> > I have just tried to make a DVD recording for the first time in about a > > year and have hit a snag and I wonder if someone could give me a hint or > > two, please. The recording process gives up near the end with an error > > message saying it cannot find /dev/dvd and, on checking, there is no > > such directory. Further checking shows that when I first set up mythtv I > > set 'Location of DVD device' to /dev/dvd and had no problems. > > > > Since initially setting up mythtv I have upgraded several times and am > > running 8.10 on this PC at the moment. > >
> Try setting it to /dev/sr0 or /dev/scd0 and see if that works. Sounds > to me that you don't have a symbolic link from /dev/dvd to /dev/sr0 (or > whatever the device name for your DVD writer is). I tried both of these in the set up but the same error appeared relating to /dev/dvd. I would have expected the error to say couldn't find /dev/sr0 or /dev/scd0. Perhaps I need to set up a symbolic link but I have no idea how. Norman > > Rob > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
