Re: playing DVD with combo drive

From: fredex (fredex_at_fcshome.stoneham.ma.us)
Date: 11/01/04

  • Next message: Wolfgang Gill: "Re: playing DVD with combo drive"
    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:36:57 -0500
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    On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:00:04AM +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote:
    > ashwin kesavan iyengar kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika
    > sunnuntai, 31. lokakuuta 2004 21:06):
    > > I downloaded xine player. It works fine with VCD but says
    > > error when DVD is played(something like drive not found). My
    > > DVD drive is actually a combo drive(CD-R,RW,ROM,DVD-ROM). My
    > > combo drive is LG-GCC-4521B. It is able to show the contents
    > > of the dvd. There was no /dev/dvd file in the /dev. The combo
    > > drive is indicated by cd-rom1. I hav another cd-rom drive
    > > which is shown as cd-rom. The combo drive is shown as
    > > /dev/hdc. how to play dvd with xine.
    >
    > Create the /dev/dvd symlink:
    > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
    >
    > I have a LG-4120B combo drive and it works fine with Xine.
    >

    Playing dvds with xine works fine for me, but I had to go find
    and install the following RPMs to achieve that:

    libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3
    libdvdplay-1.0.1-fr2
    libdvdnav-0.1.9-1.fr
    libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr

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