[plug] Playng DVD on Mandrake 9.1

[Scott Middleton]

Don't forget /dev/vcd for the odd vcd or svcd  :)

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 17:10, John Knight wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't using newbie speak before. What position is your DVD-ROM 
> drive on? Secondary Master (hdc)? If so, try entering the following commands 
> as root:
> 
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> 
> Then see if things work, if it still doesn't happen, please tell us what 
> happened (error wise) and I'lll see if I can help you out further. :)
> 
> Make lunch, not war.
> >
> >Hi
> >I was wondering if anyone out there has played dvd's on Mandrake as i
> >have no
> >success with either Xine or Mplayer. My system has 2xHDD and a burner as
> >well
> >as a DVD. I don't know whether there is a conflict some where or not. i
> >have
> >looked into the /etc/fstab file but being relatively new to Linux it
> >don't mean
> >much to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated, so then i can get my
> >5yr
> >old off my back so he can use it. ( I hate holidays)
> >Below is my fstab file in case there is anything wrong there.
> >Thanks in advance.
> >Richard Bowles
> >
> >/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> >none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> >none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> >dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> >none /mnt/floppy supermount
> >dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0
> >0
> >none /mnt/hdc supermount
> >dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,unhide,codepage=850,umask=0
> >0 0
> >/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> >none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> 
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