From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 30 17:53:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C0016A402 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:53:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: from luke.segpub.com.au (luke.segpub.com.au [64.49.254.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6633A43D45 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: (qmail 73227 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2006 03:53:28 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.35?) (eoghan@redry.net@212.2.183.107) by 0 with SMTP; 1 May 2006 03:53:28 +1000 Message-ID: <4454F992.3080105@redry.net> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:53:22 +0100 From: eoghan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabian Keil References: <4454C52C.1040309@redry.net> <20060430165041.0fbaddd0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060430165041.0fbaddd0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing a dvd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:53:29 -0000 Fabian Keil wrote: > eoghan wrote: > >> Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs >> but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. >> I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal. >> $mplayer dvd://1 >> gives me: >> >> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. >> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/acd0 for reading. >> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/acd0 >> >> This seems to have happened a few weeks ago, because i have used >> kmplayer (on gnome) before and I had no problems playing dvd's. >> Could someone help me out? > > Does your user have read permissions for /dev/acd0? > > Fabian Thanks Fabian How can i check this. Im not using root. Eoghan