Hello:
I tried both mplayer and xine to open a commercial dvd on my system and was unable too. Mplayer kept looking in /dev/dvd. I changed the config file to look in /media/cdrom (which is where the dvd is) and then I got another message about not being able to open VMG info. libdvdcvss are installed. What am I doing wrong?

The system info is:

System: Host: mepis1 Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 i686 (32 bit) Desktop Fluxbox Distro: antiX-M8 Intifada! 12 February 2009
Machine: System: Dell product: Inspiron 1721
Mobo: Dell model: 0UK441 Bios: Dell version: A07 date: 04/21/2008
CPU: Dual core AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm)
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: ATI RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] X.Org: 1.7.7 driver: radeon Resolution: 1440x900@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI R300 (RS690 791F) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 NO-TCL DRI2 GLX Version: 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1
Audio: Card: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: HDA Intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.21
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
IF: eth0 state: up mac: 00:1e:4c:88:b9:64
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (11.1% used) 1: /dev/sda SAMSUNG_HM250JI 250.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 9.7G used: 6.0G (66%) fs: ext3 ID: /home size: 219G used: 20G (10%) fs: ext3
ID: swap-1 size: 1.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.5C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 141 Uptime: 5:16 Memory: 429.9/1897.6MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.23

Note: it says the system is antifada, but in fact I did a script upgrade to 8.2

Thanks for the help.

Pedro

P.S. As a follow up, I also tried VLC and got the same error. it keeps looking for /dev/dvd but my dvd does not mount there. Any way to fix this particular issue?

Is this with any commercial dvd or just a certain one. I've been having trouble lately with certain newer"enchanced" dvd releases (inception being one) that will not play on my windows media center box. my antix box doesn't have a dvd drive, so I didn't try it there. I had the same issue with the windows version of vlc not opening the disk. My error messages are not the same as yours though.

Try mplayer /dev/sr0 in a terminal

Hello and thanks for the replies.

@Dolphin_oracle: I only tried 1 dvd (out of Redbox; $1/dvd) and returned it before fixing the problem. I don't think it was super-protected but I'll check others.

@Anti: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it next time I check out a DVD. Still the issue is why all the players are looking at /dev/dvd for the player.

Pedro

Anti:

/dev/sr0 fixed the problem. So I changed the config files for mplayer and xine. Incidentally, I am very impressed with. .I had never tried it before since I always use mplayer, but xine seems to work better than mplayer (at least for window resizing).

Anyway, thanks for the fix.

Pedro