On Tue, September 11, 2012 1:19 am, Daniel James wrote: > Hi Weaver, >> "Playback failure: >> DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd". > > Check that the symlink /dev/dvd points to your DVD drive like this: > > ls -l /dev/dvd > > If you get: > > ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory > > then you either need to create the symlink, or specify the correct drive > in Xine preferences. You can find the drive like this: > > dmesg | grep CD-ROM > > which should output lines such as: > > [ 3.251679] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A 1.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: > 5 > [ 3.254391] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > [ 3.254576] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 > > indicating that the DVD device is at /dev/sr0 in this case.
Thank-you, Daniel! That's exactly what it was. Very much appreciated. I've been blindly specifying /dev/dvd before this. Regards, Weaver -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/54deea8a9aff5caff4a118cc5d08579b.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net
