<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Kyle <<a href="mailto:kyle4jesus@gmail.com">kyle4jesus@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Try the following command. I tested it and it works here. mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0 If that works, you may not have a link called /dev/dvd and you would be using the drive's real device name. This isn't a problem, other than the fact that every time you play a DVD using mplayer, you will need to specify this -dvd-device option. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Kyle -- Jesus you're my life. I live only to serve You Each and every day. --Kyle -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Hello, Well, things didn't work this time also. Please see the output: Is it that I need to buy new DVD now because device has gone bad ? But anyhow, please accept my sincere thanks for helping out. @blackhole:~/ITAPS/CSV$ mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0 MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Playing dvd://1. Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/scd0 No stream found to handle url dvd://1 Exiting... (End of file)