[mythtv-users] Many new dvd's not working

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 02:53:20 pm Richard Morton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw this in this thread:
> > mplayer dvd://1 -sb 2048000 -dumpstream -dumpfile <filename>
> 
> I cant get it to work; any ideas?
> 
> $ mplayer dvd://1 -sb 2048000 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.iso
> 
> 
> $ mplayer dvd://1 -sb 2048000 -dumpstream -dumpfile CIC-d1.iso
> MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.
> 
> Playing dvd://1.
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
> No such file or directory
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No such file or directory)
> No stream found to handle url dvd://1
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> myth at t60-2:~$ mplayer dvd://
> MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.
> 
> Playing dvd://.
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
> No such file or directory
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No such file or directory)
> No stream found to handle url dvd://
> 

So, does /dev/dvd in fact exist? With permissions that are reasonable?

That would be where I would start.