You need to make a link to your dvd drive. To ensure you are making a link to the correct drive, try eject /dev/cdrom from the command line and make sure your dvd rom opens. Then, as root, ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd from the command line. -Glen On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:02, Matt Pittard wrote: > I installed mplayer and I'm able to watch a DivX video, however, I get > an "Could not open DVD device: /dev/dvd" error when I try and play a > DVD. Is there something I have done wrong? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:18, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote: > > > Hello everyone. Name is Matt Pittard. I'm a new user to the land of > > > Linux thanks to the Mike Halcrow zealous pitch. I'm really liking it > > > thus far, but I'm really all about the multi-media. I have an ATI > > > All-in-wonder TV-in and video out. I heard from Mike that a program > > > called "mplayer" > > > (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html#0.90rc4) is the > > > program I need to set this up and I'm a little confused as to the exact > > > order of operations of installation. I have installed the apt-get > > > program, but I don't know if this is the way to do this. The > > > instructions go into a lot of detail about things I need, but I'm not > > > sure if I need to install all the codex programs or what. If anyone > > > could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. I'm > > > running Red Hat 8.0. > > > > Although you could install it from source, you'll do just fine by using > > apt: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install mplayer > > > > If you want, you can download all the codecs from mplayer's site and > > untar them and then put them all in /usr/lib/win32. > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ____________________ > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > -- > > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ______________________________________ > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
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