Kaffeine in Kubuntu 8.04 is borked.

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/9/1 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>>>> Shouldn't it be looking in /mnt and not in /dev?
>>
>> Shouldn't think so - I don't have _anything_ in /mnt, but one would
>> expect that to be a mount point, not a device.
>>
>> My xine settings say /dev/cdrom for CD and /dev/dvd for DVD (they both
>> point
>> to the same device).  These are stock settings from a gutsy install.
> 
> I may have been thinking in Fedora terms. Here on my Kubuntu box the
> cdrom is in /media:
> $ ls /media
> cdrom  cdrom0

Yes, but that's the mount point - that's where you'll see a filesystem, but
as somebody else pointed out, DVDs and Audio CDs don't strictly have a
filesystem.
> 
> In any case, removable storage is usually accessed by user programs
> outside of /dev, 

But not by media programs, which usually need to know the device (q.v. k3b
or any other burner utility, that - like kaffeine - need to access the
device).

> whether it be /media or /mnt or /whatever. Only fixed 
> hardware is generally still accessed from /dev, such as webcams and
> the like.

Actually, my webcam isn't... :-)

It's really not about the type of device, it's what you want to do with it. 
If you have to access a filesystem on a device, you access its mountpoint. 
If you have to access the device itself, while you may get it via a
symlink, it's the /dev device you talk to.
-- 
derek