From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 13:16:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 BC79D16A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10705.mail.yahoo.com (web10705.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 426D543F93 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdsys@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031023201613.19005.qmail@web10705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.214.80.35] by web10705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:16:13 PDT Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:16:13 -0700 (PDT) From: bryan cassidy To: Mike Maltese In-Reply-To: <007e01c399a0$f40c26c0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:16:13 -0000 Well, I did that and when I try mplayer -vo dga -dvd 2 /dev/dvd I get the following error dev/dvd I get the following error Reading config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /home/bsdsys/.mplayer/config Reading /home/bsdsys/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/bsdsys/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/bsdsys/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/bsdsys/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds Playing DVD title 2 libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd Playing /dev/dvd File not found: '/dev/dvd' --- Mike Maltese wrote: > > DVD drive in and took the plugs from my cd-rom > drive > > and pluged them into my dvd. I don't know shit > about > > hardware so maybe I shouldn't have done this. > Thats > > As long as it's jumpered correctly, this should be > fine > > > why I'm here. The handbook says I should ln -sf > > /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd and ln -sf /dev/racd0c > /dev/rdvd. > > Would this apply to me sence I didn't *actually* > add > > the drive I just unpluged one and pluged another > in? > > Some help would be appreciated. > > I believe the purpose of this is that programs like > mplayer expect /dev/dvd, > which of course doesn't exist in FreeBSD. I suppose > that linking to the > acd[n] device is the easiest way to make things work > without having to > remember which device is your DVD drive. You can > also manually specify the > device in mplayer, but perhaps this is a hard-wired > value in other programs. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com