Totem unable to play DVD discs

[Adam Weinberger]

Dunric wrote:
> (FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE, totem 0.99.22)
> 
> When I try to play DVD disc, following error mesage pops up.
> "Failed to play Audio/Video Disc
>  Failed to retrieve capabilities of device /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device"
> 
> It has probably nothing to do with permissions because when logged as root I get the same result.
> Tried both totem and totem-gstreamer, my compiled ports or precompiled packages, same results again.
> Device /dev/acd0 is correct.
> 
> Mplayer works without problems.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong ?

When I try to play anything, it tells me that it can't find a mount 
point for /dev/acd0 in /etc/fstab, even when i comment out every line in 
  that file EXCEPT FOR the /dev/acd0 line.

When you Choose Edit|Preferences, what does it show in the "Optical 
device path" drop-down box in the General tab?

Also, have you tried specifying anything with WITH_CDROM_DEVICE and 
WITH_DVD_DEVICE when you compile totem{,-gstreamer} from the command-line?

I've not been able to use totem for quite some time now. I'd like it; 
it's an awesome program.

# Adam


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