Hoary, Totem cannot play 'dvd://'...

[Sam Tygier]

this is possibly bug 6118 https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6118

its to do with udev not making a link to the dvd drive. this means that totem, or any other player that looks for /dev/dvd instead of /dev/hdc will be unable to find it.

the command

sudo ln -s ../cd-aliases.rules /etc/udev/rules.d

and a reboot, should tell udev to make the link.

the bug is marked "fixed", but i did an upgrade from warty yesterday and had the problem.

sam

Darryl Clarke wrote:
> On 4/21/05, Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it> wrote:
> 
>>Dear all,
>>
>>I was able to play DVD with Totem on Warty, but not now on Hoary: it
>>issues the above message whichever DVD I put in the reader.
>>
>>What could have been happened?
>>
>>Please note that my system is up to date.
>>
>>Best regards.
>>
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>>Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
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> 
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats
> 
> You need to make sure you have the dvd playing libraries installed.
> 
> I use totem-xine, libdvdcss2, libdvdnav4, libdvdread3
>