I still need help!! Re: Can't play DVD

[Rashkae]

Knapp wrote:
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> 
> As I said before they all point to scd0. If I go into the viewer and
> change the setting to scd0 it works. What I want to know is why all
> the views have the wrong setting now and where they got it from.
> 

Best guess without testing the scenario:

The players should have defaulted to /dev/dvd by default.

However, when you replaced your DVD-ROM drive, presumably in a way that
caused udev to identify it differently (different master/slave settings,
or changing from IDE to SATA?) the persistent CD rules in udev
configuration decided to name your new Drive dvd1 instead of dvd, and
/dev/dvd was no longer on your system.  Now when you started the player,
they tried to open /dev/dvd, but there was no longer any such device, so
they fall back to the next best guess (which in this case, was either
/dev/hda or /dev/sda7, neither of which would do any good.)
Unfortunately, it seems those programs saved the new device in their
config, so now you have to manually fix the device setting.