Mplayer problem FC7

[david walcroft]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 09:35 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Playing dvd://1.
>> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/sd0
>> No such file or directory
>> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/sd0
>> File not found: '1'
>> Failed to open dvd://1.
>>
>>
>> Exiting... (End of file
>>
>> Is the command "mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd" correct
>> seeing as mplayer complains about failing to open 'dvd://1' and 'file 
>> not found 1' 
>>     
>
> Have a look at the mplayer man file.  The dvd://1 instruction means to
> play the main title on the disc (1) being the default.  And -dvd-device
> specifying the device (/dev/dvd being the default).
>
> I don't know if the error about dvd://1 is down to it not finding your
> DVD drive, or whether you don't have the files installed to play DVDs.
> I think you should post us the output from running:  ls -al /dev
>
>   
Thanks Tim
  Here is the out put relevant to dvd

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 cdrom -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 cdrw -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 cdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 cdwriter -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 cdwriter-sr0 -> scd0
crw-------  1 david root     5,   1 2007-07-25 09:41 console
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root         11 2007-07-25 09:41 core -> /proc/kcore
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  root        120 2007-07-25 09:41 disk
crw-rw----  1 root  root    14,  10 2007-07-25 09:41 dmfm
crw-rw----  1 root  root    14,   9 2007-07-25 09:41 dmmidi
crw-rw----  1 david audio   14,   3 2007-07-25 09:41 dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 dvd -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 dvdrw -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 dvd-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 dvdwriter -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root          4 2007-07-25 09:41 dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0

crw-------  1 root  root   189,   0 2007-07-25 09:41 usb1
crw-------  1 root  root   189, 128 2007-07-25 09:41 usb2
crw-------  1 root  root   189, 256 2007-07-25 09:41 usb3
crw-------  1 root  root   189, 384 2007-07-25 09:41 usb4
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   0 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev1.1_ep00
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   1 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev1.1_ep81
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   2 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev2.1_ep00
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   3 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev2.1_ep81
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   8 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev2.3_ep00
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   9 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev2.3_ep81
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   4 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev3.1_ep00
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   5 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev3.1_ep81
crw-------  1 root  root   251,  10 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev3.2_ep00
crw-------  1 root  root   251,  11 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev3.2_ep81
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   6 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev4.1_ep00
crw-------  1 root  root   251,   7 2007-07-25 09:41 usbdev4.1_ep81

Running mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0 does not work

  david