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slayer17
05-23-2001, 02:47 PM
Anyone have this problem, my box says that it is a cdrom but in fact it is a dvd. What do i need to do to work this out, no good man on dvd that I can find.
thescribe7
05-23-2001, 05:19 PM
I'm running drake 8 and it says only cdrom for my dvd but I loaded some dvd software and it plays movies fine. Go Figure. must be just the label, in my case.
Have you tried loading a player and playing one? :)
slayer17
05-23-2001, 08:47 PM
Yeah, I have got xine, but it has some issues on my system. I was hoping that it was my dvdrom and not my system because I am using twinview geforce which has known issues with mpegs.

:(
bdl
05-23-2001, 09:05 PM
Everything I've ever seen for DVD on linux basically states to create a symlink from your device file to a 'dvd'.


cli# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd


Works for me.
thescribe7
05-25-2001, 11:31 AM
BTW DVD format is not mpeg. I recently post for a player not long ago. I think it was strike or x_consol gave me a link to another player other than xine. Not at my home sys right now, and I can't remember the name of it. Try searching my i.d. for the post.
thescribe7
05-30-2001, 04:43 PM
Ahhhh, here it is...

OMS - Open Media System - http://www.linuxvideo.org :D
Hope this helps.