[mythtv-users] libdvdcss error, can't play DVD's :-( any ideas?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Jun 4 00:33:20 EDT 2003


Make a symlink /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd.  Don't bother mounting the disc; just 
start up the player like: 'mplayer -dvd 1' or such.

-JAC

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 06:00 pm, Chris Germano wrote:
> I've been trying to get my box to play DVD's, but instead receive some
> interesting errors. I have no idea what's causing this, but I think it
> might have to do with the way I have the drive mounted. Any DVD player I
> try like mplayer, ogle, etc will give me this same error, so any ideas? I
> have a feeling the libdvdcss can't lock on properly for some reason and is
> then giving that seek error in the logs below.
>
> I mount the drive with (/etc/fstab):
> none /mnt/cdrom supermount
> dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,unmask=0 0 0



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