<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:11 AM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On 07/31/2009 11:23 AM, MirJafar Ali wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Kyle <<a href="mailto:kyle4jesus@gmail.com">kyle4jesus@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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> >> > > 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 </div></div><div class="im">logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/dvdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 </div>Open mplayer, right click on the mplayer screen and select Preferences. Click on 'Misc' and for DVD device ensure that it is: /dev/dvd. Please provide the output of: $ cat /etc/fstab $ ls -l /media -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">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, I check with Mplayer/Preference/Misc and it says: DVD device /dev/dvd CD-ROM device /dev/cdrom Output of cat /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda1 UUID=ed31b548-f554-467d-bd30-f047f7650039 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda5 UUID=2ccb8bd4-8cbe-46bd-9b1c-ac6be3f44b92 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 ~ and ls -l /media @blackhole:~$ ls -l /media/ total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-11-26 23:36 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-26 23:36 cdrom0 Thanks for the help. Mir