From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 22 17:33:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from savvyworld.net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B40537B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by savvyworld.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9N0XEN06183 for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 24.20.19.75 ( [24.20.19.75]) as user eculp@SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:33:14 -0700 Message-ID: <1003797194.3bd4baca62af3@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:33:14 -0700 From: Edwin Culp To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preferred device for ogle DVD is /dev/racd0c ? References: <200110222051.f9MKpIJ42539@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200110222051.f9MKpIJ42539@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 24.20.19.75 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm running current with devfs son I just adjust everything in the script that I use to call ogle or mplayer by checking to see if I have a link to /dev/dvd or /dev/racd0c depending on which player and if not I create the ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd or racd0c and then start the player. Works fine and I just don't worry about reboots etc. Simple solution for a simple problem:-) ed Quoting Oliver Fromme : | Brooks Davis wrote: | > > Why? My DVD-player is at /dev/cd0c. So I'd prefer /dev/dvd. | > | > Because acd0c will work for the most people out of the box. ATAPI DVD | > drives outnumber SCSI ones by at least 10:1 and probably more like | > 100:1 if not 1000:1. I'd rather limit the number of people who are | > inconvenienced then make the inconvenience equal. | | It would be very nice to have a fallback mechanism, so that | it would try /dev/cd0c if /dev/acd0c returns "device not | configured", and maybe even /dev/acd1c (a lot of people | seem to have a CD-ROM drive _and_ a DVD-ROM drive). | But I guess that's asking for too much ... | | Well, it's probably best to let the default be /dev/acd0c | which seems to be the most common one by far. As long as | you can change the default via command line option, so you | can share the binary between machines with different types | of drives, I'm happy with anything. :-) | | Just my 0.02 Euro. | | Regards | Oliver | | -- | Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München | Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author | and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. | | "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message | --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message