mplayer problem

[Ed Fletcher]

toyfactory wrote:
> I don't know whether this is the right place for this question but...
> 
> Mplayer seems to work ok for playing DVDs and .avi video files from the
> hard disk, but fails to play the same video files from a mounted DVD. 
> It just sits there with the drive grinding away as it it's trying to
> read a damaged disc (the disc is fine, it mounts fine and I can access
> the files on it no problem).  I had a quick search through the forum but
> couldn't find anything.  Any ideas?
> 
> Nick
> 

Do you have a soft link pointing from /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom or
whichever your drive is?

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 2005-02-21 13:18 dvd -> hdc

Ed
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