dvd with mplayer help needed

[Tom Moore]

Did you log out and then log back in after changing the /etc/group file?

Tom

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:07:56AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
> Thanks, I tried adding myself to the cdrom and disk group with no luck. 
> The difference between being root and myself as a user I get the 
> following error as just a user.
> 
> Playing DVD title 1
> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> 
> Now my drive is /dev/hdc which is part of the disk group and I created a 
> symlink to this device as cdrom and dvd. I still get the above error 
> despite the fact I've added myself to both groups and I did logout of 
> the current console and log back in.
> I'm not sure whatelse to do here. I can mount discs on this device so 
> its apparently functioning just fine.
> Any other thoughts appreciated. Oh another thing, I tried specifying 
> -dvd-device as /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd with the same above 
> error message accept the only difference is that the device name it 
> couldn't open would match what I put on the command line.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
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