dvd with mplayer help needed

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Scott:

Unfortunately, I don't yet have an answer, but I thought I should chime
in here to say that I'm also struggling with this situation. However,
it's even more strange, because in my case there's one machine where
mplayer works perfectly well, and another where it doesn't. Both have
pretty much the same installed software base.

So, go figure. I haven't figured it yet.

Scott Howell writes:
> 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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