Newbie + Combo Drive + Linux = HELP !!

[_Phr34K_]

<~~ NewB to Linux...

I have a Samsung DVD/CDRW combo drive in my rig, and it works fine for Audio CD's and Data CD's, but I can't get DVD's to work. Is there an easy remedy to this problem or will I have to just buy a second drive for DVD playback ???

Thanx in advance !

[michaelk]

Well you can't mount a movie...

Which movie player are you trying to use?

[_Phr34K_]

XINE... Thats the only one that is on the system.
Is there some way to mount the /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom... ?
The drive is a combo DVD/CDRW so i think it mounted the burner to /dev/cdrom... I dunno. again i'm a newb...

My ultimate goal is to get DVD's playing with my current drive..
thanx.

[michaelk]

I use mplayer. But I would think that if you configured ixine for /dev/cdrom or the actual device then it should work.

/dev/cdrom is really just a link to the actual DVD device which is where ever it was installed to. like hdc or hdd etc.

ls -l /dev/cdrom will show what it is linked to.

But if xine has to have a device called /dev/dvd then

ln -s /dev/dvddevice /dev/dvd

where dvd device is displayed from the ls command. Change permissions to match /dev/cdrom.

See man pages for ln for additional details.

[mart_man00]

just a idea, check out your fstab. is it only mounting cd files systems on the drive?

you can open fstab in a normal text edit. its in /etc. if your not afraid of the console/konsole you could do vi /etc/fstab and tell what the line reads.

[_Phr34K_]

/dev/hdc5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdd5 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0

Thats what my fstab sez...
what can I do to get /dev/dvd ??

Thanx !

[_Phr34K_]

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 18 23:07 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdr om0


Thats what came out on ls -l /dev/cdrom...

[michaelk]

Create a link from /dev/scd0 to /dev/dvd

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd

[_Phr34K_]

i tried linking /dev/scd0 to /dev/dvd but no luck..
Still can't play DVD's... XINE doesn't seem to recognize that the drive is also a DVD drive...

are there any other suggestions, perhaps another app for DVD playback ??

Thanx for all the help!

[Dizzybacon]

What DVDs are you trying to play?
Do you have libdvdcss installed?

If your trying to play commercial DVDs without libdvdcss then that's your problem, and no DVD player will do it.

Captain CSS (http://debianlinux.net/captain_css.html) should see you right.

Dizzy

[_Phr34K_]

The xine-config script installed by XINE could not be found
*** If XINE was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the XINE_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to xine-config.
configure: error: *** You should install xine first ***


Thats the error I'm getting...
XINE is installed. I'm not sure what this means.

[JayMan8081]

Did you install Xine from the distro CD or a website? You need to download the packages off the web to enable CSS.

[JayMan8081]

Try checking out the following link to get instructions on a Xine install with CSS support along with Windows codecs and RealPlayer support.

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

[_Phr34K_]

THANK YOU !!!

u guys are the best.
I love linux...:D

[JayMan8081]

What turned out to be the problem? Did u not have CSS support installed or was it a distro Xine install? Post what fixed the problem so if someone searches for a similar problem they'll know what your prob was and how it was solved.

[_Phr34K_]

problem was i didn't have the libraries installed. That website that you sent me to was all I needed. Thanx a million !