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Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 
> I've asked this same question on freebsd-questions an on #freebsd
> (freenode), but haven't gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask on here.
> 
> I'm hoping someone can help me out here.
> 
> I recently moved a firewire card and DVD drive that had been in my FreeBSD
> box to another computer.  I replaced it with an IDE DVD drive.  The
> probelm is that now I can't get mplayer or vlc to play any DVDs that had
> previously worked with the firewire drive.
> 
> I have, of course, made sure that /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/acd0
> instead of /dev/cd0 (as it used to be).  The only difference that I can
> think of is that FreeBSD sees the firewire drive as a scsi drive and sees
> the ide drive as an ide drive.

Have you tried (from mplayer's man page):

	-dvd-device <path to device>
	      Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd.

Ian