On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:52 am, you wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote:
> > I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but I
> > wasn't all that impressed.  Take a look at xine.  Much better overall,
> > nicer gui, better playback, etc.  And much easier to install!
>
> Agreed; xine is brilliant, on 7.2.  It installed easily under 8.1 but
> breaks down on running the d4d plugin with a message which implies that
> 8.1 does not support raw devices, out of the box.  What is needed is
> /dev/rdvd.  Does that exist on your system, and if so, how did it get
> there?

xine runs with d4d on my 8.1 machine just fine. I symlinked /dev/hdc (my dvd 
drive) to /dev/dvd. I don't get any error messages.

Matt

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