specify the device unless you have more than one dvd player.

Yes i have two DVD Playback capable devices .

1 . A DVD Recorder   connected as hdc ( Secondary Master )
2.  A DVD ROM Driver connected as hdd ( Secondary Slave )

> If you don't tell it you are playing a DVD then things don't work correctly.
> My memory is that the CSS keys don't get extracted from the DVD and you
> end up seeing scrambled video. But its been over a month since I last
> played with xine, so i may not have remembered things completely correctly.


The above problem was conserning totem ( The Problem with the url ) . The
problem with xine was refering to  messed up colors . Xine though wants a
symbolic link to the device called /dev/dvd . So there is no problem 
identifying
which is the DVD Playback device ( It is the one /dev/dvd points to ) .


Kind Regards,
   Kostas