I didn't have this problem in 12.05... so, /dev/dvd is considered obsolete??? and is now removed?!?!? Well, somebody forgot to tell that to all the app developers.
In BETA 14.04 the following are broken due to this *feature* xine, gxine, (totem) Videos I didn't test VLC but this bug was orignally entered for vlc. So, Basically any and every video player in existance is broken by the remove of /dev/dvd is that really such a good idea??? especially since xine sucks at trying to manually select a disk. I can get the players to work by creating a symlink to /dev/cdrom, which itself appears to be a link to /dev/sr0 but every time that I reboot the computer I have to recreate the symlink. This is a major headache and 80% of end users will not figure this out, instead they will conclude that Ubuntu won't play DVD's and they should use windows instead. This should be a death by 1000 cuts item.... Why would anyone ever think that removeing /dev/dvd and breaking all of the video players in existance was actually a good idea?!?!?!? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1255824 Title: VLC looks for /dev/dvd which does not exist To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1255824/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
