-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 December 2001 2:42 pm, Keith Willoughby wrote: > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/dvd
the "-vcd 2" seemed to be the problem "-dvd 1" solved it [or at least allowed me to play the first few minutes of the dvd - It gives up at the end of the first (?) .vob file.] ... > > > > > > (I just checked the permissions in /dev/dvd - these look fine) > > First of all, /dev/dvd is probably a symlink to the real device - It is - I have devfs so the symlink is to some ide device (about 4 layers down). > check the permissions of that. > Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS > negotiation. REALLY - this is a read-only dvd device??? and the permissions are set as r_xr_xr_x - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8HSFx1mf3M5ZDr2kRAjbCAJ9zQNAPr/Z1+ekdOZohLrM3Bz4SHgCePoTJ ErueSP8xe+654TOlIpdR8GQ= =AEyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----