[mythtv-users] dvd:// missing

Ryan mythtv at frouse3.homelinux.com
Wed Nov 10 16:55:52 UTC 2004


If you've removed the cdrom drive. Just mount /dev/dvd at /mnt/cdrom.
Works for me under fedora.



> I am a noob and am just getting my first box going so be gentle (only
> the weather works currently).  In the process of building the box I
> had to use a cdrom to start building the box and then upgraded to have
> a dvd player.  Now that I have the player installed, I have not been
> able to figure out how to get the command
>
> mplayer dvd://
>
> to work.  It works if I set it to
>
> mplayer /dev/dvd
>
> but am baffled as to how to set the dvd://.
>
> running gentoo 2.6.9
>
> And my /dev/cdrom is symlinked to cdrom -> /dev/cdrom/cdrom0
> And /dev/dvd is symlinked to dvd -> /dev/hdd
>
> fstab:
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
>
> permissions are 666 for /dev and /mnt 's
>
> Thanks;
> Dan Littlejohn
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