DVD reading problems

Matt Patterson matt at v8zman.com
Fri Sep 2 12:36:46 UTC 2005


If you have an IDE/ATAPI dvd drive then it is probably located at 
something like /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd.

Matt



Dario Meloni wrote:

> I am having some problems  reading dvds with both totem and vlc with 
> breezy.
>
> VLC returns:
> VLC media player 0.8.2 Janus
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from http://dvd.sf.net
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
> No such file or directory
> libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
> No such file or directory
> [00000262] dvdread demuxer error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/dvd
> [00000261] main input error: no suitable access module for 
> `dvd:///dev/dvd'
> [00000254] main playlist: nothing to play
>
> and Totem:
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
>
>
> what should I do?
>
>
>





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